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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2025 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2025 Ramon Faura Carolina B. Garcia Eduard Callís Francesc Rafat Pau Albert Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Mercè Bosch Jaume Farreny Anton Pàmies Juan Manuel Zaguirre Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar OrnaqueCollaborators:
2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse ViuExternal Collaborators:
2019-2025 Helena Cepeda Inès MartinelWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació Mies van der Rohe
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico
Basílica de la Sagrada Família
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona
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AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
IEFC
Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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Carrer Àngel Guimerà, which runs parallel to Passeig de Pere III, the most important street in the Eixample district of Manresa at the end of the 19th century and during the Art Nouveau period, contains a series of Noucentista buildings with a variety of styles. The Olimpia Cinema is in keeping with the monumentalist classicist style of Noucentisme, due to its public nature. It is built between partitions, has a rectangular floor plan and consists of a ground floor and a double-height first floor, with a unified composition. The symmetrically arranged façade has five openings per floor, organised according to five vertical axes: three central ones with portals on the ground floor and curved balconies with balusters on the main floor and geometric stained glass windows, which corresponded to the old amphitheatre; the balconies are closed with a moulded round arch and grille. The upper top of the building is formed by a frieze of small windows (for ventilation of the space under the roof), alternating with corbels, which support a moulded cornice with dentils, a solid acroterion and, above, a sculptural ensemble with a central medallion bearing the name of the cinema and a crown at the top, flanked by volutes and pinnacles. The roof is gabled with flat tiles.
Currently, the interior has been completely modified and is occupied by a Zara store. Originally, the ground floor housed the lobby and stalls (on different levels), with a stage at the back. A large part of the stage and the auditorium occupied the inner courtyard of the block. The upper part of the building was occupied by the amphitheatre, supported by cast iron pillars, and the foyer.
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