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COAC RENOVATES SIX OF ITS BRANCH OFFICES AS PART OF THE...
All the renovation work carried out as part of the Heritage Plan to transform six of the COAC’s eleven regional office buildings around Catalonia is expected to be completed during the course of 2022.
17/03/2022 -
BUILDING REHABILITATION TECHNICAL OFFICES, INFORMATION AND...
The Minister for Social Rights, Violant Cervera; the dean of the COAC, Assumpció Puig; the executive chairman of the Technical Architecture Council of Catalonia, Celestí Ventura, and the manager of the Barcelona-Lleida Association of Property Administrators, Lorenzo Viñas, have presented the new Building Rehabilitation Technical Offices (OTR).
20/04/2022 -
TWENTY-NINE WORKS SELECTED BY THE COAC ENTERED IN THE CSCAE...
Twenty-nine works selected by the COAC will represent Catalan architecture in the 1st ARQUITECTURA Awards, organised by the Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España (Higher Council of Architects’ Associations of Spain, CSCAE) with the official sponsorship of COMPAC.
31/03/2022 -
THE COAC AND THE BANCO SABADELL FOUNDATION SIGN AN AGREEMENT...
The dean of the COAC, Assumpció Puig, and the president of the Banco Sabadell Foundation, Miquel Molins, have signed a collaboration agreement under which the Foundation will participate in the restoration of the Picasso friezes that surround the COAC headquarters in Barcelona’s Plaça Nova. The Foundation will also collaborate on the exhibition that the COAC is organising for 2023 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso.
21/03/2022 -
ARCHITECTURE, A SUBJECT ON THE SYLLABUS OF MAGNET SCHOOLS...
In March, the time of pre-enrolment for primary and secondary schools, the schools with which the COAC works to introduce architecture into the classroom made a point of highlighting this important and differentiating factor on their syllabuses.
22/03/2021 -
ON 8 MARCH WE SHOWCASED THE EXCELLENCE OF FEMALE ARCHITECTS
The number of female architects has grown exponentially over the last few decades, but it is still a long way from reaching parity with men: at present, just 32% of all COAC members are women, some ways below the European average of 39%. The number of new memberships show that women are carving out a bigger and bigger niche in architecture, historically a profession dominated by men.
5/03/2021 -
THE REINA SOFIA MUSEUM AND THE COAC SIGN AN AGREEMENT TO...
The COAC has signed an agreement with the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MNCARS) to establish joint actions to promote, plan and execute cultural projects that contribute to increasing knowledge of contemporary art in general and architecture and urbanism in particular.
2/03/2021 -
The COAC joins forces with the MNAC and 'Construint a la...
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it necessary to turn Architecture Week into an online event. Aprendre des de casa (Learning from home), the online version of our traditional architecture workshops, made it possible for many children to learn about architecture from their homes through activities organised by architects.
30/11/2020 -
Harquitectes receives a special mention at the Architecture...
The Clos Pachem winery in Gratallops (Tarragona), the work of the architectural design studio Harquitectes, was given a special mention by the jury of the Architecture & Urban Planning Awards presented every year by the Higher Council of Architects' Associations in Spain (CSCAE).
26/01/2021