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De Miercoles, 2 Mayo, 2018 - 16:30 hasta Domingo, 20 Mayo, 2018 - 00:00

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The COAC awards its Gold Medal to Rafael Moneo

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The Architects’ Association presented the Gold Medal to architect Rafael Moneo at a private ceremony held at the COAC’s headquarters in Barcelona on 3 April. The Association has awarded its highest distinction in recognition of Rafael Moneo’s professional and cultural contributions, which have made him one of the leading figures in national and international architecture of the past half-century.

Rafael Moneo, born in Tudela in 1937, studied at the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Madrid, where he graduated in 1961. His career, which is almost impossible to sum up in the space available, embraced both construction and teaching, with incursions into architectural dissemination and important connections with the world of art, which led him to collaborate on a regular basis with several leading artists.

In the professional field, Moneo, whose works can be found across half the globe, stands out for projects that have changed the face of the cities for which they were designed: Madrid, Toledo, Seville, New York, Beirut, Berlin and Barcelona. Moneo’s work is highly sensitive to heritage, in the sense of both preserving it and highlighting it.

In the field of education, Moneo gave classes at ETSAB between 1971 and 1980, a time when the teaching staff raised the institution to the very height of its prestigious reputation. The author of an extensive collection of books and conferences, his most recent publication is a small book published by Acantilado on the life of buildings that is so entertaining it is equally interesting to people outside the profession as it is to professional architects.

During the course of his career he has won virtually all the main architectural awards, including the Pritzker Prize in 1996.

Moneo has been associated with the COAC for a good part of his career, to the point of constructing its regional office in Tarragona, a building that stands at the heart of Roman Tarraco in an extremely challenging location which now forms part of the city’s cultural life.

COAC Gold Medals
Winners of the COAC Gold Medal include: architects José Antonio Coderch (1984), Alejandro de la Sota (1996), Enric Miralles (2002), Francisco Sáenz de Oíza (2005), and Manuel de Solà-Morales (2012) (all posthumously), as well as Oscar Niemeyer, who received it in 1990, and Oriol Bohigas and Barcelona City Council, who were distinguished with a joint medal in 2008.

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3/04/2018

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Exhibition: ‘Vanished Architectures’

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Guinardó Market, opened in 1954. Architect: B. Bassegoda. COAC Historical Archive

The city is a living showcase that exhibits the work of many generations of architects. Walking along the streets you can see the different styles, uses, social values and imprints that have defined the city’s fabric.

On the occasion of Architecture Week, in collaboration with the COAC Historical Archive, the exhibition ‘Vanished Architectures’ aims to showcase a series of architectural works at different points in the city that cannot be visited today, either because they have now disappeared or because they have undergone considerable transformation.

A temporary installation on the street near these ‘vanished’ buildings will show how they evolved over the years.

Buildings featured in the exhibition:

· Ciutat Vella: The old warehouses at Moll de la Fusta (Moll de Bosch i Alzina)
· Eixample: Casa Amatller (Passeig de Gràcia, 41)
· Sants-Montjuïc: Les Arenes bullring (Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 373-385)
· Les Corts: The altar of the Eucharistic Congress (Plaça Pius XII)
· Sarrià-Sant Gervasi: Finca Miralles (Passeig de Manuel Girona, 55)
· Gràcia: Plaça del Raspall
· Horta-Guinardó: Guinardó Market (Carrer de Teodor Llorente, 10)
· Nou Barris: Harry Walker Factory (Plaça de Harry Walker)
· Sant Martí: Coca-Cola Factory (Rambla de Guipúscoa, 173)
· Sant Andreu: Pegaso Factory (Carrer Gran de la Sagrera, 179)

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Architecture Week 2018

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The Architects’ Association of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council and Mies van der Rohe Foundation, with the support of BB Construmat and ArquinFAD, are organising Architecture Week 2018, a joint initiative that will be taking place in different venues across Barcelona between 10 and 20 May.

Over this ten-day period, and within the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage, the city will become the epicentre of a broad range of activities related to the world of architecture and the city, with the purpose of helping to reinforce people’s awareness of the value of their built surroundings. The overriding aim is to give the general public a closer insight into the city’s design and disseminate the values of architecture, urban planning and engineering.

There is no question that Barcelona’s architecture is one of its most valuable assets. Architecture forms the basis of the physical space in which Barcelona’s citizens carry out their lives, and for this reason Architecture Week aims to reinforce this essential bond between architecture and people. The COAC hopes to encourage people to consider and value their cities’ built surroundings through a series of events which will shine a spotlight on architectural activities, knowledge, experience and debate.

With the support of other entities and institutions, a packed programme of events has been planned featuring exhibitions, conferences, film screenings, guided tours and installations to highlight architecture in every district.

Arquitectours. 10 days/10 districts undergoing urban renewal
Over the years, various urban renewal projects, such as the Cerdà Plan, the housing estates of the 1960s, and the Olympic Village, have shaped the city as we know it today. Future projects, such as the Superilles programme, aim to continue improving quality of life in the city. These 10 itineraries aim to make these projects and other urban renewal interventions known as well as to highlight our built heritage.

Exhibition: 'Vanished Architecture'
The city is a living showcase that exhibits the work of many generations of architects. Walking along the streets you can see the different styles, uses, social values and imprints that have defined the city’s fabric.

On the occasion of Architecture Week, in collaboration with the COAC Historical Archive, the exhibition ‘Vanished Architecture’ aims to showcase a series of architectural works at different points in the city that cannot be visited today, either because they have now disappeared or because they have undergone considerable transformation.

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