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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.
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The ultimate recognition for Catalan architectu...
The ultimate recognition for Catalan architectu...
Integration with the place; a complete redefinition of the user’s relationship with nature, with his or her own body, with intimacy, with natural rhythms; and the consideration of the city as a landscape are some of the concepts that have led the team at RCR Arquitectes to win this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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OFFICE KGDVS fills the auditorium for the first...
OFFICE KGDVS fills the auditorium for the first...
On Thursday, 26 January, the ‘Europa Europa’ cycle kicked off, curated by the architect and publisher Moisés Puente. Every 15 days until the month of June, a showing of European architecture will be presented, with lectures from 5 guest architects and 4 critics, and introduced by Catalan architects.
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Social aspects, quality and precision in the wi...
Social aspects, quality and precision in the wi...
The winners of the 3rd European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA were announced by the jury on June 15th at the COAC headquarters in Barcelona. The announcement of the 18 short-listed projects, from which two special mentions and four winners were chosen, was made during the 3rd International Architectural Heritage Intervention Biennial AADIPA.
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BAAS & Espinet/Ubach to design the new Vall...
BAAS & Espinet/Ubach to design the new Vall...
The team of Catalan architects that forms
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ArquinFAD loans the collection of documents on...
ArquinFAD loans the collection of documents on...
The Architects’ Association of Catalonia has signed an agreement with the association ArquinFAD. The dean of the COAC, Lluís Comerón, and the president of ArquinFAD, architect Sílvia Farriol, formally signed an agreement on 31 May giving the COAC access to the documentary collection of the FAD Awards for Architecture and Interior Design.
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The COAC Historical Archive is collaborating wi...
The COAC Historical Archive is collaborating wi...
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) and the company Aurea Cultura are organising the exhibition entitled ‘Antoni Gaudí. Barcelona’, which can be seen between 22 May and 10 September in the Russian capital.
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Presentation of the verdict of the 2nd Mostra d...
Presentation of the verdict of the 2nd Mostra d...
On 20 April, at a public event held at the Architects’ Association, the most outstanding works selected in the 2nd Mostra d’Arquitectura Internacional Catalana (International Catalan Architecture Exhibition) were revealed. The exhibition’s purpose is to record, highlight and divulge the work of Catalan architects outside Spain in the last few years.
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COAC and Barcelona City Council present Archite...
COAC and Barcelona City Council present Archite...
The Dean of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia, Lluís Comerón, and the councillor for Architecture, Urban Landscape and Heritage at Barcelona City Council, Daniel Mòdol, have presented Architecture Week 2017, an initiative organised by the two institutions and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation with the collaboration of Barcelona Building Construmat and ArquinFAD.
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The 'Aftermath' exhibition returns fr...
The 'Aftermath' exhibition returns fr...
After representing Catalonia at the 15th Venice Biennale, the exhibition "Aftermath_Architecture beyond architects" is now being shown at the Arts Santa Monica Centre, in Barcelona."Aftermath_Architecture beyond architects" focuses on lived-in architecture when the architects are no longer present and users continue the architectural experience every day.
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Architects Tusquets, Clotet and Paricio donate...
Architects Tusquets, Clotet and Paricio donate...
The architects Òscar Tusquets, Lluís Clotet and Ignacio Paricio have donated their documentary holdings to the Archive of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia.
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The European Award for Intervention in Architec...
The European Award for Intervention in Architec...
Once again, the Association of Architects for the Defence and Intervention in Architectural Heritage (AADIPA) and the Architects' Association of Catalonia (COAC) have announced the opening of registration for the 3rd edition of the European Award for Intervention in Architectural Heritage AADIPA.