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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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The winery consisted of a nave with a wooden truss roof and fibre cement sheets, designed to hold the vats, with an adjoining room at the rear, used as a grape loading bay and for machinery. Both spaces were connected by pointed brick arches. On the sides, there were pointed brick windows. On the façade, there was a very simple rectangular door, above which there was a simple tripartite window.
The vats were lined up in two rows, leaving a corridor in between, which in 1931 was used for underground wine presses; two side buildings were also added, giving it its basilica-like appearance.
Although the Santpedor Agricultural Union was established in 1904, it was not until much later that a winery was built.
In 1915, the Caja Rural was founded, which, with the savings of its members, was the driving force behind the construction of a winery. Father Josep Soler, the soul of the Union, and Josep Oms, president of the Agricultural Chamber of Pla de Bages, collaborated in this effort.
The Directorate-General for Agriculture of the Mancomunitat provided advice on the construction of the winery.
Between 1921 and 1922, two plots of land were purchased, on which the winery and a flour mill were built (Santpedor was known as the granary of Bages).
The members contributed to the construction of the winery with their capital or their labour (carrying stone or working as labourers).
The winery, which was the first in Bages, was inaugurated in 1923.
The winery is currently closed.