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Save the date for the 3rd edition of the "Decarbonizing...
Did you know that...... the new version of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive will transform your professional practice?... it will be necessary to multiply by 12 the renovation of homes and 1 out of every 3 architects will be dedicated to this activity?... from 2028, the zero-emission building comes into effect?
9/07/2024 -
Submissions open for the UIA World Architecture Congress...
The international contest to curate the UIA World Architecture Congress Barcelona 2026 opened last 28th June. The Congress is designed as an opportunity to rethink and update the formats and themes that architecture congresses should adopt. This is why the candidates for the team of curators will undergo an unprecedented international selection process at the UIA with a two-round competition.
29/06/2023 -
Open call for the Rosa Barba Landscape Prize
The 12th Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Prize, sponsored by Banc Sabadell Foundation, is part of the International Landscape Biennial, which will take place in Barcelona from the 27th to the 28th of November 2023.After closing the submission of landscape and planning projects, the International Jury will select 7-11 finalists. There will be only one winner with a prize of 15,000 euros, which will be announced during the symposium.
16/03/2023 -
COAC BARCELONA PROMOTES THE '10 ARCHITECTURE FESTIVALS...
The Architects’ Association of Catalonia is promoting the 10 Architecture Festivals 2023, an evolution of Architecture Week that will take place at different venues in Barcelona from 25 March to 10 June. Architecture Week thus goes from 10 days to 10 weeks, with an eye on the future: Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026.
28/02/2023 -
8 MARCH: WE ARE WOMEN AND WE ARE ARCHITECTS!
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, the COAC is promoting the campaign “We are women and we are architects!”, put together by the Open Group of Women Architects and the COAC’s Barcelona office. The initiative aims to showcase our country’s female talent by publicising works bearing the names of women.
7/03/2023 -
COAC ONCE AGAIN AT ARCHITECT@WORK BARCELONA
The Architects’ Association of Catalonia will again be present at Architect@Work Barcelona. This year’s trade show, which will take place on 15 and 16 March at the Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB), will revolve around the theme “Natural Resources”.
14/02/2023 -
WE SAY GOODBYE TO JORDI BONET ARMENGOL, THE MAN BEHIND...
Jordi Bonet Armengol (1925-2022) died on 20 June. An architect atypical of his generation and a contemporary of Oriol Bohigas, Bonet Armengol distinguished himself by having a broad and extensive career that included a myriad of buildings of varying types, in which a single work stands out.
21/06/2022 -
NEW GOVERNING BOARD TAKES OFFICE
On 15 June, the members of the new COAC Governing Board took office.
15/06/2022 -
GUIM COSTA CALSAMIGLIA, NEW DEAN OF THE COAC
Guim Costa Calsamiglia has been appointed as the new dean of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia for the 2022-2026 term, after winning the elections held on 16 and 17 May.Costa received the largest number of votes, with a total of 877, ahead of Manuel Ruisánchez Capelástegui (872) and Carla Habif Hassid Bozzo (165). A total of 117 blank ballots were also recorded.
17/05/2022