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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2025 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2025 Ramon Faura Carolina B. Garcia Eduard Callís Francesc Rafat Pau Albert Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Mercè Bosch Jaume Farreny Anton Pàmies Juan Manuel Zaguirre Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar OrnaqueCollaborators:
2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse ViuExternal Collaborators:
2019-2025 Helena Cepeda Inès MartinelWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació Mies van der Rohe
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico
Basílica de la Sagrada Família
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona
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AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
IEFC
Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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Sant Pere de Gelida Church
Isidre Puig Boada, Francesc Vallès i Cuchí
Church of a single nave with side chapels between buttresses. Torral arches with vault between the arch in the nave and barrel vault in the side chapels. Gable roof of Arabic tile. Access by central staircase. Annex chapel of El Santíssim, rectangular plan with small dome and lantern, with Arabic tile roofs. Octagonal bell tower with glazed tile roof. The style of the building is neoclassicism, with some historicist elements. The roof and dome of El Santíssim chapel are organised following the guidelines of the Gaudí tradition and form parabolic arches and an eight-pointed star in the middle of which opens a skylight with coloured glass. The walls are decorated with coloured mosaics with floral (lilies) and symbolic (the symbols of the four evangelists) representations. The altarpiece composed of an arched niche with a semicircular arch, with the image of Saint Peter (in polychrome wood) dressed in tunic and mantle and wearing his attributes, framed by bronze reliefs in quadrangular frames, with the representations of scenes from the Saint's life (the miracles, the stay in prison, the escape from the city, etc.). It also preserves mural paintings, polychrome and figurative, where two scenes from the life of Saint Peter are represented, to whom the church is dedicated. One scene represents Peter fishing and Christ calling him in the foreground, against a background of a seascape. The other, arranged in an architectural interior, where Peter receives the functions of Saint Peter, surrounded by the other apostles and disciples. Both scenes are framed with an ornate border of stylised foliage. On June 14, 1857, the first stone of the parish church of Sant Pere was laid. On November 16, 1860, one of the arches of the central nave collapsed (the architects Josep Simó i Fontcuberta and Elies Rogent visited Gelida in order to open the responsibility file for the fall of the arch). In 1862 the works were resumed under the direction of Josep Simó i Fontcuberta, and in 1871 (June 25) they were finished and the tabernacle was moved. On April 24, 1916, the first stone of El Santíssim chapel was laid. The project of the church is by the architect Francesc Vallès. The direction of the works was entrusted to Josep Nolla and Ramon Urpí. From 1862 it was managed by Josep Simó. El Santíssim chapel is by the architect Isidre Puig i Boada. -
Casa Saladrigas
Casa construïda entre 1926 i 1931, un cop derruïda la original, per l’arquitecte Isidre Puig Boada (1891-1987) per encàrrec de l’empresari Manuel Saladrigas Freixa (1872-1949). L’arquitecte Isidre Puig Boada fou deixeble d’Antoni Gaudí i director de l’obra de la Sagrada Família de Barcelona a la seva mort. L’empresari Manuel Saladrigas era un industrial que tenia una fàbrica tèxtil al Poble Nou de Barcelona i estiuejava a Blanes. En aquella zona hi vivien i donaven classe varis mestres, d’aquí que el passeig s’anomeni actualment “de la Mestrança”. Durant la Guerra Civil, a més de classes particulars, s’hi van celebrar misses clandestines organitzades pel mossèn Agustí de Blanes. La casa va ser conservada per la filla de Manuel Saladrigas, Teresa, i va resistir a l’embat constructiu dels seixanta fins que fou protegida per l’Ajuntament als vuitanta i adquirida pel mateix Ajuntament a finals dels anys noranta. El 13 d’abril de 2003 es va inaugurar la restaurada Casa Saladrigas com a Sala d’exposicions municipal en un acte multitudinari. Casa construïda entre 1926 i 1931, un cop derruïda la original, per l’arquitecte Isidre Puig Boada (1891-1987) per encàrrec de l’empresari Manuel Saladrigas Freixa (1872-1949). L’arquitecte Isidre Puig Boada fou deixeble d’Antoni Gaudí i director de l’obra de la Sagrada Família de Barcelona a la seva mort. L’empresari Manuel Saladrigas era un industrial que tenia una fàbrica tèxtil al Poble Nou de Barcelona i estiuejava a Blanes. En aquella zona hi vivien i donaven classe varis mestres, d’aquí que el passeig s’anomeni actualment “de la Mestrança”. Durant la Guerra Civil, a més de classes particulars, s’hi van celebrar misses clandestines organitzades pel mossèn Agustí de Blanes. La casa va ser conservada per la filla de Manuel Saladrigas, Teresa, i va resistir a l’embat constructiu dels seixanta fins que fou protegida per l’Ajuntament als vuitanta i adquirida pel mateix Ajuntament a finals dels anys noranta. El 13 d’abril de 2003 es va inaugurar la restaurada Casa Saladrigas com a Sala d’exposicions municipal en un acte multitudinari. -
Continuation of Work on the Sagrada Familia Expiatory Temple
Lluís Bonet i Garí, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, Isidre Puig Boada
The architects Isidre Puig Boada and Lluis Bonet i Garí, who had regularly visited Gaudí in the last stage of his life and had worked on the development of the work under the direction of Francesc de Paula Quintana, became the successors after the death of the latter. At this stage, the architectural part of the Façade of the Passion is completed, except for the upper porch, and a large part of the documentation and models that will allow the continuation of the works is collected and studied.
