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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 Eduard Callís Francesc Rafat Pau Albert Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Mercè Bosch Jaume Farreny Anton Pàmies Juan Manuel Zaguirre Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar OrnaqueCollaborators:
2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse ViuExternal Collaborators:
2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès MartinelWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació 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.
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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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Can Modolell was a fortified house with a defense tower against pirates, built in the 16th century. This tower is one of the most prominent elements of the building, which was renovated in a modernist-neogothic style in 1892.
They took advantage of the structure of the old tower, on the first floor of which the chapel was built, as well as the annex buildings on both sides. In one of these buildings, where the corner balcony is, the winter dining room was installed, equipped with a beautiful neo-Gothic chimney made of carved wood, the work of J. Azemar and J. Riera from 1893. Today they are the office of the mayor and his secretary. The Modolells' summer dining room was installed on the back side, it has glazed ceramic windows and overlooks the balcony over the garden.
Magdalena Modolell Gardens are bounded by the façades of the Can Modolell building, Jaume Abril, Sol and Àngel Guimerà streets and by the façades of the Carrer de la Farina and Ca n'Escuder.
The garden staircase is quite interesting, with balustrade and moulded and stained glass windows.
Due to an oil painting from the end of the 19th century - the work of a Nogués married to a Modolell (owners of the house at the time), it is known that the construction consisted of two bodies separated by the tower. The one on the right has a semicircular arch at the portal (perhaps 17th century) and two floors; the one on the left was a large house with three floors in the 19th century. This structure was used when carrying out the important neo-Gothic refurbishment, which is what gives the building its current appearance, dated according to the moulded lintel of the side balcony in 1892.
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