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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

BAAS & Espinet/Ubach to design the new Vall...

BAAS & Espinet/Ubach to design the new Vall...

The team of Catalan architects that forms 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

Eva Franch: "New perspectives are needed b...

Eva Franch: "New perspectives are needed b...

Transgressive. Even “uncomfortable”, the Dean of COCA, Lluís Comerón, went on to say about Eva Franch’s conference. Architect and curator, Franch is Chief Curator and Executive Director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. Based in said city, her professional practiced is characterised by relating experimental art forms, design and architecture.

Josep Lluís Mateo: "Architecture is the to...

Josep Lluís Mateo: "Architecture is the to...

The Architecture Congress asked Josep-Lluís Mateo for a reflection on the values of architecture. This was a challenge not without difficulties, as COAC’s Dean, Lluís Comerón, acknowledged. But Mateo rose to the occasion with a lot of precision, serenity and, why not, also intimacy. He made it “abstract” and not from his personal of professional point of view, he explained.

Beatriz Colomina: "There is a need to buil...

Beatriz Colomina: "There is a need to buil...

The last lecture of the closing ceremony of the Architecture Congress was that of Beatriz Colomina, a PhD architect; a historian and a theorist specialised in the relationship between architecture, users and the media; and professor of History and Theory of Architecture and Director of the postgraduate program at Princeton University.

Juan Herreros: "The current architect is a...

Juan Herreros: "The current architect is a...

Madrid-based architect Juan Herreros opened the closing session of the Architecture Congress, and did so with a lecture on architecture’s general interest and its values to improve cities, the land and people’s lives.

Nominated works for the EU Mies Award 2017

Nominated works for the EU Mies Award 2017

The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the list of 356 works competing for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The Prize is awarded biennially to works completed within the previous two years. The principal objective is to recognize and commend excellence and innovation in the field of architecture.

Enric Batlle: "We have the ability to reco...

Enric Batlle: "We have the ability to reco...

Land development and public space was the main theme of the conference of Catalan architect Enric Batlle. It revolved around three main aspects: ecology, leisure and production. “The will to preserve existing spaces must be a priority, we need to bring life back to places often forgotten by the general public”, he claimed. Batlle spoke about the need to act on degraded landscapes, not only on green and agricultural land.

The Catalan Prime Minister at the closing cerem...

The Catalan Prime Minister at the closing cerem...

Putting an end to six months of a participatory process was a challenge, to say the least. The chosen venue was Sant Antoni Market... under (re)construction. A privileged venue, because few people had accessed it before.

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park wins the Rosa Barb...

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park wins the Rosa Barb...

The design project for the parklands of the London Olympic Games has been granted the 9th Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize, given on September 30th in Barcelona, within the International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona. George Hargreaves, Mary Margaret Jones and Gavin McMillan, from Hargreaves Associates, are the authors of the project.