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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
Fomento
AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
IEFC
Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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The Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya is one of the most important documentation centers in Europe, which houses the professional collections of more than 180 architects whose work is fundamental to understanding the history of Catalan architecture. By filling this form, you can request digital copies of the documents for which the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya manages the exploitation of the author's rights, as well as those in the public domain. Once the application has been made, the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya will send you an approximate budget, which varies in terms of each use and purpose.
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Canteens of the SEAT Automobile Factory
Manuel Barbero Rebolledo, Rafael de la Joya, César Ortiz-Echagüe
Located in the SEAT industrial complex, this building is conceived as a refuge to rescue workers from the monotony of work in the factory during the lunch break. Its comb-shaped organisation allows the formation of landscaped patios between the dining rooms and isolation from the industrial context. The opaque ends face the street; the glass façades open onto the interior patios creating a sequence of transparencies through the garden. The different elements of the project arise from the concept of standardisation: the rhythm of the façades is determined by the pillars and almost all the materials are dry assembled. The rigorous study of the details and the facilities provides an industrial aspect to the construction that contrasts with the organic forms of the urbanisation and the gardening. To reduce the stresses, since the land on which it was located was filled, an aluminum structure founded on floating reinforced concrete slabs was used. This was an innovation on an international scale, due to the use of a technology that until then had only been used in the aeronautical industry. In 1957 he was awarded the Reynolds Prize for buildings made of aluminum; The jury included Mies van der Rohe and W. M. Dudok. -
School of Apprentices and Offices Casting Workshop of the SEAT Automobile Factory
Manuel Barbero Rebolledo, Rafael de la Joya
The school is located on a corner of the Passseig de la Zona Franca, which is the access road to the SEAT facilities. This situation is resolved with two clearly differentiated volumes, which form a right angle and turn the corner into a garden access. The two volumes are linked by the core of access and vertical communications. The program is divided into three parts: a) foundry workshop, b) workshop offices, c) apprentice school. Given that the need to make possible changes had to be taken into account, the use of a reduced-size module was considered, which ended up being set at 1.60 x 1.60 metres. The structure of the building is mixed. The interior corridors are made of reinforced concrete and the exterior is made of brick, with reinforced concrete reinforcements and metallic elements in the windows. As for the façades, the front walls are made of exposed brick and the front ones are covered in white ceramic, with windows from end to end. The covers are also different. The one on the north block is made of metal structure saw teeth, covered with aluminum sheeting, while the one on the south block is a corrugated sheet of reinforced concrete.
