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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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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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It is a building between partitions with a ground floor, three upper floors and an attic. The roof is gabled with a steep slope, with the ridge perpendicular to the façade and a long overhang.
On the façade, we can see that each floor is treated differently. On the ground floor, there are three large windows running from top to bottom with decorative iron grilles. The wall is plastered to imitate ashlar masonry. On the first floor, there is a large balcony that spans the entire width of the façade, with a railing made of a latticework of uprights and crossbars. Behind the façade, the window is divided by stone columns, which are separate from the window plane. The stained glass window is composed of a repeating pattern of different coloured translucent glass panes. The façade is clad with vitrified ceramic tiles. The gallery that identifies the second floor starts at that point. Here we find a bush-hammered stone surface and windows separated only by a thin piper. On the third floor, there are four windows within a single strip of stone that unifies them.
The façade is crowned with a pointed gable, with a wide barbican containing the openings that ventilate the covered floor below. These are in the form of grid-like lattices. The eaves rest on wooden necks, the reverse side of which is clad in glazed ceramic.
The building's current appearance is the result of the renovation carried out by Josep Maria Pericas between 1957 and 1958. The architect used his personal style with certain modernist and Noucentista influences. The most notable elements are the staircase and the cornice. Since then, it has undergone few alterations. In 1966, the roof was tiled. The closure of the library and the renovation of the Caixa office are the most notable changes.
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