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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

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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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Arquitecta per l’Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (UPC). Postgrau en Sostenibilitat i Arquitectura, EscolaSert (COAC).
Cofundadora de FLEXOarquitectura i sòcia entre 2002 i 2016. La seva obra ha rebut diversos premis i reconeixements, entre ells: Nominada al “Premi Mies van der Rohe 2013”, "Iakov Chernikhov award 2012”; 1er premi als “Premis Ciutat de Palma 2011”, “Premis arquitectura de Mallorca 07-10”, “Premis arquitectura de Menorca 05-08”, “Premis AJAC IX 2014”; seleccionada “Premis FAD 2011”, “Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo XI”, “Premis Saloni 2010”; i exposada a la Biennal d’Arquitectura de Venècia en 2012 i 2016.
Des de 2017 compagina la pràctica professional en despatx propi, desenvolupant projectes
d’arquitectura i disseny, amb la docència a ESDAP Catalunya.

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  1. Les Corts Apartment Buildings

    Flexo Arquitectura, Tomeu Ramis Frontera, Aixa del Rey García, Bárbara Vich Arrom

    Les Corts Apartment Buildings

    Within the parameters dictated by the M.P.G.M., we propose a threefold objective: 1. ENVIRONMENT / CONTEXT. Respond to the multiplicity of stairs in the environment using volumetric fragmentation and the arrangement (grouping and rhythm) of the façade holes. 2. SPECIFICITY. Provide each of the homes with the corresponding specificity according to the location in the building. Escape the form as a result of the addition of a single type. 3. COMFORT. Use the architectural form as a comfort strategy working the emptying of the buildable volume to achieve maximum sunshine and natural cross ventilation. On the south-facing façades we incorporate umbrella galleries to regulate energy exchange.
  2. Oval Bar and Hamburger Restaurant

    Flexo Arquitectura, Tomeu Ramis Frontera, Aixa del Rey García, Bárbara Vich Arrom

    Oval Bar and Hamburger Restaurant

    The commission consisted of the refurbishment of a 200 m2 commercial establishment located on the ground floor of a late 19th century building in Barcelona's Eixample, a premises that had undergone various interventions that had masked its character. On the other hand, the place will be used for Bar-Hamburger Restaurant, open from 9:00 am to 24:00 pm, and compatible with the different service time slots; breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks. The main strategy was to recover what was considered essential: to perceive the spaciousness of the premises and enhance its industrial character by recovering its characteristic materiality. The intensification of material memory is not at all nostalgic or romantic, but an unprejudiced and integrative attitude was chosen that did not discriminate between this or that, but instead opted for this and that; in this way, certain layers of a past were updated that coexist with other added layers, avoiding the relationship by contrast (the new versus the old) or integrative (the new subject to the old). The different areas that make up the uses of the bar were defined based on the specificity of the furniture and lighting, in a linear sequence of uses of 25 metres in length that begins with the outdoor-covered space of the bar entrance, until you reach the kitchen. The project and construction process were extremely fast (three months in total) and, together with strong economic constraints (320 € / m2), made a clear and determined strategy essential: DIY. This has made it possible to operate in an open sequence, where errors and work modifications were incorporated into the result in an action-reaction process and where coexistence between various contradictions appears as an added value. An attitude without prejudice that operates with a hybrid technique capable of dealing with materials and techniques from different sources, whether physical or temporary.
  3. Blitz Bar

    Flexo Arquitectura, Tomeu Ramis Frontera, Aixa del Rey García, Bárbara Vich Arrom

    Blitz Bar

    The commission consists of the renovation of an 80m2 commercial premises with two floors located on the ground floor of a 20th century building, located in a square between the centre of the old city and the Barcelona network (Eixample). The new premises will be used as a sandwich bar open from 9 am to midnight where you can have breakfast, fast food or even cocktails, linking the character of fast food to the dynamism that surrounds the area; several office buildings, two subway stations, main avenues, etc. We understand the project as an opportunity to recover what we consider essential in the premises: the triangular geometry of the space, the generous original height of the premises and its character. Regarding this last point, the establishment functioned during the 40s as ambiguous, being the former bar of the theatre which is still located on the other side of the square. Although the theatre and the bar are no longer linked in functional terms, we propose to establish a link between the two through the materiality of the bar. The intensification of material memory is not at all nostalgic or romantic, but an unprejudiced and integrative attitude was chosen that instead of discriminating between different things, it opted for the integration of both; in this way, certain layers of a past (octagonal concrete columns) were updated that coexist with other added layers, in a face-to-face relationship, echoing two fundamental issues: the old theatre, using mirrors, lights or the carpeted ceiling and the old sandwich shops of Barcelona, with the use of marble. The bar is located on the ground floor, where the materials have been defined following a stratification of 3 strips in order to increase the perception of the height of the premises; marble on the floor, wooden boards and mirrors on the walls and black carpet on the ceiling. In the basement, where the toilets and storage are located, the existing walls have been directly and simply painted blue in order to balance the investment on the ground floor. The process was extremely fast (three months in total) and with strong financial constraints, so we opted for a clear and determined strategy: DIY. This has allowed them to operate in an open sequence of action-reaction, where errors and modifications in the work are understood as added value. We are interested in a hybrid technique capable of treating local materials and techniques close to the craft tradition with materials and industrial techniques from other origins.
  4. Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)

    Shortlisted
    Oval Bar and Hamburger Restaurant

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