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COAC and Barcelona City Council present Architecture Week 2017
COAC and Barcelona City Council present Architecture Week 2017
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 from Venice and is shown in Barcelona
The 'Aftermath' exhibition returns from Venice and is shown in Barcelona
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 their documentary holdings to the COAC Archive
Architects Tusquets, Clotet and Paricio donate their documentary holdings to the COAC Archive
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 Architectural Heritage AADIPA opens its third edition
The European Award for Intervention in Architectural Heritage AADIPA opens its third edition
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.
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Eva Franch: "New perspectives are needed because there are new ways of understanding the world"
Eva Franch: "New perspectives are needed because there are new ways of understanding the world"
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.
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Josep Lluís Mateo: "Architecture is the tool to build a better world"
Josep Lluís Mateo: "Architecture is the tool to build a better world"
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.
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Beatriz Colomina: "There is a need to build a hybrid city, between what is real and what is virtual"
Beatriz Colomina: "There is a need to build a hybrid city, between what is real and what is virtual"
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.
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Juan Herreros: "The current architect is a DJ. The myth of the orchestra conductor has fallen"
Juan Herreros: "The current architect is a DJ. The myth of the orchestra conductor has fallen"
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.
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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.
