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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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  1. Santa Teresa's House

    Bonaventura Pollés i Vivó

    Santa Teresa's House

    Isolated building located next to the Balaguer Museum and surrounded by a large garden. It has a rectangular plan and consists of a basement, a ground floor, elevated in relation to the floor, a main floor and a roof where the stairwell emerges. The composition of the façades is almost symmetrical, with rectangular and very low-arched windows, portholes and tribunes. A perimeter moulding decoratively separates the ground floor from the first floor. The building is crowned with a cornice and railing of flat balusters and presents a decoration of horizontal strips that simulate bricks. On one of the façades there is a bust of Saint Teresa, erected in memory of Víctor Balaguer's mother, Teresa Cirera. It was designed by the municipal architect B. Pollés i Vivó and its construction ended in 1889. Initially, the building had been built next to the Víctor Balaguer Library-Museum to host Víctor Balaguer in his stays in Vilanova. Later, when the space of the Library-Museum became insufficient, it was used as a dependency of this institution. In 1915, the State ordered that the Library be separated from the Museum and that it be taken over by an official from Santa Teresa qualified for this function. It currently contains several pieces of interest, mainly from the 19th century, such as furniture and paintings.
  2. Ampliació Salas Isabel i Maria de la Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer

    Bonaventura Pollés i Vivó

    Ampliació Salas Isabel i Maria de la Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer

  3. Funerary Monument to Victor Balaguer

    Bonaventura Pollés i Vivó

    Funerary Monument to Victor Balaguer

    Funerary monument composed of a rectangular base resting on a stone paving that forms a step, a rectangular pedestal with smooth faces and the following inscriptions: 'Víctor Balaguer. Without love for me I had it for everyone'. Plus a crown formed by an altar and a sarcophagus. The base contains two inclined tombstones worked in relief and with floral motifs. These contain inscriptions in Latin with the birth and death dates of Víctor Balaguer and his wife Manuela Carbonell. The altar is decorated with ogival tracery, folds of clothing and coats of arms with the four bars of the Catalan flag, the cross of Sant Jordi, of Vilanova and his initials. The sarcophagus – rectangular and with a gable roof – is divided into bands, with floral motifs and inscriptions. In 1905, the remains of Víctor Balaguer were transferred from the Samà family pantheon to the new monumental pantheon, built in his memory by his heirs. This monument was designed by architect Bonaventura Pollés i Vivó, cut by Alfons Juyol and carried out by builder Joan Sas i Gorgori.
  4. Garden City of Ribes Roges

    Josep Domènech Mansana, Josep Font i Gumà, Bonaventura Pollés i Vivó

    The Ribes Roges urban complex is made up of streets which are parallel and perpendicular to the seafront. It is bounded by the Passeig de Ribes Roges, the streets of Marcelina Jacas, Legazpi and Álvaro de Bazán and Torrent de Sant Joan, the street of Pere III el Gran and a large part of the block bounded by Passeig de Ribes Roges and the streets of Lluís de Requesens, Pere III el Gran and Isaac Peral. Each block contains several plots occupied by single-family houses surrounded by gardens. Although as a whole it does not present a stylistic unity, it still preserves some of the original buildings, mainly in the seafront sector, which present characteristics typical of the modernist and noucentista styles. The Villa Argentina and the Villa Montserrat (architect Josep Domènech Mansana) are the closest examples to the Catalan Art Nouveau style, as well as Doctor Ribot’s villa (Villa Esperanza) and the Villa Laguarda (both by the architect Bonaventura Pollés Vivó), and the Villa Teresa (Modest Tauler Benítez, architect), which have been preserved. The other villas are closer to the Noucentisme period, such as the Villa Isabel (by Ramon Frexé Mallofré, 1910-1912); the Villa Vivancos (by Josep M. Miró Guibernau, 1923); the Villa Dolors Rutllan (by Manuel Joaquim Raspall Mayol, 1925) and Villa Adelina, and the villas of Joan Robert and Lluís Pàmies (by Antoni Pons Domínguez, 1923, 1925 and 1926). The origin of the Ribes Roges housing development was the initiative of Ms. Anna Raventós de Saurí, president of the Empar de Santa Llúcia, a charitable institution that was to be the beneficiary of the profits produced by the development. Marcelina Jacas, who had considerable wealth inherited from her father and an uncle, both of whom were Hindus, gave the rural land she owned for the construction of the chalets in order to raise funds to support the organisation. The foundation stone for the first 10 chalets was laid in 1910. In the same year, the board commissioned several architects to carry out the construction work and left the municipal architect B. Pollés to carry out the project for the Passeig Marítim and the general plan for the distribution of the plots. The complex is detached from the urban fabric of the city. The Torrent de Sant Joan and the railway line hindered its growth and expansion from the beginning and it was outside the scope of Gumà i Ferran's General Plan and, therefore, of the expansion guidelines set out in the plan. In 1917, the municipal architect Josep M. Miró i Guibernau designed the total development of the sector in accordance with the garden city typology. The construction of the promenade was authorised and the complete layout of the road network and the study of the links with the city were carried out. The study of the layout of the links, although very correct, was never carried out due to the difficulty posed by the location of the Pirelli factory. In 1967, a new development plan allowed an increase in the density of buildings, which led to the abandonment of the garden city idea and the demolition of the original dwellings; this resulted in the demolition of many single-family villas, to be replaced by flat blocks. As a reaction to this trend, a new General Development Plan was approved in 1981, which sought to protect these dwellings by classifying Ribes Roges as a "garden city conservation area".
  5. Doctor Ribot Detached House

    Bonaventura Pollés i Vivó

    Rectangular building raised above street level and surrounded by a garden. It consists of a ground floor, a first floor and an attic. It was designed as a two-family house. The roofs are tiled. The central body is covered by hip roofs on the perpendicular ones by gable roofs. The façades generally have lintelled openings and ornamental portholes with ceramic elements. The side sections are supported by pillars and have glazed ceramic decoration on the triangular gables. The chalet also displays elements of brittle decoration, characteristic of the Catalan Art Nouveau style. It was one of the first buildings to be constructed in the garden city of Ribes-Roges. In 1910, the first stone was laid, along with those of nine other chalets. This initiative was promoted by the Board of the "Empar de Santa Llúcia", a nursing home for the blind. The general project of the plot, as well as that of this building, was the carried out by the architect B. Pollés i Vivó.
  6. Villa Laguarda

    Bonaventura Pollés i Vivó

    Villa Laguarda

    It is a detached single-family building surrounded by a garden. The building is raised regarding the street level. It consists of a ground floor and a first floor and an attic. The house has several ground floor sections. The roofs are sloping and there is a protruding lookout tower with a square floor plan and a pavilion roof. The front part is semicircular and has a small porch with an upper terrace. It has an oratory attached to the side façade with a gable roof. The walls are made of common masonry and brick. The floor slabs are made of metal beams and tiled vaults. The roofs are made of wooden structure, brick and flat tiles. There are openings with lintels and also with semicircular arches with glazed ceramic floral ornamentation. There are exposed bricks at the corners. The eaves overhang the flat tile roof with glazed tile overlaps. There is a semicircular gallery with an upper terrace and a wooden railing. The old oratory is crowned by a cross.

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