ON 8 MARCH WE SHOWCASED THE EXCELLENCE OF FEMALE ARCHITECTS
For some time now, one of the COAC’s priorities has been to promote and encourage women to join the profession and to make their work more widely visible. To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, the COAC organised an event to showcase the professional excellence of female architects. During the whole week, we featured on our social media the 36 women who have won a national or international prize in the last year, using the hashtag #socArquitectA, whether this was for a particular project or for their lifetime achievements.
Happy International Women’s Day, architects!
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THE REINA SOFIA MUSEUM AND THE COAC SIGN AN AGREEMENT TO PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE OF ARCHITECTURE
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. This agreement, which will turn the COAC’s Historical Archive into one of the documentary sources of the Reina Sofia Museum, is based on three lines of action: the loan and exhibition of works, the development of research programmes, and the joint production of publications.
These actions include sharing works from the MNCARS’ collections and the COAC’s Historical Archive, respectively, in the form of temporary loans for exhibitions: from works of art through to documents and audiovisual media.
The Coderch Archive, now available to COAC members
When it comes to research, the aim of both organisations is to develop programmes of mutual interest that open lines of research and knowledge in areas associated with architecture and contemporary urbanism. The agreement envisages the free and preferential access of COAC members to the José Antonio Coderch Archive, which has been held by the MNCARS Library and Documentation Centre since 2018.
Members will thus be able to refer to this collection, one of the most important in contemporary architecture, which contains around 10,000 documents classified between 1941 and 1978. Once the digitisation of the collection has been completed, the COAC’s Historical Archive will have its own copy, which will be available to members for reference purposes.
Similarly, the Reina Sofia Museum will guarantee members’ access to other professional archives and architectural material it may acquire in the future.
Publications, congresses and conferences
The agreement is rounded off with the two institutions’ commitment to jointly produce publications on the subjects of architecture and contemporary urbanism, as well as the organisation of congresses and conferences.
The Reina Sofia Museum, a cultural benchmark
The Reina Sofia Museum is one of the most important and visited cultural institutions in Spain: it holds a hugely important collection of twentieth-century art, notably works by Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. It also has an art library containing more than 100,000 books, 3,500 sound recordings, and 1,000 videos.
A PROJECT PROMOTED BY THE COAC, WINNER AT THE AWARDS FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INTO URBAN CHALLENGES OF THE CITY OF BARCELONA
There is a direct relationship between housing conditions and the health of the people who live in them. This has been demonstrated in recent years and is now recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO). The COVID-19 crisis has shown even more clearly, if that were possible, the importance of healthy living conditions both in the home and in our immediate environment. In addition, the increasing trend towards teleworking and remote learning, along with factors such as population ageing, point to us spending more time than ever at home in the medium and long term.
The HABITAS project (Housing and Health during the Pandemic and Beyond), supported by the COAC, among other institutions, was a winner at the Awards for Scientific Research into Urban Challenges of the City of Barcelona. The research study, which examines the complex relationship between housing and health, was headed by architect Carlota Sáenz de Tejada with the support of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), the UPC, the CSIC, the Barcelona Metropolitan Housing Observatory, the Societat Orgànica cooperative and FabLab Barcelona, as well as the COAC Working Group on Architecture and Health.
The project aims to help find solutions to some of the main housing challenges facing the city of Barcelona and its metropolitan area, and hopes to come up with the answers to questions such as these: To what extent does the type of building, its occupancy level, and the ventilation habits of its households contribute to interior air quality? Is there a connection between these factors and the rate of COVID-19 infection in the city?
Awards for Scientific Research into Urban Challenges
The Awards, organized by Barcelona City Council as part of the Barcelona Science Plan 2020-2023, are aimed at members of the scientific community under the age of 40, from any branch of knowledge. The aim is to stimulate and strengthen young talent in Barcelona and support innovative projects that think ‘outside the box’ of the city’s general model.
These first Awards, which have a total endowment of 1.2 million euros, attracted 72 entrants, 22 of which were awarded a prize. The selected projects targeted issues such as population density, public space, social welfare, sustainable mobility, the climate crisis, population ageing, and new productive models, among other topics.
Conferencia Carme Pinós
La conferencia, que se ofrece en formato telemático, es una Iniciativa de la Demarcación de Tarragona de Colegio de Arquitectos de Cataluña.
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La sesión se ofrece por streaming mediante la plataforma Microsoft Teams. Las personas inscritas recibirán un correo electrónico con el enlace para seguir la sesión en directo. Este enlace se publicará también en la web unas horas antes de iniciar el acto.
Carme Pinós inicia su actividad profesional en los años 80 junto al arquitecto Enric Miralles. Juntos llevan a cabo numerosos proyectos como el reconocido cementerio de Igualada o la escuela de Morella.
En 1991 abre su propio taller de arquitectura Estudio Carme Pinós y desde entonces desarrolla destacados encargos nacionales e internacionales, habiendo construido, entre otros países, en México, Austria o Francia, en contextos, escenarios, programas y escalas muy diversas.
De esta etapa profesional podemos destacar el proyecto de Caixaforum de Zaragoza (2014), las mexicanas Torres Cube (2005/2014), o la Escuela Massana de Arte y Diseño (2017).
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