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Juan Herreros: "The current architect is a DJ. The myth of the orchestra conductor has fallen"
Juan Herreros: "The current architect is a DJ. The myth of the orchestra conductor has fallen"
Madrid-based architect Juan Herreros opened the closing session of the Architecture Congress, and did so with a lecture on architecture’s general interest and its values to improve cities, the land and people’s lives.
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Nominated works for the EU Mies Award 2017
Nominated works for the EU Mies Award 2017
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the list of 356 works competing for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The Prize is awarded biennially to works completed within the previous two years. The principal objective is to recognize and commend excellence and innovation in the field of architecture.
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Enric Batlle: "We have the ability to recover all the spaces in the world”
Enric Batlle: "We have the ability to recover all the spaces in the world”
Land development and public space was the main theme of the conference of Catalan architect Enric Batlle. It revolved around three main aspects: ecology, leisure and production. “The will to preserve existing spaces must be a priority, we need to bring life back to places often forgotten by the general public”, he claimed. Batlle spoke about the need to act on degraded landscapes, not only on green and agricultural land.
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The Catalan Prime Minister at the closing ceremony of the Architecture Congress
The Catalan Prime Minister at the closing ceremony of the Architecture Congress
Putting an end to six months of a participatory process was a challenge, to say the least. The chosen venue was Sant Antoni Market... under (re)construction. A privileged venue, because few people had accessed it before.
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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park wins the Rosa Barba Landscape Prize
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park wins the Rosa Barba Landscape Prize
The design project for the parklands of the London Olympic Games has been granted the 9th Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize, given on September 30th in Barcelona, within the International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona. George Hargreaves, Mary Margaret Jones and Gavin McMillan, from Hargreaves Associates, are the authors of the project.
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The yearbooks of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia are now digitized
The yearbooks of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia are now digitized
Checking information in the 27 Yearbooks published by the Architects’ Association of Catalonia between 1899 and 1930 is now even easier thanks to the digitization undertaken by the COAC Library's staff.
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The Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in New York
The Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in New York
The 13th Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU) goes to the United States for the very first time to exhibit at the Cooper Union in New York, before travelling on to France, Germany, Japan and Sweden.
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The COAC’s Historic Archive completes the cataloguing of the collection of Correa i Milà, Arquitectes
The staff of the COAC’s Historic Archive have catalogued the collection of documents donated by architects Federico Correa (b. 1924) and Alfonso Milà (1924–2009) to the COAC.Federico Correa and Alfonso Milà studied architecture together before going on to work at José Antonio Coderch’s studio. In 1953 they set up their own practice, Correa-Milà, and enjoyed a prolific career as architects and designers
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Works featured at the seventh Architecture Exhibition of Central Catalonia
Works featured at the seventh Architecture Exhibition of Central Catalonia
On 7 July, the Torre Nova de Cal Pons hosted the presentation of the seventh Architecture Exhibition of Central Catalonia, including the prize-giving ceremony and the inauguration of the exhibition organized by the Architects’ Association’s regional offices in Bages-Berguedà and Osona.
