The Architects’ Association of Catalonia (COAC), founded in 1931 and heir to the Association of Architects (1874), is a corporation representing Catalan architects, promoting excellence in architecture, and spreading its values, especially its social and cultural dimensions.

Vitra is a Swiss family-owned furniture company that is known best for the production of iconic modern chairs, as well as for office furniture, its eponymous design museum, and the architectural gems dotting its campus in Weil am Rhein, Gemany. This week's announcement that Vitra will reopen the Herzog & de Meuron-designed VitraHaus on May 9, following a year-and-a-half-long renovation,...

As designed by SOSOKKI ANAC, the firm of architect Gi-Tae Chung, the recently completed Monologue Café is a prismatic brick volume outside and “a space of introspection rather than consumption” inside. The project explores how architecture can “embody a quiet narrative.” Gi-Tae Chung answered a few questions about the project.