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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
In 1957, Robert Terradas had participated in the competition for the New COAC Headquarters in which he developed a proposal very similar to the one that would be built later. In 1966 it was also presented and, in this case, it won the competition for the Social Pavilion for the RACC, although it was never built. In this project, Terradas manages to overcome the traditional modern language and proposes a formal system that places it at the forefront of modern architecture, working with volumes displaced from each other and separated by the height of a floor.
The College of Physicians is an adaptation of this same compositional system to a new site and a new program. The game of volumes is practically the same, even the holes and materials coincide. It should be noted that all these volumes also differ from each other in texture, the use of material and the proportion of the openings. In one of the volumes, wood is used as exterior cladding, which at that time entailed certain difficulties.
Analysing the elevations, certain similarities can be observed with the Mies Monument to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, built in Berlin in 1926 and destroyed by the Nazis in 1935.
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Perspectiva de l'accés del Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona.
Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Vista interior del hall d'accés del Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona.
Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Perspectiva de l'interior de l'Exposició de material mèdic de Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona.
Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Vista interior de l'accés a la Sala d'actes del Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona.
Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Vista interior de la zona d'estar del Club del Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona.
Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Vista de la piscina i solarium del Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona.
Arxiu Històric del COAC