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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

    Jeroni Ferran Granell i Manresa

    Casa Granell

    Located in the Eixample district, the Jeroni Francesc Granell House is a building between partitions that is located on the block of houses bounded by Girona, Mallorca, Bailèn and València Streets. It has a single exterior façade facing Girona Street, from where the main access takes place, and an interior façade facing the courtyard of the block. With a rectangular plan, the vertical structure of this neighbour's house includes a ground floor with a semi-basement and mezzanine, five floors and a passable roof. The main entrance gives way to a long hall area which gives way to the neighbours’ staircase and the rear courtyard of the building. The façade structures its openings in four vertical axes of regular rhythm, forming an axial composition around a central body formed by two axes of paired windows and two lateral bodies formed by a line of simple balconies. The ground floor, which also includes a semi-basement and mezzanine, is configured as a Montjuïc stone basement. The main access to the estate is at the southern end of the façade, closed by a solid oak door and a coloured stained glass overdoor. The openings of this plinth have their jambs, sills and lintels surrounded by a sinuous moulding. From the first floor, the central body of the façade is covered with green and pink sgraffitos, drawing complex and varied plant motifs based on five-pointed leaves. On each of the floors, both the balconies and the paired windows that open onto the street have their stone frames forming sinuous curved decorations moulded on the over-doors. The balconies, which are only located in the two bodies that vertically flank the façade, have rectangular stone slabs with rounded corners and a wrought iron railing. Each of these openings has its original closures, consisting of windows decorated with stained glass and pink porticos. The cornice, consisting of a double moulding of work containing small quadrangular breathers, stands out for its curved shape. All in all, this façade is a compendium of various ornamental solutions typical of modernism inspired by flowers and rockery. The lobby is the space that gives access to the property and distributes its various horizontal properties. It is accessed through the main door vestibule, an elongated space of rectangular plan with marble floors and gilt marble-clad handrails and green glazed ceramic stems. A sgraffito decoration based on floral borders in the form of interlaced Hispanic irises appears on these wainscots. The lobby ceilings stand out for their decoration in polychrome stucco, based on floral prints and bouquets of Hispanic irises and peacock feathers. The staircase that leads to the mezzanine is at the back of this hall, where the cellar containing the neighbours' staircase and the elevator is located, profusely ornamented with sgraffitos. This building was designed by Jeroni Francesc Granell i Manresa in 1901 and was completed in 1903. The architect conceived his own house as a multi-family property that allowed him to extract income by applying rental regimes. Apparently, Granell was not only the owner and architect of the building, but also the builder and supplier of the stained-glass windows that decorate the openings, through his company Rigalt i Granell.
  2. Elisa Bremon d'Espina House

    Jeroni Ferran Granell i Manresa

    Elisa Bremon d'Espina House

    The Elisa Bremon de Espina house is located in Carrer de Gran de Gràcia, on a narrow rectangular plot. It is a building between partitions, consisting of a ground floor with two commercial premises located on both sides of the entrance door of the building, as well as four floors of flats and a terrace on the top floor. The façade, which has been preserved practically intact, is structured around a central axis presided over by a large vertical tribune covering the first two floors. On either side of this composition we can find independent balconies with little aerial development and a slightly lobed floor plan. The third floor breaks with this vertical dynamic, as it has a single continuous balcony onto which the three existing windows open. In this last step, the balcony is not undulating but rectilinear. The façade was designed in the personal and spectacular modernist style of Jeroni Granell. Its particular outline is manifested in the undulating crown divided into three bodies separated by two-lobed forms. The ironwork of the balconies has a type of descending grid with occasional floral motifs. The woodwork of the door has partial floral motifs and soft lines, very similar to those of the frieze that crowns it. The sculpted decoration on all the doors and balconies is noteworthy, with floral motifs on the balconies and on the tribune, where the motifs of undulating lines and spirals stand out. This large tribune is the façade of the first two floors, but the polychrome stained-glass windows are no longer there. On the top floor, the ironwork of the balcony stands out for its more regular shapes.

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