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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

2019-2026 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental Commission:

2019-2026 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 Gemma Ferré Inés de Rivera Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2026 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Marianela Pla Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2026 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.

 

ETSAB

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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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  • Habitatge Plurifamiliar Rambla 48

    MBM Arquitectes, Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola, David Mackay, Josep Maria Martorell i Codina

    Habitatge Plurifamiliar Rambla 48

    1971 - 1975

  • Centres Industrials GEC Alstom

    CMT Arquitectes, Master Ingeniería y Arquitectura

    1994

  • Valeo Industrial Unit

    RGA Arquitectes

    Valeo Industrial Unit

    The Valeo Industrial Unit is located in the Can Vinyals Industrial Estate, in Santa Perpètua de Mogoda (Barcelona), with a ground-floor area of 6,000 m² (100 × 60), without any interior columns, creating a large open space. The first 25 metres, measured from the east side, are occupied by offices, while the remaining 75 metres accommodate the factory for automotive electronic components. On a semi-basement level, aligned with the upper offices, the laboratories and some technical facilities are located. The structure of the main warehouse consists of seven trusses, raised 6 metres above the floor, with an almost equilateral triangular section measuring approximately 5.20 m in height and 5.60 m in width, and spaced 12.00 m apart, resulting in a total warehouse length of nearly 100 m. These trusses, within which most of the building’s service networks are located, are supported solely by vertical elements positioned on the planes of the front and rear façades. The horizontal exterior roof plane is completed with appropriately placed purlins aligned with the base level of the trusses. The formal simplicity of the triangle, as well as its ability to translate external forces into sets of bars under tension or compression, provides a vivid example of the synthesis —or decomposition— of these forces into simpler, individual vectors, which are therefore more “domestic” and easily constructible.

    1997 - 1998

  • Els Pins Pre-School Centre

    Santiago Vives i Sanfeliu

    Els Pins Pre-School Centre

    The school is organised as a network of classrooms and courtyards along a central corridor. The classrooms are grouped in pairs, sharing a group of bathrooms. This core has independent access and visual control from each of the classrooms. Each group has a private playground, which has the function of extending teaching activities outdoors. Close to the main entrance, we locate the multi-purpose room, functionally linked to the hall. The teachers' room has a centre of bathrooms adapted to people with reduced mobility, as well as the kitchen and warehouses. The connection to the existing Nursery School building is made through a porch extending the interior corridor. This connection has made it necessary to open a new door in the rear façade of the current centre and to rearrange the interior of a small room. The entire new building has been built with a system of load-bearing walls, of large-format ceramic pieces (2.00 m x 0.60 m x 0.20 m), supported on continuous concrete shoes on foundation wells. The truss and the crowning of the pieces is done using metal bands made of concrete blocks to be seen. On these walls there is a structure in wooden beams 28 cm wide that are left visible.

    2003 - 2005

  • Rovira i Forns Secondary School

    Llongueras Clotet Arquitectes, Maria Rosa Clotet, Joan Llongueras Mestres

    Rovira i Forns Secondary School

    2005

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