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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

    autoria desconeguda

    Residential building with a ground floor and four upper storeys, featuring a cornice and a flat roof terrace. The main façade on Baixada de la Seu is symmetrically arranged along three vertical axes, corresponding to the three ground-floor entrances. It follows a classical typology with a mezzanine, main floor, and two additional upper floors, with social hierarchy reflected in the design of the balconies: the mezzanine has railings flush with the façade; the main floor features a continuous balcony; and the upper floors have individual balconies that decrease in height. Pilasters separating the balconies are nearly flat and topped with Ionic capitals. The cornice is decorated with modillions and overlapping tile motifs. The façade on Carrer del Bisbe is flat and sparsely fenestrated.

    1832

  • 1840

  • 1847

  • Habitatges al Carrer Avinyó 58

    autoria desconeguda

  • 1848

  • Casa Bernardí Martorell

    Pau Martorell

    Casa Bernardí Martorell

    Ubicada al Districte de Ciutat Vella, aquesta casa de veïns entre mitgeres es localitza a l'illa de cases delimitada pels carrers de l'Hospital (des d'on es produeix l'accés principal), d'en Robador, de Sant Rafael i la rambla del Raval. A més, aquest edifici allotja l'accés al Passatge de Bernardí Martorell, que comunica el carrer de l'Hospital amb el de Sant Rafael. La finca, essent partida pel passatge, acull un edifici format per dos cossos units per mitjà d'un arc sobre el qual també s'ha construït. Així i tot, l'estructura en alçat de la façana principal mostra una aparença compacta i comprèn planta baixa, tres plantes, un àtic i un segon àtic producte d'una remunta moderna. La planta baixa, acabada en pedra de Montjuïc, està configurada per quatre arcs escarsers que donen accés a les botigues i un arc de mig punt central que dona accés al passatge, on es troba el vestíbul de l'immoble. Aquest arc destaca per estar emmarcat de dues semicolumnes dòriques acanalades que sostenen un entaulament a base de tríglifs i mètopes. Aquesta obra neoclàssica que alguns autors han datat erròniament vers el s. XVI, estava rematada anteriorment per dues escultures sedents dels déus Mart i Apol·lo, avui desaparegudes. Les obertures, aliniades en eixos verticals, presenten dimensions decreixents en alçada i es presenten emmarcades amb muntants i llindes de pedra motllurada i a platabandes. Els balcons, de volada decreixent i sostinguts sobre mènsules en forma de voluta de pedra i amb els angles arrodonits, es presenten tancats amb baranes de ferro colat amb una potent ornamentació en forma de traceria neogòtica. Els murs es presenten revestits amb un estuc que, per mitjà d'una variada policromia, pren l'aspecte de carreus de marbre blanc amb betes grises. Tanmateix, l'element característic d'aquest edifici és la seva profusa ornamentació a base d'aplics de terracota en relleu inserits en quarterons verticals d'estuc entre balcó i balcó. Aquest tipus d'ornamentació, molt típica de l'arquitectura barcelonina de les dècades de 1840 i 1850, dota de gran plasticitat les façanes de la ciutat. Les terracotes d'aquesta finca presenten forma de canelobres vegetals entrellaçats i de composició ascendent, a base de putti, caps de lleó, estípits en forma de faune, gerros i fulles d'acant. Les sobreportes dels balcons del principal també estan ornats a base de relleus de terracota, en aquest cas consistents en al·legories a la indústria tèxtil per mitjà d'escenes fabrils protagonitzades per infants L'àtic, separat de la resta de pisos per una cornisa motllurada que serveix de llosana als balcons ampitadors que l'obren al carrer, també està decorat amb relleus de terracota a base de garlandes florals. La façana queda rematada per un segon àtic afegit durant la primera meitat del s. XX, amb llurs balcons ampitadors sobre la cornisa que antigament definia la línia de la solera del terrat.

