Appearance of the dean before the Catalan Parliament to talk about the Architecture Act
On Wednesday, 1 March, the dean of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia, Lluís Comerón, appeared before the Regional Commission of the Catalan Parliament to put forward the COAC’s view of the content of the draft bill for the Architecture Act.
Comparecencia del decano en el Parlamento para hablar sobre la Ley de Arquitectura
El miércoles 1 de marzo, el decano del Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya, Lluís Comerón, ha comparecido en la comisión de territorio del Parlamento de Catalunya para exponer el punto de vista del COAC sobre el contenido del Proyecto de ley de arquitectura.
Compareixença del degà al Parlament per parlar sobre la Llei d'Arquitectura
L'1 de març el degà del Col·legi, Lluís Comerón, va comparèixer a la Comissió de Territori del Parlament de Catalunya per exposar el punt de vista del Col·legi sobre el Projecte de llei d’arquitectura. Podeu consultar al web la crònica de la sessió i els vídeos de la mateixa.
Construction is still in a far from normal situation, without solid structural growth to suggest any imminent improvement
In 2016, the increase in the surface area of projects reaching the construction phase has continued, but that growth has been the result of a small number of projects with very large surface areas. Outside of Barcelona, the rest of Catalonia has remained stagnant, with negative growth in some cases. Urban renewal, an essential activity for the future, is not increasing, which is the main problem..
New COAC correspondents in Germany, Argentina and Brazil
For the fourth year running, the COAC had its annual meeting with international correspondents, held on 23 December at the Plaça Nova headquarters. During the event, 5 new correspondents were introduced: Lluís Casadevall (Munich, Germany), Pau Iglesias (Passo Fundo, Brazil), Carles Arribas (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Bibiana Sciortino (Córdoba, Argentina), and Lea Eidler, who is taking over as correspondent in San Francisco, USA.
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.
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.
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.
Among the 356 nominees there are 14 works by Catalan architects or architecture studios: