CoAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia)
Association of Architects of Catalonia (CoAC), Barcelona area.
Historical Archive and Library.
Find below the portfolio projects related to CoAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia):
Lecture: Sewing, adhesion and grain direction in book conservation
Event: AIC 50th Annual Meeting, [...]
Video about the profession of book and paper conservator
What does a paper conservator do? Whom does she work for? What skills and knowledge does she ought to have? Preservation and conservation, a field linked to science, history and arts and crafts. The video shows -among other- how we produce a hand-made suction table to restore paper artifacts, with loads of creativity, a feature most necessary to become book and paper conservator.
Lecture: ‘Sew it, rather than paste it!’
(ERC Conference, Krems)
Event: Conference Book Conservation: One [...]
Lecture: ‘Reversibility
in book and paper conservation’ (INTACH, Dehli)
Event: INTACH lectures (#52). Organization: [...]
Lecture: ‘Impregnated Tracing Paper Conservation’ (ICON Book & Paper)
Three study cases of conservation of impregnated tracing paper, with diverse approach
Lecture: “Conservation of Impregnated Tracing Paper” (Papers at the balcony, Granada)
Three study cases of conservation treatment of impregnated tracing paper with three diverse approaches.
Impregnated tracing paper with tapes and ball-point pen inscription
Conservation of pencil architectural drawing on impregnated tracing paper, with a ball-point pen inscription, pressure-sensitive tapes and stuck onto a board. Drawing by catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner.
Conservation of architectural drawings on tracing paper, by Fernando Higueras
Owner: Association of Architects of [...]
Lecture: “Reversible vs Irreversible” (Cores Symposium, Brugge)
Event: Cores Symposium. Dilemmas: Between cherishing [...]
Conservation of leather binding with an iron lock
Bound manuscript with lock inlay. Full leather renaissance binding with brass bosses and iron clasps. An iron inlay on both covers locks the book. It has blind tooling decoration (rectangles and flowers). Handwritten laid paper folios. It is a register of the builders working by that time in Barcelona (1766). Conservation treatment: Reinforcement of the structure (loose covers, broken thongs). Cleaning of the binding, fixing the stuck lock and conservation treatment of further metallic elements (clasps and bosses). Dry cleaning of folios and tear mending.
Lecture: “Replacement of oils on impregnated paper architectural drawings” (Amsterdam)
Date: 7th october 2014. Place: Nationaal [...]
Conservation of sketches on pencil and watercolour
Conservation of drawings on pencil and watercolour of the romanesque monastery of Sant Pere de Roda (Girona, Spain). Author: Architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, 1905.
Conservation of plans on tracing paper and onion paper
Owner: Association of Architects of [...]
Conservation of collage panels from GATCPAC
[translation pending] Beneficiari: Col·legi d'Arquitectes [...]
Copnservation of glass-plate photographs by Domeènch i Montaner
[translation pending] Beneficiari: Col·legi d'Arquitectes [...]