    1849

  • 1850

  • Cal Pere Nadal

    autoria desconeguda

    Three-storey corner building. On the ground floor we find the access door on one side while the side facing the other street has rectangular windows with bars. On the first floor there are wrought iron balcony window openings with roller blinds. The upper part is the most characteristic part of the building because it presents on both sides of the house triple windows with semi-circular arches, separated from each other by a brick frame. These are several houses distributed inside the urban core of Pla del Penedès. They are interesting buildings mainly for their façade composition. You can see elements of "educated" architecture with the use of the language of eclecticism in coexistence with details of popular architecture. In general, these buildings make up the area of the 19th and 20th centuries.

    second half of the 19th century

  • Bonaventura Coma House

    autoria desconeguda

    Building between partitions that occupies the chamfer of Carrer de la Barceloneta and Carrer de Colom. It consists of a basement, first floor and three additional floors. The roof is made of Arabic tiles. The height of the slabs decreases as the street level increases. The construction responds to the characteristics of eclecticism. The Bonaventura Coma House is located in front of the Casa de la Vila, in the Eixample from the end of the 19th century.
  • Habitatge a la Rambla 129

    autoria desconeguda

  • Habitatge al Carrer Tallers 11

    autoria desconeguda

  • Habitatge al Carrer Quintana, 5

    autoria desconeguda

  • Borruell i Panzano House

    autoria desconeguda

    It is a building between partitions with a backyard. It was originally for single-family use. The property consists of a ground floor, split into a semi-basement and mezzanine, and two floors. It is covered by a gable roof and a staircase body protrudes from it attached to the middle. The staircase, with a Catalan vault and a single section, is attached to the partition and gives access to the main floor. The load-bearing walls are of common masonry. The floors are made of wooden beams and tiles. The main façade is composed on vertical axes with arched portals framed with stone on the ground floor, and a landing balcony on the mezzanine. The openings of the upper floors are linteled and framed with stone. On the first floor we find a balcony followed by two openings, two balconies and a side window. On the second floor there are two balconies and three windows. The cornices separating the different plants are made of stone. The facing of the ground floor is stone cladding.
  • Berger House

    Josep Inglada i Estrada

    Building between partitions consisting of ground floor, mezzanine, first floor and attic, with a roof covered with Arabic tiles. The crown is supported by corbels of classical inspiration, which establish a compositional rhythm with those of the main floor. The façade is symmetrical and has an identical arrangement of openings on each floor. The formal characteristics of the building are those of the language of eclecticism. The Berger House was built during the second half of the 19th century, in the Eixamplea area which started in 1865 around the station. Initially it consisted of a ground floor and a main floor. In 1897 the architect Santiago Güell i Grau directed the expansion and restoration project, signed on August 6 and approved on the 17th of the same month. This project is preserved in the town's municipal archive.
  • Olivella House

    autoria desconeguda

    House between partitions and three corridors. It consists of a ground floor and a main floor, with an attic and a roof. The ground floor has a central door and two windows, one on each side, with semicircular arches and very interesting bars. Three moulded balconies open onto the upper floor. It has an eclectic style. On one of the bars on the ground floor the date 1885 appears, probably the date of the construction of the house. In 1899, the work of extending a floor appears documented, commissioned by Josep Olivella and directed by the architect Santiago Güell i Grau (the project is preserved in the archives of Vilafranca Town Hall). It was presented on April 26 and approved on March 3.
  • Guilamany House

    Josep Inglada i Estrada

    Building between three corridor-partitions, consisting of ground floor, mezzanine, two floors and attic. The roof is of Arabic tile on two sides. The façade has a symmetrical composition. The ground floor has a centrally arched doorway and two rectangular moulded openings at the sides. The first floor shows a balcony and the second three balconies. In both cases the openings are rectangular and followed by classically inspired mouldings. The façade is crowned with a cornice supported by panels. The work is of eclectic language. The construction is located within the fortified enclosure during the First Carline War (Seven Years' War) and among stylistically heterogeneous buildings.
  • 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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