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Catalan architects in the World
On February 24th the COAC held the awards ceremony of the First "Mostra" Exhibition of International Catalan Architecture. 73 architectural works were submitted to the "International Mostra", which include residential and non-residential works by public and private developers; landscape interventions and urban planning projects carried out between September 2004 and December 2013. During the event, the Innovation Award of Banco Sabadell Foundation was also delivered.
25/02/2015 -
Model of Barcelona: a new permanent installation
The Architects' Association of Catalonia presents a new permanent installation on the City of Barcelona, which can be visited in the headquarters' lobby. This installation consists of a model of Barcelona, at 1/4,000 scale, on which audiovisual projections are screened through mapping technology, thus explaining different ideas and concepts about our city and its history.
16/02/2015 -
COAC collaborates with 'La rosa di fuoco' exhibition...
The COAC's Historical Archive collaborates with the upcoming exhibition 'La rosa di fuoco. La Barcellona di Picasso e Gaudi', which will open in Ferrara's Palazzo dei Diamanti (Italy) on April the 19th.The exhibition features nearly 130 works, including paintings by Catalan artists Ramon Casas, Santiago Rusiñol, Joaquim Mir and Isidre Nonell, as well as sculptures, drawings, photographs, decorative artworks and jewels.
12/01/2015 -
BBB Construmat holds a competition with the support of COAC...
Beyond Building Barcelona Construmat, with the support of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia (COAC) and its Group of Young Architects (AJAC), organizes the Beyond Building Barcelona Construmat Competition of Ideas for the design of the showroom in the upcoming Construmat Fair, which will be held in May 2015.
16/01/2015 -
European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA
The Architects' Association for the Defence of Intervention in the Architectural Heritage (AADIPA) and the Architects' Association of Catalunya announce the second European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention, with the aim of distinguishing best practices in heritage and contributing to their dissemination.
16/12/2014 -
Course: 'Creative curriculum: make the difference'
The COAC Job Bank, together with Barcelona Activa, organizes new training actions for guidance and job search. Thus, on December 3th, the course 'Creative curriculum: make the difference' will be held in Porta 22 (c. Llacuna, 162-164, Barcelona), from 3 to 6 pm.Learn how to prepare a creative curriculum to complement your traditional resume, so you can introduce yourself to companies in an original and striking way, more likely to catch the attention of recruiters.
24/11/2014 -
8th edition of the Girona Region Architecture Awards
The Association's Girona branch organizes the 18th edition of the Girona Region Architecture Awards with the aim of hightlightling architecture conducted in the territorial scope of the branch, in order to show the excellence and effort made by professionals.
1/12/2014 -
Catalan architects, present at the Denkmal Restoration Fair
The Centre for Architectural Rehabilitation of Barcelona (OBRA) takes part in the 2014 Denkmal Fair for Conservation, Restoration and Old Building Renovation, held on November the 6th, 7th and 8th in Leipzig (Germany) and dedicated, this year, to historical facades.
6/11/2014 -
A landscape for you
In recent times of ecological reviews of our territories, of reviewing the means for proposing new landscape structures, of discipline reinvention, with more and more intensity is recognized in the contemporary landscape projects, as an essential factor, the contribution of society to the genesis of it and the intense use of the outcomes.
16/06/2014