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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

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2019-2024 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

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2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

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2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel

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Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

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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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  • 1858 - 1859

  • 1876 - 1877

  • Casa Puig i Font

    Ignasi Oms i Ponsa

    Edifici de planta baixa i tres pisos. Façana simètrica amb un cos central més destacat mitjançant una tribuna al primer pis i un remat amb capcer escalonat. A banda i banda, dos balcons per pis, amb baranes de ferro corregudes al primer i al tercer pis, i individuals al segon. Cornisa superior amb arcuacions i barana de llenguatge neogòtic. L'interior està molt modificat, per la instal·lació del Cafè i el Restaurant.

    1897 - 1900

  • Banca Catalana de Manresa

    autoria desconeguda

    Edifici d'ampla façana. Antigament eren dos edificis iguals però tractats unitàriament. Estructura de planta baixa i dos pisos, de composició unitària i simètrica, amb dues torratxes de planta quadrada que sobresurten del terrat, rematades amb llanternes i cúpula d'escames ceràmiques. La façana principal és simètrica amb un esquema horitzontal accentuat amb el fris de finestres del pis superior que contrasta amb la verticalitat de les obertures amb planta baixa i pis. Remat superior amb barana calada d'obra i cornisa. Totxo arrebossat i elements de pedra.

    1900

  • 1899 - 1902

  • Antiga Seu del Banco de España a Girona

    Josep Martí i Burch, Martí Sureda i Vila

    Antiga Seu del Banco de España a Girona

    La seu (fins al 1990) d’aquest banc es va alçar a la perifèria d’una ciutat encara murallada, però amb un dinamisme terciari que ha perviscut fins ara. En procés d’obra el 2008, la transformació desestima els espais interiors i salva una façana d’un eclecticisme vibrant, en la qual el neogòtic delinea unes esveltes pautes verticals encastellades en què va encaixant els seus propis estilemes, alternats amb els d’un neoclàssic reduït al paper de simple comparsa lingüístic.

    1901 - 1902

  • 1902 - 1905

  • La Caixa de Barcelona Branch Office

    August Font Carreras

    La Caixa de Barcelona Branch Office

    In 1906, August Font i Carreras was commissioned to design the Gracia branch of the Caixa d’Estalvis i Mont de Pietat de Barcelona. August Font himself had already designed the Caixa de Barcelona building in Plaça Sant Jaume and a branch office in Carrer de Sant Pau. The building is located on the block bounded by Carrer Jesús, Carrer Sant Pere Màrtir, Carrer de Gràcia and Gran de Gràcia, where the façade opens onto the street. The building is inscribed in a regular polygonal plot and is developed on three levels of elevation: ground floor and two floors, topped by a rooftop. Today, only the façade remains of the original architectural project, which consists of a three-storey rectangular façade and a five-storey tower attached to the far left-hand side of the building. Built entirely of stone, it is notable for the presence of elements from the Catalan medieval building tradition, such as the mullioned windows on the first floor and the rooftop on the top floor. Even so, these elements are not faithful to the traditional forms, but were reinterpreted by the architect, giving the complex a Gothic appearance. The tower, which has a hip roof, has a door on the ground floor leading to the staircase. It is a door with a mixtilinear lintel and sculpted mullions, with two female figures accompanied by vegetal elements on the imposts. Crowned by the coat of arms of Barcelona, the ground floor is separated from the next floor by a moulded impost, where there is a niche in the form of a window with an image of the Virgin Mary. The first floor opens onto the street through a window with a mixtilinear lintel and, finally, the clock face above it. The tower is closed with a large cornice on corbels on which the top floor of the building is built – a series of windows between columns form a continuous gallery that surrounds the tower on all four sides. On the ground floor there is the entrance to the current offices of La Caixa, with a central doorway flanked by two pairs of windows with large arches on columns resting on a high plinth. This ground floor is separated from the first floor by a sculpted cornice on which we can read: ‘Caja de Ahorros y Montepío de Barcelona. Sucursal de Gracia' (Barcelona Savings Bank and Montepío de Barcelona. Gracia Branch Office). On the first floor there are three crown windows inspired by the Middle Ages, but reinterpreted both in the shape of the lintel and the plant decoration. Finally, on the second and last floor, there is a gallery that recovers the medieval and Renaissance style with mixtilinear arches on columns. Above this level we can find the eaves and the roof railing. The latter, with moulded elements in the form of battlements, is decorated with ceramic and iron elements.

