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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

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2019-2024 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 Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel

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Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

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ArquinFAD

 

Fundació 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

 

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Fundació Domènench Montaner.

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  1. Fountain of Plaça dels Carros

    Josep Font i Gumà

    Fountain of Plaça dels Carros

    A stone fountain with a circular base with two steps, a triangular pedestal with three sinks and three spouts, a triangular-section pillar and a sculptural crown. The spouts are placed on supporting elements of classical inspiration. They simulate columns with decorated bases, shafts and capitals. The pillar bears several inscriptions, and the crown is decorated with a warrior's helmet, the coats of arms of Catalonia and Vilanova, and acanthus leaves. It was inaugurated on 17th January 1893. It was erected in memory of Joaquim Soler i Gustems, who, upon his death (1891), had left a legacy of 7,500 pesetas for the construction of a fountain-monument to him. The town council chose the site in the Plaça dels Carros and commissioned the architect Josep Font i Gumà to design the project. On 5 June 1902, by municipal agreement, the square was named after Soler i Gustems.

  2. Can Miret de les Torres

    Josep Font i Gumà

    Can Miret de les Torres

    Can Miret de les Torres is located next to the village of Les Torres. It is an isolated building consisting of a ground floor and two storeys, with a gable roof. The façade, with a symmetrical composition, has a semicircular arched doorway on the ground floor and two windows framed in brick. The first floor is occupied by three Gothic-inspired windows, and the second floor has four openings the shape of which is determined by a decorative use of brick. The sundial on the first floor is noteworthy, as well as other ornamental elements that enrich the façade (Valencian ceramic tiles and plates from different periods and the wrought-iron weather vane). The ensemble is completed with an auxiliary building consisting of a garage and a fence. Josep Font i Gumà built this house for his brother in 1898 and, when his brother died, the architect became the owner. The building was later sold to the Miret family, who still own it today.

  3. Can Garcia

    Josep Font i Gumà, Antoni Maria Gallissà Soqué

    Can Garcia

    Manor house following a modernist style, with a square plan with basements and two floors and a turret topped by a conical spire covered with glazed ceramics. The portal is semi-circular with very wide stone lintels, just like the window frames. These are neo-Gothic style. The walls are made of stone and partly tiled. The façades are decorated with gargoyles. The roof is made of tiles with additions of glazing on the ridges and strips, and the cornice is worked with exposed masonry and majolica arcades. The roof is finished with battlements and two chimneys. On the tower is a green ceramic sign with the developer's name, "Garcia". The decoration of the building is inspired by elements of Gothic and Catalan rural architecture. Inside the building there is a large staircase with stone and marble steps - the final section is made of wood. A garden around the house completes the set, as well as non-detached annex buildings. The land of the farm previously belonged to Mas Font. Frederic García Illa, land owner and cement manufacturer of Vallirana, commissioned the construction of this building in 1899 as a residence - not as an agricultural holding, despite the name "farm". The architect was Antoni Maria Gallisà and the works were finished in 1900. The basements were designed by the architect Josep Font i Gumà. The house and the complex were acquired by Joan Giménez Yebra in the 1960s.

  4. Sant Josep and Sant Pere Hospital and Asylum

    Josep Font i Gumà

    Sant Josep and Sant Pere Hospital and Asylum

    The complex takes up the entire block between the streets of Jacas, Marañón, Maragall and Claret. It is an isolated building, with a complex organisation, formed by two bodies arranged perpendicular to another central body. It includes several outbuildings, including a chapel and a battlemented tower. The roofs are generally two-sided tiles. The construction has openings of various typologies that are framed in brick. There are several entrances to the building, which is surrounded by a garden. At the back, the shelter of Sant Josep has been the subject of several expansion works. The Sant Josep and Sant Pere asylum was built in 1901, according to a project by the architect Josep Font i Gumà. In the Historical Archive of Ribes, there is a document dated 1947, the request to the City Council for works to expand the building, in accordance with the plans signed by the architect Josep Brugal i Fortuny.

