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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 Directors arquitecturacatalana.cat
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Directors:
2019-2026Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
Documental Commission:
2019-2026 Ramon FauraCarolina B. GarciaEduard CallísFrancesc RafatPau Albert Antoni López DaufíJoan FalguerasMercè BoschJaume FarrenyAnton PàmiesJuan Manuel ZaguirreJosep FerrandoFernando MarzáMoisés PuenteAureli MoraOmar Ornaque
Collaborators:
2019-2026Lluis AndreuSergi BallesterMaria Jesús QuinteroLucía M. VillodresMontse Viu
External Collaborators:
2019-2026Helena CepedaInès Martinel
With the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura
Collaborating Entities:
ArquinFAD
Fundació 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
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.
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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.
The former warehouse of the Can Bagaria textile industrial complex, an example of 20th century Catalan Art Nouveau architectural heritage, has been rehabilitated and adapted to house a municipal school of music. The project is based on a hall more than one hundred metres in length, with a double-pitched roof of Arab tiles supported on timber trusses, and a main façade of exposed brickwork with a highly regular rhythm of openings. Internally, in order to break this pronounced linearity, the various spaces required by the music school are grouped together: the access area, incorporating the shared-use spaces; classrooms of different sizes arranged over two floors; and an audition hall, to be constructed at a later stage. The entrance is located at one of the former doors of the hall, directly opposite the large entrance space to the industrial complex, where —once urbanised— musical activities may take place outside the classrooms. In addition to the administrative spaces specific to the facility, the internal access area contains the staircase and lift, as well as a lobby that will in future lead to the audition hall. On the ground floor, the smaller classrooms are arranged along a corridor adjacent to the main façade; on the upper floor, the larger classrooms and spaces are located on either side of a central corridor. To ensure adequate natural lighting and ventilation in all spaces, the original windows of the hall have been reused and several full-height courtyards have been created. These also help to soften the impact of the intervention and to visually reveal the original internal section and volume, leaving the timber trusses exposed.
Source: Zabalbeascoa, A., & Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona. L’espai públic de la Barcelona metropolitana : intervencions i converses 2018-2022. Barcelona : Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB), 2023.
The factory is organised on both sides of a central service area, with two symmetrical buildings that are each subdivided into three bodies. These are covered by a gable roof, resulting in a zig-zag roof line. The factory is covered by vaults that are supported on foundation pillars and have central skylights. An air chamber separates the vaults from the roofs. This lighting system with skylights explains the migration of windows throughout the building. On the central body there is a small tower arranged as a dwelling.
The style is modernist due to the period and the structural forms, but the decorative motifs and especially the shapes of the windows have a lot of historicism (neomedieval and neomudéjar).
The textile sector was, as in the rest of the districts of Barcelona, the first to start the industrialisation of the towns. A few years after the start of the operation of the Infanta Canal, there are news of the first Indian factory (1851) which has now disappeared, the Bagueria Factory, built in 1920, already in full industrial effervescence, dedicated to its original activity.
One of the bodies is now the headquarters of the Guàrdia Urbana.
Restoration and Adaptation of Can Bagaria for the New Municipal School of Music and Auditorium
The former warehouse of the Can Bagaria textile industrial complex, an example of 20th century Catalan Art Nouveau architectural heritage, has been rehabilitated and adapted to house a municipal school of music. The project is based on a hall more than one hundred metres in length, with a double-pitched roof of Arab tiles supported on timber trusses, and a main façade of exposed brickwork with a highly regular rhythm of openings.
Internally, in order to break this pronounced linearity, the various spaces required by the music school are grouped together: the access area, incorporating the shared-use spaces; classrooms of different sizes arranged over two floors; and an audition hall, to be constructed at a later stage. The entrance is located at one of the former doors of the hall, directly opposite the large entrance space to the industrial complex, where —once urbanised— musical activities may take place outside the classrooms.
In addition to the administrative spaces specific to the facility, the internal access area contains the staircase and lift, as well as a lobby that will in future lead to the audition hall. On the ground floor, the smaller classrooms are arranged along a corridor adjacent to the main façade; on the upper floor, the larger classrooms and spaces are located on either side of a central corridor.
To ensure adequate natural lighting and ventilation in all spaces, the original windows of the hall have been reused and several full-height courtyards have been created. These also help to soften the impact of the intervention and to visually reveal the original internal section and volume, leaving the timber trusses exposed.
Premis Bonaplata
Award-Winner / Winner (ex aequo). Category: Béns Immobles
Restoration and Adaptation of Can Bagaria for the New Municipal School of Music and Auditorium
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