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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

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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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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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Arquitecte. Titulat el 1915, professor i catedràtic de l’Escola Superior de Arquitectura. Considerat un dels més prolífics arquitectes catalans de la primera meitat del segle XX. Realitzà entre d’altres l’edifici de “La Unión i el Fénix Español” (1931) al Pg. de Gràcia, el “Frare Negre” al carrer de Balmes (1940) o el “Banco Español de Crédito” (1947) a Pl. Catalunya. A Girona trobem l'edifici de Correus i Telègrafs (1920), conjuntament amb Enric Catà i Catà.

Source: Arxiu Històric del COAC

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  1. Seu de Correus a Girona

    Eusebi Bona i Puig, Enric Catà i Catà

    Seu de Correus a Girona

    Un concurs de projectes en el qual també va participar R. Masó decantà l’encàrrec a favor de l’associació del novell Bona amb un llavors noucentista Catà. De Masó, un i altre en van recollir el coronament amb cúpula derivada a cilíndrica, lluent i revestida de rajola de València. L’edifici ignora estilísticament l’esmorteït neoclàssic de la plaça de Sant Agustí, encara que hi obre un porxo a la cantonada, repetit a l’altre extrem per tal d’equilibrar el basament. Si bé hi destaquen el gran ordre central, amb arc triomfal inscrit, i altres recursos emblemàtics del monumentalisme, l’interès se centra principalment en la fàbrica i la cal·ligrafia de la façana, on l’encuny esquemàtic d’ordres clàssics, en un joc molt pla sobre rajol, innova realment el llenguatge i el ritme arquitectònics. Els entresolats i altres (i nombroses) alteracions fan poc reconeixedora l’estimable estructuració de l’organisme.

  2. Pathé Palace

    Eusebi Bona i Puig

    Pathé Palace

  3. Royal Palace of Pedralbes

    Eusebi Bona i Puig, Francesc de Paula Nebot i Torrens

    Royal Palace of Pedralbes

    The palace, located at the entrance of Barcelona, next to Diagonal Avenue, consists of a central body of four floors, with a chapel at the back, and two side wings, three stories high, which open on the main façade in a curved shape. The exterior reflects the historicist aesthetic, with a taste between neoclassicism and noucentisme, prevailing at the time of its construction: porches of Tuscan columns, semicircular arch openings with medallions interspersed (on the side façades), and crowning vases. The interior, on the other hand, is a popular mix of different styles, both in the decoration of walls and ceilings and in the furniture, ranging from Louis XIV to the most contemporary, to English and Dutch furniture. One of the rooms is decorated with paintings by Francesc Pla, "el Vigatà", from the palace of the Marquis of Montsolís. The Palau de Pedralbes was built between 1920 and 1924 as a royal residence, on land donated by the Güell family to Les Corts de Sarrià. The old Güell tower was completely modified by the architects Eusebi Bona, author of the project, and Francesc de P. Nebot, who directed the works from mid 1923. The palace was not completely finished until 1929. Salvador Alarma, the set designer and decorator, Santiago Marco, Rafael Parcerisas, Francesc Labarta and the architect Sagnier himself worked on its decoration. The garden was designed by Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí between 1925 and 1927 from pre-existing vegetation. When the Republic was proclaimed, the palace became property of the Barcelona City Council, which installed the Museum of Decorative Arts (1932). From 1939 it was the residence of General Franco in Barcelona, and in 1960 it was opened to the public. The Stables Pavilion has housed the Carriage Museum since 1970.