    1906

  • 1909

  • Elias Valero House

    Marcel·lí Coquillat i Llofriu, Santiago Güell i Grau

    Elias Valero House

    House that takes up an entire end of the block, with three sides facing the street and the fourth acting as a party wall. It has a ground floor and two landings. A ground-floor stands at the corner of the boulevard with Plaça de Llorens i Barba, a three-storey tower with a pavilion roof, which forms part of the image of the boulevard. The side gallery with roof is interesting. The asymmetrical composition of the façades combines elements of various styles: "revival" windows, modernist mouldings, noucentist balustrades, etc., that insert the work into the eclectic current of the beginning of the century. The Elias Valero House project is shared by the architects Santiago Güell and M. Coquisllat. The work plans were presented on July 19, 1910. Since 1985 it has been the seat of the Berger Balaguer Forum.

    1910

  • Banc Hispano Colonial

    Enric Sagnier i Villavecchia

    Banc Hispano Colonial

    The reform of the old city, which began with the opening of the Via Laietana, was a laborious urban planning operation for which Barcelona City Council did not have an adequate budget. It was therefore delegated to private enterprise: Banco Hispano Colonial provided the financing and Fomento de Obras y Construcciones was in charge of the executive part. Sagnier, as representative of the builders, and the municipal architect Pere Falqués, on behalf of the city, took an active part in the process, which required painstaking measurements, supervision of the rubble, delimitation of the new alignments and distribution of the resulting new plots for the future buildings. One of these plots is the site of the headquarters of the bank that promoted the development. This was the first building erected on the new street and Sagnier explored the typology of the office building, which was to set the tone for financial specialisation in the street as a whole where, at the other end of the street, a few years later the architect was to build the Casal de l’Estalvi and the Casal de la Previsió for the Caixa de Pensions (Pension Fund). In some aspects, the Banco Hispano Colonial building reveals the influence of contemporary Viennese architecture while at the same time demonstrating the possibilities offered by modern construction systems, which free the walls from having to support loads and allow large windows to be opened in the façades.

    1911 - 1913

  • Sabadell Savings Bank

    Jeroni Martorell Terrats

    Sabadell Savings Bank

    In 1902, due to the growth that the Caixa de Sabadell was facing, it was decided to acquire a plot of land between the partitions in the centre of Sabadell to locate the entity's headquarters. It is known as the “Palau de l'Estalvi”, and has become a key piece in the modernist art scene. The neo-Gothic building with a modernist interior was designed to house the cash office, the library and an assembly hall. It consists of three levels: basement, ground floor and first floor. The ground floor was originally occupied by the library, but it currently houses the offices for attention and service to the public, as well as the management and government offices of the institution. On this same floor there is a large porticoed hall. On the ground floor there is the Modernist Hall and the Council Room. Inside the building, the use of carved stone with medieval and plant motifs stands out. The capitals of the columns stand out, sculpted with roses and sunflowers. A monument dedicated to the founder Pere Turull should be highlighted. In the main hall there are several polychrome stained-glass windows with representations alluding to Industry, Agriculture, Commerce, the State and the Clergy. The patio skylight is also decorated with stained glass. The façade is made of stone, with two sculptures representing Virtue and Work. It is structured in three bodies: the central one is higher and has the plane of the façade shifted, standing out over the lateral ones, with less decoration and a pronounced horizontality and sobriety. Stained-glass windows and sgraffitos with floral and symbolic motifs are abundant. To build the building, the managers of La Caixa called a tender between Catalan architects or residents of Catalonia. Five projects were submitted, but according to the jury, none of them met the expected conditions and one of them decided to entrust the project to one of the submitted projects, which was carried out by Jeroni Martorell. The works began in 1906 and two years later, with the finished structure, interior decoration work began. In 1910, the works were partially stopped due to the parallel construction of the Industrial School of Arts and Crafts, the current headquarters of the Obra Social Caixa Sabadell. Since 1916, most of Caixa de Sabadell's services have been carried out in the new building. Between 1968-1970, a refurbishment was carried out by the architect G. Bracons, modifying the ground floor and replacing the rear façade of tiles and stucco with a concrete one.

