Javier Monclús
Job Title: Full Professor of Urbanism
Institutional affiliation: University of Zaragoza (Spain)
Degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAB UPC), 1977, and a Ph.D. from the same university, 1985. Full Professor of Urbanism at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Zaragoza. Previously, he was a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (1980-2005). Head of the T44_17R PUPC Reference Research Group (Urban Landscapes and Contemporary Projects) at the University of Zaragoza. Several publications on Urban Planning and Urban Design theories and strategies; among the most recent: Díez Medina, C., Monclús, J. (eds.), Urban Visions. From planning culture to landscape urbanism (Springer, 2018), and Urban Regeneration (6 vol. 2014-2020). Director of ZARCH. Interdisciplinary Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, since 2013 and member of the editorial board of Planning Perspectives (1990-2021).
Publications
Díez Medina, C., and J. Monclús. Ciudad de bloques. Reflexiones retrospectivas y prospectivas sobre los conjuntos de vivienda ‘modernos’. Madrid: Abada editores, 2020.
Díez-Medina, C., and J. Monclús. (Eds). Urban visions: From Urban Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.
Monclús, J. “International Exhibitions and Urban Design Paradigms.” In Exhibitions and the Development of Modern Planning Culture, edited by R. Freestone and M. Amati. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
Monclús, J. “The Barcelona model: an original formula? From “reconstruction” to strategic urban projects (1979-2004).” Planning Perspectives, no. 18 (4) (2003): 399-421.
Monclús, J. “Arte Urbano y estudios histórico-urbanísticos. Tradiciones, ciclos y recuperaciones.” 3ZU Revista d’Arquitectura (ETSAB Barcelona), no. 4 (1995): 92-101.