ACTAR | About Actar |

		Actar Publishers, Barcelona + New York A progressive editorial project exploring architecture, graphic design, and contemporary art.

		Worldwide distributor specializing in international architecture, design, and art publications. www.actar-d.com

		Actar´s own gallery-bookstores specializing in architecture, graphic design, and contemporary art, and photography. www.rasbcn.com www.myspace.com/rasbarcelona

ACTAR = “ACTivity” + “ARchitecture”*
*Coined in 1931 by the architect and landscape designer Nicolau Maria Rubió I Tudurí in his Manifesto.

ACTAR is a leading Barcelona based publisher of groundbreaking books in architecture, graphic design, and contemporary art. Our publishing program is focused on the works of established and emerging architects, designers, and photographers at the forefront of contemporary praxis and theory. Actar titles represent a broad cross section of the seminal works and individuals who affect the character of current research and practice and its relationship to the larger societal context. Actar is a publishing house for exploring open relationships between the creative mediums of the visual arts, between producers and users, between publisher and reader.

In addition to our in-house titles, Actar also distributes publications by prominent cultural institutions and publishers.

Press and Awards

Actar was awarded the 2007 City of Barcelona Prize for Best International Communication, by an acclaimed jury including Jorge Wagensberg, Daniel Giralt-Miracle, Sergi Caballero, Beth Galí and Josep Ramoneda, "for having created in Barcelona a publishing model of international projection, for the quality of books they publish, for the importance of their authors and themes and for their diffusion, especially during 2007."

«Actar…Spain’s most exuberant architectural publishing team»
Wallpaper

«What your coffee table ought to be wearing this season: Actar. Europe’s bleeding-edge arbiter of taste on matters artistic, photographic and architectural»
High Life.British Airways

«El Proyecto Actar se ha consolidado como uno de los más estimulantes del panorama Europeo…¡larga vida a Actar!»
Culturas 138, La Vanguardia

«La passió d’un grup de professionals independents per l’arquitectura i la fotografia contemporànies es concreta en un segell editorial i una galeria d’art-llibreria»
Públic

«una espléndida edición, sello Actar (...) la elegancia y el cuidado»
Pasajes

«El largo diálogo que se estableció entre el cliente y el estudio de arquitectura puede contemplarse ahora en la Galeria RAS de Barcelona»
El País

«specialisée dans l’architecture et le design, tient la librairie-galerie à proximité du MACBA et du CCCB. Des livres remarquables et des expositions pertinents sur la BCN créative»
Barcelone. Le guide autrement

«(...) sinonimo di sensibilità e strategia, due ingredienti importanti per la produzione della casa editrice di Barcellona, oggi tra le più significative nel panorama mondiale dell’editoria di architettura contemporanea»
Il Manifesto

«(...) casa editrice ACTAR: una delle etichette independenti contemporanee di maggior interesse»
Archi

Publishing Awards:

National Design Award, General of Catalunya, 2005

David Gil Prize in Book Design, 2004

ADG-FAD Medal in Publishing, 2003

Laus Prize in Graphic Design, 2000
Laus Prize in Graphic Design, 1999
Laus Prize in Graphic Design, 1998
Laus Prize in Graphic Design, 1997
Laus Prize in Graphic Design, 1996