Jordi Henrich

Jordi Henrich graduated as an architect from ETSAB (Barcelona School of Architecture) and holds a master’s degree in Architecture and Building Design from Columbia University in New York, which he attained in 1985. Henrich has worked in the Barcelona City Council’s Urban Projects department (1987 – 2004) and in the Public Space Department of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (2004 – 2007).

Noteworthy among his many projects is that of the port and waterfront perimeter of Port Vell and the Barceloneta (1988-2018), 6 kilometres of waterfront promenade that join the city with the port and its beach. This project comprised two phases: the remodelling of the Moll de la Fusta quayside, the Joan de Borbó promenade and the waterfront in the Barceloneta, the Pau Vila y Palau squares, the connection with Via Laietana through the “Pas de Sota Muralla”, the Barceloneta promenade, the Barceloneta Park and the area around the Hotel Vela (among others). Among many other local projects are the Coverage of the Ronda del Mig ring road between Diagonal and Passeig de Lluís Companys, the public spaces of La Pau and Avenida Roma, and the pedestrianisation of the streets in Barcelona’s city centre. His international projects include the remodelling, together with Joan Forgas, of the Boompjies Quayside in Rotterdam, also a waterfront project, the square and library in Wieblingen, the Museum Island in Berlin, the Rue Foch thoroughfare, Place de la Prefecture and Plan du Palais in Montpellier.

He has been selected and won awards, together with Olga Tarrasó, Jaume Artigues and Miquel Roig, in different public space competitions. They won a FAD in the Outdoor Spaces category in 1996 for the “Barceloneta Waterfront Promenade” project, as well as first prize in the 5th Spanish Architecture Biennale, the “4th Exhibition of Young Spanish Architects” and the “7th Decade Award in 2006”.

Jordi Henrich performs a teaching role at different universities: he teaches Urban Element Design at ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering, Public Space projects at ETSAB, the Urban Planning master’s at UPC and the master’s in Landscape Architecture at ETSAB.

He is the co-creator, together with Olga Tarrasó, of the Nu bench (1991), the Urbidermis catalogue’s first bench.