Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubió (Barcelona

Barcelona

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 1942 - Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 2001) was a Catalan architect, historian and philosopher.

He was professor of Architectural Composition at the School of Architecture in Barcelona, and also taught at the universities of Princeton, Columbia, Turin, and Cambridge.

Among his most notable architectural works are the reconstruction of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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's Barcelona Pavilion

Barcelona Pavilion

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, and the reconstruction and expansion of the Liceu

Liceu

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Theatre in Barcelona.

Ignasi de Solà-Morales has coined the term "terrain vague", applied to abandoned, obsolete and unproductive areas, with no clear definitions and limits.