About
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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 of the COAC Digital Archive
About us
Architects' Association of Catalonia:
Àrea de CulturaDirectors:
2019-2020 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2020 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:
2019-2020 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús QuinteroCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació Mies van der Rohe
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico
Design & Development:
Nubilum Edittio
Memory
Gaudí és requerit en aquest cas per transformar completament la imatge d’una casa ja existent, tot incorporant-hi amb plena llibertat noves concepcions estructurals, referències naturalistes, simbolismes de tota mena i ornamentacions abstractes. L’afegit d’una nova planta permet coronar la façana de manera asimètrica, tenint en compte la presència de la veïna casa Amatller, ja existent. La planta noble incorpora el naturalisme en la mateixa estructura portant, mentre que les golfes permeten la introducció de les voltes parabòliques, ja assajades anteriorment. La col·laboració de Josep Maria Jujol aporta una llibertat més gran en el treball amb els materials i en la intensitat dels efectes. Les dues façanes, anterior i posterior, ondulen com dues cortines. Podem considerar-la com la primera obra madura de Gaudí, on assoleix una síntesi sorprenent entre la materialitat estructural de l’edifici i el caràcter oníric dels múltiples suggeriments que hi podem trobar arreu.