  5. Esglèsia Sant Esteve de Cervelló

    Josep Font i Gumà, Antoni Maria Gallissà Soqué

  6. Barcelonès Athenaeum

    Josep Font i Gumà, Josep Maria Jujol Gibert

  7. La Farmàcia Fountain

    Josep Font i Gumà

    La Farmàcia Fountain

    The fountain of La Farmàcia is located in the middle of the Plaça de la Font (before called L'Assumpta). The base of the fountain rises on a circular stone stepwith a trilobate floor plan that defines the structure of the lower body, made of stone and brick, with three sinks. Above this body, there are two more with a circular cross-section. The first is decorated with a brick mosaic that corresponds to the location of the three taps, two of which are no longer usable; the second, made of predominantly white tile, contains a ceramic panel that also bears the date 1906. The fountain ends in a conical body of brittle, crowned by a lantern with a ceramic decorative base. The construction of this fountain, according to Josep Font i Gumà's project, was carried out in 1906 to commemorate the recent sending of channeled water.

  8. Garden City of Ribes Roges

    Josep Domènech Mansana, Josep Font i Gumà, Bonaventura Pollés i Vivó

    The Ribes Roges urban complex is made up of streets which are parallel and perpendicular to the seafront. It is bounded by the Passeig de Ribes Roges, the streets of Marcelina Jacas, Legazpi and Álvaro de Bazán and Torrent de Sant Joan, the street of Pere III el Gran and a large part of the block bounded by Passeig de Ribes Roges and the streets of Lluís de Requesens, Pere III el Gran and Isaac Peral. Each block contains several plots occupied by single-family houses surrounded by gardens. Although as a whole it does not present a stylistic unity, it still preserves some of the original buildings, mainly in the seafront sector, which present characteristics typical of the modernist and noucentista styles. The Villa Argentina and the Villa Montserrat (architect Josep Domènech Mansana) are the closest examples to the Catalan Art Nouveau style, as well as Doctor Ribot’s villa (Villa Esperanza) and the Villa Laguarda (both by the architect Bonaventura Pollés Vivó), and the Villa Teresa (Modest Tauler Benítez, architect), which have been preserved. The other villas are closer to the Noucentisme period, such as the Villa Isabel (by Ramon Frexé Mallofré, 1910-1912); the Villa Vivancos (by Josep M. Miró Guibernau, 1923); the Villa Dolors Rutllan (by Manuel Joaquim Raspall Mayol, 1925) and Villa Adelina, and the villas of Joan Robert and Lluís Pàmies (by Antoni Pons Domínguez, 1923, 1925 and 1926). The origin of the Ribes Roges housing development was the initiative of Ms. Anna Raventós de Saurí, president of the Empar de Santa Llúcia, a charitable institution that was to be the beneficiary of the profits produced by the development. Marcelina Jacas, who had considerable wealth inherited from her father and an uncle, both of whom were Hindus, gave the rural land she owned for the construction of the chalets in order to raise funds to support the organisation. The foundation stone for the first 10 chalets was laid in 1910. In the same year, the board commissioned several architects to carry out the construction work and left the municipal architect B. Pollés to carry out the project for the Passeig Marítim and the general plan for the distribution of the plots. The complex is detached from the urban fabric of the city. The Torrent de Sant Joan and the railway line hindered its growth and expansion from the beginning and it was outside the scope of Gumà i Ferran's General Plan and, therefore, of the expansion guidelines set out in the plan. In 1917, the municipal architect Josep M. Miró i Guibernau designed the total development of the sector in accordance with the garden city typology. The construction of the promenade was authorised and the complete layout of the road network and the study of the links with the city were carried out. The study of the layout of the links, although very correct, was never carried out due to the difficulty posed by the location of the Pirelli factory. In 1967, a new development plan allowed an increase in the density of buildings, which led to the abandonment of the garden city idea and the demolition of the original dwellings; this resulted in the demolition of many single-family villas, to be replaced by flat blocks. As a reaction to this trend, a new General Development Plan was approved in 1981, which sought to protect these dwellings by classifying Ribes Roges as a "garden city conservation area".

