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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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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Aigües del Prat Corporate Headquarters
Sixty-one serial and equidistant columns rest on a stylobate of water, they form the colonnade of one of the three façades that help to build the geometry and formalise the open-air space that will take up the future hall-square. Adjacent to the colonnade and along its long side there is a prism that contains inscribed the sum and combination of juxtaposed prisms of different dimensions that completely fill the interior of the colonnade. These prisms fulfill the function of containing, ordering, organising and relating the varied program of service needs generated by the Municipal Water Company. The fully prefabricated construction relies on concrete structural parts and laminated and counter-laminated timber. The aim has been to obtain a "sincere" architecture, which is why the pieces that make up this building come together with an unusual rigor in its structural, constructive and formal function. -
L'Aigua Square
The colonnade and two plant stakes geometricise the new De l’Aigua hall-square. The height stakes relate the façades of the new buildings (CAP and APSA) neoplastically, and covered with climbing plants of varied colours and perfumes they will contribute, together with the diversity of natural light on the faces of the columns of the colonnade and the vibration of shadows that will be projected, to obtain mutant effects opposed to the hieraticism of the colonnade. At night, the illuminated water stylobate will act as a great sparkler and the colonnade will acquire a high expressive level. In the very middle of the central space, four existing trees colonise the place and at the same time expressive metal supports hold the level ceiling of the artificial lighting anchored to the colonnade, constituting an ethereal pallium that gives continuity to the lighting of the axis of Llobregat Street. -
Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
ShortlistedAigües del Prat Corporate HeadquartersMostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
Shortlisted. Category: Intervencions Paisatgístiques i Ordenació d’Espais UrbansL'Aigua SquareBibliography