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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2026 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 Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2026 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester 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.

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  • L'Escorça

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    1840

  • 1849

  • Can Guineu

    autoria desconeguda

    Large building rebuilt in 1851 following the characteristics of Eclecticism. It consists of a basement, a ground floor and a floor under the attic, with a terrace and a roof of Arabic tiles. It has an interior courtyard with palm trees and galleries of cast iron columns, and a cloister with a high and low gallery of semicircular arches. The imperial staircase and the interiors, with period furniture and accessories, are also noteworthy. Can Guineu is located in the centre of Sant Sadurní, between two important axes of the area, Carrer de l'Hospital and Carrer de Sant Antoni. It was originally a manor house. In 1703 it became the property of the Mir family, when Pau Mir bought it from the administrators of the Hospital de la Santa Creu. In 1851, after a trip made by the owners to Andalusia, the house was renovated and extended in accordance with the dominant aesthetic criteria at that time.

    1851

  • 1855

  • 1856

  • 1857

  • Joaquim Arimon House

    Josep Renom i Costa

    Joaquim Arimon House

    Three-storey house consisting of ground floor, first floor and attic. It has a square tower plastered in white. The three-lobed arch of the door, the framing of the windows and the wrought iron work of the bars stand out of the façade. The openings on the floor are rectangular and those in the attic are small and landscaped for ventilation. The building is the result of several renovations from a 19th century manor house, the most important of which was carried out in 1911 by the architect Josep Renom. The ceiling paintings are preserved from the first house, under the modernist coffered ceilings. In 1941, the Arimón family sold the house to the Garcial Planas family. Between 1950 and 1960 several refurbishments took place, one of which was carried out by Santiago Cassulleras Forteza.

    1858

  • Madurell House

    Carles Gauran i Casals

    Very spacious house with a gable roof, between partitions, two floors and an attic. The stone should be highlighted as an expensive element on the façade, with three portals, a large balcony that covers the full width of the house, and three upper balconies. The façade also preserves important remains of paintings imitating coloured marbles. The interior is divided by a large staircase that starts from the central stone portal, at the height of the first floor, leaving the basements for cellars.

    1864

  • 1865

  • Torrents i Miret House

    Santiago Güell i Grau

    The building is on the corner between Muralla dels Vellets Street and Vall del Castell Square. It consists of two bodies, one on the ground floor, two floors and an air chamber under an Arabic tile roof, and another on the ground floor under the roof. The set responds to the formal characteristics of eclecticism. The Torrent i Miret House, built on the initiative of Josep Torrent i Miret, dates from the first stage of 1870, the year in which the initial body of the ground floor and two floors was built. In 1899, a project was presented to reform this part and to build the ground floor and roof, a project that is preserved in the City Council's archive. The construction of the work was directed by the architect Santiago Güell i Grau.

    1870

  • Cal Marquès

    autoria desconeguda

    Civil building Set of stately buildings with typically neoclassical features. Formed essentially by a body with an eight-sided polygonal plan, in the centre of which stands a large lantern tower, also octagonal in shape and which due to its dimensions is practically a dome intended for interior lighting. On each side of the drum there is an elliptical opening and is covered by an eight-sided roof. The ternary structure used in each of the complex's façades is worth noting: a semicircular arch in the middle and architraves on the sides (Venetian architecture). The use of columns with Corinthian capitals for the porches, balustrades, hydrias and antefixes that decorate both the building and the garden that surrounds it is interesting, with a marked neoclassical taste. The building is accessed by a large staircase.
  • Figueres Sabater House

    Miquel Elias i Güell, Santiago Güell i Grau

    Set formed by two formally differentiated bodies, the façade that opens onto Plaça de l'Estació and which has a ground floor and two floors, with an Arabic tile roof on two sides and is a house between partitions and responds to the characteristics of the eclectic language. The building on Miser Rufet Street, attached to the first, consists of a ground floor and a floor, with an upper roof. The most remarkable element of the façade is the grand tribune with floral ornaments and the coat of arms of the three towers. This part of the work is part of the modernist aesthetic. Torres House was built in 1873, in the widening area started in 1865 around the station. In 1901, the part of Miser Rufet Street was added.

