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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
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.
L'escorxador municipal de Linyola és un edifici cantoner de planta trapezoidal. Es va construir a la zona nord del poble, dins d'una parcel·la de 600 m² aproximadament. Una part de la parcel·la estava destinada a la recepció del bestiar, que es tancava en petits habitacles separats. És una nau d'uns 195 m² aproximadament i la resta de solar quedava disponible per a noves ampliacions. Les aigües pluvials i les residuals de l'interior de l'escorxador, a través de desguassos, anaven a parar a la xarxa de clavegueram. L'edifici tenia una alçada de 5 metres a dos vessants i coronada amb coberta d'uralita sobre bigues de pi transversals d'est a oest repenjades sobre una encavallada de fusta de pi amb tensor inferior per controlar-ne la flexió.
El material essencial va ser el maó. Al voltant de les parets, una sanefa de mosaic romà esmaltat s'intercalava entre sis finestres esglaonades i rematades, a la part superior, per unes petites arcades d'obra vista, i a la inferior, per uns trencaaigües de ceràmica esmaltada. Les finestres es van projectar per integrar vidres policromats.
A la façana principal les finestres i la sanefa tenen el mateix estil, i els pilars que la conformen són d'obra vista, i entre els dos centrals, un portal escalonat i rematat per un arc d'obra vista dona pas al vestíbul, espai on hi ha els serveis i l'administració. En el projecte, al tancament del rebedor i a l'entrada al corral de bestiar s'hi contemplava la instal·lació de reixes de ferro forjat amb elements decoratius.
A la part superior, els quatre pilars estan units per unes cornises arquejades de pedra artificial, i als laterals s'observen dues obertures ovalades i emmarcades amb la mateixa pedra. Damunt del vestíbul, i entre els dos pilars d'obra vista que estan rematats per dos pilarets decoratius i escalonats, hi ha la part identitària de l'edifici amb el seu nom i data en castellà, tot fabricat amb ceràmica negra esmaltada i envoltada d'una motllura de ceràmica cuita. Al capdamunt de tot, un magnífic escut, de pedra artificial, culmina l'obra decorativa de l'escorxador.