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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

2019-2026 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental Commission:

2019-2026 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 Gemma Ferré Inés de Rivera Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2026 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Marianela Pla Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2026 Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel

With the support of:

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

Collaborating Entities:

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

 

IEFC

 

Fundació Domènench Montaner.

 

ETSAB

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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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  • Basílica de la Mercè. Colocació de la Porta de l'Esglesia de Sant Miquel a la Façana del Carrer Ample

  • Basílica de la Mercè. Colocació de la Porta de l'Esglesia de Sant Miquel a la Façana del Carrer Ample

  • Basílica de la Mercè. Colocació de la Porta de l'Esglesia de Sant Miquel a la Façana del Carrer Ample

  • Basílica de la Mercè. Colocació de la Porta de l'Esglesia de Sant Miquel a la Façana del Carrer Ample

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  • Basílica de la Mercè. Colocació de la Porta de l'Esglesia de Sant Miquel a la Façana del Carrer Ample

  • Basílica de la Mercè. Colocació de la Porta de l'Esglesia de Sant Miquel a la Façana del Carrer Ample

  • Basílica de la Mercè. Colocació de la Porta de l'Esglesia de Sant Miquel a la Façana del Carrer Ample

  • Basílica de la Mercè. Colocació de la Porta de l'Esglesia de Sant Miquel a la Façana del Carrer Ample

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  1. Basílica de la Mercè. Construcció del Convento

    Jeroni Santacana

  2. Basílica de la Mercè

    Josep Mas i Dordal

    Basílica de la Mercè

    Es tracta d’una església de planta en creu, amb una cúpula situada al creuer i dues naus laterals. A cada costat s’hi disposen quatre capelles de planta rectangular, a excepció de la del Santíssim, que presenta una configuració diferent. La façana principal és d’estil barroc tardà i compta amb decoració de Carles Grau, qui també va ser l’autor de l’ornamentació interior, malauradament destruïda l’any 1936.
  3. Basílica de la Mercè. Decoració del Interior

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  4. Basílica de la Mercè. Colocació de la Porta de l'Esglesia de Sant Miquel a la Façana del Carrer Ample

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    Basílica de la Mercè. Colocació de la Porta de l'Esglesia de Sant Miquel a la Façana del Carrer Ample

  5. Internal Interventions and Refurbishment of the Façade of the General Captaincy

    Adolf Florensa i Ferrer

    Internal Interventions and Refurbishment of the Façade of the General Captaincy

    Given its long historical evolution and the various refurbishments the building has undergone, its façades present markedly different solutions. The wing facing the sea, entirely rebuilt by Adolf Florensa i Ferrer in the 1920s, displays a monumental façade in a classical language with neo-Baroque reminiscences, rather distant from Catalan constructive tradition. This façade is organised horizontally into three registers and vertically into five bays, arranged along an axial symmetry centred on the main entrance. The lower register consists of a grand portico of semicircular arches, with pilasters and spandrels formed of rusticated ashlar masonry. These arches contain the rectangular windows of the ground floor and the balconies of the first floor, finished with segmental moulded arches and enclosed by cast-iron railings with gilded brass finials. This base also includes two secondary lintelled entrances and, on the axis of symmetry, the main portal, formed by a tall semicircular arch. Each of these doorways features finely crafted hardwood doors with gilded bronze fittings in the form of spearheads, as well as shields bearing the arms of Spain. The main entrance, projecting slightly from the plane of the façade, acts as a base for two pairs of Tuscan columns that flank the large central balcony in the second horizontal register. This balcony consists of a wide-span arch supported by Corinthian pilasters, with sculpted triumphal motifs in the spandrels. The second register contains the two central floors, articulated through an imposing continuous colonnade of monumental Tuscan pilasters supporting a Doric entablature decorated with triglyphs and metopes. The piano nobile is expressed at this level through balconies with stone balustrades, framed by mouldings and crowned with alternating triangular and semicircular pediments. The upper floor opens to the exterior through balconies with stone slabs, framed by moulded surrounds and flat relieving arches in relief, resting on a stone slab with cast-iron railings finished with gilded brass spheres. Above the entablature rises the third and final register, corresponding to the attic. This level is rhythmically articulated by pairs of rusticated pilasters framing the windows, whose jambs are moulded and lintels decorated with shell motifs. Above the attic cornice rests the balustrade enclosing the roof terrace. The attic most clearly expresses the composition of symmetrical vertical volumes. At its centre, the main entrance is crowned by a large coat of arms of Spain, flanked by semi-columns and Corinthian pilasters supporting a triangular pediment topped with pinnacles. On either side of this heraldic composition, two male figures represent Hercules and Scipio. At both ends of the façade, the attic contains two cubic towers, each face articulated by Corinthian pilasters and triangular pediments topped with pinnacles. These towers open to the exterior through a large window and an oculus beneath a semicircular arch, whose spandrels are sculpted with triumphal motifs.

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