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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Building between partition walls, consisting of a ground floor and two landings, with a gable roof. The façade is crowned by an archery and barbican. The building alternates historicist elements (thresholds and portal) with other formal modernist elements (medallions, sgraffitos, borders and ceramics).
The industrial activity of the 19th century brought the textile industry to Granollers, which began its growth with the cotton manufactures and their auxiliary industries, extending the urban fabric outside the walls and near the communication routes. Thus, they began the extension of the urban centre between Congost and the railway of France.
In this way, the Barcelona-Ribes Road became the axis of the city, the wide area at the end of the 19th century, where we find the architectural movements of the last hundred years represented.
Building between ground floor partitions and two floors. Tile gable roof. The façade is crowned by a continuous archway underlined by a barbican. The historicist elements (thresholds and portal) and the formal and decorative elements (medallions, sgraffitos, borders, ceramic coverings) give it a modernist character (CUSPINERA et alíí, 2001).
In 1866, the former Isabel II Street was dedicated to Joan Prim, who on August 19, 1842, visited Granollers, where he was solemnly received with the band of the barracks battalion, in gratitude for managing the layout of the road (BAULIES, 1986b). It is located on the street-road that crosses the town centre and that drove the growth of the first extension of Granollers, at the end of the 19th century, where the architectural movements of the last hundred years are represented. This axis is lately undergoing a strong transformation process with the proliferation of replacement constructions.
Protected in the 1985 PEPHA and proposed protection in the new PEPHA File. No. R-053
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