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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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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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Gavà Seafront Promenade
The Gavà Seafront Promenade is located in the westernmost area of the Llobregat Delta. It was a space of special landscape interest, one of the last strongholds of dune ecosystems in the Llobregat Delta, of which the promenade project was intended to ensure its survival. This project was drafted based on the respect and enhancement of the natural elements, which became fundamental elements of the new project. The objective was to maintain the environmental characteristics of the dune systems. Two zigzagging ribbons of pavement were designed that ran parallel to the sea, absolutely adapted to the topography of the site, while trying to safeguard the plant elements of greatest interest. The project was defined by incorporating and controlling the natural elements in the design itself, taking advantage of the winds for the formation of dunes and therefore favouring the protection of the pine forest, taking advantage of the transport of sand inland by incorporating it into the pavements, and using only indigenous dune vegetation. -
FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Outdoor SpacesGavà Seafront PromenadeMostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Intervencions en Espais ExteriorsRestoration of the Anti-Aircraft Batteries on Turó de la RoviraRestoration of the Anti-Aircraft Batteries on Turó de la Rovira
AAUP Arquitectes, Jansana-De la Villa-De Paauw Arquitectes, Imma Jansana Ferrer, Jordi Romero Sabí
During the Spanish Civil War, in 1938-39, Barcelona was the first large European city to be massively bombed, becoming the general laboratory of what would be called "saturation bombings". The republican government built the first anti-aircraft batteries in Turó de la Rovira, which began operating on March 3, 1938. The abandoned batteries of Turó were immediately used by the shantytowns, creating the informal neighbourhood of "Els Canons", which came to house 110 huts with about 600 inhabitants. The restoration has been carried out with the aim of recovering the whole area as a centre of historical interpretation and a space for the memory of the city, while restoring it as a space destined for public use. We wanted to maintain the overlapping view of strata by showing it as an evolving landscape over time. We have opted for an intervention that highlights the elements of heritage and the existing landscape.Prat de Llobregat Promenade
Jansana-De la Villa-De Paauw Arquitectes, Conchita de la Villa, Imma Jansana Ferrer, Robert de Paauw
The promenade is part of the green corridor of the coast between the protected areas of the lagoons of La Ricarda and El Remolar. It is the result of compensation measures for the expansion of El Prat airport. In other words, they are built on airport land, and the airport has partly paid for the works. The promenade has been designed out of danger from the invasions of sea storms, past the protection of a breakwater that has been buried in the sand. The esplanade is now 37m from the ZMT boundary, whereas before it was on the ZMT boundary. We wanted to create a natural landscape, which implies the adoption of measures of certain control and limitation of human presence in some areas, but at the same time compatible with an order that would allow the development of controlled activities linked to leisure and in contact with the nature. The project sought to establish a project reference that would allow the site to be understood and show its environmental characteristics, ensuring the survival of its ecosystems and strengthening them.FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: City and LandscapePrat de Llobregat PromenadeBibliography
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