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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
We kindly invite you to help us improve the dissemination of Catalan architecture through this space. Here you can propose works and provide or amend information on authors, photographers and their work, along with adding comments. The Documentary Commission will analyze all data. Please do only fill in the fields you deem necessary to add or amend the information.
The Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya is one of the most important documentation centers in Europe, which houses the professional collections of more than 180 architects whose work is fundamental to understanding the history of Catalan architecture. By filling this form, you can request digital copies of the documents for which the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya manages the exploitation of the author's rights, as well as those in the public domain. Once the application has been made, the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya will send you an approximate budget, which varies in terms of each use and purpose.
Es tracta d’un edifici aïllat que segueix la tipologia de ciutat-jardí. És de planta quadrada i disposa de planta baixa, planta pis i golfes, amb coberta composta a quatre vessants. Per la seva situació privilegiada al barri de Sant Miquel constitueix una important fita visual. Antigament, el vial on està situat era la carretera, principal eix que vertebrava l’eixample granollerí. La façana principal de l’edifici és de composició simètrica, amb un cos central que sobresurt lleugerament del pla de façana i que es destaca clarament sobre el pla de coberta en convertir-se en una torre-mirador. És de planta quadrada i té coberta de pavelló a quatre vessants de teula vidriada. Aquest cos central incorpora el portal d'entrada a l'edifici, que així queda molt ben expressat, mentre que a la part superior compta amb finestres geminades. La façana està estructurada amb balcons i finestrals encerclats amb pedra artificial, amb un acabat a l'estuc de calç. Al segon pis les finestres es disposen a partir d'arcuacions rebaixades, i al nivell de les golfes destaca la seqüència d'arcs de punt rodó. En general, però, tant els materials com la seva aplicació revelen un cert to grandiloqüent i artificiós, i sense gaire riquesa ornamental.
A l'interior el paviment hidràulic, tractat en zones orlades, defineix cada àmbit. Tal vegada els elements més característics, i més ben conservats, són els metalls en general, la qualitat de la fusta i els vidriats a les zones altes de les portes principals. En general, la composició equilibrada i les formes clàssiques fan que l’edifici es pugui enquadrar dins d’un noucentisme primerenc, tot i que alguns detalls ornamentals, com ara la forma sinuosa d’algunes finestres laterals o portes interiors, remetin encara a l’estil modernista. Per això en alguns llocs és qualificat de modernista.