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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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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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Arquitecte. Titulat el 1886. Secretari de l’Ateneu Barcelonès, president de l’Associació d’Arquitectes, així com escriptor. Va portar a cap obres com el Casino del Masnou (1904), la casa Berenguer (1909) al carrer de la Diputació, el Col·legi Comtal a Barcelona (1909), la Casa Rocamora (1916) al Passeig de Gràcia, o la casa Malagrida a Olot (1921), va participar en el Pla de Reforma de Barcelona

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  1. Pere-Grau Maristany i Oliver Pantheon

    Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó

    Pere-Grau Maristany i Oliver Pantheon

    Complex building in the form of an angle, given the layout of the plots acquired. Two of the plots are occupied by the crypt and the third one is occupied by the staircase. The main volume is the outer part of the crypt. On a podium, which is accessed via a flight of four steps, stands the sculptural group of "Faith consoling pain", by Josep Llimona i Bruguera, where Faith is an angel and pain is a woman who cries inconsolably. The sculpture is made of marble, except for the angel's wings which are made of bronze. The pantheon is finished with a cross, also of bronze, richly decorated with floral and zoomorphic motifs. The perimeter is surrounded by pillars decorated with flames and crowns at the top. These pillars were attached by iron chains decorated with bronze medallions, but they were stolen. The sculptural group stands on a large marble plinth. On the front there is an inscription with the date and the name of the owner. On one side, there is a plaque placed by the City Council on the industrialist's death in 1926, in tribute to his favourite son. The staircase body is a construction created from an ogival vault. The main façade, facing north, has a pointed arched door made of wrought iron. The side walls are a continuation of the same stepped roof. At the ends there are pilasters topped by capitals in the shape of a cul-de-lampe. It is also delimited around the perimeter by the same type of pillars in the crypt sector, where they were also joined with chains that were also stolen. Pere Grau Maristany i Oliver is one of the most illustrious characters in the town of El Masnou. He made his fortune as a wine exporter in the Americas (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, ...). He was very present in the economic, social and cultural life of the Catalan capital. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce, royal delegate of the Provincial Development Council, juror of the Universal Exhibition of Barcelona in 1888. Fund XII decorated him with the Grand Cross and Alfonso XIII granted him the noble title of Count of Lavern. He bought two more plots from the cemetery to annex them to the one he already had and build a new pantheon, the design of which he commissioned Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó.
  2. Casino del Masnou

    Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó

    Casino del Masnou

    Civil building. Its interest lies in the adaptation of a new building to the old country house, located in the centre of the complex, of which the ground floor, the access door and one of the Gothic windows on the façade are preserved. The new building covers the defense tower and reproduces the original windows. The left side of the Casino constitutes the theatre area and the right side is made up of the main entrance and the Rotunda, on the roof of which the intersections of the framework are finished with decorative elements so that they look like hanging keys. The architectural elements are absolutely heterogeneous: Gothic, neoclassical, modernist and eclectic. Theater It has a neoclassical and romantic nature. It consists of a platform with lateral tribunes on the ground floor and a roughly semicircular curved balcony supported by cast iron columns. The decorations, mouldings and ceiling panels are made of plaster. The wrought iron railings and modernist lamps are also interesting. Some pieces of this theatre are reused from some places of Barcelona. Forgings The old Mas Vell Casino gate closes the garden. The access door is in the centre and on it are the initials M.A. of its former owner, Miquel Amat. It is made of iron and consists of a set of parallel and crossed bars. There are rows with vegetal elements and sinuous lines, typical of modernism. Constructive elements that demonstrate the marked modernist trend of the Casino. They observe how both the door handle or the wrought iron of the rotunda's pergola accentuate the decorative value through sinuous, asymmetrical curves that end in squiggles or spirals. The "Casino" del Masnou was born as an entity in 1876. The idea of a new building was put into practice by Pere Grau Maristany -Count of Lavern-, located in the "Can Fontanills" country house, owned by Miquel Amat i Lluch. In 1903, the Rotunda, game rooms, billiards and other outbuildings were inaugurated. In 1904, the theatre also opened. The modernist main entrance is from 1902.
  3. Concurs Anual d'Edificis i Establiments Urbans

    Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Arquitectura - Millor Edifici Construït
    Col·legi Comtal

  4. Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó's House

    Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó

    Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó's House

    Civil building. Externally, the most important element is the façade, since it is attached laterally to the two neighbouring buildings. It has an elongated rectangular plan. The façade is divided into ground floor, two floors and a roof. The ground floor is occupied by the access door and a window; the first floor consists of two large balconies that occupy most of the facade; and the second floor is made up of four low-arched windows separated by small columns. The decoration is absolutely eclectic: tile mosaics around the balcony windows, capitals with plant elements, and in the centre of the facade there is an ornamental element with the figure of Sant Jordi. All the ornamentation is historicist.
  5. Concurs Anual d'Edificis i Establiments Urbans

    Menció. Category: Arquitectura - Millor Edifici Construït
    Casa Casimir Clapés

  6. Garcia Fossas Public Schools

    Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó

    Located north of the old town, the Institute and its facilities occupy an entire block, enclosed by a solid hedge wall and pillars of bush-hammered ashlars with a worked brick cornice, which serves as the base for an iron railing decorated with iron basket panels. The large main building is U-shaped, with tiled roofs, enclosing a protected space with a skylight. It has three floors, each with a different façade, although symmetry is maintained: the ground floor, with a stone plinth and stuccoed upper section, with a frieze of semicircular arched windows; the central section, separated by prominent brick string courses, with another exposed brick frieze and vertical rectangular windows; and the upper section, with stuccoed walls, where the smaller windows are grouped in threes in semicircular arches. The main doorway, with a round arch, is located in a central section facing Carretera de Manresa, and is emphasised by a balcony above, with a curved balustrade and a round vault as a dust cover, and a gabled gable with a central oculus crowned by a wavy cornice. Above the balcony is a coat of arms of Igualada flanked by two children, the work of the sculptor and sgraffito artist Ferran Serra (Ferdinandus Serra). Jaume Garcia Fossas was a playing card manufacturer in Igualada alongside his brother Artur. Both provided financial assistance for the construction of the Conservatory of Music, the Ateneu Igualadí School and the Secondary School building (now the Àuria School), which bore their surnames. Mr Artur Garcia-Fossas bought some land in 1927 to build the Igualada Orphanage. The building cost around 300,000 pesetas and was designed by the architect Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó, with Pere Vilarrúbies as the contractor. However, the building was never used for its intended purpose and ended up becoming a primary school, which is still in operation today under the name CEIP Garcia Fossas. Construction of the building began in 1932 and was completed in May 1937. The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War meant that it did not open until years later, but it was finally inaugurated on 3 May 1941. During the war, the building was used as a hospital and an air-raid shelter was built, which is still preserved today. The building has three floors, the first of which was used for teaching boys (with male teachers). The second floor was used for teaching girls, with female teachers. Over time, it has also had other complementary uses: the Igualada Museum and the Leather Museum. Currently, apart from the CEIP, there is also the La Lluna nursery and the Anoia CRP.

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  • Alçat del pinacle de les Cases Rocamora.

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    Alçat del pinacle de les Cases Rocamora.

    Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Alçat de la façana de l'edifici d'habitatges d'Eulàlia Mercedes Parés de Plet.

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    Alçat de la façana de l'edifici d'habitatges d'Eulàlia Mercedes Parés de Plet.

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