About
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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
About us
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Directors:
2019-2023 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2023 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:
2019-2023 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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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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L'Aigua Square
La columnata i dues estacades vegetals geometritzen el nou saló-plaça. de l’Aigua, Les estacades d’alçades, relacionen entre elles, neoplàsticament les façanes dels nous edificis (CAP i APSA) i embocallades de plantes enfiladisses de colors i perfums variats contribuiran, juntamente amb la diversitat de la llum natural de les cares de les columnes de la columnata i la vibración d’ombres que s’hi projectaran a obtenir efectes mutants contraposats al hieratisme de la columnata. A la nit, l’estilòbata d’aigua il·luminat actuarà de gran lluerna i la columnata adquirirà un alt nivell expressiu. Al bell mig de l’espai central, quatre arbres s existents colonitzen el lloc i a la vegada expresius suports metàl·lics tiben el cel ras de la il·luminació artificial ancorat a la columnata, constituint un eteri pal·li que dona continuitat a la il·luminació de l’eix del carrer Llobregat. -
Aigües del Prat Corporate Headquarters
“Seixanta-una columnes seriades i equidistants amb les seves bases reposen damunt d’un estilòbata d’aigua, formen la columnata d’una de les tres façanes que ajuden a construir la geometria i formalitzar l’espai a cel obert que ocuparà el futur saló-plaça. Adossat a la columnata i per la seva cara llarga s’hi disposa un prisma que conté inscrits la suma i combinació de prismes juxtaposats de diferents dimensions que omplen plenament l’interior de la columnata. Aquests prismes compleixen la funció de contenir, ordenar, organitzar i relacionar el variat programa de necessitats de servei que genera la Companyia Municipal d'Aigües. La construcció totalment prefabricada es confia a peces estructurals de formigó i fusta laminada i contralaminada. L’objectiu ha estat obtenir amb aquest edifici una Arquitectura “sincera” i per a això s’ajunten alhora en les peces que ho materialitzen, amb un inusitat rigor, la seva funció estructural, constructiva i formal. -
Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
Shortlisted. Category: Intervencions Paisatgístiques i Ordenació d’Espais Urbans
L'Aigua SquareMostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
ShortlistedAigües del Prat Corporate HeadquartersBibliography