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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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A building between partitions consisting of a ground floor and four upper floors. Its composition, based on geometry and the interplay of elements on the façade, presents a balance of openings and solid sections, distributed symmetrically around a central axis of the façade. The openings are grouped into three vertical axes defined by two lines of double openings joined by a balcony on the central floors and located at the ends of the main façade, and a central axis with a line of rectangular windows in a vertical pattern. On the fourth floor, there is a gallery of semicircular arched windows grouped into three sets of three windows each. The roof is a gable roof, which protrudes from the main façade, forming a barbican with exposed rafters. The ground floor has three doorways - the two side ones have been renovated and converted into commercial premises. The central doorway, the most decorated element of the building, is flanked by the two large openings that form the adjoining premises. It is framed with moulded stone and a wrought iron grille, closed at the top with a lowered arch above which is the tympanum, outlined by mixtilinear mouldings. Continuing with the decorative aspect of the complex, it is worth mentioning the cut stone blocks used to clad the ground floor, the balcony slabs and lintels, and the jambs on the first floor; the rest of the walls are made of stucco imitating incised stone blocks. The openings feature sgraffito decorations with geometric zigzag or rocaille motifs. These rocaille motifs are also present on the tympanum of the entrance doorway and on the sills of the central windows.
Lluís Pericas, brother of the architect Josep Maria Pericas i Morros, was the developer of the project. He commissioned his brother to renovate two of his Baroque-style properties, suggesting a single façade solution and a new layout to adapt the building to its new function as a block of flats (in 1926 he applied to Vic City Council for a licence to unify the two buildings). One of these two houses, number 10 (formerly number 8), had been the Pericas family home. The family ended up buying the house next door, now number 12.
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