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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental Commission:

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

With the support of:

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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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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Los apartamentos se piensan para atender al comportamiento ocioso y despreocupado del periodo estival. Más que una sustracción del paisaje, podemos definir la propuesta de Puig Torné como una sustitución de ese mismo paisaje. Sin violentar el paisaje existente, Puig Torné construye un paisaje nuevo a partir del perímetro cerrado de la construcción. Los límites son precisos. Los apartamentos son un refugio, se separan de la naturaleza salvaje del lugar. El Cabo de Salou, en 1965, cuando se construyen los apartamentos, era un lugar inhóspito de naturaleza salvaje.

La característica más notable y acierto del edificio radica en el escalonamiento topográfico provocando un interesante juego volumétrico para mantener la privacidad entre apartamentos a través del escalonamiento topográfico y el desplazamiento en planta de la unidad elemental. El edificio consta de 16 apartamentos organizados en PB+3PP. Puig Torné adopta la sintaxis clara y precisa de la composición neoplástica que caracteriza visualmente la obra, con el uso de barras de hormigón in situ que contrastan con el revoco blanco. Los jardines de planta baja forman terrazas entendidas como abstracción del bancal agrícola catalán, presente en los alrededores del emplazamiento. Las viviendas se separan del viario en cul de sac generando un espacio intermedio, un jardín comunitario de uso vecinal que recrea el paisaje del lugar. Una estrategia perseguida por Antonio Bonet y el propio Puig Torné en los numerosos edificios proyectados en el Cabo de Salou entre 1959 y 1963

Puig Torné propone un modo educado de habitar el paisaje del cabo de Salou antes de su destrucción. Sin que el usuario sea consciente, multiplicando la percepción visual y táctil que produce el sonido del viento, el rumor de las olas, el canto de las aves marinas, los olores del mar y la vegetación o el contraste lumínico de sol y sombra. Habitar de un modo saludable, respetuoso con el medioambiente, al aire libre. Significa también apreciar aquellas impresiones fugitivas del paisaje: variaciones de luz y temperatura en el día, en el tiempo, en las estaciones, apreciar el carácter efímero y dinámico de la naturaleza.

Author: Juan Fernando Ródenas García, Gillermo Zuaznabar Uzkudun, Carlos Gonzalvo Salas

Source: cait-urv.eu

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