COAC

Today, 28 June 2017, the Parliament of Catalonia passed the Law on Architecture, with 98 votes in favour (Junts pel Sí, Catalunya Sí Que Es Pot, Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya and Partit Popular de Catalunya), 9 against (CUP) and 25 abstentions (Ciutadans), thereby concluding a process initiated four years ago by the Catalan Ministry of Territory and Sustainability with the backing of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia (COAC) and the collaboration of a wide range of bodies, organisations, schools of architecture and individual architects.

At the beginning of 2013, Santi Vila, the then Catalan Minister for Territory and Sustainability, warmly welcomed the Architects’ Association of Catalonia’s proposal of developing a Law on Architecture, along the lines of the similar law in France.

In May of the same year, the Association submitted a preliminary draft text of the Law, focusing on defining architecture as an asset of general public interest, establishing instruments for its dissemination and promotion and for governing public procurement with criteria of exemplariness.

El Ayuntamiento de Barcelona pone en marcha el Concurso de cubiertas verdes, una iniciativa para promover la creación de nuevas azoteas verdes y difundir sus beneficios.

Las cubiertas verdes son uno de los elementos clave para conseguir una ciudad más verde y sostenible, tal como se establece en el Plan del Verde y la Biodiversidad de Barcelona 2020 y el Programa de Impulso a la Infraestructura Verda Urbana.