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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar OrnaqueCollaborators:
2019-2026 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester 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.
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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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Tràffic Restaurant
Barcelona’s first opening onto the sea after the dictatorship was the promenade designed by Manuel de Solà-Morales, known as the Moll de la Fusta, recalling the activity that this part of the city had hosted until the 1980s. The pier project includes five pavilions, built with laminated timber structures and conceived as spaces for bars, restaurants and similar uses, all crowned with undulating roofs that evoke the waves reaching the quay. Through a public tender, we were awarded one of the central spaces, which we proposed as a phenolic wood box set beneath the roof, seeking to integrate with the existing structure and to take advantage of the new perspectives the city offered thanks to its privileged location. -
FAD Award
Shortlisted. Category: Interior Design - Public, Commercial and Professional Interiors
Tràffic RestaurantInterventions in the Bruno Cuadros House
In 1988 we intervened in one of Josep Vilaseca’s landmark works on the Ramblas (1848–1910), a building conceived as an unprecedented Chinese folie in this country, with a unique formal and stylistic charge, with the aim of restoring as much as possible of one of the most outstanding examples of Barcelona Art Nouveau. The ground floor was in very poor condition and, following the clues provided by demolition works and the hidden original paintings, we built new staircases and accommodated a bank’s public service programme at street level on the Rambla, with a mezzanine for the management offices of Caixa de Sabadell. We also intervened in the roof skylight, of which only damaged remnants of the original survived, replacing it with a new structure made of contemporary materials and forms.FAD Award
FinalistInterventions in the Bruno Cuadros HouseAmpliació de l'Hotel Condes de Barcelona
Josep Vilaseca, arquitecte ( 1848/1910 ) va construir l’any 1888 al carrer Mallorca dues cases pels germans Enric i Angel Batlló. Entre les dues edificacions va disposar un pas en forma de carreró d’amplada 3,72 m per entrar els carruatges al garatge interior d’ambdues edificacions. L’encàrrec fou unir ambdós edificis per a fer-hi una ampliació d’habitacions de l’hotel Comtes de Barcelona i resoldre la presencia d’instal·lacions al pati interior de mançana, que volien convertir en un espai d’us privilegiat pels usuaris de l’hotel. La planta es va resoldre fent us de l’ofici, mentre que les façanes proposaven un gran mur-cortina de vidre entre els edificis de Vilaseca del c. Mallorca de cara a mantenir l’absència de forma entre les dos construccions, es a dir, el buit, i que es refractis el cel i els arbres enlloc de recórrer a composar una façana a l’ús normatiu. Al pati interior hi proposem una façana inclinada que tancava la fondària de la mitgera de l’edifici contigu amb un panell de fusta fenòlica que amaga les instal·lacions i permet la seva ventilació. L’any 2010 ? ambdós intervencions foren destruïdes per OTBTeodora Lamadrid 30 Pavilion
This is a comprehensive renovation of the ground floor of a 1940s building in Bonanova. Unlike the usual widths found in this type of premises, this one covered the entire building, which is about 15 metres. This helped us to accommodate a mixed programme of architecture studio and housing, linked by an interior courtyard. This courtyard articulates the life of the space, using glass to eliminate the distinction between interior and exterior spaces and turn them into one, with the complicity of the porches and overhangs that reinforce this unitary and monolithic idea of a single space without obstacles or separations, from the street to the interior courtyard in a single formal language.Rehabilitation of the Mornau Palace
In our intervention on the work of the Catalan Art Nouveau architect Manuel Raspall (1877–1937), we sought to reproduce the full formal and stylistic complexity that the building had acquired over more than 200 years of existence. With the exception of certain interior rooms of no value and damaged by damp, all other spaces were rehabilitated on the basis of the remains found within the building itself —mouldings, sgraffito work, material subdivisions, and so on— carried out with the invaluable collaboration of the architect Arturo Van den Eynde (1946–2003), together with the contractor and the skilled craftsmen engaged for the project. We proposed a centralised layout of exhibition furniture that did not come into contact with the existing walls, in order to make their formal richness visible. At the same time, these elements also functioned as lighting fixtures and allowed the air-conditioning ducts to be concealed within them.Swimming Pool and Garage at the Coderch House–Studio
The opportunity to intervene in José Antonio Coderch’s house arose through channels as unusual as they were unexpected, given the site and the history it embodies. In fact, the commission does not affect any of Coderch’s original spaces, as these had already been remodelled by the Ferrater family in the early 2000s. The task was to build a garage and a swimming pool, as well as the perimeter fence on the remaining part of the plot that the architect had never intervened in. This afforded us a degree of freedom in proposing the new spaces, since there was no prior intervention by the master. We thus became not the authors of something new, but interpreters of his language —of stairs, walls, pergolas and of the constant interplay of voids and solids that is present throughout his work.Bibliography
