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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Architects' Association of Catalonia:
Àrea de CulturaDirectors:
2019-2022 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2022 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:
2019-2022 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús QuinteroWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació Mies van der Rohe
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico
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Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
- Author:
- Lluís Domènech i Montaner
- Date:
- 1903
- Type:
- Drawing
- Held by:
- Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
- Author:
- Lluís Domènech i Montaner
- Date:
- 1903
- Type:
- Drawing
- Dimensions:
- 41 x 64cm
- Technique:
- Tinta, Aquarel·la
- Support:
- Paper de dibuix
- Held by:
- Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
- Author:
- Lluís Domènech i Montaner
- Date:
- 1903
- Type:
- Drawing
- Held by:
- Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Secció transversal del Pavelló de l'Administració de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
- Author:
- Lluís Domènech i Montaner
- Date:
- 1903
- Type:
- Drawing
- Dimensions:
- 84 x 72,5cm
- Technique:
- Tinta
- Support:
- Paper de dibuix
- Held by:
- Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Memory
The project is the result of the merger of the Hospital de Sant Pau and the old Gothic complex of the Hospital de la Santa Creu, which created one of the elements with the greatest urban impact on the city. The hospital occupies nine blocks of houses in the Eixample Cerdà, at one end of Gaudí Avenue, with the Sagrada Família at the other end. Domènech i Montaner opts for the same organisation in pavilions rehearsed at the Institut Pere Mata, although creating an underground concentrated structure that prevents the functional dispersion of the pavilions, much criticised by some experts of the time in hospital facilities. It is a set of 46 pavilions located around an axis that crosses the large block of houses diagonally. Domènech thus operates an open and innovative reading of the island of typical houses in the Cerdà plan. The structure of the pavilions is modulated in elements that support brick vaults, favouring the adaptation of the wall system with the functionality of each pavilion. The axis formed by Gaudí Avenue represents a unique monumental ensemble, at the ends of which stand two almost antithetical conceptions of the meaning of the new architecture and its functionality in the social needs of the time.
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Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Lluís Domènech i Montaner
The project is the result of the merger of the Hospital de Sant Pau and the old Gothic complex of the Hospital de la Santa Creu, which created one of the elements with the greatest urban impact on the city. The hospital occupies nine blocks of houses in the Eixample Cerdà, at one end of Gaudí Avenue, with the Sagrada Família at the other end. Domènech i Montaner opts for the same organisation in pavilions rehearsed at the Institut Pere Mata, although creating an underground concentrated structure that prevents the functional dispersion of the pavilions, much criticised by some experts of the time in hospital facilities. It is a set of 46 pavilions located around an axis that crosses the large block of houses diagonally. Domènech thus operates an open and innovative reading of the island of typical houses in the Cerdà plan. The structure of the pavilions is modulated in elements that support brick vaults, favouring the adaptation of the wall system with the functionality of each pavilion. The axis formed by Gaudí Avenue represents a unique monumental ensemble, at the ends of which stand two almost antithetical conceptions of the meaning of the new architecture and its functionality in the social needs of the time. -
Concurs Anual d'Edificis i Establiments Urbans
Award-Winner / WinnerHospital de la Santa Creu i Sant PauLluís Domènech i Montaner
Final Stage of Work on the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Pere Domènech i Roura
Restoration of the Nostra Senyora de La Mercè Pavilion at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Víctor Argentí i Salvadó, Antoni González Moreno-Navarro, Josep Lluís González-Moreno Navarro
FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Restoration
Restoration of the Nostra Senyora de La Mercè Pavilion at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant PauVíctor Argentí i Salvadó, Antoni González Moreno-Navarro, Josep Lluís González-Moreno Navarro
Rehabilitation of the Pavilions of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Víctor Argentí i Salvadó, Àgata Buxadé i Fortuny, Ramon Calonge, Albert Casals Balagué, Ramon Ferrando i Ríos, Ramón Godó Llimona, José Luis González, Xavier Guitart, Josep Emili Hernández-Cros, Isabel Rodón, Rafael Vilà Rodríguez, Mercè Zazurca i Codolà
Rehabilitation of the Administration Pavilion of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
ONL Arquitectura, Joan Nogué i Arbusà
Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
Shortlisted. Category: Intervencions Parcials. Inclou Intervencions de Rehabilitació
Rehabilitation of the Administration Pavilion of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant PauONL Arquitectura, Joan Nogué i Arbusà
Archive
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Drawing
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
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Drawing
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
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Drawing
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
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Drawing
Secció transversal del Pavelló de l'Administració de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
Audiovisual
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Batalla del modernisme: La Pedrera-Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau - Batalla monumental
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