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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 OrnaqueDocumental 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 OrnaqueExternal Collaborators:
2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel Maria Jesús QuinteroWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació 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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Multipurpose building that is semi-underground and gradually adapts to the unevenness of the land between Rafael de Casanova Street and Can Roig i Torres. A series of ramps and stairs connect the different spaces.
From Rafael de Casanova Street, an iron and wooden fence separates us from the outer lobby of the Auditorium, defined between the neighbouring party walls. The façade combines white Naturvex cladding with large, glazed openings with dark aluminum joinery.
The flat roof is accessible to people. A floating concrete slab decouples the roof from the pavement preventing external vibrations and noise from affecting the interior. Despite being concrete slabs, the exterior has been treated with honey pine wood and natural vegetation to create a warmer atmosphere.
The building also houses the Can Roig music school.
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Can Roig i Torres
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Edifici d'estil modernista afrancesat. Es disposa d'esquena als carrers que el delimiten, on forma xamfrà, i presenta la façana principal al jardí. La casa és formada per dos cossos en angle, de planta baixa i un pis (i semisoterrani al cos esquerre) i golfes, units pel cos d'accés amb l'escala, coronat per la característica torre en punxa. Tota la coberta és de ceràmica blava. Interiors amb mostres d'arts decoratives, com treball de la fusta, serralleria, etc. Va ser construïda per iniciativa de Rafael Roig i Torres, consul de l'Uruguai a Barcelona. El 1913 la casa rebé un guardó de l'Ajuntament. Durant la Guerra va ser hospital, després vaser seu de la Falange, més tard una escola. L'any 1987 es remodelà per a convertir-la en l'Escola Municipal de música. L'any 2007 es va inaugurar al subsòl de l'edifici el nou Auditori de la ciutat. -
Can Roig i Torres Auditorium
Multipurpose building that is semi-underground and gradually adapts to the unevenness of the land between Rafael de Casanova Street and Can Roig i Torres. A series of ramps and stairs connect the different spaces. From Rafael de Casanova Street, an iron and wooden fence separates us from the outer lobby of the Auditorium, defined between the neighbouring party walls. The façade combines white Naturvex cladding with large, glazed openings with dark aluminum joinery. The flat roof is accessible to people. A floating concrete slab decouples the roof from the pavement preventing external vibrations and noise from affecting the interior. Despite being concrete slabs, the exterior has been treated with honey pine wood and natural vegetation to create a warmer atmosphere. The building also houses the Can Roig music school.