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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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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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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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De la primitiva masia només es manté el celler, ja que fou absolutament renovada. La reforma de 1904 destruí les bellíssimes línies arquitectòniques que posseïa, característiques de la casa pairal catalana, malgrat el notable interès format del resultat final, classificable dins del corrent modernista d'orientació medievalista. Àdhuc cal observar que es manté clarament l'esquema preexistent amb un cos central de tres tramades, al qual s'hi afegeix la capella a la dreta i un cos acabat per una galeria a l'esquerra. La casa es troba enmig d'un jardí encerclat per un mur sinuós. El conjunt resultant conté un gran nombre d'elements de reminiscència medieval. Posseeix interessants elements decoratius interns, entre els quals destaquen els bells arrambadissos ceràmics, afegits a la darrera reforma, i els embigats del 1904.

A la planta baixa hi ha una llinda del 1403 i a l'interior una altra del 1669. Mentre que al primer pis hi ha una del 1703 i coronant l'edifici la del 1904.

En el 1904 es realitza el projecte de reforma per Joan Bta. Modolell. Consta en obres d'enderroc i reconstrucció de tota la crugia que conté la galeria, en l'elevació d'un metre de la part central del terrat i la construcció de la capella i el mur de tanca. També inclou les reparacions de les façanes.

Source: Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya (IPAC)

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  1. Can Ginestar

    Marcel·lí Coquillat i Llofriu

    Can Ginestar

    De la primitiva masia només es manté el celler, ja que fou absolutament renovada. La reforma de 1904 destruí les bellíssimes línies arquitectòniques que posseïa, característiques de la casa pairal catalana, malgrat el notable interès format del resultat final, classificable dins del corrent modernista d'orientació medievalista. Àdhuc cal observar que es manté clarament l'esquema preexistent amb un cos central de tres tramades, al qual s'hi afegeix la capella a la dreta i un cos acabat per una galeria a l'esquerra. La casa es troba enmig d'un jardí encerclat per un mur sinuós. El conjunt resultant conté un gran nombre d'elements de reminiscència medieval. Posseeix interessants elements decoratius interns, entre els quals destaquen els bells arrambadissos ceràmics, afegits a la darrera reforma, i els embigats del 1904. A la planta baixa hi ha una llinda del 1403 i a l'interior una altra del 1669. Mentre que al primer pis hi ha una del 1703 i coronant l'edifici la del 1904. En el 1904 es realitza el projecte de reforma per Joan Bta. Modolell. Consta en obres d'enderroc i reconstrucció de tota la crugia que conté la galeria, en l'elevació d'un metre de la part central del terrat i la construcció de la capella i el mur de tanca. També inclou les reparacions de les façanes.
  2. Can Ginestar Library

    Josep Llinàs Carmona

    Can Ginestar Library

    Can Ginestar is an old farmhouse, now in the centre of Sant Just Desvern, which has been working as a civic centre for years. If the farmhouse is a piece to be preserved and valued, the garden that surrounds it is also a reference for Sant Just and the years accumulated on its vegetation have given its trees a unique value. The library, which could be located in any part of the north garden (and which the urban planning proposed as an isolated piece), would form part of the equipment of this civic centre. This northern part of the garden is much less used than the rest, due to its slope, orientation and poor accessibility, but it is signified by the presence of large trees. The project aims to respect the trees and consequently the topography of the land, so that the façade in the garden is moved forward or backward to establish distances and relationships with the trees. On the contrary, the rear façade uses the boundary with respect to the street as the back of the library and is proposed in continuity with the beautiful and undulating existing wall, which ends with a space open to the natural territory. The library (facing the garden) is treated as a glazed gallery that seeks visual contact in extension with the large trees. The gallery is resolved with light elements that distance themselves from the massive image of the farmhouse and can be understood as its formal counterpoint.

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