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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.

Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
Directors arquitecturacatalana.cat

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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental 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 Ornaque

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel Maria Jesús Quintero

With the support of:

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

Collaborating Entities:

ArquinFAD

 

Fundació 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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SITUATION OF THE STARTING POINT. CONDITIONS.
Building between party walls with 8 houses and 2 premises. Very suitable for easy and immediate speculation, the typical messy transfer. Demands of the owner of the plot, in addition to the impositions established by the promoter and then, as the last obstacle, the conditions imposed by the builder.
Promoter premiere, that is: promoter in a still virgin state. Promoters who are marginal to your business. They take their first steps in the field of real estate speculation before the general ease and disorder prevailing and the possibility of getting rich quickly.
Developer-builder association. Construction price fixed a priori, whatever happens and whoever falls. You cannot go beyond so many pesetas per square metre.

PROJECT PHASE. CONTRADICTIONS AND HOPES.
Total impossibility of exercising substantial program variations to vary the conventional image of the future construction.
Impossibility of introducing new hypotheses with a minimum technological process when they are rejected for departing from the traditional systems constantly used and repeated by the builder.
Possibility of using a typology already tested in other works of this type that operates, through the form, a process of its own formal-functional and autonomous validity in contradiction with the rest of the established impositions.

REALISATION PHASE. THIRD ACT.
Project quite prepared to resist the changes with which at the last minute, and at the moment of beginning the works, the builders and promoters surprise, torment and despair us.
They establish the changes in a resounding way. No to solid brick. Yes to exposed brick. NO to solid railing, YES to iron railing. NO to curbs.
YES to this and NO to that.
In these cases, the question arises of whether you agree to continue or not, whether to leave or stay. Starting from establishing a limit, up to which you stay, after which you leave, the process of carrying the work forward arises, including the fundamental points established in the project phase.
Used to this type of confrontation, some good results are obtained by acting with an impertinent insistence and a rare ability that goes from the most cynical lie to the provocation of false situations.
Once all the necessary positions have been established to obtain a result with a certain interest, the fact remains, valid in itself, of the verification of the result itself, including its contradictions, as the authenticity of a true architectural process.

Author: Miguel Álvarez Trincado

Source: Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme

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