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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental 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 OrnaqueExternal Collaborators:
2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel Maria Jesús QuinteroWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació 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
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We kindly invite you to help us improve the dissemination of Catalan architecture through this space. Here you can propose works and provide or amend information on authors, photographers and their work, along with adding comments. The Documentary Commission will analyze all data. Please do only fill in the fields you deem necessary to add or amend the information.
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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Sant Jordi Primary School
Marta Gabàs i Gonzalo, Anna Ribas Seix
El projecte parteix de la premissa que havia de ser construït en dues fases. La primera fase incloïa les aules de preescolar i el gimnàs, i la segona fase la resta de les dependències. Els cossos corresponents a totes dues fases havien de quedar clarament separats. L’escola manté una rigorosa regularitat en planta, mentre que la secció presenta una complexa combinació de cobertes per tal de permetre l’entrada de la llum del sud a les aules, i de la llum del nord al gimnàs. Les façanes laterals reflecteixen estrictament els perfils creats per la secció. Una de les cobertes inclinades és de vidre i esdevé un porxo que fa d’entrada, entre els dos cossos principals de l’escola. L’edifici queda construït per cinc parets de càrrega que donen lloc a quatre crugies, les quals permeten un repartiment ordenat de les diferents parts del programa. -
Lladó House
Marta Gabàs i Gonzalo, Anna Ribas Seix
La casa és a la part alta d’un petit nucli de població dels Pirineus, enclavat en un terreny en vessant, amb carrers costeruts que pugen en ziga-zaga. El solar es troba a la confluència de dos carrers, al límit del poble, de manera que a la part posterior comença el camp obert. La casa adopta una configuració lleugerament còncava, mirant a la bona orientació i deixant una era plana davant de la façana principal. Es tracta d’una sola crugia formada per gruixuts murs de pedra, si bé el mur del davant es fragmenta en dues traces que defineixen un tram més ample i un tram més estret. Al punt de fractura d’aquesta façana se situa la porta d’entrada. La crugia estreta s’adapta al programa del dormitori principal, mentre que la crugia ampla acull la sala d’estar i la cuina. La planta superior adopta el caràcter d’unes golfes aptes per a usos diversos, la qual cosa permet acollir un gran nombre d’estadants durant les temporades de vacances. Darrere la casa, un talús artificial evita la construcció d’una paret de contenció i permet airejar les estances de la planta baixa per la part posterior. La coberta segueix l’orientació de la corba, cap a l’era, tancada amb un sistema de murets que enllaça amb la morfologia de la resta del poble. -
District 3 Library
Ravetllat-Ribas Arquitectes, Carles Casamor i Maldonado, Pere Joan Ravetllat i Mira, Manuel Ribas i Piera, Carme Ribas i Seix, Anna Ribas Seix
Located between the street’s sidewalk and one of the paths projected for the park, the building aims to give meaning to the topographical difference between the street and the torrent’s esplanade. The proposal involves two stories in order to build one facing the park and recovers the roof as a public space on the city level, and another one on the city level on the street that becomes the main access and guarantees the visibility of the library from the city.