Happy birthday! 40 anniversary of COAM's historic service

08/06/2016. CONFERENCE. [MAD] Spain. 08.06.2016
metalocus, CLAUDIA CENDOYA

The journey of the historical service of Madrid’s School of Architects (COAM) is currently more than 40 years old. The deposit was opened in 1975 with the aim of preserving Madrid’s architectural heritage and in the present time disposes of more than 400,000 documents, organized in 47 architectural legacies.

Church by Luis Cubillo de Arteaga. Image courtesy of COAM's historic service

Church by Luis Cubillo de Arteaga. Image courtesy of COAM's historic service

Botas warehouse, Gijón (Spain), by Javier Feduchi Benlliure. Image courtesy of COAM's historic service

Sketch of the competition for the Kursaal, San Sebastián (Spain) 1973, by Ramón Vázquez Molezún, Jose Antonio Corrales and Luis Peña Ganchegui. Image courtesy of COAM's historic service

Sketch by Antonio Fernández Alba. Image courtesy of COAM's historic service

Sketch of Álvarez Mon House, Cercedilla (Spain) 1954, by Ramón Vázquez Molezún and José Antonio Corrales. Image courtesy of COAM's historic service (Vázquez Molezún legacy).

Casa de Campo's plans (Madrid, Spain) aprox. 1820. Image courtesy of COAM's historic service

Vegaviana town, Cáceres (Spain), by José Luis Fernández del Amo. Image courtesy of COAM's historic service

A round table takes place this afternoon (17.00h) at the COAM's headquarters to celebrate the success of this crucial documentation of contemporary Spanish architecture service, which has been providing to the general public plans, photographs, postcards, models, panels and all types of documents for four decades. After a visit to the historic service itself by Alberto Sanz Hernando, a panel discussion moderated by Carlos Lahoz Palacio will reflect on the significance of this deposit to Madrid's architectural memory.