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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2025 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental Commission:

2019-2025 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 Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2025 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.

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  • Torre d'en Franch Chapel

  • Torre d'en Franch Chapel

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  • Torre d'en Franch Chapel

  • Torre d'en Franch Chapel

  • Torre d'en Franch Chapel

  • Torre d'en Franch Chapel

  • Torre d'en Franch Chapel

  • Torre d'en Franch Chapel

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Civil building.

Square-shaped country house with a hipped roof and a lantern in the centre of the building, which opens onto courtyards and is also covered by a hipped roof. The façade faces south and has a semicircular arch doorway formed by small voussoirs. On each side of the building there is a small annex covered by a single-pitched roof. On the right-hand side, next to this, there is a doorway that closes off the courtyard, which is located on the eastern side. On the north side, there is an exit on the first floor that extends towards the side walls, forming balustrades. The north side is made of red brick, with various decorative shapes playing with this material. This part of the house is surrounded by gardens, with a fountain dedicated to Sant Jordi and a chapel dedicated to the Virgin of Carmen. The state of conservation is average, and the façade should be taken care of.

The chapel has a single nave oriented from east to west. In the gable end is the apse preceded by a dome, with the lantern protruding from the body of the building. The façade has a stepped gable end and the doorway is preceded by a thick arcade that protects the semicircular arch doorway; this section is covered by a single slope. On the left side there is a cylindrical bell tower, the upper part of which is decorated with serrated patterns and has openings. The walls of the nave and apse have Romanesque-style windows. The lower part of the walls of the temple are made of bluish chipped stone, while the rest of the walls are plastered and painted yellow. The building is in good condition.

This old farmhouse belongs to the municipality of Vic and is located outside the city. It is near the Sierra de Sant Ferm, a village that grew up around a farmhouse of the same name, just a few metres from the railway level crossing.

It is one of the few country houses in the Vic area that preserves tradition and continues to be used for agricultural work.

Judging by its style, it was probably renovated in the late 19th or early 20th century, acquiring the stately appearance that it still retains today. There is one section for the owners and another for the peasants.

The church within the grounds of the Torre d'en Franch country house is located in its garden. It is linked to the history of the house, although the chapel is much older.

It is dedicated to the Virgin of Carmen and, according to the date carved on a stone at the western end of the ridge, it was built in 1928.

Source: Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya (IPAC)

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