Publications
Academic Publications and Scholar Works
Dr. Garcia-Fuentes is author of numerous publications in leading academic volumes edited by prestigious scholars and articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. He is also editor of academic volumes, and author of pieces addressed to wide audiences in different national and international media.
Here you find a selection of publications by Josep Maria. They reflect his research interests and his contributions in the fields of architecture, history, preservation, nation-building processes, tourism, and anthropology. They also show the different case-study he has been researching for a long time and under diverse approaches, as well as a few studies on his own professional practice. These publications resonate in Josep Maria’s lectures, teaching and professional practice, as they are closely connected with his research and the necessary field work, experiments, and primary resources to yield his scholar works.
Josep Maria’s publications are written and published in English, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan, and some of them are also translated into Chinese, and Greek.
Books
forthcoming publications
The Natural History of Modern Architecture. [Current on-going project]
Handbook of Heritage and Tourism (co-edited with Michael Di Giovine and Terry Majewski). London: Routledge. [Contract Signed]
2014 Enric Miralles, Αρχιτεκτων (edited by Claudio Conenna and Κυριακή Τσουκαλά, and co-authored with diverse authors). Thessaloniki: Epikentro, 2014. [In Greek]
2011 Architectural design of markets 2005-2010 (edited and co-authored with Miguel Usandizaga). Barcelona: Iniciativa Digital Politècnica, 2011.
2009 El Ensanche: génesis y construcción (co-authored with diverse autors). Barcelona: Lunwerg, 2009. [In Catalan, Spanish & English]
Articles (selection)
forthcoming publications
“Gio Ponti. Loving Architecture”, arq – Architectural Research Quarterly. Exhibition Review, co-authored with Luca Reale.
“Habitat”, Vesper, IUAV, n. 3. Article on Lubetkin’s Penguin Pond.
2019 “Survival Through Design”, World Architecture Magazine, 2019/9, pp. 96-101. [In Chinese and English]
2018 “Calma, lusso e naturalezza. La Costa Brava e la Costa Azzurra: narrazioni e rafficugrazioni di artisti e letterati a confronto tra Ottocento e Novecento”, (co-authored with Sergio Pace) Ananke, 85, pp. 70-76. [In Italian]
2017 “Institucions britàniques per a ciutadans catalans? Victor Balaguer, Joan Oliva i la creació de la Biblioteca-Museu a Vilanova i la Geltrú”, Butlletí de la Biblioteca Museu Balaguer, 10, pp. 63-73. [In Catalan]
2016 “Sites of Heritage, Sites of Pilgrimage”, introduction and Co-Guest editor (with Michael Di Giovine) of the special issue “Sites of Heritage, Sites of Pilgrimage” for the International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, Vol. 5, n. 1/2, pp. 2-23.
2016 “Víctor Balaguer, Montserrat i Catalunya”, Cercles d’Historia, n. 19, pp. 331-350. [In Catalan]
2016 “Guidebooks, Postcards, and Panoramas: The Building of Montserrat through Modern Mass Media”, Memory Studies, Vol. 9.1, pp. 63-74.
2015 “A mountainous history of modern architecture?”, Architectural Research Quarterly (edited by Cambridge University Press), Vol 19, 2, pp. 102-105.
2013 “A nation of monasteries: the legacy of Víctor Balaguer en the Spanish conception of national monuments”, Future Anterior, Vol 10, 1, pp. 40-51.
2013 “Ecos y Resonancias: Juan Navarro Baldeweg”, Arquitectura Viva, número 151, p. 65. [In Spanish]
2013 “Victor Balaguer, Montserrat i la construcció de Catalunya i Espanya. Sobre el caràcter i la dimensió universal del pensament balaguerià”, Butlletí de la Biblioteca Museu Balaguer, 6, pp. 11-24. [In Catalan]
2011 “Montjuïc: A Stage-Set for Memory” (co-authored with Manel Guàrdia) in Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme, 263, 2011: pp. 55-57. [In Catalan, Spanish & English]
Book Chapters (selection)
forthcoming publications
“L’invenzione della natura e la ricerca di una nuova architettura. Viollet-le-Duc, Ruskin, Gaudí, Miralles” Luca Reale (ed). Rome: Aracne / Università degli Studi di Roma – La Sapienza. (In Press – Written & Contract Signed)
“Constructing the Monuments of the Nation: Victor Balaguer and the Struggle to Shape Monasteries as Spanishness”, Stefano Cracolici and Edward Payne (eds.) Canons and Repertoires: Constructing the Visual Arts in the Hispanic World, Durham University, Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art. (In writing)
“Los panoramas de 1888, Montserrat y la construcción de la Barcelona moderna”, in Cien Años de Transferencias Culturales: Barcelona 1888-1992. (In press – Written & Contract Signed)
2020 “Landscapes, Guidebooks and Panoramas: Competing National Constructions in nineteenth-century Catalonia and Spain”, Elisa Martí-López (ed). The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Spain. London: Routledge, pp. 150-167.
2020 “Mimicking Mountains: Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia and the Shrine of Montserrat”, Daniel Olson and Kiran Shinde (ed.), Religious tourism and the Environment. CABI, pp. 105-115.
2019 “Deconstructing Gaudí: Entangled relations between satire and architectural criticism”, Michela Rosso (ed). Laughing at Architecture. Studies in Architectural and Urban Satire. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 91-108.
