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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental 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 Ornaque

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel Maria Jesús Quintero

With the support of:

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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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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  • Sant Martí Sarroca Cemetry

    Modest Fossas i Pi

    The municipal cemetery of Sant Martí Sarroca is located near the city centre, on a level at the foot of La Roca. It is rectangular in plan, enclosed by walls with attached niches. In the centre there is a walk flanked by cypress trees that leads to the chapel. At the ends there are towers. The sculptural elements of the interior should be noted. The complex shows the characteristics of the neoclassical style. The cemetery was built according to the project carried out by the architect Modest Fossas in 1868. The documentation relating to the work is preserved in the Municipal Archive of Sant Martí Sarroca.

    1868

  • Sant Martí Cultural Centre

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    Sant Martí Cultural Centre

    The Sant Martí Cultural Centre is located in the old town of Sant Martí Sarroca. It is a rectangular building, with a gable roof. The floor plan is symmetrical, enclosed by a bar-café with lateral access. The façade has an almost symmetrical composition. Inside, there is a dance floor, stage and boxes. The set responds to the noucentista aesthetic.

    1924

  • Bleda Schools

    Pau Guasch

    Isolated building formed by a central body, longer in the back, and two lateral wings which correspond to the teachers' floors and the classrooms, respectively. The façade has a symmetrical composition with a stepped central crowning, with balls and garlands, and twin doors and windows with a lintel or pointed arch. It is covered by a gabled roof. According to an oral testimony, the building was built between 1924 and 1926 by Pau Guasch.

    1924 - 1926

  • Apartment at 21 Salvador Raventós Street

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    House composed of a ground floor and a roof, with a rear and side garden, a front façade of symmetrical composition with a central portal and windows on both sides. Openings with lintel and decoration of blue and ornamental glazed ceramics in the frames which form small steps; motifs that are repeated in the roof rail (made of masonry), as well as horizontal lines and quadrangular plates.

    first half of the 20th century

  • Cal Balada

    Josep Arbós

    Cal Balada is a large building located at the foot of the road from Vilafranca to Sant Martí, at one end of the town. It has a square plan and consists of a ground floor, two floors and an attic with a turret. The façades have a symmetrical composition, with openings decreasing in height. As a whole, the building responds to an eclectic aesthetic. The Cal Balada building was built by master builder Josep Arbós at the beginning of the 20th century, according to oral sources.

  • Sant Martí Sarroca City Council

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    Set consisting of a central chapel and two side classrooms, with a ground floor and first floor. The façade has a symmetrical composition with a side porch, arcades of semi-circular arches, balconies with balustrades, eaves and a wavy central crowning. The set responds to the noucentista aesthetic.

  • Rovira Roja Schools

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    Building with a T-shaped floor plan and a single landing, with a gable roof. The longest part corresponds to the classroom, which has the teacher's house attached. In the entrance porch and windows there are columns of cylindrical shaft, and the crowning of the building has a decoration consisting of balls and mouldings. The building responds to the noucentista aesthetic.

    20th century

  • Cal Sisplau

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    Detached house with a quadrangular plan composed of ground floor, main floor, roof and terrace. Façades of symmetrical composition with openings with lintels decorated with blue ceramics and drip edge flashings decorated with circles, ovals and spirals. Interesting grids. Crowning with baluster rail, frieze, palmettes and quadrangular elements, with upper curved moulding that centres the façade. Garden and bastion.

  • Escoles dels Hostalets

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    Building made up of two buildings that form a T, intended for the teacher's residence and a classroom. It has gable roofs and the façades have stepped crowns and mouldings with decorated balls and garlands. It presents openings with lintels, frames with relief and some interior columns.

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