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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

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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

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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. Pere Sitges Bassa House

    Eduard Ferrés i Puig

    Pere Sitges Bassa House

    Civil building. Construction with a ground floor, main floor, attic and a rooftop with a square tower that remains in the central part of the façade. Its interest lies in the refurbishment that took place at the end of the 19th century. It is characterised by the great profusion of ornamental sculptural elements that crown the openings (curiously none of them are of the same shape or size): breakwaters with shields, fleurons, garlands, human figures; imposts and capitals with floral and animal elements; animal gargoyles at the corners of the tower. The main floor is accessed via a two-flight staircase with sculpted handrails. The façade is decorated with sgraffito. There is a garden at the front of the house, enclosed with an iron gate also decorated with floral elements. It is one of the most characteristic buildings of Passeig de Vilassar. There is no date of construction, but in the photographs we can see that it was already built in 1898.
  2. Casa del Director de la Fàbrica Asland

    Eduard Ferrés i Puig, Lluís Homs i Moncusí

    Casa del Director de la Fàbrica Asland

    Edifici aïllat destinat a habitatge temporal dels successius directors de la fàbrica de ciment del clot del moro. És d'estil modernista d'arrel gaudiniana, sobretot visible en el tractament de la pedra, elements decoratius i disseny constructiu. La modulació de l'edifici és a partir d'un mòdul central rematat per uns elements decoratius a manera de merlets que sobresurten en tres cossos perpendiculars. A llevant l'entrada del xalet es fa a través de tres arcs parabòlics. El parament és de carreus de pedra combinant els colors blanc i verd de la ceràmica i la rajola de les teulades i també la fusta en alguns elements. Construcció del 1905 feta un cop acabada la fàbrica de ciment del Clot del moro, en aquell moment, la primera d'Espanya dedicada a l'obtenció de ciment Portland. EL Clot del Moro fou iniciativa d'E. Güell, primer comte de Güell, exponent clar de la iniciativa industrial de finals del s. XIX i principis del s. XX. El conjunt de la fàbrica és obre de l'arquitecte valencià Guastavino i el xalet, de l'arquitecte Eduard Ferrers Puig, sota la iniciativa d'E. Güell. La fàbrica fou tancada a mitjan dels setanta del s. XX. A finals de la mateixa dècada el xalet patí un incendi força devastador.
  3. Asland Factory Building

    Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company, Eduard Ferrés i Puig, Rafael Guastavino Moreno, Isidoro Pedraza de la Pascua, Ewing Wallace

    Asland Factory Building

    Va ser la primera factoria de la companyia Asland, fundada el 1901 per l’industrial i mecenes Eusebi Güell. Va començar a funcionar l’any 1903, i era la primera fàbrica del país que produïa ciment del tipus pòrtland. Es tracta d’una obra construïda en una disposició esglaonada o “en cascada”, al vessant dret del naixement del Llobregat. Aquesta disposició afavoria el procés de producció, per la seva proximitat als punts d’explotació de la primera matèria, i també permetia aprofitar l’energia hidràulica del riu. La fàbrica funcionava pel principi normal de la gravetat. A la part alta es recollia la marga i la calcària de les pedreres situades més amunt, i a la base s’obtenia el producte definitiu. Guastavino va utilitzar per a les construccions voltes a la catalana amb tirants, amb llums de 12 metres. Un petit ferrocarril de via estreta, amb vies de 60 centímetres d’amplada, connectava la fàbrica amb Berga i Manresa. La fàbrica va tancar l’any 1975.
  4. Villa Flora

    Eduard Ferrés i Puig

    Villa Flora

    Two-storey house from 1920 with a detached ground floor and a separate gate at the entrance. It has a very large garden which continues on the other side of the stream, with a large entrance gate. Inside the garden there are small temples, fountains and other architectural elements. The building has influences from different styles, as the author was a man who traveled a lot. The influence of the Vienna Secession stands out.
  5. Sant Josep Residence

    Eduard Ferrés i Puig

    Sant Josep Residence

    Building that borders the old Red Cross and the old Carmelite convent, now the parish of Sant Josep. It is part of the charity space that will be located in the city at the beginning of the 20th century. The building, owned by the City Council, follows the noucentista style, built in 1912 with modernist elements. The upper windows and the tribune at the entrance are worth noting, which give it a certain similarity with the building next door, by Puig i Cadafalch (Red Cross). Despite everything, the conception of the structure of the house responds to a much more rational, functional and institutionalised line. According to the Heritage Catalogue, where it is included, the façade and the volumes are protected, the interiors being subject to change. Sgrafittos Newly created on the façades, designed and made by the artist Parés de Mataró at the beginning of 1988 on the occasion of the renovation works on the interior and exterior of the building. The sgraffitos occupy approximately 600 m of drawing. When he was entrusted with the project, Parés made 4 preliminary designs, a moderate modernist one, one with flowers, a noucentista one and a simple one. The architect Martí Coll chose the first, the most flowery modernism. The motifs are basically flowers and waves, which can be seen in the borders that surround the building. On the west façade, the coat of arms of Catalonia and the staff of Sant Josep stand out, as the charity still depends on the parish. Like the building attached to the convent, the location of the municipal charity and the old people's asylum was granted to the city council in 1942. The origin of the asylum is due to a provision of the General Captain of the Principality, ordering all the towns to collect all the elderly and poor and give them shelter in 1836. The municipal buildings were insufficient, since there was a primary school for poor girls in the same place, and the current municipal charity of Sant Josep was built in 1912, with an entrance through the wall of Sant Llorenç.
  6. Concurs Anual d'Edificis i Establiments Urbans

    Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Arquitectura - Millor Establiment Construït
    Damians House

  7. Concurs Anual d'Edificis i Establiments Urbans

    Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Arquitectura - Millor Edifici Construït
    Casa Ferrer-Vidal

  8. Lladó Houses

    Eduard Ferrés i Puig

    Lladó Houses

    Set of houses that form a homogeneous group. All are single-family homes with a ground floor and have an exit or patio at the front and another at the back. In all of them, the top stands out; which, although it hides the roof, it is purely ornamental. None of them are the same: some feature crenellations, others sinuous lines in the form of waves, etc. All of them are sgraffito with garlands and floral motifs. Above the three openings of the façade there are several floral motifs. Above the three openings of the façade there are various types of breakwaters: garlands, cornices with antefixes, etc. All the houses have an identical grid that gives more homogeneity to the whole.
  9. Concurs Anual d'Edificis i Establiments Urbans

    Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Arquitectura - Nova Realització Industrial
    Hotel Ritz

  10. Vallcarca Viaduct

    Eduard Ferrés i Puig, Lluís Homs i Moncusí, Miquel Pascual i Tintorer

    Vallcarca Viaduct

    Bridge with a slab deck that spans the difference in level of the old Vallcarca stream, now the Avinguda del Hospital Militar, which ran between the Coll and Putxet hills. Since 1923, it has been the main access road to the Coll neighbourhood via Plaça de Mons and Avinguda Argentina, both for road and pedestrian traffic. For the time, it was a fairly advanced engineering work, as the structure was made of concrete reinforced with iron, a technique that made it possible to cement a complex work set in the banks of a stream. The supporting elements are covered with stone and exposed brick, forming semicircular balconies at the top, like a belvedere. In the space between the dividing walls there are relief decorations representing the coat of arms of Catalonia and Sant Jordi flanked by winged lions; above the railing decorated with geometric coffered ceilings there are also pinnacles in the Sezession style.

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