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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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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.
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Memory
The project proposes to preserve the existing façades and architectural structure, as a proof of the beautiful structure of the modernist house. The main façade stands out from everything else and remains a mere shadow, a veil, a ghost of the past.
Based on this decision to preserve the old building, the intervention focuses on the creation of a large central courtyard onto which the new, modern interior façades open.
Only the insertion of light panels allows the spaces to be occupied while respecting all the façades and their original character.
This intervention is defined in two large separate and complementary sectors: on the one hand the operation of restoration and adaptation of the historical parts, and on the other the creation of the patio and the technological glass bodies that incorporate the entire intervention new (stairs, elevators, ...).
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Federació Obrera
Edifici de dos pisos dividit en tres cossos verticals separats per finestres allargades que recorren la façana verticalment. La planta baixa del cos central consta de porta d'accés amb una finestra trilobada a cada costat i separades de la porta per una columna amb capitell floral. Al primer pis destaca la tribuna amb cúpula parabòlica, que queda ressaltada pel balcó que fa de marquesina, així com el carener central que sobrepuja esglaonadament. El cossos laterals són simètrics, a la planta baixa destaca un gran finestral i al primer pis una finestra amb balconada. Aquesta entitat començà a partir de diversos grups que s'associaren en la "Federació Local de Societats Obreres". L'any 1915 crearen la "Federació de Treballadors" i el 1918 es construí l'edifici actual, apareixent la "Federació Obrera". El 1939 es va expropiar el local i va ser restituït el 1981. -
Molins de Rei Civic Centre
Garcés-de Seta-Bonet Arquitectes, Anna Bonet i Giné, Daria De Seta, Jordi Garcés i Brusés
The project proposes to preserve the existing façades and architectural structure, as a proof of the beautiful structure of the modernist house. The main façade stands out from everything else and remains a mere shadow, a veil, a ghost of the past. Based on this decision to preserve the old building, the intervention focuses on the creation of a large central courtyard onto which the new, modern interior façades open. Only the insertion of light panels allows the spaces to be occupied while respecting all the façades and their original character. This intervention is defined in two large separate and complementary sectors: on the one hand the operation of restoration and adaptation of the historical parts, and on the other the creation of the patio and the technological glass bodies that incorporate the entire intervention new (stairs, elevators, ...).