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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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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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  1. Sanatori Marítim Antituberculós de Sant Joan de Déu

    Germán Rodríguez Arias

    Sanatori Marítim Antituberculós de Sant Joan de Déu

    L'edifici, rodejat per uns murs, té l'accés en una porta que dona a la carretera de Sant Salvador-Calafell. La portalada amb llinda ens mena cap a una plaça on s'hi troba l'edifici. La plaça té un llac circular amb un brollador i és rodejada per uns bonics jardins. Portats per la perspectiva del conjunt, els ulls topen amb l'edifici, al qual s'hi accedeix mitjançant una escalinata. L'edifici te planta en forma d'U amb un cos central esglaonat i dominat per una torratxa amb coberta de teules àrabs a quatre aiguavessos; la resta també presentava la coberta de teula àrab, però a dues vessants. El cos central té diferents plantes; els baixos presenten tres portalades amb arc de mig punt, sobre les quals hi ha altres tres obertures similars amb una escultura que representa un monjo amb dos nens, al centre. A cada banda hi ha dues finestres, damunt les quals hi ha una cornisa, tant a la planta baixa com al primer pis. En un nivell superior hi ha un a galeria d'arcs de mig punt i, entre aquest nivell i l'inferior, hi ha una petita rosassa. A la torratxa s'obren finestres allargades d'arc de mig punt. Els cossos laterals consten de dos pisos amb finestres quadrangulars. Aquest projecte seria un exemple de transició i de pas cap a la modernitat com el que feien alguns arquitectes noucentistes coetanis de Germán Rodríguez Arias. Aquí, introduí una tecnologia que l'acosta al Racionalisme, en construir l'edifici sobre pilotis de formigó injectats a la sorra. En origen va ser un gran complex hospitalari que va ser regentat pels germans de Sant Joan de Déu, adreçat a nens amb tuberculosi òssia, edificat contenint una gran extensió de zona de jardí i encarat a la platja, entre Sant Salvador i Calafell, llavors deserta. La iniciativa va sorgir de la família Cruset i el recolzament de Josefa Sampera Rodés, filla dels marquesos de les Franqueses del Vallès. Va ser un dels primers encàrrecs, tot just acabada la carrera, a l'arquitecte Germán Rodríguez Arias que, posteriorment, ja en els anys 30 del segle XX fundaria el GATCPAC ( Grup d'Arquitectes i Tècnics Catalans per al Progrés de l'Arquitectura Contemporània) introduint el racionalisme en l'arquitectura. Va ser inaugurat per Alfons XIII el dia 29 de maig de 1929. El 1936 els germans de Sant Joan de Déu que regien aquella institució foren assassinats, però el sanatori continuà la seva tasca. Com hospital va ser tancat el 1969, a causa del boom turístic de la zona que acabà amb la tranquil·litat del lloc. Els seus components es traslladaren a l'hospital de Sant Joan de Déu de Barcelona. El 1999 la societat de promocions immobiliàries Amrey se'n feu càrrec i construí l'hotel balneari. La intervenció moderna ha respectat algunes parts de l'edifici originari així com la porta d'accés que va ser pensada com una porxada, de reminiscències vernaculars.

  2. Via Augusta 61 Apartment Building

    GATCPAC, Germán Rodríguez Arias

    Via Augusta 61 Apartment Building

    Following the GATCPAC’s precepts, Rodríguez Arias proposes the construction of homes with good surface and comfort standards at very low costs, thanks to the construction procedures used. The structure is mixed, of brick and upright iron feet, to favour the wide spaces and not subject the layout to the bearing system. The roofs are made of clapboards. The floors are made of hydraulic mosaic, and the doors and windows adopt the models standardised by the GATCPAC itself. The building has central heating, and all the equipment in the kitchens and bathrooms adopts the most innovative technology of the moment.

  3. Sant Joan de Déu Sanatorium

    GATCPAC, Germán Rodríguez Arias

    Sant Joan de Déu Sanatorium

    El sanatori està destinat a uns 35 nens raquítics, pretuberculosos i de mal de Pott, que és el que permetia el pressupost assignat a aquest efecte. Per això és situat en el punt més alt de la ciutat, permanentment airejat i amb una magnífica vista a tot el voltant. La planta segueix una traça lineal trencada per un angle obtús, i la bisectriu d’aquest angle segueix exactament la direcció nord-sud, per al màxim aprofitament dels raigs solars a la galeria, que és l’estança més important. Una part de la galeria rep els raigs del sol naixent, i l’altra part rep els raigs de ponent, la qual cosa garanteix el màxim temps d’exposició solar dels malalts.

  4. MIDVA (Mobles i Decoració de la Vivenda Actual)

    GATCPAC, Germán Rodríguez Arias

    MIDVA (Mobles i Decoració de la Vivenda Actual)

  5. Apartment Building and Astoria Cinema

    GATCPAC, Germán Rodríguez Arias

    Apartment Building and Astoria Cinema

    The building consists of six homes per floor, three of which face París Street and the other three face the inner courtyard of the block of houses. The houses on the top floor are duplexes, with external staircases of communication between both levels, as well as the interior. The supporting structure contemplates the fact that there is a cinema on the ground floor, and it is solved by means of metal base with a minimum section, which are unloaded at the bottom. The housing distribution reflects the contradictions between the GATCPAC’s housing aspirations and the permissiveness of municipal ordinances with respect to land use.

  6. Barangé House

    GATCPAC, Ricardo de Churruca Dotres, Germán Rodríguez Arias

    Barangé House

    Churruca uses the best rationalist rhetoric at a peculiar location: a square located on the bridge of Vallcarca, with one of the façades that collapses on the street under the bridge. The villa assumes the radically flat character of the side façade, while the main façade unfolds by means of a series of elements that give depth to the garden: a grandstand, a curvilinear eaves in the corner, and a second eaves separated from the main plan. Churruca intensifies the interest of the object from all points of view thanks to his formal treatment of one of the corners.

  7. Diagonal Dwellings

    GATCPAC, Ricardo de Churruca Dotres, Germán Rodríguez Arias

    Diagonal Dwellings

    Set of five buildings between partitions projected as a unit which occupies half a triangular block of the Eixample district of Barcelona, including a corner. The municipal ordinances and the logical desire of the developers to make the most out of the buildability have determined the volume of the complex, which is remarkably compact and with a geometry that is difficult to solve. The distributions of each of the five buildings have had to be simultaneously adapted to the functional requirements of the program and the morphological characteristics of each site, which are very different. On one side of the block there is a large patio, which allows the perimeter of the interior façade to be increased, improving ventilation and sunlight in the houses. In addition, the opening of the patio makes it possible to correct the differences in level due to the slope of the street. The whole has been unified by means of a beige stone cladding and a uniform pattern of square windows. The solution of each elevation follows a different composition scheme to respond to each particular situation, generating some aesthetic effects of great compositional modernity: for example, at the corner of Diagonal Avenue and Enrique Granados Street, the terraces are cut into the volume and the interior is painted garnet to increase the sensation of depth.

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  • Perspectiva exterior anteprojecte del Sanatori Marítim Antituberculós de Sant Joan de Déu.

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    Perspectiva exterior anteprojecte del Sanatori Marítim Antituberculós de Sant Joan de Déu.

    © Fons Germán Rodríguez Arias / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Perspectiva exterior del Sanatori Marítim Antituberculós de Sant Joan de Déu.

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    Perspectiva exterior del Sanatori Marítim Antituberculós de Sant Joan de Déu.

    © Fons Germán Rodríguez Arias / Arxiu Històric del COAC

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