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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Architects' Association of Catalonia:
Àrea de CulturaDirectors:
2019-2022 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2022 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:
2019-2022 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús QuinteroWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació Mies van der Rohe
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico
Design & Development:
Nubilum EdittioSuggestion box
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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.
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Perspectiva de la Seu del Banc Vitalici d'Espanya a Barcelona.
- Author:
- Lluís Bonet i Garí
- Date:
- 1949
- Type:
- Drawing
- Dimensions:
- 56,5 x 39,5cm
- Technique:
- Llapis
- Support:
- Paper vegetal
- Held by:
- Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Axonometria en Color del Vestíbul d'Accés a la Seu del Banc Vitalici d'Espanya a Barcelona.
- Author:
- Lluís Bonet i Garí
- Type:
- Drawing
- Held by:
- Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Axonometria del Vestíbul d'Accés a la Seu del Banc Vitalici d'Espanya a Barcelona.
- Author:
- Lluís Bonet i Garí
- Type:
- Drawing
- Held by:
- Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Perspectiva de la Galeria Condal, als baixos de la Seu del Banc Vitalici d'Espanya a Barcelona.
- Author:
- Lluís Bonet i Garí
- Type:
- Drawing
- Held by:
- Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
Memory
Es tracta d'un edifici de 21 plantes, format per quatre grans cossos independents. El cos principal es troba ubicat al xamfrà i es tracta d'una torre que dóna l'accés principal a l'edifici.
L'estructura de l'edifici està feta de formigó armat, la qual cosa fa una sensació d'uniformitat. La façana està decorada amb granit de Galícia i pedra de Montjuïc. En alçat, té una clara influència de l'Escola de Chicago: les obertures es distribueixen simètricament per tota la façana i té un basament al llarg de tota la planta baixa, concentrant l'única decoració a l'accés principal. Per donar més solemnitat, es van col·locar unes columnes d'ordre clàssic i es van afegir dos grups escultòrics i estàtues com a ornamentació.
Pel que fa a planta baixa, hi ha un passatge amb accés des del Passeig de Gràcia o des de la Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes i connecta amb la sala d'espectacles, a més de donar accés als altres tres cossos. En l'angle superior d'aquest passatge es troba un pati interior obert, que proveeix aquest espai interior de llum natural.
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Perspectiva de la Seu del Banc Vitalici d'Espanya a Barcelona.
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Axonometria en Color del Vestíbul d'Accés a la Seu del Banc Vitalici d'Espanya a Barcelona.
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Axonometria del Vestíbul d'Accés a la Seu del Banc Vitalici d'Espanya a Barcelona.
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Perspectiva de la Galeria Condal, als baixos de la Seu del Banc Vitalici d'Espanya a Barcelona.