    1873

  • 1874

  • 1878

  • Red Tower

    Gaietà Buïgas i Monravà

    Red Tower

    Detached single-family house (currently divided into two houses), surrounded by a garden, with a tower at the back which has a square base and an octagonal upper body. It has a complex structure, with a Greek cross plan, made up of several bodies that have roofs on two sides. The material used in is exposed brick, which gave the house its name. The Red Tower was built in 1899 following the criteria of the eclectic architecture typical of that period, although it incorporated some medieval elements. The urbanisation of the Sant Ramon Street area (the old road from Cerdanyola to Sant Cugat), which became known as the "Dalt neighbourhood", had begun around 1828 with the construction of houses in some land owned by the Serraparera farm. Subsequently, new construction processes were carried out there, especially during the 1860s and 1880s. (Dating provided by source)

    1879

  • Ca l'Alfaro

    Eduard Mercader Secanella

    Ca l'Alfaro

    It is an isolated building surrounded by a garden and a fence. It consists of a ground floor, a main floor and a small attic. There is a three-storey, square-plan house on the left. Both constructions are covered by a hip roof both. The house has a large balcony on the first floor that occupies the entire façade, at the entrance the balcony acts as a small porch. The openings are highlighted with mouldings at the top. They also both end with an eaves. In the attic there is a small balcony and the roof is gabled. The roof tiles are glazed in a reddish colour. This house was built at the beginning of the 20th century, and belongs to the Rocha family. It is the period in which Sant Andreu de Llavaneres becomes a summer residence for the Barcelona bourgeoisie.

    1880

  • Torre Mena

    autoria desconeguda

    Torre Mena

    Torre de baixos i dos pisos al cos central i d'un sol pis als laterals. Al nivell de la planta noble del cos central, un balcó molt sortit es recolza sobre columnetes de ferro. Conjuga, amb sentit eclèctic, elements clàssics, com les columnes del vestíbul, els carreus en punta de diamant, les obertures i les proporcions en general amb elements medievals, com els merlets i la torreta central. El jardí d'accés a la torre ha estat eliminat per a obrir l'avinguda del Marquès de Sant Mori i ampliar la plaça Trafalgar.
  • Cal Gual

    Josep Torres Ferran

    House between partitions with a ground floor and main floor. It does not have direct access from the street, as the garden keeps it separated from the public road. At the back it opens to a patio. The double curved staircase that gives access to the main floor from the garden stands out. The railing is iron, with a different design to that of the project, as is the crowning balustrade. The door, with a lintel decorated with reliefs, retains a modernist design. The ground floor, where the carriages were, has been adapted as a car park. NH This was one of the first houses to be built on Carrer Diputació, taking advantage of a project designed by Carrer Raval in 1880, which will eventually be located in this location. Having overcome the conflict of the Carline war and in a moment of economic prosperity, the town grew again, once again overcoming the walls. Carrer Diputació will be the symbol of a new prosperity that goes hand in hand with the improvements in communications that mean the opening of the road from La Llacuna to Sant Boi and better access to the train station.
  • The Parish House

    Laureà Arroyo i Velasco

    Building between partitions that forms part of the Plaça de la Església. It consists of a ground floor and a main floor, with an upper roof. The façade has four facings. All the openings have semicircular arches, with archivolts. The language used in this work is historicism. The building of the parish house was built in 1881, according to the project of Laureà Arroyo i Velasco, which is still preserved in the parish house.

    1881

  • Vicenç Mestres House

    Santiago Güell i Grau

    Vicenç Mestres House

    Building between partitions, with four bays. It consists of a ground floor and a floor, with an Arabic tile gable roof. There is a rear gallery and patio. The doors have trilobed arches. There are reinforced mortar balusters and the use of brick. The architectural language responds to the characteristics of modernism, used in an austere way. The house is located in the wide area formed on the sides of the Sant Martí de Sarroca road, BV-2121, opened in 1881. It is an interesting area in terms of eclectic and modernist architecture.
  • 1869 - 1882

  • Josep Mestres House

    Josep Déu Busquets

    The Josep Mestres House is a ground-floor, two-story roofed and gabled building between partitions, originating from the refurbishment of an earlier building. In the composition of the façade, the decreasing size of the openings, as the building rises, is also accompanied by a decrease in the carriageway in the manner of Renaissance palaces, which provides it with visual solidity. Neo-Gothic insinuations are constant, in the modulation of the arches of the nine upper windows, in the emphasised cornice, in the water-break mouldings above the portal, etc., as in the more typically 19th-century elements such as the terra cotta balustrade, the crowning of the façade, suitable for the sundial, or the fan-shaped strip of the semi-circular arched main door.

    1883

  • 1883 - 1884

  • Suriol House

    Josep Inglada i Estrada

    Isolated building that takes up an entire end of the block. It is located between General Cortijo, Parlament and Ateneu Streets. It has façades on General Cortijo and Parlament Streets, as well as a large garden at the back. The house consists of a ground floor and two floors, with a roof and terrace. There is a rear porch with bay windows opening onto the garden. The unit responds to the language of eclecticism. The house is located on the large 19th century plot that was later linked to Poble Nou. This is the old Post Office building.

    1884

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