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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2025 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2025 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:
2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse ViuExternal Collaborators:
2019-2025 Helena Cepeda Inès MartinelWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació Mies van der Rohe
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Basílica de la Sagrada Família
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EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
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Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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Church of Montserrat
Josep Firmat i Serramalera, Pere Samsó i Heres
Rectangular church with two corner façades. It has a nave covered with a vault divided by four main arches, with a sacristy and a chapel located behind the baptistery. The main façade is symmetrical with a semicircular access doorway with archivolts, the last of which is linked to the impost line. Above the doorway there is a rose window. The gable is crowned with a cornice and blind arches. The side façade has a series of openings that do not follow a uniform rhythm and there is also a section of blind arcade. 1887: Beginning of the construction. 1906: Blessing. 1909: Set on fire during the Tragic Week of Barcelona and rebuilt. 1932: Construction of the shrine. -
Casa Devant
Edifici d'habitatges entre mitgeres, fent xamfrà. Edifici que consta de soterrani, planta baixa, dos pisos i àtic retranquejat amb coberta, formant mansarda. Presenta planta asimètrica, amb dos cossos laterals de diferent llargària que s'articulen amb el cos de xamfrà. La façana en cantonada és simètrica, amb semi-rotondes als angles. Al primer pis balconada de ferro. Façanes laterals amb un ritme de balcons i finestres alternats, d'esquema vertical, ordenades regularment. Accés per la façana lateral més estreta. Ús de la pedra en la planta baixa i en els ornaments; en la resta de façana, totxo arrebossat imitant pedra de fil. Començament del segle XX: construcció. 1936: ampliació. -
Arderiu House in Manresa
A residential building between partitions on a corner, with a façade on two streets. It consists of a ground floor and four storeys, with a main body on the corner with a rounded grandstand at first and first floor level, and a round pavilion topped with a slate spherical dome. Two lateral wings are articulated in this body. The openings of the side wings are arranged according to vertical axes, with iron balconies and lowered arches in all of them. The stone cornice is supported by corbels and finished off with an attic. Monumental, neoclassical building with clear influences of French residential architecture. Construction began around 1910. -
Quiosc de l'Arpa
Quiosc d'estil modernista, que forma un conjunt harmònic amb la casa també modernista, "ca la Buresa", situada a la mateixa plaça. La seva tipologia és pròpia de principis de segle, moment en què les ciutats s'embelleixen fruit del desenvolupament econòmic i burgès. Es tracta d'una edificació aïllada, de reduïdes dimensions, que tenia i té per objecte la venda de diaris i revistes. És de planta quadrada, d'unes dimensions de 2,20 x 2'20m. i una alçada interior de 3,2m. La seva estructura té un aire classicitzant i s'han de distingir clarament tres parts: 1- un basament de pedra esculpida amb motius geomètrics i florals. 2- un cos de fusta i vidre, que resol la transició a la coberta mitjançant una franja d'ornamentació concebuda com a capitell. 3- constituïda per la coberta, amb volta de canó en forma de creu, d'alumini gofrat. Culmina la construcció un element treballat en ferro, que dóna esveltesa al conjunt. La data de construcció del quiosc és la del 20 d'abril del 1917, per la raó social "Salles i Amat". Substitueix a un anterior de fusta obra d'Ignasi Oms. El seu disseny segueix molt directament al del quiosc de l'Anís del Mono, emplaçat a l'estació de Badalona, projectat per Josep Puig i Cadafalch. El seu estat de conservació és molt bo, ja que recentment ha estat objecte de restauració. -
Director de Mines Chalet
Set of two semi-detached houses located in the middle of a garden with two floors and an attic. The ground plan is made up of three rectangles – a more elongated one to which two more are attached perpendicularly, forming a U-shape. The openings with lintels have a flush arch above them. In any case, there are many arched openings, such as the triforated windows in the gables of the attic or in the porch on the ground floor. Under the eaves, the decorative motif is a strip of white and blue glazed ceramic. The gabled roof is very pointed and has geometric decorative motifs on the ridge tiles, with a differentiation in colour. The chalets that were the homes of the mine managers began to be built in 1918. They form part of the Solvay workers' town concept. This was the headquarters of the CNT - FAI in 1936, and in June 1938 the permanent court of the eastern army was set up here. -
Kursaal Theatre
