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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

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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

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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

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  1. Artigas House

    Josep Inglada i Estrada

    It is a building between partitions intended for multi-family housing and commercial uses. The building is composed of two bodies with an irregular floor plan, differentiated in the façade and in its interior levels: basement, ground floor and three landings. The roof is flat, and the ladder boxes and small complementary sheds protrude. The corridors are perpendicular and parallel to the façades. The rear main staircase has four flights. The load-bearing walls are of common masonry and billet. In the basement there are lowered vaults of bullion. The floors are made of wooden and/or iron beams and flat tile surrounds. The roofs and the stairs are covered by Catalan vaults. The columns and girders are made of metal. The façade is made up of two different sections. One has portals with a lintel on the ground floor, the other has a balcony with a lintel and tribune on the first floor, and there are also balconies with an opening and windows on the second floor and anarched gallery without windows with double columns on the third floor, with capitals and a horizontal band on the column with floral ornamentation. The attic consists of a cornice and a roof rail. The chronology of Artigas House, also known as Tomàs House or Galofré House, presents several stages. In 1872, the house began to be designed, with a ground floor and two floors, in accordance with the aesthetics of eclecticism by the architect Josep Inglada i Estrada. In 1913, the owner Ramon Tomàs i Estalella commissioned a project to refurbish and extend a new floor to the architect Santiago Güell i Grau. The project, presented on April 4, was approved on the 23rd by the City Council. In 1926 the same architect signed the extension of the house and remodelling of the façade. Finally, the ground floor was renovated in 1944.

  2. Casino Unió Comercial

    Josep Inglada i Estrada

    Building between partitions, renovated and extended on several occasions. It retains an interesting social lounge and an eclectic performance hall. The value of this building is that of citizen representativeness. The only interesting element on the façade is the curved balcony on the first floor, with interesting wrought iron work. It has three low arched openings and two side balconies. The Casino is located in the 19th century area that was built up after the demolition of the old medieval wall and was initially occupied by rental flats. It later became an area of leisure, commercial and social activities. The Casino Unió Comercial is an entity born from the merger, in 1918, of the old Centre or Casino de la Unió (1853) and the Industrial and Commercial League. In 1922, the balcony and the arches of the first floor were built in accordance with the refurbishment project of A. Pons i Domínguez, preserved in the municipal archive of Vilafranca.

  3. Suriol House

    Josep Inglada i Estrada

    Isolated building that takes up an entire end of the block. It is located between General Cortijo, Parlament and Ateneu Streets. It has façades on General Cortijo and Parlament Streets, as well as a large garden at the back. The house consists of a ground floor and two floors, with a roof and terrace. There is a rear porch with bay windows opening onto the garden. The unit responds to the language of eclecticism. The house is located on the large 19th century plot that was later linked to Poble Nou. This is the old Post Office building.

  4. Torner i Güell House

    Josep Inglada i Estrada

    Building between partitions, with three corridors, consisting of ground floor, mezzanine, two landings and roof with a turret and a viewpoint. The façade is of exposed brick, with the exception of the ground floor and the mezzanine. It has a symmetrical composition. The glazed ceramic tiles and the roof rail, in moulded ceramic, are interesting elements. In the centre of the façade’s roof there is an 1884 inscription. The Torner i Güell House is located in the 18th century area that was built up after the demolition of the old medieval wall. The house was built on the initiative of Antoni Torner i Güell and directed by the master builder Josep Inglada i Estrada. In the archives of the Vilafranca City Council, two projects dated from 1884 are preserved, one dated August 4 and approved on the 12th of the same month, and another dated November 17, which presents the addition of a new flat, approved two days later.

  5. Berch i Galtés House

    Josep Inglada i Estrada

    The building is located in Poble Nou, in the 19th century area and in front of Tivoli Park. It is on the corner with Parlament Street and has a garden at the back. It consists of ground floor, main floor and attic, on a rectangular floor plan. The roof is hipped. There is an annex on the ground floor. The garden has an enclosed porch and an upper terrace. Remarkable elements in this work are the attic, with ornamental tiles, and the barbican. The construction of the building was commissioned by Josep Suriol to the master builder Josep Inglada i Estrada. The date of the project is August 4, 1884, and the approval by the City Council is on August 12 of the same year.

  6. Guilamany House

    Josep Inglada i Estrada

    Building between three corridor-partitions, consisting of ground floor, mezzanine, two floors and attic. The roof is of Arabic tile on two sides. The façade has a symmetrical composition. The ground floor has a centrally arched doorway and two rectangular moulded openings at the sides. The first floor shows a balcony and the second three balconies. In both cases the openings are rectangular and followed by classically inspired mouldings. The façade is crowned with a cornice supported by panels. The work is of eclectic language. The construction is located within the fortified enclosure during the First Carline War (Seven Years' War) and among stylistically heterogeneous buildings.

  7. Berger House

    Josep Inglada i Estrada

    Building between partitions consisting of ground floor, mezzanine, first floor and attic, with a roof covered with Arabic tiles. The crown is supported by corbels of classical inspiration, which establish a compositional rhythm with those of the main floor. The façade is symmetrical and has an identical arrangement of openings on each floor. The formal characteristics of the building are those of the language of eclecticism. The Berger House was built during the second half of the 19th century, in the Eixamplea area which started in 1865 around the station. Initially it consisted of a ground floor and a main floor. In 1897 the architect Santiago Güell i Grau directed the expansion and restoration project, signed on August 6 and approved on the 17th of the same month. This project is preserved in the town's municipal archive.

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