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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental 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 OrnaqueCollaborators:
2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse ViuExternal Collaborators:
2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès MartinelWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació 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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Can Vilumara
Set of buildings built in two different moments. The oldest are from 1907 and present the modernist gatehouse and two pavilions. One is of exposed brick, rectangular in plan, with a gable roof covered with Roman tiles, and very narrow and high openings. The other is a large building of almost square plan, of plastered brick and exposed brick accenting the angles, windows and top line of the roof rail, with a tiled floor where there is a large tank. One of the houses has a marked modernist style which, despite the humility suggested by its small volume and the fact that it is the hall of a factory, is not exempt from the decorativism typical of the period. It has plastered brick walls highlighting the openings and angles with exposed brick rows. There is an ornamental band of terracotta butterflies at the top. On the façade facing the factory courtyard, you can see a large rectangle with a Virgin Mary in white and blue glazed ceramics. The interior is in perfect condition, preserving an early 20th century object that worked as a fire alarm. The other block of buildings corresponds to the expansion of the 1920s and consists of four large rectangular buildings of plastered brick and a gable roof each, but covered with uralite. A large exposed brick chimney rises between the two parts. It is about 60 metres high and has a hexagonal base. Can Vilumara was installed in 1907 next to La Farga. At that time there were already 35 large industries in the municipality. Prosperous company dedicated to textiles, especially silk, underwent remodelling and expansions between 1922 and 1928 and is currently leased by its owner, Mr. Josep Mª Vilumara, since 1982, as a secondary school and sports field. -
Romero House
On the initiative of Elisa Romero, a request was made to build a residence on the property of Victoriano de la Riba i Ruiz. It was the company Fills de Magí Campreciós who carried out the work on this residence. At the beginning of the 1930s, Dr. Rodríguez Arias and Dr. Vilardell set up a rest home there, called ‘Bonavista’, which operated until the 1950s; later it became a private home; and due to the extensive garden it had, part of the estate has been reduced by the buildings that have been constructed. It consists of a residential building with a ground floor and a first floor. It is notable for its pompousness; in fact, Andreu Audet specialised in the construction of theatres, which is why the magnificence of the house is so closely related to the fact that the two lateral bodies were converted into large towers crowned by domes covered with mosaic. He used academicist elements in the building: fluted pilasters, composite capitals, balusters, oval oculi, stepped crowns, hydrias... The so-called ‘El Sanatori’ (The Sanatorium) is, thus, an example of the influence of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts on the formal repertoire of Catalan Noucentisme. The interior layout is based around a central covered vestibule-courtyard, with a magnificent gallery on the ground floor. -
La Principal Society Theatre
The La Principal Society Theatre is a building between partitions composed of a body located on the fçcade and an interior body. The façade body consists of a ground floor, two floors and a basement. It is covered by a gable roof and also has rear roofs. The theatre has a rectangular floor plan, and the audience has a unique height with two floors of perimeter boxes forming a U, with a rear amphitheatre, two stairs on the sides of the stage and two back to access the floors. The ground floor foyer has side stairs leading to the first-floor foyer. The stage has three floors on each side and a basement, accessible via two staircases. It is also covered by a gable roof. The load-bearing walls are of common masonry. The roof is of fiber cement with a structure of wooden slats, and with Arabic tiles on beams and wooden slats. In the boxes we find columns, beams and wooden flooring. The floors are of wood and iron beams and tile and reinforced concrete. The stairs have a wooden structure and a Catalan vault. It is the work of the architect Andreu Audet i Puig. It has a square surrounded by three floors and boxes and a large stage that allows the assembly of large scenographies.
