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:
Cerca de 1.000 trabajos consultables en el Recull de Mostres
El Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, en el marco del Congreso de Arquitectura 2016 y a través del Programa de Muestras, ha querido ampliar la mirada sobre los últimos años de trabajo profesional de los colegiados, en un contexto especialmente condicionado por la crisis que va des de el año 2010 hasta el 2015, mediante la convocatoriaRecull de Mostres.
If you are an architect and thinking of moving abroad, the COAC can help you. We have built a network of architects who are already working and living abroad, with more than 31 correspondents in 25 different countries around the world.
The yearbooks of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia are now digitized
Checking information in the 27 Yearbooks published by the Architects’ Association of Catalonia between 1899 and 1930 is now even easier thanks to the digitization undertaken by the COAC Library's staff.
The main purpose of the digitization project, which joins others already undertaken by the Library, is to make this very interesting information, of great bibliographic value, as widely available as possible online while at the same time guaranteeing the preservation of the original documents.
75º aniversario de la presencia del Colegio de Arquitectos en las Tierras del Ebro
¿Qué tienen en común Bob Dylan, el Jeep y El Corte Inglés? Pues que tanto el flamante premio Nobel de Literatura como el legendario automóvil norteamericano y los grandes almacenes comerciales han celebrado este año su 75º aniversario. A este trío azaroso y septuagenario hay que añadir, también, la representación del Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya en el Ebro, nacida, como todos ellos, hace quince lustros.
75è aniversari de la presència del Col·legi d'Arquitectes a les Terres de l'Ebre
Hem volgut evocar aquest moment fundacional en l’exposició "Ciutats reconstruïdes. Acció conjunta de Regiones Devastadas i el COAC-Ebre", que es podrà visitar fins al 15 de gener a la seu de Tortosa.
