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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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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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Monument erected in the centre of the square in homage to the poet Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló from Folgueroles. It stands on a pyramidal base flanked by four monoliths. The pyramid is truncated at a height of approximately one metre and is topped by another polyhedral structure, crowned by a kind of pinnacle and a rose window. Attached to this conical body are images of Saint Francis, the Virgin Mary, the martyr Saint Hyacinth and the Sacred Heart. On the front there are several inscriptions and a medallion with the bust of the poet. It is built with greyish Folgueroles stone, and at the bottom there is a garden protected by wrought iron railings.
The initiative to pay tribute to the poet from Folgueroles came from the ‘Catalunya Vella’ society in Vic, and the inauguration, on 8 May 1908, coincided with the events marking the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the Floral Games. The first stone was laid on 5 April. The stone was donated by Mr Casarramona and was probably extracted from the quarries of the Arumí country house in Folgueroles. The work was paid for by public subscription and the stonemasons worked selflessly. The inauguration of the monument (also known as the pedrón) was a solemn affair. A special train was chartered to bring guests from Barcelona, and carriages then took them from Vic to Folgueroles, where they received a solemn welcome: all the men of the village, dressed in the traditional barretina musca hat, gathered at the fountain of the parish priest Alguer, Teodoro Llorente...). Bishop Torres i Bages presided over the ceremony, which included fireworks, Sardana dances and, when the bust was unveiled, the release of doves.
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