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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental 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 OrnaqueCollaborators:
2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse ViuExternal Collaborators:
2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès MartinelWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació 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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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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Lluís Sala House
Gaudí is required in this case to completely transform the image of an already existing house, while freely incorporating new structural concepts, naturalistic references, all kinds of symbolism and abstract ornamentation. The addition of a new floor allows the façade to be crowned asymmetrically, taking into account the presence of the Amatller house next to it, which already exists. The main floor incorporates naturalism in the supporting structure itself, while the attics allow the introduction of the parabolic vaults, already rehearsed previously. The collaboration of Josep Maria Jujol brings greater freedom in working with the materials and in the intensity of the effects. The two façades, front and back, undulate like two curtains. We can consider it Gaudí's first mature work, where he achieves a surprising synthesis between the structural materiality of the building and the dreamlike nature of the multiple suggestions that we can find everywhere. -
Església de Sant Esteve de Castellar del Vallès
Joan Martorell Montells, Emili Sala Cortés
Edifici neogòtic de grans proporcions amb una nau central i dues laterals. Les estructures segueixen els elements propis del gòtic francès: planta de creu llatina, arc i volta d'ogiva, gran funcionalitat, existència de contraforts, campanar d'agulla i simplicitat decorativa. La façana principal té una porta amb timpà ogival decorat amb relleus i gablet amb pinacle superior. Al centre de la façana hi ha una gran rosassa calada. El coronament és a dues vessants i amb pinacles als extrems. -
Joan Grau i Ponsoda House
Civil building. The complex is made up of three bodies: a central one, which consists of a ground floor and a main floor, and two lateral ones with a single floor. The building is based on a plinth of masonry. The openings are rectangular and are framed by a lintel where there are sculpted ceramic buttons and other typical details of modernist decoration. The three buildings that make up the complex are topped by a gable of sinuous shapes. The openings of one of the lateral bodies are protected by a wrought iron grating. -
Mercè Pla Masgrau House
Detached single-family house with a party wall to the north. It consists of a basement, ground floor and attic. Encircled openings, lintel with pediment arch and rectangular encirclement. Gable roof. There are modernist details in the ceramic balustrade of the entrance gallery... The pilasters that frame the gable are decorated with vegetal reliefs. The balcony and the ceramic panel are surrounded by a border of vegetal reliefs. As a characteristic element, we should highlight an allegorical ceramic mural of the Virgin of Montserrat, surrounded by two pilasters that also frame the balcony on the ground floor. In 1914, a remodelling was made: a gallery and south-facing pediment were added. Extension of the building to the northern party wall and entrance door and balcony railing. The works were carried out following the project of the architect Emili Sala Cortés, while the owner was Mrs. Dolors Veguer de Feliu. The building was already the work of Emili Sala in 1886.