Jaume Artigues

This Catalan urbanist was born in 1954 and received his degree in Architecture from the University of Barcelona in 1988. His professional life began at ARR Arquitectes, a studio that specialised in public works. In 1989, he joined the Barcelona City Council’s Department of Urban Projects, Works and Elements, which aroused his interest in public space, leading his career towards urbanism and the design of urban furniture.

Jaume Artigues eventually founded his own studio collaborating with different architects, administrations and public companies in projects in urbanism and architecture. Since then he has focused his career on studying and researching policies for heritage, museums, the history of architecture, regional sustainability and urbanism.

Some of his most prominent works in furniture and urban element design included: Levit (1990), the Ciutat Vella series of cast iron drains (1990), the Aplic Prat light stand (1990) and the Rambles tree pits (1991). He also designed luminaires like the Kanya (1995), the Salix (1997), Ful (1998) and the Central (2000).

One of the events Jaume Artigues is most recognised for is when he represented Barcelona in the Milan Triennale in 1995. And, in 1996, together with Olga Tarrasó, Jordi Henrich, Miguel Roig and Anna Mª Castañeda, he won the FAD Architecture Award for outdoor spaces with the urban planning project for the Barceloneta Waterfront Promenade.

Throughout his career, Jaume has collaborated as a guest professor at the Massana School of Art and Design and in the teaching of Landscape Architecture at the Barcelona School of Architecture.

Jaume Artigues, together with Miguel Roig, is the co-creator of the Tram planter (1994). A medium-capacity iron planter for plants and bushes, which can be used to delineate urban spaces.