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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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  1. Teresa Ametller House

    Lluís Bonet i Garí, Josep Sala Comas

    Teresa Ametller House

    The Agell House, due to its proportions, takes on a stately character. The typology adopted brings us closer to the characteristic of medieval palaces, since the square plan generates a courtyard in the middle and, around it, a gallery. The arrangement, on two of the building's flanks, of two towers that protrude from the volume recalls fortified palaces. The building, with two floors, has a hip roof of flat lace tiles, and with a barbican supported by panels. The semicircular porch that gives access to the entrance is surrounded by Ionic columns that support an open terrace on the first floor. On the opposite façade there is a porch terrace, on the central gable of which there is a relief of an almond tree, emblem of the original owner's family. The arrangement of the main access; the appearance of terraces and porches where Ionic columns alternate and, in others, semicircular arches, give the building certain medieval and, at the same time, classical echoes. In the openings, the application of sgraffitos with filigree details (the work of Joan Mirambell) and on one of the sides the arrangement of a built-in bench with the back of decorated tiles (the work of Francesc Domingo) have just given the building of a nineteenth-century character. This bench is tiled with ceramic borders and floral motifs, and at the top there are three designs. In the one in the centre, an almond tree with the inscription "L'Ametler, arbre de Catalunya" appears. The side drawings show a girl with a basket of flowers and a farmer. As it was an isolated tower, it was the architect Rubió i Tudurí who designed the extensive garden structured geometrically by topiary art, and let the eleven hectares of forest that surround the property grow more spontaneously. The tower was built on an extensive rustic property very close to the old chapel of Santa Elena d'Agell, mentioned already in the 10th century, and the Mas de "Ca l'Arnó", today called "Cals Frares" (1235), which for a few years was the manor of the property. Since the 18th century, the land was owned by the family of Teresa Amatller i Cros (1873-1960), daughter of the prestigious chocolatier, who was the promoter. A first project is due to Josep Sala i Comas, but in 1918, it was Lluís Bonet i Garí who took charge of it. In 1943, Antoni Amatller gave the house to the Women's Section, which used it for a hostel. Recently, the Generalitat de Catalunya acquired the house and conditioned it to function as a hostel for colonies. The works of rebuilding roofs, restoring and consolidating façades and adding a new building were directed by the architect Agapit Borràs. Currently, the building is part of the national network of social hostels in Catalonia.

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