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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental 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 OrnaqueExternal Collaborators:
2019-2024 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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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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Memory
El monument a la batalla del Bruc és una estàtua, obra de l'escultor Frederic Marès (1952), feta d'un sol bloc de pedra, i representa la figura d'un llegendari timbaler, nat a Santpedor, que amb els seus redoblaments de timbal hauria fet fugir les tropes franceses, en la creença que s'acostava un gros exèrcit.
Estàtua exempta en pedra d'un sol bloc. Representa la figura d'un jove amb indumentària de camperol de començaments del segle XIX, portant un trabuc i tocant el tambor.
El basament és un pedestal també de pedra construït amb grans blocs de pedra tallada, portant la inscripció del nom de la vila i la data del 1808.
Està situat en un espai en forma de triangle, confluència de dues carreteres, tenint darrera seu un petit parc natural.
El 1914 hom declarava monument nacional "el monumento que para conmemorar la batalla del Bruch se levantará en dicho pueblo". El monument, que commemora efectivament la batalla dels dies 6 i 14 de juny de 1808 contra les tropes napoleòniques, no fou aixecat, però, fins el 1952 en una intersecció de carreteres a la sortida del Bruc del Mig.
Monument erigit en memòria d'unes gestes singulars durant la guerra Napoleònica que van desfer el mite d'una invencibilitat i desbarataren els plans de Napoleó. Segons la llegenda, un jove timbaler natural de Sampedor amb els seus redobles de timbal va fer creure als francesos que s'apropava un gros exèrcit.
Les batalles del Bruc varen tenir lloc el 6 i 14 de juny de 1808, essent sempre derrotat l'exèrcit francès.
Inaugurat el mes de juliol del 1952 en un altra emplaçament (on ara hi ha les escoles) i traslladat el 1960. L'estàtua inaugurada el 1952 era de guix i el 1954 va ser substituïda per la definitiva de pedra.
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