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In this first stage, the catalogue focuses on the modern and contemporary architecture designed and built between 1832 –year of construction of the first industrial chimney in Barcelona that we establish as the beginning of modernity– until today.

The project is born to make the architecture more accessible both to professionals and to the citizens through a website that is going to be updated and extended. Contemporary works of greater general interest will be incorporated, always with a necessary historical perspective, while gradually adding works from our past, with the ambitious objective of understanding a greater documented period.

The collection feeds from multiple sources, mainly from the generosity of architectural and photographic studios, as well as the large amount of excellent historical and reference editorial projects, such as architectural guides, magazines, monographs and other publications. It also takes into consideration all the reference sources from the various branches and associated entities with the COAC and other collaborating entities related to the architectural and design fields, in its maximum spectrum.

Special mention should be made of the incorporation of vast documentation from the COAC Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.

The rigour and criteria for selection of the works has been stablished by a Documental Commission, formed by the COAC’s Culture Spokesperson, the director of the COAC Historical Archive, the directors of the COAC Digital Archive, and professionals and other external experts from all the territorial sections that look after to offer a transversal view of the current and past architectural landscape around the territory.

The determination of this project is to become the largest digital collection about Catalan architecture; a key tool of exemplar information and documentation about architecture, which turns into a local and international referent, for the way to explain and show the architectural heritage of a territory.

Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
Directors arquitecturacatalana.cat

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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental Commission:

2019-2024 Ramon Faura Carolina B. Garcia Francesc Rafat Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Anton Pàmies Mercè Bosch Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Aureli Mora Omar Ornaque

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel Maria Jesús Quintero

With the support of:

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

Collaborating Entities:

ArquinFAD

 

Fundació Mies van der Rohe

 

Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico

 

Arxiu Mas

 

Basílica de la Sagrada Família

 

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

 

EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona

Design & Development:

edittio Nubilum
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The Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya is one of the most important documentation centers in Europe, which houses the professional collections of more than 180 architects whose work is fundamental to understanding the history of Catalan architecture. By filling this form, you can request digital copies of the documents for which the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya manages the exploitation of the author's rights, as well as those in the public domain. Once the application has been made, the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya will send you an approximate budget, which varies in terms of each use and purpose.

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Chronology (5)

  1. Meteorological Centre of Catalonia

    Álvaro Siza Vieira

    Meteorological Centre of Catalonia

    The building meets a mixed-use program, which does not require spaces with a special architectural quality. Siza responds to the many references in the environment with a building of a circular configuration, indifferent, which takes its form with its own logic. The building is organised from a narrow central space at full height, which allows to establish two functional centrelines separated by a traffic corridor. The crucible of intermediate pillars adopts an octagonal shape, and the 16 pillars that form it determine the position of the enclosures, which allows very flexible variants. The resulting cylinder is cut into two bevels on either side, in a remote allusion to the trace of the coastal belt. Up to the third floor, the structure is made of exposed concrete walls, while on the upper two floors it is covered with white stone. The ground floor is accessed directly by eight equidistant doors, so that the whole body reaches a high degree of abstraction.

  2. El Llobregat Sports Park

    Álvaro Siza Vieira

    El Llobregat Sports Park

    The sports complex is conceived as a long winding route that starts on two ramps or sloping public squares, and culminates in the swimming pool area, endowed with great sacredness. From the squares you can access the sports court or the linear block containing the gymnasiums. In this way, the pavilion can function independently of the other parts, while the corridor of the linear block acts as a distributor of the complex. From there you can reach the indoor pool. Its shape is inherited from the Roman caldarium, with a slightly curved dome pierced by 62 circular openings that give the interior an unreal and diffused light. The pool extends outwards and creates an outdoor swimming area, surrounded by grass and enclosed by a curved wall that folds down to provide a shaded area. The sports park is conceived as an experience of light and shadow endowed with great richness, "a tribute to the quality of life in Cornellà".

  3. UdL Faculty of Educational Science

    Álvaro Siza Vieira

    UdL Faculty of Educational Science

    L’edifici, situat a la cantonada nord-est del campus de Cappont, adopta la forma d’una L que a la planta baixa s’amplia a una U, distanciant-se del gran volum de la biblioteca universitària, alhora que completa la façana nord del campus i crea una nova plaça pública d’accés i de relació. El gran ràfec de l’ala oest de l’edifici permet d’aconseguir una transició entre l’avinguda Estudi General, de caràcter més urbà, i el jardí interior del campus. El conjunt forma un volum no ortogonal, ja que un dels costats s’orienta cap al buit existent entre la biblioteca i l’Escola Universitària Politècnica, tot oferint un fons escènic a l’espai intersticial visible des de l’avinguda de Jaume II. L’edifici cerca d’aquesta manera el seu lloc dins la façana del campus que dóna a la ciutat. La construcció adopta una estructura modulada que afavoreix, si s’escau, un creixement ordenat o un possible canvi d’ús en el futur.

  4. Auditorium Theatre

    Álvaro Siza Vieira

  5. FAD Award

    Finalist. Category: Architecture
    Auditorium Theatre

Audiovisual

  • Alvaro Siza in conversation with Diane Gray

    27:42

    Alvaro Siza in conversation with Diane Gray

  • Elogio de la luz #4: Álvaro Siza, orden en el caos.

    30:38

    Elogio de la luz #4: Álvaro Siza, orden en el caos.

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