The Postgraduate Degree in Facility Management at the Sert School wins an award for its educational achievements
The postgraduate course at the Sert School has now been running for six years, and the seventh will be starting this September, led by the School of Public Administration as in the past two years. The course covers the functions of facility management in six modules, including planning, heritage management, project management, maintenance and service contracts, venue management and expenses and investments related to facility management. The course is aimed at all those interested architects and other professionals from public administration.
A boost for professional facility management
The prize-giving ceremony was held on 4 July as part of the sixth Facility M&S Meeting organised by the magazine, and focused on digitisation from the perspective of facility management. Entitled “El impacto de la digitalización en el FM. Innovaciones" (The Impact of Digitisation on FM: Innovations), the event addressed the impact of the IoT (Internet of Things) and new technologies in the field in Spain.
Let’s celebrate together!
On 7 October, from 7 pm, coinciding with World Architecture Day, we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of our Historical Archive with a party where we will open a large-format exhibition to commemorate this red-letter day.
Presenter Oscar Dalmau, a regular user of the Archive, will lead the event, which will look back over its origins, evolution and future challenges, alongside other presentations that will be given by several different institutions. We are also inviting the families who, having donating their collections, have played a decisive role in helping the Archive to grow.
Come along to the party!
50 years in 130 drawings on display
On the same day we will be inaugurating '50 Years of the Historical Archive' , a large-format exhibition that can be visited in the Mezzanine and Espai Picasso at the COAC headquarters in Barcelona, offering a unique opportunity to view some of the most iconic pieces in the Archive’s collection. To give people a greater insight into these pieces, we are organising guided tours for which prior registration will be necessary.
National Culture Award
The celebration also coincides with the National Culture Award granted to the COAC in 2019. The award was given by the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CoNCA) in recognition of the COAC’s role in upholding our architectural and heritage values across Catalonia and, more specifically, for the work carried out by the Archive, which has now become a key documentation centre for architects and historians that “celebrates Catalan architecture".
Since 1969, the Archive has been responsible for recovering the documentary heritage generated by architects and the world of architecture. It safeguards the collections of more than 150 architects from across Catalonia, resulting mainly from donations, which have helped develop Archive over the years and made it one of Europe's most important documentation centres, with more than 2,000,000 documents – including plans, maps, sketches, drawings, publications, photographs, correspondence and audiovisual files. It has become a point of reference for researchers and a repository for our members.
#ArxiuCOAC50 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
From 7 September to 7 October, our Instagram account @coacarxiu, using the hashtag #ArxiuCOAC50, will be paying homage to the most significant collections in the Historical Archive by posting some of the drawings in the exhibition.
On Twitter and Facebook, the sections #JuevesdeArquitectura (Architecture Thursday) and #LecturesRecomanades (Recommended reading) are also joining the celebrations with some specific threads on Modernism, Noucentisme, GATCPAC and Grup R through our collections.
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Pre-Biennial Event: Lecture by Gilles Clément
This is the first event that we organize ahead of the 11th Barcelona Landscape Biennial, which will take place in September 2020.
Clément defends the observation of a landscape which is not fixed. The nature invades and it organizes a creation, without "fitting" the species and accepting the movement and changes, nothing permanent in the concept of garden All these landscape interpretations and other concepts such as agitation (mixing of species) or planetarization (integration of globalization) are reflected in their books such as "Le Jardin en mouvement", "Le Jardin planétaire" and "The third landscape manifest".
Save the date: next Thursday, 3rd of October at 19.00 h.
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ACTO CANCELADO. Conferencia de Gilles Clément
El próximo jueves 3 de octubre a las 19.00 h, se celebrará en la Sala de Actos del COAC una charla a cargo de Gilles Clément, eminente paisajista francés, en motivo de la presentación de su último libro.
Este será el primer acto pre-bienal de cara a la 11ª edición de la Bienal Internacional de Paisaje, y esperamos que sea punto de encuentro de estudiantes y profesionales interesados en el paisaje.
Clément defiende las prácticas a partir de la observación de un paisaje que no es fijo, deja que la naturaleza invada y organice una creación, sin "encajonar" a las especies y aceptando el movimiento y los cambios. Todas estas interpretaciones de paisaje y otros conceptos como la agitación (mestizaje de especies) o la planetarización (integración de la globalización) se encuentran reflejados en sus libros, como "Le Jardin en mouvement", "Le Jardin planétaire" y "El manifiesto del tercer paisaje ".
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