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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2026 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2026 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 Gemma Ferré Inés de Rivera Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar OrnaqueCollaborators:
2019-2026 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Marianela Pla Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse ViuExternal Collaborators:
2019-2026 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
Fomento
AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
IEFC
Fundació Domènench Montaner.
ETSAB
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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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-Arquitecte per l’Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona des 1964.
-Col·legiat al Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Barcelona amb el número 2450-3 des del 25.08.1964
-Doctorat, Excel·lent cum laude al 1968
-Catedràtic de Càlcul d’Estructures de la E.T.S.A.B. des de 1968.
-Despatx d’arquitectura propi juntament amb els arquitectes Carles Buxadé des de 1970 i des del 2004 amb Carles Buxadé, Àgata Buxadé i Ramon Ferrando.
-Membre de la Real Acadèmia d’Enginyeria des del 25.09.2003.
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Restoration of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Clock Tower
Carles Buxadé i Ribot, Leopoldo Gil Nebot, Joan Margarit i Consarnau
The works carried out on the Clock Tower of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau were far more than simple cleaning operations or the replacement of isolated damaged elements. They involved the complete reconstruction of the structure and the faithful reinstatement of all the decorative and symbolic features that originally adorned it. This was an unusual undertaking, executed with extraordinary constructive precision, employing the most advanced techniques while maintaining absolute respect for the original project in every architectural element that formed part of it. The reconstruction restored the tower to an appearance identical to Domènech i Montaner’s original design, using the very same materials employed by the architect himself. The condition of the tower had been documented in several technical reports commissioned by the hospital administration. Beyond the visible cracks, fallen sculptural fragments, detached mosaics and ceramics, and the deterioration of the ornamental ironwork, the most serious issue was the advanced oxidation of the iron embedded within the tower’s structural elements, whether of stone, brick, or concrete. The corrosion had progressed to such an extent that all the brick columns forming the base of the tower were cracked from top to bottom and around almost their entire perimeter. Many of the stone elements, supported by iron cores, had already cracked and were on the verge of falling onto pedestrians entering and leaving the hospital. Once the tower’s condition had been assessed, and in order to ensure safe working conditions, the lower section of the tower — the most heavily loaded and therefore the most damaged — was temporarily shored up with iron and concrete supports. Following these urgent stabilisation works, the upper 23 metres of the tower were dismantled, as it proved impossible to reconstruct them in situ. Thermal lances were used to cut through the reinforced concrete pillars, while the remaining elements were dismantled manually with great care to avoid damaging the stone sculptures. These were lowered piece by piece by tower crane to the reconstruction workshop established at ground level. Once the structure had been lightened, the base columns could be entirely rebuilt. The original internal iron bar, measuring 4 cm in diameter within each column, was replaced by a 20 cm reinforced concrete core containing six 12 mm reinforcement bars, extending continuously to the top of the tower and tied together at each floor level with the appropriate structural rings. The stone bases and capitals of the columns were preserved in situ and perforated with long drill bits in order to pass through the new reinforcement bars, which were fixed using epoxy resin. The internal stone spiral staircase was fully preserved, with the supporting pillars rebuilt and the anchoring system reinforced. The section of the staircase made of iron was entirely remade due to its poor condition. The mosaic claddings, both ceramic and marble, were reconstructed exactly as the originals. Broken stone sculptures were repaired using pieces of matching texture and carefully re-carved. Intact sculptures were cleaned, and some were bush-hammered anew while preserving their sculptural profiles. The iron spire crowning the tower was completely restored, with missing pieces recreated both in the floral ornamentation and in the final cross. The clock mechanism itself was modernised, while retaining the original bells, dials, and hands. -
Rehabilitació de l'Edifici del Rellotge de l'Escola Industrial de Barcelona
Carles Buxadé i Ribot, Josep Gómez i Serrano, Joan Margarit i Consarnau
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FAD Award
Finalist. Category: Architecture - Remodelling and Rehabilitation
Rehabilitació de l'Edifici del Rellotge de l'Escola Industrial de BarcelonaFAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner (ex aequo). Category: Architecture - Remodelling and RehabilitationLluís Companys Olympic StadiumOlympic Pelota Pavilion
Garcés -Sòria Arquitectes, Carles Buxadé i Ribot, Jordi Garcés i Brusés, Joan Margarit i Consarnau, Enric Sòria i Badia, Rafael Soto
The typology chosen for this project is the result of inscribing the diverse physical and organisational parameters required by the two sports facilities it contains in the simplest possible volume and spatially clearer, in order to obtain optimal results of the correct dimensioning of the gaming rooms and the order of their relative positions. The façades contribute to the abstract character of the whole by projecting them as immense curtains engraved with ordered incidences of interior origin. The metal cover, substantially flat, folds on its own to form the skylights that crown it, and which, oriented to the north, concentrate the natural light on the tracks, breaking with their presence the external hermeticity of the whole. The Municipal Sports Hall is mainly intended for the practice of volleyball, and the Municipal Sports Centre of Pelota, for all forms of Basque Pelota.FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner (ex aequo). Category: Buildings of new plant for public useOlympic Pelota PavilionNou de La Rambla Palace
MBM Arquitectes, Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola, Carles Buxadé i Ribot, Jordi Frontons, David Mackay, Joan Margarit i Consarnau, Josep Maria Martorell i Codina, Albert Puigdomènech i Alonso
New building of 7,043 m2 and 54 metres facing the Rambla, one of the most important and active streets, located in the heart of Barcelona's Ciutat Vella district. In the planning approach, the relationship of the building with the architectural environment and the design of façades that integrate correctly into the complex, but which determine a new level of quality, have been taken into account. The building is intended for tertiary uses: commercial premises, offices and parking for 800 cars, one of the first examples of robotic parking of this size in the whole world.FAD Award
Finalist. Category: Arquitectura - Edificis de Nova Planta, Obres de Reforma o Rehabilitació d'Edificis ExistentsNou de La Rambla PalaceAudiovisual
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