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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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.
Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company, Eduard Ferrés i Puig, Rafael Guastavino Moreno, Isidoro Pedraza de la Pascua, Ewing Wallace
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Barcelona : Papersdoc : Ajuntament de Barcelona, cop. 2014.
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New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2013.
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Vilassar de Dalt : Ajuntament de Vilassar de Dalt, DL 2011.
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[Madrid] : Instituto Juan de Herrera, DL 2011.
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Guastavino vaulting : the art of structural tile / John Ochsendorf ; photographs by Michael Freeman.
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, cop. 2010.
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Valencia : General de Ediciones de Arquitectura, DL 2009.
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La Fàbrica de Ciment Asland de Castellar de n'Hug / [textos: Magda Fernàndez].
[Terrassa] : Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya, DL 2006.
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[Madrid] : Instituto Juan de Herrera, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura : CEHOPU, Centro de Estudios Históricos de Obras Públicas y Urbanismo : CEDEX, Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras Públicas, Ministerio de Fomento, cop. 2006.
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La costruzione coesiva : l'opera dei Guastavino nell'America di fine Ottocento / Riccardo Gulli.
Venezia : Marsilio, 2006.
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Barcelona : Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya, Demarcació de Barcelona, cop. 2002.
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Teatre "La Massa" de Guastavino : Vilassar de Dalt 1881-2002 / Lluís Dilmé & Xavier Fabré.
Barcelona : Edicions UPC, cop. 2002.
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[Madrid] : Instituto Juan de Herrera : CEHOPU, Centro de Estudios Históricos de Obras Públicas y Urbanismo : CEDEX, Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras Públicas : Dirección General de la Vivienda, la Arquitectura y el Urbanismo del Ministerio de Fomento, DL 2001.
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[Vilassar de Dalt : Centre Vilasserenc : Consorci del Centre Cultural i Teatral La Massa, 2000?].
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New York : Trustees of Columbia University, cop. 1997.
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Milano : Electa, 1997.
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Valencia : Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, 1997.
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New York : Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library : Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 1996.
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[Barcelona : Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca, 1995].
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[Barcelona] : el Col·legi, [1994].
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I jornades d'arqueologia industrial de Catalunya.
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat : Museu de l'Hospitalet : Ajuntament de l'Hospitalet, DL 1991.
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Boston : Ticknor and Company, 1893.
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[S.l. : s.n., s.a.].
Audiovisual Recording
Barcelona : Cinemedia : Generalitat de Catalunya : Fundación España en U.S.A, [199?].
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La Fàbrica Asland, de Castellar de n'Hug.
Espais N. 21 (Gen.-Feb. 1990), [fitxa 41]
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Bóvedas : monográfico sobre fábricas : volumen II
Informes de la construcción Vol. 56, n. 496 (marzo-abr. 2005)
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Informació i Debat (Abr. 2002), p. 6-11
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The Row houses of New York's West Side / Sarah Bradford Landau.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Vol. XXXIV, n. 1 (Mar. 1975), p. 19-36
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Guastavino's vault construction revisited / Michael Ramage
Construction History Vol. 22 (2007)
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Loggia Nº 20 (2007) 1136-758X
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The Transfer of thin masonery vaulting from Spain to America / George R. Collins.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Vol. XXVII, n. 3/68 (Oct. 1968), p. 176-201
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Loggia Nº 20 (2007) 1136-758X
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La Restauración de las bóvedas cerámicas de Guastavino en el puente de Queensboro / Charles DiSanto.
Loggia Nº 20 (2007) 1136-758X
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Manhattan transfer : Mina Rappaport reports from New York on the Bridgemarket scheme...
World Architecture N. 85 (Apr. 2000), p. 90-93
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Architectural Record Vol. 1888N. 5 (2000), p. 242-49
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Quaderns d'arquitectura i Urbanisme N. 171 (oct.-des. 1986), p. 78-83
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Rafael Guastavino : de la Massa als Estats Units / guió i documentació: Josep Samon Forgas.
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Rafael Guastavino, precursor del Modernisme / Carles Cartañà.
Informatiu del Col·legi d'aparelladors i Arquitectes Tècnics de Barcelona N. 87 (Març 1996), p. 7
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Un Innovador a Nova York / Montserrat Serra.
Temps Any XIII, n. 622 (20 Maig 1996), p. 68-75
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Preserving historic Guastavino tile ceiling, domes, and voults : special issue.
Apt Bulletin Vol. XXX, n. 4 (1999)
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Remodelación del edificio del reloj de Barcelona : Carles Buxadé y Joan Margarit, arquitectos.
On diseño No 116 (1990) p. 134-137
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Guastevino tile construction / Theodore H.M. Prudon.
Progressive Architecture N. 9 (Sep. 1989), p. 137-138
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Reopening America's gates / [text de] Clifford A. Pearson.
Architectural Record N. 7 (July 1990), p. 46-57
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La obra de la compañía Guastavino en Nueva York. Su actualidad y restauración / M. Mar Loren Méndez.
Loggia Nº 20 (2007) 1136-758X
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Teatre La Massa de Vilassar de Dalt : per a tots els publics.
Informatiu del Col·legi d'aparelladors i Arquitectes Tècnics de Barcelona N. 211 (2a quinzena oct. 2002), p. 41-48
Et convidem a ajudar-nos a millorar la difusió de l'arquitectura catalana mitjançant aquest espai, on podràs proposar-nos obres, aportar o esmenar informació sobre obres, autors i fotògrafs, a més de fer-nos tots aquells comentaris que consideris.