-
Sign up for 'Architecture in the Classrooms'! Our aim is for children and young people to enjoy Architecture Week 2019 too!
For the third year running, the Architects’ Association —in conjunction with Barcelona City Council, the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona Building Construmat and ArquinFAD– are organizing Architecture Week, which takes place between 9 and 19 May 2019.
-
RCR Arquitectes are named Officiers des Arts et des Lettres in France
RCR Arquitectes are named Officiers des Arts et des Lettres in France
The Catalan architecture practice RCR Arquitectes has been distinguished with the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an honorary decoration that has been awarded by the French Ministry of Culture since the mid-1950s.
-
Architect Oriol Bohigas receives Barcelona's Gold Medal
Architect Oriol Bohigas receives Barcelona's Gold Medal
Barcelona architect Oriol Bohigas has been awarded the city’s Gold Medal, presented by Mayoress Ada Colau. The prize-giving ceremony was held on 25 October in Barcelona City Hall's Saló de Cent hall, and the winning architect was accompanied by his wife, Beth Galí, and their children Maria, Josep, Pere and Glòria Bohigas.
-
The COAC’s Historical Archive loans photos by Català-Roca for an exhibition on Miró in Paris
The COAC’s Historical Archive loans photos by Català-Roca for an exhibition on Miró in Paris
The Grand Palais in Paris is holding the biggest retrospective on the Catalan artist Joan Miró since 1974, entitled simply 'Miró'.
-
The stairway to the Saxhóll crater wins the Rosa Barba International Landscape Award
The stairway to the Saxhóll crater wins the Rosa Barba International Landscape Award
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
-
Eight original documents on Gaudí’s work exhibited at the Het Schip Museum in Amsterdam
Eight original documents on Gaudí’s work exhibited at the Het Schip Museum in Amsterdam
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.
-
Open registration for the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture
Open registration for the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture
The 10th edition of the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture will be held in Barcelona this September, under the title 'Performative nature".
-
Presentation of the Iberian DOCOMOMO Register in Catalunya 1965-1975
Presentation of the Iberian DOCOMOMO Register in Catalunya 1965-1975
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.
-
Come to the COAC Library to prepare your holidays!
Come to the COAC Library to prepare your holidays!
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
