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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2024 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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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. 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.
  4. Escoles Públiques Garcia Fossas

    Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó

    Situat al nord del nucli antic, l'Institut i les seves instal·lacions ocupen una illa sencera, closa en un mur de tanca massís i pilars de carreus buixardats amb cornisa de maó treballat, que serveix de base d'una barana de ferro ornamentada amb requadres de cistells, també de ferro. L'edifici principal, de grans dimensions, té forma de U, amb cobertes compostes de teula, que tanca un espai protegit amb claraboia. Consta de tres plantes, cadascuna tractada en façana de manera diferent, si bé mantenint la simetria: la planta baixa, amb sòcol de carreus i parament superior estucat, amb fris de finestres en arc de mig punt; la central, separada per línies d'imposta de maó remarcades, amb un altre fris d'obra vista, amb finestres d'esquema rectangular vertical; i la superior, de parets estucades, on les finestres, més petites, s'agrupen de tres en tres en arqueries de mig punt. El portal principal, en arc rodó, se situa en un cos central abocat a la Carretera de Manresa, i s'emfasitza amb la presència d'un balcó a sobre, amb barana bombada de balustres i volta rodona com a guardapols, i un capcer a dos vessants, amb òcul central i coronat per cornisa ondulada. Sobre el balcó hi ha un escut d'Igualada flanquejat per dos nens, obra de l'escultor i esgrafiador Ferran Serra (Ferdinandus Serra). Jaume Garcia Fossas era fabricant de naips a Igualada juntament amb el seu germà Artur. Tos dos van donar ajuts econòmics per a les construccions del Conservatori de Música, del Palau Escolar de l'Ateneu Igualadí i de l'edifici de l'Institut de Segon Ensenyament (actual Escola Àuria) el qual va portar els seus cognoms. El Sr. Artur Garcia-Fossas va comprar uns terrenys l'any 1927 per construir-hi l'Orfelinat d'Igualada. La construcció de l'edifici va costar unes 300.000 pessetes i l'obra va ser un projecte de l'arquitecte Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó, amb Pere Vilarrúbies com a contractista d'obres. Però aquest edifici mai no va ser usat amb la finalitat que havia estat construït i va acabar sent un centre educatiu d'ensenyament primari que, actualment, encara està en funcionament amb el nom de CEIP Garcia Fossas. La construcció de l'edifici va començar el 1932 i va acabar al maig de 1937. L'inici de la Guerra Civil va fer que no iniciés la seva activitat fins anys més tard, però finalment va ser inaugurat el 3 de maig de 1941. Durant la guerra, l'edifici es va fer servir com a hospital i es va construir un refugi antiaeri que encara es conserva. L'edifici consta de tres plantes, la primera de les quals es va destinar a l'ensenyament dels nenes (amb homes com a professors). A la segona hi rebien educació les nenes amb dones com a professores. Amb el temps també ha tingut altres finalitats complementàries: El Museu d'Igualada i el Museu de la Pell. Actualment, a part del CEIP, també hi ha la Llar d'Infants La LLuna i el CRP de l'Anoia.

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    Alçat del pinacle de les Cases Rocamora.

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

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