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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
Directors arquitecturacatalana.cat

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Directors:

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

Design & Development:

edittio Nubilum
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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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Constellation

Chronology

  1. Governor's Palace

    Joris Prosper van Verboom

  2. Arsenal of the Citadel

    Joris Prosper van Verboom

  3. Clock Tower

    Joris Prosper van Verboom

    Clock Tower

    This building, known as the Clock Tower, is an old lighthouse built in 1772 and transformed into a clock in 1904. This emblematic element is located in the Moll dels Pescadors, in Barcelona’ Barceloneta district. It is configured as a structure formed by a square base and a high foot that ends with a square body where the clock is located. The lower body is configured as a large square base in the shape of a truncated pyramid, with a cladding that mimics stone ashlars and a door on the eastern side that gives access to the body where the clock is located. This body is topped with a flat roof that serves as a terrace for the tower and was added when it was transformed into a clock. The door is configured as a narrow arch that is framed by another similar arch and creates a kind of niche. This body is topped with a cornice which is decorated on the underside of the cantilever with molded corbels. Then, the base of the tower is developed - also square - which has two clearly differentiated parts and is surrounded by an iron railing of helical bars. On the one hand the lower part, with a certainly pyramidal structure and a door on the same axis as the lower floor. This door is topped with a triangular pediment below which is a stone slab with the commemorative inscription of its construction. Separated by a small molding, next to this lower body, the tower itself is developed, with four faces where windows that allow light to be given to the staircase located inside are opened. Two of the faces (where the door is located and facing it) have a window in the central section of the frontispiece, while the other two sides have two openings, the lower one being higher but both are topped with a cantilevered dust cover and molded uprights. At the end of this body, the square volume where the four-sided clock is currently located is developed, which allows it to be observed from any point in the port. This body is topped with a dome and a decorated metal structure that culminates in a lightning rod. In 1743, the engineer Prosper de Verboom carried out a project to extend the Port of Barcelona, where, at the end of the western arm, he placed a lighthouse to direct the entry of ships. The lighthouse was the subject of numerous projects - some of them monumental - and was finally built in 1772 when the western pier was completed. In addition to the lighthouse, the dock housed the passport office, the sanitary control, the naval command and the practitioners' hut. As a result of the expansion of the port, the lighthouse - which was moved to Montjuïc - lost its function in 1904. The tower was not demolished and was converted into a clock tower.
  4. La Muralla d'El Raval. Forma Actual del Baluard de Santa Madrona

    Joris Prosper van Verboom

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