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50th Anniversary of the Gobierno Civil Building in Tarragona
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Gobierno Civil building in Tarragona, as well as the centenary of architect Alejandro de la Sota's birth. Therefore, the exhibition "100 years with Alejandro de la Sota" will open on November 18th. Our wish is that it will be as successful as earlier exhibitions in the CGAC and COAM.
18/11/2014 -
Architect David Mackay passes away
British architect David Mackay joined Josep Martorell and Oriol Bohigas in 1959. Those were the years in which their architecture office, which incorporated Mackay as a partner in 1962, exploded.
14/11/2014 -
International Tuesdays: Professional practice in France
On December the 2nd the next International Tuesdays session will be held at COAC headquarters. This session will be dedicated to the professional practice in France and will focus mainly on Marina Daviu's experiece as COAC correspondent, who will be speaking from Paris through Skype.
12/11/2014 -
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 -
Energy Efficiency Plan by the Catalan Department of Culture:...
The implementation of the new Energy Efficiency Plan anticipates a reduction of 15% to 20% of the annual energy consumption of the Department of Culture's real state stock.
5/11/2014 -
Sacred heritage, AADIPA's next international conference
The XXXVII edition of the International Conference on Intervention on Architectural Heritage, organised by the Association of Architects for the Protection and Intervention on Architectural Heritage (AADIPA) of the Architects' Association of Catalonia, is starting on December the 11th.
4/11/2014 -
The correspondents' network is present in 30 cities
London, Tampere (Finland) and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) are the latest additions to the COAC correspondents' network.
4/11/2014 -
mARQet 2014
Times are changing rapidly and so is our profession. The traditional figure of the architect is being transformed into an increasingly diversified and more open profession, in which young professionals are constantly reinventing themselves and taking advantage of the diversity of knowledge provided by architectural studies and their application in other fields.
30/09/2014 -
Architect Eva Jimenez receives the Special Doctoral Award UPC
Architect Eva Jimenez was awarded on the 23rd September the Special Doctoral Award UPC 2014 for her PhD thesis "The column in Mies van der Rohe. The lexicon of steel".
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