  9. Hospital de Sant Joan Baptista

    Josep Font i Gumà

    Hospital de Sant Joan Baptista

  10. Vil·la Palmira

    Josep Font i Gumà

    Vil·la Palmira

  11. Miramar Chalet

    Josep Font i Gumà

    Miramar Chalet

    The Chalet del Nin is one of those constructions that share the Catalan Art Nouveau and the Noucentista languages. It stands on the Sant Gervasi point, between the beaches of Els Capellans and Adarró and the railway line, at the end of Passeig de Ribes Roges. The isolated building is located within a walled enclosure crowned by a balustrade, raised above the level of the promenade. It consists of a ground floor, a first floor and a space under a hip roof, from which a square tower with a pavilion roof protrudes. The building is made up of a protruding central body that emphasises the main part of the entrance, and two bodies on the ground floor that form an upper roof with a balcony with a ceramic balustrade. The main façade faces the sea and the main entrance is through a portico with three semicircular stone arches and smooth shafted columns with base and capital. The walls are made of stone, and the balconies have glazed balustrades. The roof has a ceramic and glazed tile perimeter eaves, and the ventilation system of the lower roof is remarkable, made with lattices with a glazed ceramic finish. On the east façade there is a porch with two semicircular stone arches, through which the service of the house had access. In the interior, the hydraulic floor tiles are interesting, in different patterns and colours, with Catalan Art Nouveau and Noucentista compositions, and the glazed ceramic wainscoting on the ground floor, from the Pujol i Bausis factory in Esplugues de Llobregat, as well as the wooden beam structure with glazed tiles. In July 1999, the Díaz Ibáñez family, well-known restaurateurs from Vilanova, bought the villa to build a luxury hotel and banqueting halls. In 2003, the property requested the construction of a new access to the villa through a staircase that would connect it with the access from the Adarró square. The project for the restoration of the building and the new staircase was drawn up by the architect Josep Maria Pujol Torres from Vilanova.

Archive (18)

  • Alçat arcs pati de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Alçat arcs pati de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Perspectiva porta del pis de baix de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Perspectiva porta del pis de baix de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Esbós de mobiliari de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Esbós de mobiliari de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Esbós de planta de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Esbós de planta de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Esbós columnes del portic del pati de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Esbós columnes del portic del pati de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Esbossos diversos de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Esbossos diversos de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Esbós proposta per la façana del pati d'accés de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Esbós proposta per la façana del pati d'accés de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Perspectiva de l'interior de la biblioteca de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Perspectiva de l'interior de la biblioteca de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Planta i alçat d'escala interior de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Planta i alçat d'escala interior de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Alçat i detalls arc de la biblioteca de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Alçat i detalls arc de la biblioteca de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Alçat porta del pis de baix de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Alçat porta del pis de baix de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Esbós proposta per la façana del pati d'accés de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Drawing

    Esbós proposta per la façana del pati d'accés de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Esbós de planta segona de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Esbós de planta segona de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Perspectiva interior. Esbós dels arcs del pati d'accés de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Perspectiva interior. Esbós dels arcs del pati d'accés de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Esbós proposta per la façana del pati d'accés de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Drawing

    Esbós proposta per la façana del pati d'accés de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Esbós de planta baixa de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Drawing

    Esbós de planta baixa de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Perspectiva i detalls arcs pati de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Drawing

    Perspectiva i detalls arcs pati de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Esbós de l'escala de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

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    Esbós de l'escala de l'Ateneu Barcelonès.

    Fons Josep Maria Jujol Gibert / Arxiu Històric del COAC

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