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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2023 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2023 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:
2019-2023 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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This is a controlled rent housing program on a north-facing corner plot. The distribution frees up a large courtyard at the back, which allows for lighting and ventilation of the bedrooms in the side homes. The central house faces the street, although it offers almost blind walls on the corner and opens to the east and west. The building offers an image of brick screens that open in a fan towards the two favourable orientations, from where the view is more transparent. A unique housing developed on three levels gives rise to the declining volumes of the roof.
Eight-storey building, fully adapted to the characteristics of a small plot of land, located on a corner and facing north. Thirty percent of the building is destined for commercial premises and offices on the ground and first floors, and the rest is for low-income housing, each unit of which has an area of 75 m2. A backyard provides light and ventilation to the staircase and bedrooms of the side houses. The central house, with all the openings to the street, is closed to the north, receives light from the east and west, and has views over the two side streets.
The two single-family homes, located in the attic, distribute the entire surface of the floor forming different interior spaces of the general typology of the building. In one of them, uniquely designed by the architect, we have three levels and has garden terraces and a swimming pool.
The limitation of the budget and the lack of construction resources force the adoption of artisanal techniques, one of which, the manual application of the brick, defines the aesthetics of the building.
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Nicaragua DwellingsRBTA - Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, Emili Bofill i Benessat, Ricardo Bofill Leví
Nicaragua Dwellings
RBTA - Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, Emili Bofill i Benessat, Ricardo Bofill Leví
This is a controlled rent housing program on a north-facing corner plot. The distribution frees up a large courtyard at the back, which allows for lighting and ventilation of the bedrooms in the side homes. The central house faces the street, although it offers almost blind walls on the corner and opens to the east and west. The building offers an image of brick screens that open in a fan towards the two favourable orientations, from where the view is more transparent. A unique housing developed on three levels gives rise to the declining volumes of the roof.