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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
We kindly invite you to help us improve the dissemination of Catalan architecture through this space. Here you can propose works and provide or amend information on authors, photographers and their work, along with adding comments. The Documentary Commission will analyze all data. Please do only fill in the fields you deem necessary to add or amend the information.
The Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya is one of the most important documentation centers in Europe, which houses the professional collections of more than 180 architects whose work is fundamental to understanding the history of Catalan architecture. By filling this form, you can request digital copies of the documents for which the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya manages the exploitation of the author's rights, as well as those in the public domain. Once the application has been made, the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya will send you an approximate budget, which varies in terms of each use and purpose.
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Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Arxiu Històric del COAC
August Font i Carreras va néixer el 2 de juny de 1845 al Portal de l'Àngel, 15 de Barcelona. Quan cursava el batxillerat va ser company d'Elies Rogent, més gran que ell, i que segurament el va influenciar personalment alhora de dirigir-lo en els seus estudis d'arquitectura. Va començar els estudis a l'antiga "Llotja" (Reial Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi) de Barcelona. Posteriorment realitzà la carrera d'arquitectura a Madrid i obtingué el títol d'arquitecte el 21 de desembre de 1869. Va ser professor de diverses assignatures a l'Escola d'Arquitectura de Barcelona i president el 1906 de l'antiga Associació d'Arquitectes de Catalunya. Va tenir encàrrecs molt importants com l'acabament de la façana i cimbori de la Catedral de Barcelona, la plaça de braus Les Arenes, el Palau de Belles Arts per a l'Exposició Universal de 1888 o el seminari pontifici de Tarragona, entre d'altres, tot dintre d'un estil eclèctic. Va morir el 6 de març de l'any 1924.
Source: Arxiu Històric del COAC
August Font Carreras, Santiago Güell i Grau
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Barcelona : Duxelm : Ajuntament de Barcelona, DL 2014.
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Barcelona : Dux, 2013.
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Esplugues de Llobregat : Alonso Balaguer y Arquitectos Asociados ; Barcelona : Loft, cop. 2011.
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Fons August Font i Carreras : catàleg / Arxiu Històric del COAC.
Barcelona : Arxiu Històric del COAC, 1999.
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La Façana major de la seu de Barcelona / Joan Bassegoda i Nonell.
Barcelona : Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 1997.
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Mis memorias / José Gallart Folch.
Barcelona : [el autor], 1971.
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Elogio del arquitecto D. Augusto Font y Carreras : 1845-1924 / por Buenaventura Bassegoda y Amigó.
Barcelona : Imprenta de la Casa de la Caridad, 1925.
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Barcelona : A. López Robert, 1907.
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Barcelona : Imp. Luz, 1903.
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Barcelona : Imprenta Barcelonesa, 1897.
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Barcelona : Asociación de Arquitectos de Cataluña, 1891.
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Barcelona : Asociación de Arquitectos de Cataluña, 1891.
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Barcelona : Asociación de Arquitectos de Cataluña, 1891.
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Barcelona : Estab. Tip. de Narciso Ramírez y Cª, 1874.
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La Catedral de Barcelona / [Augusto Font].
Anuario : Asociación de Arquitectos de Cataluña (1901), p. 135-158
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Reseña presidencial / leída por D. Augusto Font.
Anuario : Asociación de Arquitectos de Cataluña (1908-1909), p. 15-19
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Reseña presidencial / leída por D. Augusto Font.
Anuario : Asociación de Arquitectos de Cataluña (1908-1909), p. 9-14
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Nuevo cimborio en la catedral de Barcelona / Augusto Font Carreras.
Arquitectura y Construcción No 254 (sept. 1913), p. 197-201
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Nota Necrològica : Augusto Font y Carreras.
Anuario : Asociación de Arquitectos de Cataluña (1924), p. 113-116
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"Las Torres", Esplugues de Llobregat.
Casa viva (dic. 1982)
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Barcelona : J.M. Fabre, [188-?].
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L'Afer de la plaça de toros "Las Arenas de Barcelona" / Joan Bassegoda i Nonell.
Butlletí de la Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi N. III (1989), p. 61-70
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