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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2024 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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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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The market refurbishment is motivated by its outdated nature from a programmatic point of view. The new market incorporates a hospitality school, office space and some restaurants, in addition to two parking floors and the arrangement of two new spaces on the two main façades. The refurbishment chooses to place the new pieces of the program suspended from the roof, forming a series of variable sections and using the same profiles of the old structure. Thus, the life of the old market can continue regardless of the new additions. The accesses from both squares are also modified, in order to favour the recreational activities that take place there. The result of the intervention are bodies added to the periphery of the old structure, which allow a new image to be generated and reflect its added character to a space and activities that continue to exist as before.

Author: Maurici Pla

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

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  1. La Barceloneta Market

    Antoni Rovira i Trias

    The market refurbishment is motivated by its outdated nature from a programmatic point of view. The new market incorporates a hospitality school, office space and some restaurants, in addition to two parking floors and the arrangement of two new spaces on the two main façades. The refurbishment chooses to place the new pieces of the program suspended from the roof, forming a series of variable sections and using the same profiles of the old structure. Thus, the life of the old market can continue regardless of the new additions. The accesses from both squares are also modified, in order to favour the recreational activities that take place there. The result of the intervention are bodies added to the periphery of the old structure, which allow a new image to be generated and reflect its added character to a space and activities that continue to exist as before.
  2. New Barceloneta Market

    Josep Miàs i Gifré

    New Barceloneta Market

    The project was an opportunity to return to the neighbourhood in an interested way; it was no longer a playful visit, a discovery of its people, its bars, its aroma... but rather a revision of the place with the desire to identify what would allow us to reveal its qualities and being able to describe it in a precise way about a project. An attempt, in short, to want to explain a reality, to offer a new and more complete meaning to an architectural project, beyond solving a program, a commission. In the market’s public tender, we already made a collage with some fish by César Manrique, some drawings for children that could contain and explain the joy of these people, their liveliness, their energy, their enthusiasm and, often, many difficulties. The market has always been an element of the neighbourhood’s social cohesion, a reference, sometimes almost secret and only visible to its inhabitants. This condition of density that the market has in relation to the city must have been a condition of the project, so that the building and its immediate surroundings really became a clear point of reference for this small part of the city of Barcelona. It is amazing to see now the photos we took of the market during construction, when the pieces, the bones of this huge animal, were being transported through the streets to their final place. It’s nice to think of the memory of these pieces being transported along the same streets; as a neighbour, a witness in the same way of the building, or at least, some fragment of the market.
  3. Premi Ciutat de Barcelona

    Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture and Urbanism
    New Barceloneta Market

    Josep Miàs i Gifré

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