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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 Ornaque

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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

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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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'La Caixa' acquired the Domènech de Canet de Mar estate which was composed of an 18th century country house, a house built by Domènech i Montaner and a garden shared by both. The intention was to locate its bank headquarters there, building a pavilion in the garden and adapting the modernist house, leaving the restoration of the country house for a future intervention. Later, however, it was ceded to the Canet de Mar Town Hall and became the Domènech i Montaner House - Museum.

The project is mainly based on the creation of a new pavilion that relates the Domènech House and the old country house in a different way. The relationship with the modernist house is based on two basic considerations: respect for the building's architectural uniqueness and the conservation of the character of the house's enclosed garden, which formed an overall image of a strong urban presence. To achieve these two objectives, it is proposed to build a closed volume that faces the Riera, respecting the height of the garden wall and that connects coherently with the exterior balcony with which Casa Domènech ends over the Riera.

Author: B01 Arquitectes

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  1. Domènech House

    Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Pere Domènech i Roura, Francesc Guàrdia i Vial

    Domènech House

    Domènech realitza alguns projectes de reforma per els seus companys de política. Francesc Macià, enginyer militar i polític que arribà a ser president de la Generalitat, li encarregà la reforma interior del seu habitatge a Lleida, el xalet Macià. És la darrera obra realitzada per Domènech a Canet de Mar. Com va passar a la majoria de les seves obres d’aquesta època, va comptar amb la col·laboració del seu fill Pere i el seu gendre Francesc Guàrdia. La família Domènech tenia la seva segona residència a Canet de Mar, a l’antiga masia Rocosa. Aquest edifici no tenia suficient espai per allotjar la nombrosa família que va tenir l’arquitecte, així com el seu estudi. El 1877 van adquirir dues cases de cos al xamfrà de la Riera Gavarra amb la de Buscarons, que quedaven comunicades pels patis posteriors amb la masia. La Masia Rocosa passaria a ser el despatx i taller de l’arquitecte i la nova construcció la residència familiar. Es conserva un primer projecte no realitzat al Fons Cabruja de Canet de Mar. El 1918 es va demanar la llicència d’obres per la reforma i remunta de la casa Domènech del projecte que finalment es va executar. L’edifici original, en una cantonada en el punt de confluència entre les dues rieres, eren dues petites construccions del segle XVII. No s’enderroquen les construccions anteriors, sinó que es reaprofiten gran part dels murs. Domènech fa una remunta i redistribueix i ennobleix totes les obertures, afegint una llotja amb arcs d’obra vista a la part superior i monumentalitzant el xamfrà amb una tribuna ornamentada amb elements florals i zoomòrfics. A l’interior de la casa es van reformar totes les estances, garantint que totes les habitacions tenien finestres a l’exterior. Una escala amb contrapetges ceràmiques comunica la planta baixa amb la planta pis, amb arribada a un vestíbul a doble altura. Al terra d’aquest espai hi ha una claraboia trepitjable que fa arribar la llum des del lluernari superior fins a la planta baixa. Una escala de cargol comunica aquest espai amb la balconada perimetral de la segona planta. Diverses estances de l’edifici contenen les proves de guix d’algunes obres escultòriques dels seus edificis. El 1980 va ser reformat per allotjar una entitat bancària, i es va construir un ampliació al jardí. Després de la cessió del conjunt d’edificis a l’Ajuntament i d’una segona reforma del 2011, actualment és un equipament que allotja la Casa-museu Domènech i Montaner de Canet de Mar.
  2. Remodelling and Extension of Domènech House as a Bank Headquarters

    B01 Arquitectes, Roser Amadó i Cercós, Lluís Domènech i Girbau

    Remodelling and Extension of Domènech House as a Bank Headquarters

    'La Caixa' acquired the Domènech de Canet de Mar estate which was composed of an 18th century country house, a house built by Domènech i Montaner and a garden shared by both. The intention was to locate its bank headquarters there, building a pavilion in the garden and adapting the modernist house, leaving the restoration of the country house for a future intervention. Later, however, it was ceded to the Canet de Mar Town Hall and became the Domènech i Montaner House - Museum. The project is mainly based on the creation of a new pavilion that relates the Domènech House and the old country house in a different way. The relationship with the modernist house is based on two basic considerations: respect for the building's architectural uniqueness and the conservation of the character of the house's enclosed garden, which formed an overall image of a strong urban presence. To achieve these two objectives, it is proposed to build a closed volume that faces the Riera, respecting the height of the garden wall and that connects coherently with the exterior balcony with which Casa Domènech ends over the Riera.

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