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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 l’any 1917 a l’Escola d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, pioner de l’arquitectura esportiva a Catalunya, va participar en el disseny de l’Estadi Català a Montjuïc (1921 )i en el construcció de la piscina de l’Escullera del Club Natació Barcelona (1929). L’any 1931 s’associà al GATCPAC. Algunes de les obres d’aquest període són: l’Editorial Seix Barral (1930), La mútua Escolar Blanquerna (1933) o La Casa Sans (1936)

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  1. Rosales House

    Francesc Guàrdia i Vial, Jaume Mestres i Fossas

    Rosales House

    The building is made up of three distinct but interrelated bodies. It is a villa surrounded by a garden. The bodies have two or three storeys (the central one), covered with hipped roofs and with an eave supported by a wooden beam. The openings have straight or semi-circular arches. The gates or accesses to the garden stand out. The main doorway has a semicircular arch, voussoir-shaped and with stone imposts. On the main façade there is another doorway over which there is an overhang or balcony supported by columns with cylindrical shafts and a base and capitals with quarter-round mouldings. All the elements, harmoniously combined, contribute to giving the house a stately air: the quality of the materials, staircases, balconies and terraces, etc. A tower, with a hip roof, stands out on one of the lateral bodies. Tona began its expansion with the construction of the road to Barcelona and the discovery of sulphurous waters in 1874, which favoured the creation of several spas and the attraction of bourgeois foreigners, who enjoyed both curing illnesses and forming an enclave for cultural and leisure activities. On the extension of the Carrer Major - the old royal road from Barcelona to Vic - and the road, some islands with the characteristics of a garden city constitute a small enclave of summer towers, built between 1918 and 1923, when the Catalan Art Nouveau in decline and the plethoric noucentisme were blending together in a harmonious symbiosis of forms, composition and ornamentation. This house is one of the houses that the industrialist Joan Llussà i Duran had built at the beginning of the 20th century for himself and his family. It coincided with the improvement of communication routes, both by road and by train. This new infrastructure helped the great industrialists of Barcelona, such as Joan Llussà himself, Santiago Simon and Joan Maragall, the poet, to invest in construction or to spend long periods in Tona, increasing the prestige of the city.
  2. Ginestà House

    Jaume Mestres i Fossas

    Ginestà House

    Building located on the chamfer of Gaudí Avenue with Còrsega Street, between the Sagrada Família and the modernist Sant Pau complex. With a pentagonal plan and three houses per landing, it consists of a ground floor, seven landings and a flat roof. The main façade is that of the corner which takes a chamfered shape. In the centre of the ground floor there is the main door, flanked by a rectangular opening on both sides, corresponding to commercial premises. The upper floors are configured along three longitudinal axes. Three doors open in the central one, the middle one is in the same plane of the façade, but the lateral ones recede slightly towards the interior of the wall diagonally. In the lateral axes there is a quadrangular window on each side and a balcony with a strong cantilever; these balconies have rounded ends and follow the angle to end in the lateral façades. The façade is finished by eaves and a pyramidal crowning above. The two side façades are the same, with five longitudinal axes that on the ground floor correspond to the windows of the commercial premises and on the upper floors there are quadrangular openings except in one of the axes where there are semicircular balconies. The façades are finished with the eaves, which are a continuation of the main façade, and the closing wall of the roof. The balconies have a stone base and an iron railing. The facing of the walls is plastered and painted ochre. On the ground floor, the wall is decorated with grey bands in relief, while on the other floors the different levels are separated by a molding that traces the three façades at the height of the windowsills. This series of horizontal lines, together with the balconies and the crowning of the façade, create a plastic game of great dynamism in the building.
  3. Viladot House

    Jaume Mestres i Fossas

    Viladot House

    Building located on the corner between Avinguda Gaudí and Carrer de Castillejos, very close to the Hospital de Sant Pau. The site it occupies has an irregular pentagonal shape, with a very pronounced angle, which is a consequence of the morphology of Avinguda Gaudí, which breaks the squares of the Eixample in half. It has a ground floor, seven floors and a flat roof. It has three façades, two long ones and a narrow one that forms the chamfer. These three façades function as a unit with a central axis of symmetry. The ground floor is made up of large quadrangular openings that correspond to the commercial premises and the stone-covered facing. The upper floors are made up of a series of horizontal axes, marked by a fine moulding that runs along each floor at the height of the window sills. These horizontal lines are broken in the centre, where there is a row of small double balconies (except on the seventh floor where there is a rectangular window) and at the ends where there is a row of balconies on either side. The other openings are rectangular windows with rounded jambs. The façade is crowned with a large horizontal striped moulding that further emphasises the horizontality of the building. The facing is painted in a light colour except for the jambs of the openings and the mouldings, which are a darker colour. The interior is distributed with two flats per floor.
  4. Blanquerna School Group

