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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Perspectiva del Dispensari Antituberculós.
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- 1933 - 1938
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- Drawing
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- Fonds / Held by:
- Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Diorama del Pla Macià.
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- Date:
- 1932
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- Drawing
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- Fonds / Held by:
- Fons Josep Torres Clavé / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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- © Fons Josep Torres Clavé / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Barcelona 31/08/1906 - Els Omellons 12/01/1939. Títol d'arquitecte: 26 d'agost de 1929. Nascut en el si d'una família benestant fundadora de l'empresa Foment d'Obres i Construccions, es va quedar orfe de pare a l'edat de 8 anys, i el seu oncle el també l'arquitecte Jaume Torres Grau va intervenir directament en l'educació dels seus nebots, especialment amb en Josep. Durant la seva joventut va ser un gran aficionat a la pintura artística, va ser soci del Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc des dels 15 anys. Als 18 anys el 1924 inicia la carrera d'arquitectura on va conèixer a Josep Lluís Sert. La finalitza el 1929. El 1927 realitza un viatge d'estudis a Italià amb en Sert i Sixte Illescas que el marcaria profundament, i durant el qual, va decidir deixar la pintura. El 1929 participa a la famosa exposició de les Galeries Dalmau sobre arquitectura moderna. El 1930 es casa amb Mercè Torres Tort i el 1931 funda juntament amb altres arquitectes el GATCPAC i posa fi a la seva relació professional amb el seu tiet i sogre Jaume Torres Grau per associar-se amb en Josep Lluís Sert i Joan Baptista Subirana i Subirana. Va ser un dels membres més destacats del GATCPAC així com director de la revista AC i va participar directament a les reunions del CIAM a Atenes 1933, Moscou 1934, o La Sarraz 1936. El 1936 al esclatar la Guerra Civil, juntament amb altres companys crea el SAC (Sindicat d'Arquitectes de Catalunya), i va ser el seu Secretari General, també va intervenir en l'organització dels Serveis Tècnics de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona, Comissari de l'Escola d'Arquitectura per dur a terme un nou pla d'estudis vinculat al CENU (Consell de la Escola Nova Unificada). Fou Membre també del Comitè de la Comissió Mixta i Control de la Propietat Urbana. A la tardor del 1938 va ser mobilitzat a files i el 12 de gener va ser víctima mortal de la metralla de l’aviació estrangera. Un breu resum de la vida de Josep Torres Clavé seria que, tot i ser format dins un ambient absolutament acadèmic de l'alta burgesia catalana, ràpidament compartiria la ideologia avantguardista dins del GATCPAC i al final, adoptaria una postura radical i revolucionaria i esdevindria l'home clau en les transformacions que es van realitzar en el camp de l'arquitectura durant el període de la guerra civil.
Source: Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Josep Maria Folch i Torres School
GATCPAC, Josep Lluís Sert, Josep Torres Clavé
The Republican Generalitat was very sensitive to the GATCPAC proposal to define new standards that would facilitate the massive implementation of schools throughout Catalonia and some prototypes that responded to this objective began to be promoted. This is the case of the Folch i Torres School Group, which had been proposed as a prototype for early childhood education schools: it was conceived from a functional and repeatable module that allowed the schools to be sized and expanded depending on the number of students. This group was made up of two modules (two schools) that, anticipating a possible expansion, were built at one end of the site, leaving the sides free for the future connection. In the 1950s, an extension was made to the west façade, without respecting the original system of identical modules. The GATCPAC promoted a series of architectural concepts that had to be taken into account when building a school: space and furniture proportionate to the dimensions of the child, good orientation and easy connection of the classrooms with the outside, good ventilation and maximum lighting. The schools of Palau were built with these premises. -
Bloc House
GATCPAC, Josep Lluís Sert, Joan Baptista Subirana i Subirana, Josep Torres Clavé
It is a recreation of the proposal for à redent housing, formulated by Le Corbusier in 1922 for an urban fabric with a density of 300 inhabitants per hectare and luxurious housing. The GATCPAC project, aimed at social housing, also places the complex in a north-south direction, so that housing is always oriented to the south and east. Each home is accessed via a long, covered corridor that is always on the north and west side. The blocks, long and narrow, are solved with a metal structure of two passages. The ground floor has a covered terrace in front of the living room. Upstairs, each pair of bays has three bedrooms, so the central bedroom is compensated. The resulting density is 1,140 inhabitants per hectare, much lower than that of traditional urban fabrics on closed house squares. -
Tuberculosis Clinic
GATCPAC, Josep Lluís Sert, Joan Baptista Subirana i Subirana, Josep Torres Clavé
The building, intended to cover a sanitary need that was very common at the time, does not meet the street alignments but is organised into two parallel bodies oriented from east to west and articulated in an L shape. You enter the enclosure through a semi-public garden that gives direct access to both bodies. The block on the north side contains the surgeries, laboratories and archives. The body at the bottom of the site houses the conference room and the library on the upper floors. The layout of all the rooms, the circulation system and the treatment of the façades respond to a rigorous monitoring of the program and the solar abacus, regardless of the constraints of the location. It is a model of inserting the concepts of rationalism into a fabric that is not taken into account, and which is implicitly criticised for the strict functionality of the building itself.
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Perspectiva del Dispensari Antituberculós.
Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Diorama del Pla Macià.
© Fons Josep Torres Clavé / Arxiu Històric del COAC
