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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

Documental Commission:

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

Collaborators:

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

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 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

    autoria desconeguda

    1840

  • Casal de la Dona

    autoria desconeguda

    1873 - 1874

  • Cultural and Recreational Centre

    autoria desconeguda

    Large house between partitions, with a gable roof, two floors, a setback floor and a more sunken space at the back. Based on the classical forms of the façade, there is a large room with pilasters and vaults and a staircase leading to the upper floor where there is a spacious room with mouldings, paintings and a flat ceiling from 1877, and several annexed services. Dances, cultural events, theatre, etc., were held in the Cultural and Recreational Centre of Gelida until 1933, year in which a new café was inaugurated (the current Café de la Pista del Casal Gelidenc). The ground floor was occupied by the café, presided over by a painting evoking the reapers of the Corpus de Sang of 1640. In 1939, it was occupied by the "Frente de Juventudes" and later acquired by the Gelida City Council.

    1877

  • 1872 - 1878

  • Can Gili Nou

    autoria desconeguda

    Can Gili Nou

    1876 - 1880

  • Torre Mena

    autoria desconeguda

    1880

  • 1887

  • 1888

  • Agricultural Centre of Vilafranca del Penedès

    August Font Carreras

    Agricultural Centre of Vilafranca del Penedès

    The building is located in the 19th century Eixample. The main façade overlooks the Rambla de Nostra Senyora. It is a construction between partitions and it is at the corner of a covered passage through which it is accessed. It consists of a ground floor and a main floor, with an Arabic tile roof on two sides facing the side façades. It presents an eclectic language with reminiscences of wooden agricultural constructions and ceramic tiles. The Agricultural Centre was the society of rural owners. Their agricultural talks started in 1900. There were also artistic demonstrations and dances. During the Civil War it was the Revolutionary Committee’s headquarters. Later, a cinema was built inside.

    1892

  • Fontova Theatre and Ateneu Unió

    autoria desconeguda

    Fontova Theatre and Ateneu Unió

    Set of two buildings with a simple line and structure, which follows the Catalan Art Nouveau principles in its historicist aspect. The theatre presents a two-storey façade with a gable roof and with some finishes simulating a non-existent turret, like Danés i Torras’ type 2-IV country houses. But this is reduced to a vertical extension of the façade wall without any subsequent structure. On the ground floor there is a central door with two large rectangular windows now boarded up that retain their initial forgings and dated from 1903. The first floor has a small central opening and a simple border of sgraffito simulating a pediment that frames the name of the theatre and date of construction. The annex building, the café, also follows the historicist line but more like a manor. It has two floors, with large rectangular openings on the sides of the door on the ground floor and three balconies on the first floor, the central one a little bigger than the lateral but without other extensions. Both the doors and the windows are highlighted by a wide strip of smooth stucco just like in the theatre. This feature and the wide common plinth is the nexus of physical and aesthetic union between the two buildings, probably connected by the interior, as was usual. In the construction of the colony, the recreational aspect could not be neglected in order to achieve an authentic social atmosphere. The creation of the café and the theatre, if we stick to the dates, started earlier. At the beginning of the century, gathering for coffee, playing cards and having small talk were, together with professional or amateur theatre, the most common distraction (someone said that "if Catalans don't go to the theatre much it's because they are all on the 'stage...'). The café still stands to this day and is still the largest and liveliest in the colony.
  • 1897

  • 1898

  • Antic Ball - Teatre Xaconet

    autoria desconeguda

    second half of the 19th century

  • Can Sisteré

    autoria desconeguda

  • Farinera El Sucre

    autoria desconeguda

  • Cercle Mercantil

    Francesc de Paula Sellés Vilaró

    L'edifici del Mercantil pertany a un estil eclèctic. La façana la podem dividir en cinc parts: en la central, més avançada, és on trobem l'entrada principal; en la part alta hi ha el nom de l'entitat i en el centre l'any de la seva fundació; una galeria coberta uneix els dos cossos extrems amb el central. Els elements decoratius són els esgrafiats, col·locats en els timpans de les dues obertures que flanquegen l'edifici, i la ceràmica de reflexes metàl·lics a mode de fris. De l'interior cal destacar el teatre; entrant trobem l'amfiteatre de platea, després la platea voltada lateralment per llotges. Els primer pis té una zona central amb butaques i dues de laterals amb grades. Tot voltat per un jardí molt ben cuidat. El "Centro Mercantil, Industrial y Agrícola" havia estat fundat l'any 1899 com a conseqüència d'una desavinença entre diversos membres de l'antic "Casino de Recreo", uns, partidaris dels "Godó" i els altres, dels "Boyer". El local social de l'entitat va ésser edificat en el solar on antigament hi havia hagut el teatre Tívoli, i la seva inauguració coincidí amb el dia de la Festa Major de l'any 1899. El Cercle Mercantil celebrà el seu cinquantenari l'any 1949. Conté un teatre, un saló-café, una sala de festes i un jardí. Construït seguint un projecte de l'arquitecte Francesc de B. Galtés; dirigides les obres per Francesc Sellés; la decoració a càrrec de Frederic Brunet i la pintura pe Bartomeu Camps i Antoni Tomàs.

    1893 - 1899

  • 1900

  • Ateneu Igualadí de la Classe Obrera

    Pau Riera i Galtés, Pau Salvat i Espasa

    Edifici de planta i un pis. La façana és dividida en tres cossos, un de central amb tres portalades i tres finestres i dos de laterals amb quatre obertures cadascun. Un cop pujades les escales de l'entrada, ens trobem davant un gran atri, en altres temps teatre, i que avui fa de distribuïdor de es diferents dependències: biblioteca, teatre, cafè i secretaria. Vidrieres emplomades de tipus modernista sobre a porta en els que s'alternen les representacions florals amb les al·legories de l'entitat. El teatre, atribuït a l'arquitecte Pau Salvat i Espasa, és la dependència més important. Estructuralment té forma de ferradura i consta i consta d'una platea i dos pisos. A nivell decoratiu destaca la sanefa que rodeja el sostre i les baranes de ferro, decoració realitzada per l'escenògraf igualadí Pere Valls i Bofarull. A l'exterior hi ha l'escola Municipal de Música a l'esquerra de l'edifici i el jardí a la dreta amb una font -peixera de trencadís. L'ateneu nasqué a l'escalf de l'ambient de progressisme romàntic que estava en voga a Catalunya durant la segona meitat del segle passat, i ne la seva conjunció d'activitats culturals, docents i recreatives jugà un paper fonamental en la difusió de l'ideari progressista i de culturització popular. Després de l'incendi de 1873 de l'antiga seu social es construí durant l'any 1877 l'actual edifici. En l'etapa vuitcentista mantingué una escola primària, un teatre i una biblioteca. Durant els anys 1919- 1935 l'entitat prengué una gran embranzida amb l'erecció d'un grup escolar inserit en el moviment pedagògic català, d'un conservatori de música, d'una escola de teixits i d'un camp d'esports. Amb posterioritat a l 1939 les forces nacionals embargaren l'edifici i passà a anomenar-se "Centro Nacional".
  • 1859 - 1926

  • Mas Catarro

    autoria desconeguda

    first half of the 20th century

  • 20th century

  • Casal Gelidenc Café

    autoria desconeguda

    Large rectangular building with a gable roof. It has with two floors, the first one is covered by tiled vaults and the second by a flat roof and "art déco" decoration. The extraordinary luminosity due to the large windows and the longitudinal balcony on the left of the building, where the coat of arms of Catalonia appears on the railing, is worth noting, a motif that is repeated in the two attic windows, where on one of them has disappeared.

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