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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2023 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2023 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:
2019-2023 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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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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Isolated garden-city typology building. It consists of a ground floor and a floor. The façade is crowned by a gable with a sinuous profile limited by the two sides of the roof. The entire house is surrounded by a balcony that is supported on the ground floor by helical tile columns. A lookout tower covered with a four-sided roof on one side stands out.
Manor house from the first quarter of the 20th century. It was built by Mr. Fontdevila. It is one of the most architecturally significant houses in the area.
Can Fontdevila is a stately tower built in the first third of the 20th century according to the noucentista aesthetic. The house is built prominently with respect to street level, separated from it by a stone front wall and ceramic balustrade and two flights of stairs.
It is a rectangular building that is structured in three bays. It consists of a ground floor and a floor and has a roof on two sides with the ridge perpendicular to the façade. The frontispiece is composed symmetrically along three axes, defined by flat arched openings with imposts on the soffit, of the same type as those on the rest of the façades. The main façade has a supported terrace with helical columns of exposed masonry, which extends through the side façades and acts as a porch on the ground floor. As the end of the main and rear façades we find a sinuous gable with molded strips of work. At the east end of the rear façade there is a tower of three levels in height and roofed on four sides, which contains the stairwell to access the floor. The external treatment of the walls is plastered and painted white, on which the blue motifs around the openings and the decorative elements of the work stand out. Inside, the layout and the mosaic flooring of the time have been preserved. The house is surrounded by a garden with large trees that partially hide it.
In the middle of the 19th century, Mr. Agustí Fontdevila bought the building known as the Can Met hostel. His son Calixte Fontdevila Colom built a tower at the entrance to the town in 1923, after living for a few years in the house on Pont Street. Mr. Fontdevila actively participated in local political life in the first half of the 20th century, as a candidate for the League and Justice of the Peace of Aiguafreda. Between 1933 and 1934 he created a textile factory in the centre of Aiguafreda, which would later be moved to the outskirts under the name of RITESA.
It is also known as Can Calistro.