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COAC's new website
The website of the Architects’ Association has been given a total makeover. Obviously, architects and architecture are the protagonists. The new website aims to provide an essential tool to help reposition the role of architects within our society, while at the same time promoting the social and cultural values of architecture. The website arquitectes.cat aims to provide a point of reference that will bring us closer to the community and the business world at a time when it is essential to assert ourselves both collectively and individually.
arquitectes.cat is based around five main browsing sections: citizens, architects, architecture, the Association and the business world. Great care has been taken to ensure that every section reflects the dynamic role that architects and their representative Association play in our society.
The site’s user-friendliness has also been improved by simplifying and streamlining the browsing experience and including the dissemination opportunities offered by social networks.
Customized content
arquitectes.cat also aims to address the huge range of interests of our member architects and the general public by offering visitors the chance to customize the website to suit their interests, whether this is in terms of the subject matter (sustainability, town and country planning, building renovations, society, internationalization, etc.) or geographically speaking.
Christmas comes to the COAC: Program of activities for children
From December 21 until January 3, the COAC will host a series of workshops aimed at children over 6 years old, in order to bring them closer to architecture.
Workshops on December 21 and 22 and January 2 will be based on large-scale construction with Kapla, consisting of rectangular wooden pieces of the same size that allow amazing constructions.
On the other hand, on December 30 and January 3, the workshops will be based on drawing 'Barcelona Stories'. The pictures made by all the participants will provide an original look at the history of the city.
Check the schedules for the five workshops and enroll your children here.
Workshops are free for COAC members.
From European to Internacional Biennial of Landscape Architecture
Since its first edition, the European Landscape Biennial has expressed its desire to intently study and discuss landscape interventions, as much from the perspective of landscape architecture as from other disciplines that are linked to its study and evolution. The Biennial has been consolidated on a European scale in its seven previous editions—“Remaking Landscapes” (1999), “Gardens in Arms” (2001), “Only with Nature” (2003), “Landscape: a Product / a Production” (2006)— Storm & stress (2008) , “Liquid Landscape” (2010) and "Biennial versus Biennial" (2012).
However, by the hand of its international Rosa Barba landscape prize, this edition will broaden its scope to worl wide contemporary international landscapes architecture. Barcelona will open itself to international landscape architecture in a symposium adapted to contemporary circumstances.
This symposium will last three days and will include talks, presentations by those finalists competing for the Rosa Barba Landscape Prize, papers, roundtable discussions, exhibitions and samples from which we will be able to track and discuss the evolution of landscape architecture world wide.
8th Barcelona Landscape Biennial: A landscape for you
Due to our circumstances most territorial and cultural disciplines are ranging from anxiety and emergence. Thus, the VIII Biennial of Landscape Barcelona claims to be both a catalyst for doubt and a driver to illusions and changes in the field of Landscape Architecture. The announcing of this year’s event suggests interest in discovering new ways of action, while exploring inhospitable areas and guiding discussion towards rethinking old certainties and providing new sensitivities certitudes. A landscape for you wants to be present at the discussion of what should be the landscape design and planning nowadays , aiming to provide a plausible (and exciting) future. Consequently, the biennial has reviewed scope and formats, formulas, concepts and professional practice objectives while watching herself critically as the main living platform for European and International Landscape Architecture movements.
Rosa Barba Landscape Prize
The Rosa Barba Landscape Prize, sponsored by Banc de Sabadell, will be announced within the framework of the 8th Barcelona Landscape Biennial which will take place on the 25, 26 and 27th September 2014 in Barcelona. The Rosa Barba Landscape Prize is opened to all kinds of landscape projects and planning created in Europe from 2009 to 2014. Deadline for presenting project’s documentation is April 11th , 2014. There is a sole AWARD, which has an economic value of 15.000 euros. It will not be declared void under any circumstances. The Prizewinner and the finalists will be presented during the symposium. The projects selected by an International Jury will be published in the 8th Landscape Biennial Catalogue and exposed in the Rosa Barba Prize exhibition.
To participate, fill out the on – line registration form clicking here. Deadline for Presenting project documentation on –line is 11th April 2014.
Comisión Ejecutiva
Sara Bartumeus, architect and Professor in the Master's Program in Landscape Architecture at the DUOT (UPC).
Jordi Bellmunt, architect and Director of the Master's Program in Landscape Architecture at the DUOT (UPC).
Marina Cervera Alonso de Medina, architect and Landscape Architect,Secretary General, IFLA Europe.
Esteve Corominas, architect and Director of the Landscape Office of the COAC.
Joan Ganyet, architect and ex-chief Executive Officer of Architecture and Landscape of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia.
Maria Goula, doctor of Architecture and Director of the Master's Program in Landscape Architecture at the ETSAB.
Alfred Fernández de la Reguera, architect and ex-member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Friends of the UPC.
Jordi Sardà, doctor of Architecture and Professor in the Master's Program in Landscape Architecture at the DUOT.Contact:
Marina Cervera, architect and landscape architect.
VIII BARCELONA BIENNIAL OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Plaça nova 5, 2a planta
08002 Barcelona / Spain
Phone: +34.93.552.08.42/ +34.93.306.78.00 (ext. 352)
biennal@coac.net;
biennaladm@coac.net;
http://www.coac.net/landscape