    1905 - 1915

  • Caixa de Pensions per a la Vellesa i d'Estalvis

    Enric Sagnier i Villavecchia

    Caixa de Pensions per a la Vellesa i d'Estalvis

    The opening of the Via Laietana, a street running through the old quarter of Barcelona, led to the demolition of old buildings and their replacement by new buildings such as this one for the headquarters of the Caixa de Pensions. Many of the buildings along the new road housed financial institutions and, little by little, the area specialised in the type of office building that was then a novelty. In 1911, Sagnier himself had already built the offices of the Banco Hispano Colonial at the other end of the street, one of the financiers of the urban development operation known as the ‘Reform’. The Casal de l’Estalvi (with the adjoining building called Casal de la Previsió, built five years later) closes the perspective of the new street and benefits from its picturesque Gothic appearance and the solidity of the Garraf stone. Over the years, the branches of la Caixa in various towns in Catalonia, also designed by Sagnier, took up some of the elements of this first building, such as the rough-hewn stone walls, thus unifying the corporate image of the institution in a very modern way. Another outstanding aspect of the building was its construction with a concrete structure, a material hitherto practically reserved for industrial buildings. However, the material was not evident either on the outside or in the interior, which was lavishly decorated. Of the five buildings and two shops by Sagnier that won prizes in the Barcelona City Council architectural competitions, only the Casal de l’Estalvi (together with Ignasi Coll's house on Avinguda del Tibidabo) has survived to the present day. The plaque that was affixed to the façade in such cases is still visible; the prize was also an extraordinary prize. It was the third time that Sagnier had received the award and this earned him the gold medal instituted by the City Council. Over the years, Sagnier maintained a close relationship with the savings bank founded by Francesc Moragas and Lluís Ferrer-Vidal, for which he still carried out other buildings, especially for the welfare services of its social work.

    1917

  • 1919

  • 1918 - 1920

  • Casal de la Previsió

    Enric Sagnier i Villavecchia

    Casal de la Previsió

    At the entrance to Carrer Jonqueres, Carrer Ortigosa and Carrer Ramon Mas, we find the annex building of La Caixa de Pensions per a la Vellesa i d'Estalvis (Old Age Pensions and Savings Bank). Both buildings, designed by Enric Sagnier, located opposite each other, share many formal characteristics. The Casal de la Previsió, as it was originally called, is a partially isolated corner building, which touches the back of the Palau de la Música. It uses white Garraf stone for the main façade, combined with tiles on the secondary façades, as does the Casal de l’Estalvi. It also coincides with the latter in the neo-Gothic language of the finishes, although it responds to a much more modern typology close to the new conceptions of office buildings. The main façade combines rounded walls at the corners and the central body with flat, high bodies with battlements, with a medieval aesthetic. This façade has sculptural ornamentation attributed to Eusebi Arnau. At the back of the building, corresponding to the streets Ortigosa and Amadeu Vives, there is a doorway decorated with reliefs that gives access to the part of the building occupied by large dwellings.

    1920 - 1922

  • 1922

  • Caixa de Pensions a Igualada

    Enric Sagnier i Villavecchia

    Situat al límit nord del nucli antic, sobre l'antic cercle de muralles. En aquest edifici, Sagnier adopta ja els postulats de l'arquitectura noucentista, si bé encara és deutor del modernisme i de l'historicisme, en una actitud eclèctica. L'edifici de la Caixa ocupa una parcel·la gairebé triangular. De planta baixa i dos pisos, fa cantonada, solucionada amb un cos cilíndric en forma de torre, on hi ha el portal principal, en arc de mig punt adovellat, una balconada de balustres amb el balcó decorat amb garlanda en relleu, una teoria de cinc finestres en arc rodó, i un acabat amb barbacana p... Al 1909 s'inaugurà l'agència de la Caixa de Pensions a l'edifici nº9 de la Rambla General Vives. Al 1922 s'inaugura el nou edifici. Va ser la primera sucursal d'aquesta entitat d'estalvis després que el mateix arquitecte construís la seu central a Barcelona.
  • Caixa de Pensions per a la Vellesa i d'Estalvis