    Jaume Mestres i Fossas

    Blanquerna School Group

    The Blanquerna Schools-Menéndez Pelayo Secondary School are located in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district, facing Via Augusta, on a quadrangular plot. It is a building between partitions which is very spacious and with a large front courtyard, following an "L" shape. It is a large building with a very diaphanous and repetitive structuring of the space, destined and oriented to educational uses. There is a great concern to achieve maximum luminosity in the interior. The ground floor houses the premises for the administration of the centre, as well as a large assembly hall and the gym. The rest of the floors are mainly used for classrooms. Another element that fits in well with the architectural functionality of the period is the collective use of the terraces. The different floors have a large horizontal component, with long openings with book shutters, which even affect the curved section of the building. This horizontality is only affected in one section, with vertical windows that run along the entire length of the façade. This point corresponds to the stairwell. The building has been extended in the south-east wing, where an almost mimetic body has been added, as well as new gym spaces to the west. The whole complex has been treated with a new coloured stucco which has nothing to do with the original, but which gives a unified appearance to the complex. The building is in a good state of conservation. The building was designed at the beginning of the 1930s to house the headquarters of the Blanquerna Mutua Escolar, which was used for kindergarten through to higher education. The conception of the building responds to the application of the criteria of European modernist architecture to the school buildings of the time. The building follows the principles of functionalist architecture: it has a clear entrance, the rooms face south, the collective spaces are on the ground floor and there are several terraces. The original project had a rounded body containing a double-height hall on the axis of Carrer Aribau. This building inaugurated the functionalist school construction of the 1930s. It was designed following the educational avant-garde criteria of Alexandre Galí and the criteria of the GATCPAC in the conception of teaching spaces. Sunshine, recreation and functionality were the new architectural values of schools in the 1930s.
  5. Jaume Sans Ribalta House

    Jaume Mestres i Fossas

    Jaume Sans Ribalta House

    Large building located in Molina Square, in the Sant Gervasi – Galvany neighbourhood, with 3 façades: the main one facing the square and two lateral ones that open onto Alfons XII and Balmes Streets. It consists of a ground floor, 6 floors and an attic. The three façades are articulated through a series of vertical and horizontal axes where the windows open following a regular rhythm. All the openings are rectangular but there are different sizes. The centre of the main façade is advanced in the form of a tribune that takes up the six floors of the building. The corners become two side-by-side polygonal towers, with rounded balconies in the centre that become a sash window to the attic. This façade shows great symmetry. The lateral façades maintain the regular rhythm of openings and also have a section of wall that goes forward like a tribune, but much narrower than that of the façade of Molina Square. The building was built with load-bearing pillars and brick walls, which freed it from load-bearing walls that allowed a free interior distribution. This building, although it was designed in a unitary way, was executed in two different phases as if they were two separate buildings: the one facing Balmes Street (finished in 1936) and the one on Alfons XII Street (finished in 1942).

Archive (7)

  • Cianotipia. Planta general de la pista de l'Autòdrom Terramar.

    Cianotipia

    Cianotipia. Planta general de la pista de l'Autòdrom Terramar.

    Fons Jaume Mestres i Fossas / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Cianotipia. Secció transversal de la pista de l'Autòdrom Terramar.

    Cianotipia

    Cianotipia. Secció transversal de la pista de l'Autòdrom Terramar.

    Fons Jaume Mestres i Fossas / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Cianotipia. Secció tribunes de l'Edifici de l'Autòdrom Terramar.

    Cianotipia

    Cianotipia. Secció tribunes de l'Edifici de l'Autòdrom Terramar.

    Fons Jaume Mestres i Fossas / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Drawing

    Perspectiva de les Llotges i de les Grades de l'Edifici de l'Autòdrom Terramar.

  • Cianotipia. Planta de les tribunes de l'Autòdrom Terramar.

    Cianotipia

    Cianotipia. Planta de les tribunes de l'Autòdrom Terramar.

    Fons Jaume Mestres i Fossas / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Perspectiva de l'Edifici de l'Autòdrom Terramar.

    Drawing

    Perspectiva de l'Edifici de l'Autòdrom Terramar.

    Fons Jaume Mestres i Fossas / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Cianotipia. Secció tribunes de l'Edifici de l'Autòdrom Terramar.

    Cianotipia

    Cianotipia. Secció tribunes de l'Edifici de l'Autòdrom Terramar.

    Fons Jaume Mestres i Fossas / Arxiu Històric del COAC

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