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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
Es tracta de la darrera obra civil de Gaudí, on posa tot l’èmfasi en l’experimentació amb l’estructura i opta per solucions arriscades i ben diferenciades dels procediments tradicionals. Els peus drets portants són de pedra calcària del Garraf, combinats amb elements metàl·lics, i es dimensionen i configuren segons la casuística de la seva posició concreta. Els forjats són de bigues metàl·liques, que segueixen un ordre irregular d’acord amb la configuració de la planta. Les façanes al carrer es fonen amb els pilars perimetrals en un sistema monolític i autoportant. Gaudí es proposa desvincular les formes del seu contingut matèric i cercar una síntesi entre l’abstracció i l’evocació dels elements de la natura. Això el porta a convertir l’edifici en un gran monument dedicat a la Mare de Déu, que havia de coronar la casa com si aquesta només en fos un pedestal. L’ajut d’un enginyer naval o les formes suggerides a la coberta revelen un Gaudí precursor de l’arquitectura moderna, interessat a alliberar-se de les filades de maçoneria, dels ordres o del pes dels materials constructius. La Pedrera és una obra totalment inacabada que resol cada repte espacial i constructiu per mitjà de solucions inèdites i de vegades incomprensibles.
