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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

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  • Llissach House

    Josep Puig i Cadafalch

    The Llissach house is part of a complex that is currently located in the town centre. The house is surrounded by a large garden area within an enclosed perimeter. It preserves part of the original iron fence as well as the entrance gate to the property, with an architectural structure consisting of a wide central iron gate and two side gates framed with pilasters and a cornice topped with pyramidal structures. Part of the gardens surrounding the tower are preserved within the estate, with a pergola, a water pond and a small house which is probably for gardener's tools. There are also some buildings at the eastern end that were stables for animals, a tower with a water tank on top and the house. The house is a ground-floor, two-storey building with a hip roof covered with Arabic tiles. The ground-floor porch on the north façade is notable for its series of semicircular arches with red-painted voussoirs that form an open gallery. This composition is repeated on the first floor, although the gallery is closed and the windows are lintelled, with lateral columns with Corinthian capitals painted red. This red decoration around the windows and horizontal dividing elements is repeated throughout. On the east façade, on the ground floor, there is a structure located in the central part of the façade, with a terrace which is accessible from the first floor. This house is an example of the first summer holiday houses built in the municipality of Santpedor at the end of the 19th century. On the eastern side of the estate, bordering the street, there is a group of buildings that had been used as livestock boxes. It is a single-storey building, with a two-storey central element, a gable roof and a series of doors that open into the interior of the estate, with an enclosed outdoor corral in front of some of them. There is red brick decoration on the roof barbican, as well as unique decoration on the façade between the gates. This building also has this decorative mix between the light-coloured rendering of the façade, occasional red brick elements and the grey stone masonry plinth. Next to the building is an old tower that supports a water tank on the upper level. It is a circular tower with a crown in the form of triangular battlements enclosed by an iron railing and supported by brick pilasters. Below the crowning is an interior space with open windows between the pilasters. Access to this space is via an external spiral staircase that follows the tower. The decoration maintains the characteristics of the whole, with elements of red brick. There is also a small house that was used for playing dolls, located in the garden, which follows the same architectural structure as the rest of the complex. This house was built by the Llissach family at the end of the 19th century, as a summer estate in Santpedor. In 1907, land was bought to extend the estate and it is possible that the water tower, designed by Puig i Cadafalch, was built at that time. This intervention is the result of the friendly relationship between the architect and Serafina Jover de Llissach, as can be seen in a series of letters preserved in the National Archive. In 1917 the house was renovated, also bearing the architect's signature. In 1934 the house and the estate were acquired by the Manresa merchant Joan Jorba Rius. The last owner of the house created a board of trustees that began the process of building the new school for girls on the grounds of the former Armangué factory. Classes began in this new building in 1968, and it was intended only for girls. From 1973 onwards, joint classes were held in the new Llissach school, which still bears this name.

    1907 - 1917

  • Celler del Sindicat Agrícola de Santpedor

    autoria desconeguda

    El celler era format per una nau amb coberta d'encavallades de fusta i planxes de fibrociment, destinada a contenir les tines, amb una sala contígua a la part posterior, destinada a moll d'entrada de raïm i la maquinària. Els dos espais estaven comunicats per uns arcs apuntats fets de rajola. Als laterals s'obrien finestres amb arc apuntat de maó. A la façana s'obria una porta rectangular molt senzilla, damunt la qual hi havia una finestra tripartida, també senzilla. Les tines s'arrengleraven en dues files deixant un passadís intermedi, que el 1931 es va aprofitar per posat cups subterranis; també s'hi van afegir dues naus laterals, que li van donar l'aspecte basilical que té. Tot i que el Sindicat Agrícola de Santpedor es va constituir el 1904, no va ser fins molt més endavant que es va construir un celler. El 1915, es va fundar la Caixa Rural, la qual, amb els estalvis dels socis, va ser el motor de la construcció d'un celler. Van col·laborar a aquesta empenta mossèn Josep Soler, ànima del Sindicat, i Josep Oms, president de la cambra Agrària del Pla de Bages. per a la construcció del celler es va comptar amb l'assessorament de la Direcció General d'Agricultura de la Mancomunitat. Entre 1921 i 1922 es van comprar dos terrenys, en els quals es va construir el celler i un molí fariner (Santpedor era anomenat el graner del Bages. En la construcció del celler hi van contribuir els socis amb el seu capital o amb el seu treball (portant pedra o fent de manobres). El Celler, que fou el primer del Bages, es va inaugura el 1923. Actualment, el celler és tancat.

    first half of the 20th century

  • Auditorium in the Convent of Sant Francesc

    David Closes i Núñez

    Auditorium in the Convent of Sant Francesc

    El convent de Sant Francesc, situat a la vila de Santpedor, va ser construït a principis del segle XVIII. El 1835, data en què el convent fou saquejat, s’inicià el procés de deteriorament progressiu de l’edifici que culminà amb l’enderroc del complex l’any 2000. Només restà dempeus l’església, en un estat completament ruïnós, però. El projecte tenia per objectiu convertir l’església en un auditori i en un equipament cultural. L’actuació ha consolidat l’església sense esborrar el procés de deteriorament i d’esfondrament que havia patit l’edifici. El projecte ha permès mantenir els valors espacials interiors de l’església, amb les insòlites entrades de llum produïdes pels esfondraments parcials patits per les cobertes, tot diferenciant clarament la construcció originària dels nous elements executats. El resultat final permet llegir les ferides històriques i els valors espacials més importants de l’edifici sense renunciar a l’ús d’un llenguatge contemporani en els nous elements plantejats en la intervenció. Els nous volums necessaris per al funcionament de l’equipament (sales d’instal.lacions o accessos verticals) s’han situat a cavall de l’interior i l’exterior de l’edifici amb l’objectiu de preservar l’espai unitari de la nau de l’església. Els nous accessos s’han plantejat de manera que permeten realitzar un recorregut circular complet per l’edifici tot generant vistes singulars i diverses. La intervenció ha pretès preservar el llegat històric de l’edifici tot afegint-hi nous valors que realcen i singularitzen de forma contemporània l’església de l’antic convent de Sant Francesc. És previst que, en el futur, una darrera fase completi l’actuació ubicant l’arxiu històric del municipi a les plantes altes del costat sud de l’església.

    2006 - 2011

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