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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Manor house consisting of a rectangular body parallel to the street, where the main rooms of the house are located, of which three are preserved in their original state.
At the beginning of the 20th century, it was considerably renovated and expanded, with two ground-floor buildings and two attached floors in the middle of the old building, forming a u-shaped courtyard that opens onto a large garden, which is accessed via Carrer del Cardaire (or Sant Fruitós). M. Viñals refurbished the street façade. This is a symmetrical, with a ground floor and two floors, with two higher bodies at the ends. It has balconies on the first floor and a rhythm of gallery-like windows on the second floor. The upper finish is made with a cornice rich in classic ornamental elements following an eclectic style. J. Puig i Cadafalch refurbished the interior: ground floor, grand staircase, rear extension and wrought iron tribune with leaded stained-glass windows that overlooks the courtyard, using his characteristic language of Flemish influence within the modernist style. The 18th-century wall paintings on the main floor and the 19th-century paintings by Alexandre de Riquer in the downstairs hall and main staircase stand out.
Former stately home where Joaquim de Sagrera i Domènech was born in 1777, he is celebrated for his active intervention in the French War and for the importance and expansion of his textile company. During the 19th century, the house suffered some vicissitudes in the rich architectural and decorative heritage it already had. It was deeply refurbished and restored in 1912 by the descendants of the family, who entrusted the work to the two architects mentioned. Some press campaigns and the action of the Museum Board prevented the demolition of the house in 1965. In 1973, with the financial help of the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the city council acquired the building and it was destined for a museum. It contains several collections and they continue to restore the 18th-century style of its rooms.
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