About
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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 of the COAC Digital Archive
About us
Architects' Association of Catalonia:
Àrea de CulturaDirectors:
2019-2020 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2020 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:
2019-2020 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús QuinteroCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació Mies van der Rohe
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico
Design & Development:
Nubilum Edittio
Memory
Parc de la Vall d'Hebron
En essència i en termes generals, s'ha permès experimentar un projecte sobre l'espai obert, més que no pas sobre l'espai lliure.
L'espai disponible de la ciutat actual és l'espai tensionat per excel•lència. Mai no és lliure. En termes de forma perquè es tracta d'un buit urbà, un buit enmig de coses irresoltes que han impossibilitat l'ocupació. En termes d'ús perquè a la ciutat ja no existeix l'espai lliure per a la contemplació. S'hi actua sempre: es corre, es patina o es balla. Mai no es mira, es passa.
El nou espai concebut és una estructura de lleis tancades i de formes obertes. No pretén ser una obra acabada. La ciutat, ara, no és mai una composició.
Està influït, si es vol, de l'art Pop. Però de manera més decantada que els objectes d'Oldenburg que conté: ho està pel que fa a la manipulació d'escales i l'ús del signe.
S'aproxima a una lectura de la ciutat que passa per Poe, Baudelaire, Benjamin o l'expressionisme alemany, pel fet de sentir i crear la ciutat com a cosa terrible; cercant la seva bellesa terrible.
