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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
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 OrnaqueExternal Collaborators:
2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel 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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Esbós de l'alçat de la façana de la Torre Gibert.
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- Author:
- Josep Maria Jujol Gibert
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- Date:
- 1913 - 1916
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- Type:
- Drawing
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- Fonds / Held by:
- Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Esbós de la reixa d'accés de la Torre Gibert.
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- Author:
- Josep Maria Jujol Gibert
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- Date:
- 1914
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- Type:
- Drawing
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- Technique:
- Llapis
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- Support:
- Paper de dibuix
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- Fonds / Held by:
- Arxiu Històric del COAC
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The project responds to the commission of two attached houses by the architect’s aunt. Jujol creates an organism made up of five cylindrical bodies. The three largest bodies are crowned at the same level, while the two smaller bodies protrude to unequal heights and contain the stairs of the two houses. Two more cylinders protrude from the roof, which contain the stairs leading to the attics and viewpoints. Each cylinder is covered by a dome covered with pieces of glass, coming from the Cornellà glass factory, located a short distance away. On the main façade, another small cylinder acts as a porch and opens through two parabolic arches. Jujol creates a unitary body that only needs to be divided with a straight divider to form the two homes. The iron elements point out some unique points: the start of the staircase, the dining room stands or the rooftop viewpoints.
The Torre Gibert, Dels Ous or De La Creu, together with the Vistabella church and other small commissions, is one of the few new buildings that Jujol built. The commission came from Josefa Romeu, Gibert's widow and the architect's aunt.
It is composed of five cylindrical bodies linked together, three larger ones of the same height and two smaller ones that incorporate the stairs that go up to the attics and viewpoints. It was two houses separated longitudinally, both maintaining an exact symmetry. On the main façade, another cylinder acts as an access porch and opens through two parabolic arches.
The building is crowned with domes at different heights. These are atypically finished with glass mosaics that came from the waste of a glass factory in Cornellà, very close to the building.
Jujol clearly approaches a much more organic or animal expression, using sinuous geometries, a fact that is evident in the work of the forge. It is worth highlighting the uniqueness with which different elements are worked such as the start of the staircase, the stands in the dining room, the railings, or the garden fence.
The house has undergone multiple modifications. Initially designed as two separate homes, it was joined into one in 1966. It has also been used as a psychiatric centre. It currently houses the headquarters of the association of architects of Catalonia in the lower Llobregat area.
The name Torre de la Creu originates from the forged cross that crowns the highest dome.
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Gibert House
The project responds to the commission of two attached houses by the architect’s aunt. Jujol creates an organism made up of five cylindrical bodies. The three largest bodies are crowned at the same level, while the two smaller bodies protrude to unequal heights and contain the stairs of the two houses. Two more cylinders protrude from the roof, which contain the stairs leading to the attics and viewpoints. Each cylinder is covered by a dome covered with pieces of glass, coming from the Cornellà glass factory, located a short distance away. On the main façade, another small cylinder acts as a porch and opens through two parabolic arches. Jujol creates a unitary body that only needs to be divided with a straight divider to form the two homes. The iron elements point out some unique points: the start of the staircase, the dining room stands or the rooftop viewpoints.
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Drawing
Esbós de l'alçat de la façana de la Torre Gibert.
Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Drawing
Esbós de la reixa d'accés de la Torre Gibert.
Arxiu Històric del COAC