TC Cuadernos Nº 168: TDB Architects

This monograph covers, over 316 pages, more than two decades of the history of the Barcelona studio TdB Architects, directed by Juan Trias de Bes. A work that is defined by its fidelity to matter, light and context, and that is articulated around a project ethic rather than a recognizable aesthetic.

Divided into two large blocks – Rehabilitation and New Construction – with works developed at the level of plans and construction details, the publication includes emblematic projects such as Casa Burés, Palau Moxó, or the headquarters of Natura Bissé, among others. Each intervention shows a desire for precision and continuity, where technique and poetics merge in an architecture that is expressed through constructive rigour, systematisation and dialogue with the pre-existence.

The introduction by Josep Maria Montaner, "The materiality of architecture. Restore, inhabit, work", and the text by Trias de Bes himself, "The work continues. A reflection on the orientation of the projects", trace the theoretical framework that articulates this journey. Both underline how each work is part of a continuum: an investigation into the topological potential of construction and the search for "total construction", where form and matter reach their maximum expression

TdB Architects demonstrates, through each project included in this monograph, how it is possible to create contemporary architecture that respects and reinterprets its context, establishing permanent dialogues between history, place and materiality.