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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
IEFC
Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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Casa Robira
Casa envoltada per un jardí tancat amb una barana de ferro i pilars de maó. La casa s'estructura en tres cossos, un de central de planta i pis i dos de laterals de planta baixa. La façana principal del cos central presenta característiques modernistes. Les obertures, tres a cada planta, s'ornamenten amb ceràmica a les llindes. L'acabament de façana és de forma ondulada essent el centre més alt amb un rellotge de sol. Destaquen els terrats damunt dels cossos laterals amb barana de terracota. A l'interior és notable sobretot el menjador modernista (vegeu fitxa) i el celler amb volta de rajola, les pintures dels sostres i altres elements decoratius. Conjunt de mobles de menjador Bufet-trinxant amb taulell de marbre de color, miralls de lluna bisellada, calaixos i prestatges i un cos d'armari alt d'una porta amb prestatges a l'interior que acull un rellotge. Taula quadrada d'1,4 x 1,4 m, extensible fins a 1,4 x 3,14 m i dotze cadires de respatller molt alt i teixit de canya. Tot està realitzat en fusta de melis envernissada. També hi ha un llum metàl·lic amb elements repujats i un llum central que es completava amb una pantalla semiesfèrica de vidre decorat i tres braços en forma de llàntia. Van costar 898 ptes. (es conserva la factura original). Obres: 1902-1905 1902 es construeix la bodega, els cups, local de premses, local pels útils de llaurar i les quadres. El contractista d'obres era en Joan Canals. 1904 inici de les obres de la resta de l'edifici, de la tanca i del jardí. 1905 més de maig s'acaben les obres. Cost total de les dues fases : 35.000 pts. Propietari promotor: Pedro Rovira Casanovas -
Union of Casal Gelidenc
Large rectangular building covered by a gable roof and with two floors. The first has tiled vaults and the second one has a flat roof and "art déco" decoration. The extraordinary brightness due to the large windows and the longitudinal balcony on the left of the building, where the coat of arms of Catalonia appears on the railing - a motif that is repeated in the two attic windows, where on one of them has disappeared. -
Adoberia Sabater
L'edifici té dues parts: una la més elevada col·locada en l'angle dels dos carrers, continuat per la baixada Sant Nicolau; té planta i dos pisos i acaba amb terrat; l'altre col·locada al carrer, té planta i un pis i correspon a la part de la construcció que s'ha anat eixamplant sucessivament. El conjunt presenta en general una forma acastellada i sobretot un sentit ascendent donat pels eixos d'obertures. La importància d'aquesta construcció és deguda a la utilització del totxo como a únic element constructiu i la vegada decoratiu. Les obertures, angles, merlets, arc o dintells són sempre construïts amb totxo, aprofitant totes les seves possibilitats expressives que ens recorden el "neomudéjar". Es pot dir que l'autor coneixia perfectament la fàbrica "Casarramona" de Puig i Cadafalch projectada uns anys abans. Les formes emprades, el sentit ascendent unit al lloc d'ubicació, donen a l'edifici una sumptuositat i monumentalitat buscada i forçada que va tenir el seu ressò en l'àmbit popular anomenant-lo " la catedral dels blanquers". Aquest edifici fou la primera gran indústria adobera que es féu a Igualada. -
Riba House
House with a garden, initially isolated. It consists of a basement, ground floor, first floor and attic, under an Arabic tile gable roof. At the back there are porches and galleries. The ornamental terra cotta tiles are of interest. As a whole, it responds to the characteristics of the noucentista sensibility. Riba House was built by the architect Josep Ros i Ros. The project, which is kept in the archives of the Gelida Town Hall, dates from October 15, 1925. Initially it was an isolated building, but now it has an extension that connects it to the one next door. -
Ferrer i Salles Foundation Hospital
Ignasi Brugueras Llobet, Josep Ros i Ros
Isolated public building surrounded by a garden on the corner of Carrer Cesar Martinell and Carrer d’En Ferrer i Sallés. It has a T-shaped plan and it is accessed by a central front tower with a ground floor and two floors. The side wings have a ground floor, a floor and an attic. The gable roof is covered by Arabic tiles. The windows and doors show stepped lintels. Attic windows open on the roofs. It connects via an elevated walkway with the new floor building of the Casa dels Avis. What was supposed to be the old hospital located on Carrer Torres i Bages built from the donation of a piece of land by Josep Ferrer Sallés was never finished and finally in 1928 it was replaced by a new hospital. This hospital was commissioned in 1928 while the Manel Raventís square was being developed by the architect Ygnacio Brugueras. Three years later, Josep Ros i Ros collaborated there, designing the access, the stairs and the fence. Later, in 1956, the Hospital was expanded by annexing a new body, the project for which Moliner was responsible. The last intervention was in 2002 when Ramón Fuste Sitges designed an elevated walkway that connected to the Old People's Home after the conversion of the hospital into a residence for the elderly. In 1988 the Foundation was extinguished, and the City Council transferred management to the mutual insurance company La Aliança. -
Freixenet Winery
The original building is by the architect Josep Ros i Ros, who had already evolved from Modernism towards more contained and sober Noucentisme projects, takes on a character of great volumetric forcefulness for being an isolated building with a ground floor and three floors, the latter being designed as a gallery with a large barbican supported by beams. The gable roof is covered by Arabic tile. As it is an isolated building, the entire perimeter is conceived as a façade, both those facing the street and those facing the interior of the property. The perimeter is also protected by the inclusion of a fence that in what would be the main façade is based on iron splinters alternating with pillars and with the characteristic balls. The façade designed for visitors facing a small garden with a staircase, porch and a mixed gable that recalls vernacular architecture and houses a ceramic pediment with the decorative drawing of grapes and cava glasses, as well as the name of the brand, “Cavas Freixenet” stands out. Regarding the composition and treatment of the rest of the façades, the interplay of voids and fillings follows a symmetrical distribution with openings spaced apart and others with oval openings. Corresponding to the axes of symmetry we find balconies with iron beams on the first floor. The entire façade is stuccoed, except for the wide plinth treated in rustic walling. And with respect to the limits of each façade, there is the application of the quilting of stone ashlars that increase the sobriety of the whole and are in tune with the access openings based on semi-circular arches with stone voussoirs. It is an industrial complex dedicated to the exploitation and production of wine, with the brand "Freixenet, S.A.". As a production centre it was founded in 1861 and it was in 1914 when the production of sparkling wine began. Following the Barcelona International Exhibition, in 1929, they created a well-known icon with the so-called "Freixenet boy"; created by a German designer by order of Pere Ferrer Bosch, founder of the company.