Architect by training, designer by adaptation, painter by vocation and writer by desire to win friends, Oscar Tusquets Blanca is the prototype of the integral artist that the specialization of the modern world has progressively led to extinction.

Born in Barcelona, ​​he graduated as an architect in 1965 from the Barcelona Higher Technical School of Architecture. A member of the now dissolved Studio Per, he carried out the vast majority of his projects with Lluís Clotet until 1984. Between 1987 and 2010, with fellow architect Carlos Díaz, he developed urban planning and architecture projects at an international level.

Founding partner of Bd Barcelona Design, with this production company he began as a furniture and object designer. Some of his pieces are part of the collections of important museums such as the Moma in New York or the Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Among other distinctions, he has received the National Design Award, the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts, the insignia of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the Creu de Sant Jordi. He also has two Ciutat de Barcelona awards, and several FAD for Architecture and Delta for Design.

In 1994 he revealed himself as an essayist with Más que discutible (Tusquets Editores). Since then he has published books with notable critical and public success.