  4. El Pinar

    Eusebi Bona i Puig

  5. Pavelló de Hispano-Suiza

    Eusebi Bona i Puig

  6. Palau de Projeccions

    Francisco Aznar Sanjurjo, Eusebi Bona i Puig

  7. La Unión y El Fénix Español Building

    Eusebi Bona i Puig

    La Unión y El Fénix Español Building

  8. El Frare Negre Residential Complex

    Eusebi Bona i Puig

    El Frare Negre Residential Complex

  9. Remodelling of Heribert Pons House

    Eusebi Bona i Puig

  10. Pirelli Commercial Premises

    Eusebi Bona i Puig

    Pirelli Commercial Premises

    Eusebi Bona was a professor at the Barcelona School of Architecture between 1922 and 1960. He was a representative of monumental architecture, with projects such as La Unión y el Fénix (1930) and the Spanish Credit Bank (1942-1947), which were all resolved with a neoclassical language. However, among his works, some projects of a markedly rationalist nature stand out, such as the Nestlé office building (1934-1935) on Aragó Street and the Pirelli office building (1948) on Gran Via. In both buildings, an abstraction process is carried out that tends to the purest and most functional forms of rationalism, but still supported under a tripartite structure and a symmetry typical of classical culture. The Nestlé building's façade is from the 1930s, battered and painted dark brown like the GATCPAC buildings, with large voids taking up most of the surface area. On the other hand, the façade of the Pirelli building is resolved with a system of grey granite mullions which allow the glass surface to be increased and provide the appearance of a curtain wall. The central body of this façade stands out from the background thanks to a small projection that turns it into an abstract element, oblivious to the particularities of the building's connections with the ground, the sky and the neighbours.

  11. Banco Español de Crédito

    Eusebi Bona i Puig

    Banco Español de Crédito

  12. Former Nestlé Commercial Building

    Eusebi Bona i Puig

    Former Nestlé Commercial Building

    Building between partitions located on Carrer Aragó, between Rambla de Catalunya and Carrer de Balmes. It consists of a ground floor, six floors and a flat roof. On the ground floor there are five symmetrical openings, with the main door in the centre framed by a flat moulding, a rectangular window on either side and large doors at the ends. The upper floors are pierced by large horizontal tripartite windows that follow the same vertical axes as the ground floor openings. The wall of the last floor is set back with respect to the façade, leaving a terrace in front with some smooth columns that support the eaves of the roof. The fact that this wall is set back and that the roof has a slight overhang creates a game of light and shadows on the façade. As the only decoration, you can see that the wall occupied by the three central axes is slightly advanced as if it were a pilaster crowned with a thin cornice. A smooth moulding separates the fourth floor from the fifth. Building commissioned by Nestlé to house its offices. Between 1934 and 1935, the building was built, consisting of a ground floor and four floors, but in 1957 an extension was made where two more floors were added. In 1982, the architects Gelpí, Henry and Rovira carried out a general refurbishment in order to accommodate Government offices.

  13. Seu del Banco Español de Crédito a Girona

    Eusebi Bona i Puig

    Seu del Banco Español de Crédito a Girona

    L’empordanès Bona, que el 1916 ja havia construït un joc de calcària i rajola a la Gran Via (Correus), encarà l’edifici bancari i administratiu mitjançant dos cossos diferenciats que sostenen una rica relació amb les alineacions. L’esquematisme general no empobreix una clara composició geomètrica de gran regularitat i escala, coronada eficaçment pel ràfec de formigó i sustentada en l’extradós pels cossos de fàbrica.

  14. Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB)

    Eusebi Bona i Puig, Pelayo Martínez Paricio, José M. Segarra Solsona

    Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB)

Archive

  • Perspectiva de l'Edifici de la Unión y El Fénix Español.

    Drawing

    Perspectiva de l'Edifici de la Unión y El Fénix Español.

    © Fons Eusebi Bona i Puig / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Banco Español de Crédito

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    Banco Español de Crédito

    © Fons MBM / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Perspectiva del vestíbul i del saló públic del Banco Español de Crédito

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    Perspectiva del vestíbul i del saló públic del Banco Español de Crédito

    © Fons Eusebi Bona i Puig / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Perspectiva del Banco Español de Crédito

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    Perspectiva del Banco Español de Crédito

    © Fons Eusebi Bona i Puig / Arxiu Històric del COAC

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