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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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Basílica de la Sagrada Família
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Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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Arquitecte. Titulat el 1957. Entre les seves obres trobem el bloc d’habitatges “La Vinya” a la Zona Franca (1968), bloc d’habitatges al C. Lepant (1968), estació d’autobusos a Tarragona (1987), 4 habitatges unifamiliars a la platja de la Fosca (1987), l’ETSAV del Vallès (1992) o l’edifici Nexus I (1992) per al Campus Nord de la UPC.
Source: Arxiu Històric del COAC
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FAD Award
Shortlisted. Category: ArchitectureEdifici d'Habitatges Lepant 307La Vinya Housing Complex
Vicenç Bonet i Ferrer, Lluís Jara, Lluís Nadal Oller, Pere Puigdefàbregas Baserba
The guidelines of the project are determined by the desire to maintain the initial budget of the work. The same type of housing is repeated throughout the group, with variants in the fronts and at the corner between the two blocks. The window facing the street is always the same: the load-bearing brick wall is unloaded in a pyramidal shape, and the window frame is on the inside, painted in a bright colour and linked to the piece of protection, which is metallic and is painted in the same colour. The result is a smooth façade, enormously enriched by this singular element. The ground floor porch, made of concrete, creates lowered vaults reduced to linear profiles.FAD Award
Shortlisted. Category: ArchitectureLa Vinya Housing ComplexYxart House
Vicenç Bonet i Ferrer, Lluís Nadal Oller, Pere Puigdefàbregas Baserba
La proposta inicial consistia en tres blocs d’habitatges de planta aproximadament quadrada, d’alçàries diferents i escaires també diferents, que havien de ser determinants per completar la imatge de la cornisa de Tarragona des de distàncies i punts de vista ben diversos. Els dos blocs resultants tenen un mateix accés, pel passeig de Sant Antoni, un a mitja alçària i l’altre des de la coberta. La planta de tots dos blocs és diferent: el bloc més alt, a la banda oest, té dos habitatges per planta, amb un sol pati interior a la banda nord. L’altre bloc té quatre habitatges, tot mirant al sud, amb un pati al centre que serveix tots els habitatges. La implantació general i el disseny dels elements a petita escala estan pensats per donar continuïtat a una imatge de cornisa que encara es manté harmònica, gràcies a la regularitat tipològica i a la varietat de conjunt de les edificacions que l’han construït al llarg del temps.FAD Award
Shortlisted. Category: ArchitectureEdifici d'Habitatges Tres Torres 44-50Four Terraced Single-Family Dwellings
El programa de quatre habitatges per a quatre germans permet aplicar un criteri compositiu molt clar en un context marcat pel desordre propi de la colonització turística. Els habitatges, emplaçats en un solar en cantonada, s’obren en ventall i es disposen seriats. La distribució de les plantes baixes queda determinada per dos elements tipològicament insòlits: el petit pati de la part posterior i la col·locació de les escales a les mitgeres, que arrenquen de la façana i condueixen al centre de la planta superior. S’accedeix a l’espai comú del darrere per una petita porta situada al costat del rentamans, i els dormitoris s’obren a la façana del davant a través d’una terrassa segregada de la composició general. Les caixes cegues de les escales i un ràfec ampli i estret defineixen l’àmbit de cada habitatge. El conjunt es troba a sobre d’un moderat terraplè que l’aïlla del carrer i permet elevar suaument el punt de vista.Jacint Reventós Dwellings
The intention of the municipal commission of 1981 was to create a square in the northern half of the block between Carrer de la Nau, Carrer Argenteria, Carrer Manresa and Carrer Basea, taking advantage of the void caused by the previous rubble. In view of the uncomfortable presence of the two partitions caused by the demolition, the administration authorised the construction of a new residential building attached to the partitions and subordinated to the undulating envelope that intentionally shapes the square, in the manner of Álvaro Siza, as has been maliciously but rightly said.Bibliography (48)
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