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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

2019-2025 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental Commission:

2019-2025 Ramon Faura Carolina B. Garcia Eduard Callís Francesc Rafat Pau Albert Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Mercè Bosch Jaume Farreny Anton Pàmies Juan Manuel Zaguirre Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2025 Helena Cepeda Inès 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

 

Fomento

 

AMB

 

EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona

 

IEFC

 

Fundació Domènench Montaner.

Design & Development:

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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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  • Cal Flo

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    Cal Flo

    Casa entre mitgeres de planta baixa i pis. És interessant sobretot pels acabaments de façana i emmarcament d'obertures que denoten un estil modernista per la forma ondulada que sobresurt en relleu a manera de fris. La planta primera és l'original i la planta baixa respon a una reforma del 1978 que ha mantingut l'estil. Destaca sobretot la barana del terrat que alterna ferro forjat molt dibuixat i obra. També la barana del balcó de ferro forjat. On actualment hi ha la botiga hi havia hagut un taller de serralleria del propietari de la casa que fou qui va realitzar els elements de ferro de la façana. La reixa de la porta és del 1978.

    1902

  • Cal Sanahuja

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    Cal Sanahuja

    House between partitions with a ground floor and two landings. It stands out for its ornamentation, which runs along the entire façade and is carefully designed. At the ends of the façade, false pilasters run along the three storeys. All the window sills and balconies are decorated in relief with floral motifs. On the first floor, the railing of the gallery and the relief in the form of a canopy that frames the three openings of the gallery stand out. On the first floor there is a continuous balcony with an iron railing. Also noteworthy are the roof railing, the façade coping and the cornice brackets. The sgraffito stands out on the smooth walls, and it does not differ in colour from the rest of the façade.

    1903

  • Robira House

    Josep Ros i Ros

    Robira House

    House surrounded by an enclosed garden with iron railings and brick pillars. The house is structured in three bodies: a central one with a ground floor and two side ones with a ground floor. The main façade of the central body has Catalan Art Nouveau features. The openings, three on each floor, are decorated with ceramic tiles on the lintels. The façade is wavy at the top, with a sundial at the highest point in the centre. The roof terraces on the side sections with terracotta railings are particularly noteworthy. In the interior, the dining room (see details) and the cellar with a tiled vault, the paintings on the ceilings and other decorative elements are particularly noteworthy. Set of dining room furniture: Desk with coloured marble counter, bevelled moon mirrors, drawers and shelves and a tall one-door cupboard body with shelves inside housing a clock. Square table measuring 1.4 x 1.4 m, extendable to 1.4 x 3.14 m and twelve chairs with very high backs and cane fabric. Everything is made of varnished melis wood. There is also a metal lamp with embossed elements and a central lamp complete with a hemispherical shade of decorated glass and three lamp-shaped arms. They cost 898 ptas. (the original invoice is preserved). Works: 1902-1905 1902: the cellar, the wine presses, the press room, the room for the tools and the stables were built. The building contractor was Joan Canals. 1904: work began on the rest of the building, the fence and the garden. 1905: work completed in May. Total cost of the two phases: 35,000 pts. Owner-promoter: Pedro Rovira Casanovas

    1902 - 1905

  • Casa Dionisio Tarafa

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    Casa Dionisio Tarafa

    Casa entre mitgeres de planta i dos pisos. És interessant pels elements modernistes que incorpora a la façana: ornamentació de les llindes de les obertures de tema floral, essent els del segon pis molt treballats. També la tribuna del primer pis, de vidriera i columnes de pedra artificial. En l'acabament de façana hi ha l'any de construcció inscrit en un rombe ornamentat. Destaca també la barana del terrat d'elements de ferro i obra alternats, i amb un fris ondulat. Els murs de la primera i segona planta són d'arrebossat imitant carreus.

    1905

  • 1910

  • Casa Casanoves Nadal

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    Casa Casanoves Nadal

    Casa entre mitgeres, formada per semisoterrani, entresòl, pis i golfes. És interessant pel treball ornamental d'estil modernista a la façana. Les obertures de l'entresòl i el primer pis són decorades amb tema floral de parament llis que combina amb l'encoixinat dels murs. I, al porxo, una finestra que segueix l'eix de l'acabament de façana molt treballat a manera de greca. Sòcol de pedra a la planta baixa. Són notables també les baranes de ferro i la porta de fusta de l'entrada.

    1912

  • Tello House

    Jaume Bach i Núñez

    Tello House

    Weekend house in the cellar of a bourgeois house in a rural setting, dating from the early 20th century. It is a functionally annexed building, integrated into the overall composition of the house: a central body and two side wings. The space to be renovated runs along one of the sides, which used to contain a small apartment for farm workers and the vats and storage rooms for making the estate's oil and wine. The proposal retains the vats in the central area, raised above the ground, and both loading and unloading windows, leaving two double-height spaces at each end, coinciding with the generous doors opening to the outside. Each of the component parts has direct access to the garden, with the bedrooms opening through the old windows. For this reason, external wooden stairs are attached to the façade, evoking elements of the rural world such as handmade fruit boxes or rabbit cages. The introduction of new uses has led to the differentiation of the new openings, which are square and have a specific design that takes advantage of the thickness of the walls. They are made of glass on the outside and shutters on the inside, so that the thickness of the walls is evident and all possible positions for ventilation and lighting are possible. The interior is treated as a single container, articulated at the central point with the bedroom furniture and bathroom, and containing double-height spaces at the end that avoid unidirectionality and constitute two poles of activity that balance the extremes, a recurring problem in linear layouts.

    1974

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