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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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2019-2023 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental 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 Ornaque

External Collaborators:

2019-2023 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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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.

Author: Maurici Pla

Source: Catalunya : guia d'arquitectura moderna, 1880-2007

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Cronology (8)

  1. Concurs Anual d'Edificis i Establiments Urbans

    Award-Winner / Winner
    Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

    Lluís Domènech i Montaner

  2. Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

    Lluís Domènech i Montaner

    Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

    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.

  3. Final Stage of Work on the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

    Pere Domènech i Roura

    Final Stage of Work on the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

  4. 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

  5. FAD Award

    Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Restoration

    FAD Award

    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

  6. Rehabilitation of the Administration Pavilion of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

    ONL Arquitectura, Joan Nogué i Arbusà

    Rehabilitation of the Administration Pavilion of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

  7. 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 Pavilions of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

  8. Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)

    Shortlisted. Category: Intervencions Parcials. Inclou Intervencions de Rehabilitació

    Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)

    Rehabilitation of the Administration Pavilion of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

    ONL Arquitectura, Joan Nogué i Arbusà

Archive

  • Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.

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    Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.

    Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.

    Drawing

    Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.

    Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.

    Drawing

    Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.

    Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Secció transversal del Pavelló de l'Administració de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.

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    Secció transversal del Pavelló de l'Administració de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.

    Arxiu Històric del COAC

Audiovisual

  • Batalla del modernisme: La Pedrera-Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau - Batalla monumental

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    Batalla del modernisme: La Pedrera-Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau - Batalla monumental

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