“Mateo arquitectura” has released a video of Harvard GSD Object studio, course that has been
led by Josep Lluís Mateo on Spring 2015. The video presents a breve interview with Toshiko Mori
(Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture, Harvard GSD), Robert Silman (Lecturer
in Architecture, Harvard GSD) and Mark Lee (Design Critic in Architecture) accompanied by
projects designed by students during Spring semester

OBJECT STUDIO
Our objective will be to precisely define projects based on the simultaneous presence of three conditions:
1_ Place. Here, it is the city, at the border, with the presence nearby of nature. Surrounded, dialogue
with the exterior in continuity or in opposition. The exterior.
2_ Content. Use. Interior. Conventional briefs (dwellings, offices…) seen from a special viewpoint that
aims to discover the magic of the everyday. To analyse, observe and propose new conditions of use.
3_ Material. Our projects, always starting with abstract visions, take form, become intelligible, by
means of material. Architecture as the expression of physical, material culture.
In our studio, we set out to relate idea and material, to define the consistency of the object and study
its phenomenological conditions.
Form, as a variable to be discovered (rather than the starting point) in relation to its exterior, to its
content and to the material, will be the objective of our action.

Josep Lluís Mateo, January, 2015

COURSE DETAILS:
Graduated School of Design, Harvard University
Spring 2015
Option Studio “Object Studio”
Professor: Josep Lluís Mateo
Teaching Assistant: Jaime Daroca