2018 “Architecture, politics and ideology in the construction of modern Montserrat”, Ayla Lepine and Kate Jordan (ed). Building the Kingdom: Architecture for Religious Communities. London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis, pp.49-69.
2018 “Quando le cartoline aiutano a riscrivere le storie“, Enrico Sturani. Fascismo di Calcestruzzo. Architetture di cartolina. Manduria, Barbieri editore, pp. 1-6 [In Italian, Invited Preface]
2018 “Puig i Cadafalch i una altra modernitat arquitectònica internacional”, Lucila Mallart (ed.), Josep Puig i Cadafalch. Visió, Identitats, Cosmopolitisme. Barcelona: Museu de Mataró, pp. 134-147. [In Spanish, Catalan and English]
2018 “1942. Albert Speer y la Nueva Arquitectura Española”, Josep M. Rovira, Enrique Granell, and Carolina B. Garcia-Estevez (eds.), Destino Barcelona, 1911-1991. Arquitectos, viajes e intercambios. Barcelona: Fundación ARQUIA, 2018, pp. 101-115. [In Spanish]
2017 “La Salvaguardia dal patrimonio. Sulla scia del tempo”, Alberto Bologna (ed.), Spazio, Tempo, Utopia. Scritti e progetti per Sewing a Small Town. Milano: Franco Angeli, pp. 103-118. Vignola: Vaccari. [In Italian]
2016 “Reinventing and Reshaping Gaudí: From Nation and Religion to Tourism. Architecture, conflict and change en Barcelona’s tourist imaginary”, Nelson Graburn and Maria Gravari (ed.), Tourism Imaginaries at the Disciplinary Crossroads: Place, Practice, Media. London: Routledge, pp. 64-78.
2016 “Sull’interpretazione creativa del passato: reinvenzione del barri gòtic di Barcellona”, Sergio Pace and Davide Cutolo (eds.), La scoperta della città antica. Esperienza e conoscenza del centro storico nell’Europa del Novecento. Macerata (Italy): Quodlibet, pp. 39-62. [In Italian]
2015 “Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter: Architecture, Politics and Ideology”, Tino Mager (ed.), Architecture (Re)Performed. Surrey: Ashgate, pp 35-54.
2014 “Reinventing Edible Identities: Catalan Cuisine and Barcelona’s Market Halls” (co-authored with Manel Guàrdia Bassols and José Luis Oyón Bañales), Michael Di Giovine and Ronda Brulotte (eds.), Edible Identities: Exploring Food and Foodways as Cultural Heritage. Surrey: Ashgate. pp. 145-160.
2014 “Drawing, dimensioning and building a croissant. On the drawings and the architecture of Enric Miralles”, Enric Miralles, Αρχιτεκτων (edited by Claudio Conenna and Κυριακή Τσουκαλά, co-authored with diverse authors). Thessaloniki: Epikentro, pp. 134-155. [In Greek]
2012 “Un dels secrets de l’Arquitectura”, Elias Torres (ed.), Proyectos I y II. Ejercicios y lecciones. Barcelona: Iniciativa Digital Politècnica, pp. 22-23. [In Catalan]
2012 “Arquitectura y Política en las exposiciones de Barcelona,1888-1929” (co-authored with Sergi Garriga), Seminario Internacional sobre Eventos Mundiales y Cambio Urbano, Sevilla: Grupo de Investigación HUM 700, pp. 72-79.
2010 “Recycling Heritage: On a Catalan Spanish Process”, Heritage 2010. 2nd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development. Évora: Greenlines Institut, pp. 1315-1323.
2010 “Neue Deutsche Baukunst/Nueva Arquitectura Alemana en Lisboa, Madrid y Barcelona”, VII Congreso UNAV sobre Historia de la Arquitectura Española. Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra, pp. 287-396.
Collaborations with media
Dr. Garcia-Fuentes often collaborates with different media for both wide-public and specialist audiences. He has authored op-ed contributions in newspapers and journals, and several invited pieces on his research and professional work. He is often interviewed in different national and international media.
If you are interested in proposing a collaboration or an interview do not hesitate to get in touch!
Articles (selection)
2017 “Fer arquitectura per saber què és”, El Temps, 3rd July 2017. [In Catalan]
2017 “Preservar és fer arquitectura”, El Temps, 29th May 2017. [In Catalan]
2016 “Repensar el patrimoni”, Diari ARA, 29th October 2016, p. 30. [In Catalan]
2016 “Preservant Gaudí del mite”, Diari ARA, 12th June 2016, pp. 4-7. [In Catalan]
2016 “Desvelant el nou Camp Nou”, Diari ARA, 18th May 2016, p. 28. [In Catalan]
2015 “Montserrat: El miracle de Catalunya”, Diari ARA, 27th September 2015, pp. 1-9. [In Catalan]
2012 “El milagro de Cataluña”, DC Papers, n. 24, pp. 120-124. [In Spanish]
2009 “La estructura de un croissant. Ejercicio de equilibrio”, DC Papers, n. 19-20, pp. 231-238. [In Spanish]
2007 “El Guggenheim i el MoMA de Nova York, dos museus, dues filosofies, dues arquitectures”, Serra d’OR, n. 567, pp. 31-35. [In Catalan]
Interviews (selection)
2016 Interview by the Catalan writer Enric Vila, El Nacional, 28th December 2016. [In Catalan & Spanish]