Passeig de Pere III was created in 1891 and is home to a number of high-quality Catalan Art Nouveau and Noucentista buildings. The Kursaal is a building set back from the street line and with its main façade opening onto an atrium. It has a ground floor and four upper floors, with a unitary and symmetrical composition. The atrium is defined by a single-storey perimeter porch, supported on pairs of columns with Ionic capitals and crowned by a balustrade. Access is through a classical-style grille with pillars topped by iron and glass street lamps. The façade has a central section with three vertical axes of windows, separated only by the sills. Those on the first and second floors are square and those on the third floor are semicircular arches. In the centre, crowning the building, is a tower centred on a columnar window and topped with a triangular pediment. The whole building is part of the Noucentista (1900-1914) movement of the time, in its classicist monumentalist aspect. Currently having been restored (2007) by the architects Joan Forgas and Víctor Argentí, it is the performing arts centre of Manresa, hosting theatre and concerts. The interior has been completely modified. Newspaper report on 21/02/2007 (El Periódico): Manresa was all dressed up last night for the inauguration of the emblematic Kursaal theatre. After 19 years of being closed, the theatre raised the curtain once again to offer a show prepared for the occasion, which brought it back to cultural life. The Minister of Culture, Joan Manuel Tresserras, attended the inauguration of the theatre, which, in the words of the mayor of the municipality, Josep Camprubí (PSC), should reinforce Manresa as the ‘cultural capital of central Catalonia’. INAGURATED IN 1927 The image of the theatre with the spotlights on and the stalls of the main auditorium full was the culmination of a long process of 11 years to refurbish the Kursaal, one of the star projects of the municipal tripartite. The theatre, on the central Passeig de Pere III, was first opened in 1927 and now, being located next to the Casino, a building that has been converted into a library and civic centre, it forms part of an enclave with a special cultural content. After a period of splendour, the theatre was closed in 1988 due to its dilapidation. “La revista Loco, boig musical Hall, Mary Sampere i la companyia d'El Molino” were the last performances. In 1995, a group of citizens set out to make Manresa a theatre-going town again and the association El Galliner was set up. Its first action was to sell 800 tickets for the hypothetical day the Kursaal would be reopened. The buyers were among the audience today at the double premiere - theatre and show - or will be attending the performances this week. 11.5 MILLION EUROS Today, the festival of Light in Manresa, the theatre will open its doors to the public so that they can see the restoration, which has cost 11.5 million euros financed by the town council and with subsidies from the regional government and the provincial council. The original façade has been preserved and inside there are now two auditoriums, one with 803 seats, including stalls and an amphitheatre, and the other with 200. and large-format orchestras’. Until now, most of the cultural programme was put on at the Conservatory Theatre, where El Galliner has made the most of its limited stage space. This association will be in charge of the Kursaal programme, and has already arranged performances by Lluís Llach, Joan Manuel Serrat, Manolo Escobar and theatre and dance premieres. The venue is managed by a municipal public company. -
Sagrada Familia's ‘Casas Baratas’ (Cheap Houses)
This is a group of nine single-family homes located on Carrer del Vallès. They are detached buildings, surrounded by a front garden and a back patio. Seven of them are single-storey and the other two, which are two-storey, are located at the ends. They are covered with composite Arabic tiles and have a gable roof and a prominent eave. They feature Renaissance and Baroque elements, such as the entrance porticoes with semicircular arches on Ionic columns, pergolas and undulating gables. Its volumetric similarity and aesthetic formalisation stand out, making it a unique complex, in total disagreement with the built environment of isolated blocks. The first stone of this group of houses was laid in 1926, and the works were completed in 1932. The developer of these houses was the Caixa d’Estalvis de Manresa and the builder was Antoni Munill. -
Valldaura Church
Antoni Calvet, Josep Firmat i Serramalera, Josep Torres Argullol
Stone building with a nave and side chapels connected by pointed arches. Gabled roof. The main façade is orderly and smooth, with a predominance of empty space over full space: a round-arched doorway and a large tripartite window that follows the line of the façade forming the steel. A polygonal tower with a pyramidal roof marks the corner and serves as a link to the flat side façade, with small openings and buttresses. The exterior design is different to the interior. The façades show certain Central European influences, which is not surprising if we consider that the interior was designed later by a younger architect. Inside, the nave is separated from the side chapels by transverse arches, which are lower on the ground floor and pointed on the upper floor. Polygonal apse. Heart in the front wall, at ground floor level. Wooden roof structure. Coated furniture. At the head of the church, above the altar, is the shrine of the Virgin.