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Mor l'arquitecta Montse Mendoza, impulsora de les noves tecnologies aplicades a les llicències municipals
Ens ha deixat quan no feia gaire anys que s’havia jubilat del seu càrrec de directora de Serveis d’Actuació Urbanística, a la Gerència Adjunta d’Urbanisme.
La seva relació amb el COAC es va fer especialment estreta en el marc del projecte e-llicències, en el qual l’Ajuntament de BCN incorporava per primera vegada la tramitació de les llicències municipals 100% en format electrònic. Aquest nou model de tramitació de llicències suposava un canvi radical i anava acompanyat d’una sèrie de modificacions administratives que havien de millorar i fer més ràpida la seva tramitació. La Montse va ser una gran impulsora de les noves tecnologies aplicades al camp de les llicències, destacant la seva autoritat professional i sent-ne una gran referent.
Durant els mandats de Lluis Comerón com a president de la Demarcació de Barcelona i posteriorment a degà del COAC, junt amb els membres de Junta Carla Habif Hassid i Enric Mir i tot el departament d’Exercici Professional del COAC, es va col·laborar estretament amb ella i el seu equip per posar les bases i elaborar el que avui coneixem com a Informe d’Idoneïtat Tècnica dels projectes, baula essencial en aquest marc de transformació que ens va permetre compartir espais de treball.
Des del COAC volem agrair-li el seu servei al conjunt de la societat i en espeical als arquitectes, la seva professionalitat, coneixements i la seva confiança ferma en els col·legis professionals, però per sobre de tot, el seu caràcter generós i humà que fan que la tinguem en profunda estima.
Gràcies Montse.
Sandra Bestraten
Presidenta de la Demarcació de Barcelona del COAC
DIVERSE CATALAN STUDIOS, WINNERS OF THE FAD AWARDS 2022
The ceremony for the FAD Awards for Architecture and Interior Design took place on Tuesday 14 June at Disseny Hub Barcelona.
The FAD Award for Architecture went to the project Llacuna, by Arquitectura-G (Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, Igor Urdampilleta and Albert Guerra). The winning work is a city-based project for a block located on an irregular corner in Barcelona's Poblenou district. The jury considered very positively how the project "exquisitely solves the difficult issue of a corner plot, of irregular geometry, placing the cylindrical communication nucleus at the centre of gravity" and valued the relations generated with the city: "a work of sense, sensitivity and conceptual clarity. A delicate commitment to a continuity of compositional tradition where beauty, respect and logic organise a whole".
The award for the City and Landscape category went ex aequo to Eduard Callís and Guillem Moliner for Bon dia, Carme!. The jury valued this project's reactivation of the Plaça del Carme in Olot as "a combination of a sum of strategies that goes beyond urban development. The ground floors are incorporated as an essential asset of the public space, and draw a new transition scenario, favouring public use over private. It is a sum of interventions that act on the commercial abandonment of ground floors and the degradation of central neighbourhoods, a common situation in many medium-sized cities".
In the Ephemeral Interventions category, the award went to the project Agrilogística, by Estudio Goig (Miquel Mariné and Pol Esteve). The project creates the framework for the presentation of the film by the artist Gerard Ortín, which deals with the role of greenhouses in the ecological transformation and the future of food production, a subject that did not leave the jury indifferent, as the installation "amplifies the projection inside a greenhouse where the materials and solutions enhance the message and the experience of the film, inviting reflection".
Finally, in the International category, the project Air/Aria/Aire, by Olga Subirós, won the award ex aequo. The jury valued "the forcefulness of the architectural gesture in a context of exhibition hall interventions that often abuse them" and considered "the link between the formal and environmental characteristics of the hall and the content it conveys" to be "very successful".
Opinion Awards
Every year, the FAD Awards finalists and the ArquinFAD members vote for winners of the Opinion Award in the different categories. This year, the City and Landscape Opinion Award also went to the project Bon dia, Carme! and the Ephemeral Interventions Opinion Award to Agrilogística.
FAD Awards juries
The jury for the FAD Awards for Architecture and Interior Design was chaired by the architect Inés Lobo, accompanied by Paloma Cañizares, Josep Puigdomènech, Pep Quilez, Maria Rubert de Ventós and Jorge Vidal. The jury for the FAD Awards for Thought and Critique was chaired by architect Marta Llorente with members Kathrin Golda-Pongratz and Alessandro Scarnato. As for the FAD International Awards, the jury was chaired by architect Carme Pinós with Pere Buil and Diane Gray as members.
To see the rest of the winning projects, visit the ArquinFAD website.
NEW GOVERNING BOARD TAKES OFFICE
On 15 June, the members of the new COAC Governing Board took office.
The Board is headed by the COAC dean, Guim Costa Calsamiglia, with Gemma Ferré Pueyo as secretary, Imanol Montero Viar as treasurer, and Inés de Rivera Marinelo, Greta Tresserra Sans and Pep Quílez Soler as members. The Board is complemented with a team comprising the presidents of the regional branches: Sandra Bestraten Castells (Barcelona), Claudina Relat Goberna (Comarques Centrals), Elena Rosales Castellà (Ebre), Marc Riera Guix (Girona), Lluís de la Fuente (Lleida) and Jordi J. Romera (Tarragona).
More profession, more prestige, more COAC
The new Governing Board assumes leadership of the COAC with the commitment to work to improve the future of the professional group through an association that is more open to everyone: one that is innovative, well-rounded, inclusive and that serves as a benchmark.
One of the aims is to better the situation and practices of the profession itself, with a focus on strengthening COAC services to make them more efficient and easily accessible; improving public tendering procedures through their simplification and to ensure equal opportunities; encouraging training, innovation and refresher courses to promote employment; promoting gender inclusion and supporting new generations by listening to the experiences of those that went before them.
There is also a firm desire to get back the prestige once held by profession and architecture itself. Therefore, work will be done to improve society's perception of the architect, a discipline at the service of the public and one which provides solutions to the difficult challenges that lie ahead.
A third aim on which the new Board will focus is to work to improve the institution's relationship with the members and between members, encouraging the COAC's role as a meeting point for connection, participation and cooperation among architects.

L’Oficina Inici de la Professió sorgeix de la necessitat que tenen els arquitectes que s’incorporen en l’exercici de la professió de tenir al seu abast les eines, l'orientació i l'acompanyament durant l’inici de la seva carrera professional.
Posem al teu abast aquest espai digital organitzat en aquests quatre grans blocs, que recullen documentació (exclusiva per a col·legiats/des) i material formatiu per facilitar els primers anys exercint la professió, jornades pensades principalment per a joves i les qüestions més freqüents.
Amb una atenció personalitzada als joves i els que inicien la seva professió, oferint formació, informació, serveis i documentació que orienten en els primers passos a seguir i expliquen les temàtiques claus per començar el seu camí, el COAC vol acompanyar d'aquesta manera un dels col·lectius més importants dins de l'entitat.
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