    Rafael Masó i Valentí

    Caixa de Pensions per a la Vellesa i d'Estalvis

    Al llarg de la seva carrera Masó projecta diverses oficines per a la Caixa de Pensions, fruit de la relació professional del seu germà Santiago amb aquesta entitat. La més interessant des d'un punt de vista arquitectònic és la de Sant Feliu de Guíxols. A la cantonada de la Rambla Vidal amb el carrer Major s'aixeca aquest edifici de planta baixa i pis, destinat a caixa d'estalvis en els baixos, i biblioteca a la planta pis. Les dues plantes estan clarament diferenciades en façana. La de baix, com a cos principal, destaca per la disposició de grans finestrals d'arcades protegides per reixes de ferro forjat. El pis presenta finestres rectangulars emmarcades per columnes de fust estriat.

    1923 - 1924

  • Arnús Bank Headquarters

    Enric Sagnier i Villavecchia

    Arnús Bank Headquarters

    This small construction is characteristic of an architectural typology, the single-family dwelling, which we are not always fortunate enough to be able to see: on roads of great centrality - such as Avinguda Diagonal near Passeig de Gràcia - the pressure of urban growth has condemned most of these buildings, which have gradually been replaced by blocks of flats or offices. The fact that this mansion is located at the junction of the Diagonal and a small street in the old part of Sant Gervasi may have ensured its preservation. As in many works of recent years, the architect, ensconced in the comfort of a French-rooted classicism, was somewhat unconcerned with decorative details in order to concentrate on resolving other aspects of the construction, such as the desire to find a comfortable interior layout and to optimise the use of the site.

    1925 - 1927

  • 1927 - 1929

  • 1929 - 1931

  • Sant Sadurní d'Anoia Pension Fund building

    autoria desconeguda

    The building takes up all the Carrer Francesc Moragas, but also has an entrance from Carrer Hospital and Carrer Sant Antoni. It has three bodies, each intended for different uses - the central hall and staircase, the one on the left is a museum and library, and the one on the right is offices and housing. The building is currently used as offices. The image of the building responds to the criteria set by the institution since the same aesthetic is found in other contemporary buildings of La Caixa. The decoration mixes classicist elements, such as the columns and pediments, and Gothic elements such as the attic windows. At the end of 1931, La Caixa presented the request to erect a building along Carrer Vilaró, later called Francesc Moragas. The permit states that the work will be done in an easement area and that it is exempt from paying taxes thanks to the statutes of the funds. Although it does not refer to the acquisition of the land, it belonged to M. Dolors Vilaró i Raventós in 1892, when, on the occasion of a refurbishment of the house, she ceded part of it in order to widen the alley that would bear her name. The La Caixa project was not simply limited to opening offices but also offered a library and a museum, which would not be inaugurated until the 1950s. The museum would be dedicated to honouring old age, a festival closely linked to Sant Sadurní since it originated in this municipality and later spread to other Catalan towns.

    1931

  • 1933

  • Matamala House

    autoria desconeguda

    The building consists of a semi-basement, ground floor and four landings. Out of all the façades, the corner solution stands out, with a rotunda tribune at the level of the first floors, where it forms a terrace with a balustrade and a tower with a conical roof made of ceramic scales. The tribune has arcades on columns with Tuscan (first floor) and Corinthian (second floor) capitals on both floors. The rest of the openings on the façades of both streets are vertical with isolated iron balconies. Those on the third floor are resolved in a Neoclassical style, with pediments and balusters. The upper part is finished with a cornice and balustrade. The façade to the courtyard has curvilinear tribune galleries with wooden shutters. At the end of the courtyard there is a small pavilion with a hipped roof, on the corner with the street.

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