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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2023 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental 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 OrnaqueExternal Collaborators:
2019-2023 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda 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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We kindly invite you to help us improve the dissemination of Catalan architecture through this space. Here you can propose works and provide or amend information on authors, photographers and their work, along with adding comments. The Documentary Commission will analyze all data. Please do only fill in the fields you deem necessary to add or amend the information.
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.
Memory
The museum is part of a strategy to reorganise the Raval neighbourhood through the introduction of new municipal institutional buildings. In this case, it is a newly created museum, without a pre-established art collection, so the main determinations of the project come from the urban morphology. Meier occupies an old block of houses at the back of the Charity House, thus completely renewing the character of the Àngels square. The building gives subtle and attentive answers to the elements of the environment. The winding body that contains the small, specialised exhibition halls determines the view from Àngels Street. The entrance takes place through a large crack reminiscent of the winding streets of the Raval. The building scrupulously respects the height of the urban fabric of the area and is strictly adapted to the width of the Charity House. It is a formally exuberant organism, prepared for the most flexible and indeterminate forms of exhibition of works of art.
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MACBA Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona
Richard Meier & Partners, Richard Meier
The museum is part of a strategy to reorganise the Raval neighbourhood through the introduction of new municipal institutional buildings. In this case, it is a newly created museum, without a pre-established art collection, so the main determinations of the project come from the urban morphology. Meier occupies an old block of houses at the back of the Charity House, thus completely renewing the character of the Àngels square. The building gives subtle and attentive answers to the elements of the environment. The winding body that contains the small, specialised exhibition halls determines the view from Àngels Street. The entrance takes place through a large crack reminiscent of the winding streets of the Raval. The building scrupulously respects the height of the urban fabric of the area and is strictly adapted to the width of the Charity House. It is a formally exuberant organism, prepared for the most flexible and indeterminate forms of exhibition of works of art. -
FAD Award
Finalist. Category: Architecture
MACBA Contemporary Art Museum of BarcelonaFAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Intervencions EfímeresSpecies of Spaces ExhibitionMAIO, Maria Charneco Llanos, Alfredo Lérida Horta, Guillermo López Ibáñez, Anna Puigjaner Barberà
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