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The COAC’s Historical Archive loans photos by C...
The COAC’s Historical Archive loans photos by C...
The Grand Palais in Paris is holding the biggest retrospective on the Catalan artist Joan Miró since 1974, entitled simply 'Miró'.
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The stairway to the Saxhóll crater wins the Ros...
The stairway to the Saxhóll crater wins the Ros...
The intervention, which was built at the Saxhóll volcano (Iceland) to address the impact of the visitors who climb the crater every day, was undertaken by the Landslag ehf architectural practice and architect Þráinn Hauksson and has won the 10th Rosa Barba International Landscape Award. The jury also gave a special mention to the Linear Park project for the Cuernavaca railway. The award was presented on Friday, 28 September, at a ceremony held in the small palace of
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Eight original documents on Gaudí’s work exhibi...
Eight original documents on Gaudí’s work exhibi...
The COAC’s Historical Archive has loaned eight original documents on Gaudí’s work to the Het Schip Museum in Amsterdam for an exhibition entitled ‘Gaudí and the Amsterdam School’, which opened on 2 October.
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Open registration for the International Biennia...
Open registration for the International Biennia...
The 10th edition of the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture will be held in Barcelona this September, under the title 'Performative nature".
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Presentation of the Iberian DOCOMOMO Register i...
Presentation of the Iberian DOCOMOMO Register i...
The DOCOMOMO Iberico Foundation (DOcumentation and COnservation of architecture and urban planning of the MOdern MOvement) has worked in recent years in the development of a register of the most significant works of the period between 1965 and the end of the authoritarian regimes of Spain and Portugal.
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Come to the COAC Library to prepare your holida...
Come to the COAC Library to prepare your holida...
Are you organising your holidays? Do you know about the areas and buildings you could see during your trip? If you’re organising your summer break, in the COAC Library you’ll find more than one thousand architecture guides for cities and countries all over the world to help you plan your trip.Check out the Library’s Catalogue
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The Architectural Awards of the Counties of Gir...
The Architectural Awards of the Counties of Gir...
On 1 June, the head office of the Girona regional branch of the COAC hosted the presentation of the 21st Architectural Awards of the Counties of Girona in the presence of more than 200 people.
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RCR Arquitectes takes its architectural univers...
RCR Arquitectes takes its architectural univers...
The most intimate universe of RCR Arquitectes will be on show in the Eventi Collateralli section of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia.
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Prize-giving ceremony of the AJAC XI Awards: Vi...
Prize-giving ceremony of the AJAC XI Awards: Vi...
On Friday, 18 May, the Young Architects’ Association of Catalonia (AJAC) held the prize-giving ceremony for the AJAC XI Awards at the Mies van del Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona.The award, which this year received almost 150 entries, entails the publication of all the winning proposals in a book as well as a travelling exhibition and the “inexperiences” seminars, where award-winners have the opportunity to explain their work to the audience.
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The COAC awards its Gold Medal to Rafael Moneo
The COAC awards its Gold Medal to Rafael Moneo
The Architects’ Association presented the Gold Medal to architect Rafael Moneo at a private ceremony held at the COAC’s headquarters in Barcelona on 3 April. The Association has awarded its highest distinction in recognition of Rafael Moneo’s professional and cultural contributions, which have made him one of the leading figures in national and international architecture of the past half-century.
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Architecture Week 2018
The Architects’ Association of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council and Mies van der Rohe Foundation, with the support of BB Construmat and ArquinFAD, are organising Architecture Week 2018, a joint initiative that will be taking place in different venues across Barcelona between 10 and 20 May.
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Project presentation: ‘RCR. Dream and Nature_Ca...
Project presentation: ‘RCR. Dream and Nature_Ca...
As part of the 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture, co-curators RCR Arquitectes, Pati Núñez and Estel Ortega will introduce the 'RCR. Dream and Nature' project on 3 May at the COAC.
Entitat organitzadora: COAC
Barcelona
Free
Conferència
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8M: Margarita Brender, one of the pioneering ar...
8M: Margarita Brender, one of the pioneering ar...
The Architects’ Association of Catalonia commemorates International Women’s Day with a tribute to the first female architect to become a member*: Margarita Brender Rubira (1919-2000). The most significant thing about her career is the very little we know about it. Everything we know about her can be summed up in five facts.One: She was born in Romania in 1919.
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New call for COAC Grants for Local and Internat...
New call for COAC Grants for Local and Internat...
The Architect’s Association of Catalonia opens, for the seventh year running, its Call for Grants for local and international development cooperation projects related to architecture and urban planning. These grants respond to the commitment of the Association to allocating part of its budget to social pursuits.
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Open call for the 11th AJAC Awards
Open call for the 11th AJAC Awards
The AJAC Awards were created in 1996 by the Young Architects Association of Catalonia (AJAC) with the purpose of showing the high potential and quality of work by young architects, as well as providing these emerging professionals with a good spread of their work.
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The Architects' Association of Catalonia u...
The Architects' Association of Catalonia u...
The Architects’ Association of Catalonia unveiled the new façade of its head offices in Barcelona on 22 January. The project has consolidated the neutrality of the office building so that Picasso’s frieze stands out even more.The new image for the head offices highlights the original design by Xavier Busquets while incorporating improvements in energy and environmental efficiency such as soundproofing and solar panels.
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Open call for the 10th Rosa Barba Landscape Pri...
Open call for the 10th Rosa Barba Landscape Pri...
Open call for the 10th Rosa Barba Landscape Prize, sponsored by Fundación Banc Sabadell framed within the 10th International Biennale of Landscape Architecture under the motto: "Perfomative nature" , to be held on 26th, 28th and 29th September 2018 in Barcelona.
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The ministers for Governance and Territory pres...
The ministers for Governance and Territory pres...
The Minister for Governance, Public Administrations and Housing, Meritxell Borràs; the Minister for Territory and Sustainability, Josep Rull; and the Dean of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia, Lluís Comerón, presented on 5 September at the COAC the launch of the future Catalan Agreement on Urba
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Arxiu Jujol donates the Barcelona projects of a...
Arxiu Jujol donates the Barcelona projects of a...
This donation further consolidates the collaboration between the Jujol Archive and the Historical Archive of the COAC, which began almost 20 years ago. At that time, the architect’s heirs loaned more than 100 of the projects that Jujol had undertaken in the province of Barcelona to the COAC.
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Barcelona City Council awards the tender to imp...
Barcelona City Council awards the tender to imp...
Barcelona City Council has announced the award of the international tender to define the transformation of the Rambla. The winning team is Km-ZERO, made up of 15 professionals from different disciplines, who will take on the challenge of the comprehensive physical and social revitalization, improvement and transformation of Barcelona’s Rambla and its immediate catchment area.
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The COAC awards its Cooperation Grants for the...
The COAC awards its Cooperation Grants for the...
The Architects’ Association of Catalonia awards local and international development cooperation grants for architecture and urban planning, which this year are being awarded for the sixth time. Of the ten projects submitted, an evaluation was made of their compliance with the basic rules, the architectural proposition, the use of local materials and their level of social participation.