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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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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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Arquitecte. Titulat el 1952. Llicenciat també en Dret per la UB, membre de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans, professor de l’ETSAB des de 1956 i catedràtic d’urbanisme del 1965 .Rebé la Creu de Sant Jordi el 2001. Membre del Grup R. Va impulsar projectes en els àmbits de l'arquitectura, l'urbanisme i el paisatgisme com ara el Pla Especial de la Ronda de Dalt (1987), la Rambla del Carmel (1985), els Laboratoris Uriach i el Campus Universitari de la Vall d'Hebron

Source: Arxiu Històric del COAC

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  1. Casa per a Lluís Uriach Balari

    Manuel Ribas i Piera

    Casa per a Lluís Uriach Balari

    En un vast sector situat a prop del nucli urbà de l'Estartit, s'ha traçat un esquema viari format per un Passeig Marítim (en construcció), que segueix aproximadament la cota 4m i una carretera sobre la cota 20m. Totes dues donen accés a una zona de ciutat-jardí on es troba el solar que ens ocupa. El fort pendent d'aquest solar i l'excepcional panorama que des d'ell s'albira han condicionat d'una manera absoluta aquest projecte. L'habitatge es desenvolupa en tres volums esglaonats que allotgen les diferents dependències tal com s'aprecia als plànols. Aquests tres volums s'enllacen amb una escala segons la línia de màxim pendent. Se'n disposa a més d'una addicional, auxíliar, que des del rebedor condueix al garatge. Cap a la meitat de l'escala principal hi ha un distribuïdor amb accés directe des de l'exterior. La forma de l'edifici determina doncs: 1. Una terrassa descoberta, com a sala d'estar a l'aire lliure, sobre la coberta del garatge. 2. Un pati interior obert per un dels costats, que serveix de trànsit i ventilació de la cuina. 3. Un altre pati de servei, en lloc recollit, per estenedor de roba situat al costat de la mitgera de ponent. 4. Un espai inarticulat, davant del carrer, pla, i que antecedeix a l'edifici separant-lo convenientment de l'alineació viària. 5. Finalment la zona muntanyosa, a esquenes de la casa, i el tractament paisatgísti, el qual es deixa per a una etapa posterior. Els trams paral·lels a la carretera s'utilitzen com a suport dels forjats, que disposen de voladissos per evitar que el sol penetri excessivament a les estances. La construcció ha estat resolta amb elements i tècnica tradicionals al país.

  2. Nostra Senyora de Port Dispensary

    Manuel Ribas i Piera

    Nostra Senyora de Port Dispensary

    This is a project that clearly places Ribas i Piera as a founding member of Grup R, a group of Catalan architects that sought to rescue and give continuity to the architecture of the modern movement that had begun to develop during the Second Republic. It represents a faithful reflection of the constructive and compositional ideas of the CIAM and the GATCPAC: open floor plan, free façade, elongated windows and a very marked contrast between the white walls of the façades and the black carpentry. The building is located on a very irregular triangular plot and is functionally linked through the inner courtyard of the block with the parish of Nostra Senyora de Port, which manages it. This interior courtyard is more than half a floor below street level, which determines the section of the project: the upper floor is slightly higher than the street and is accessed by steps without a riser, while the lower floor is at the same level as the interior garden and appropriates the light from the street with windows at street level. The structure is made of steel pillars and girders with reinforced concrete beams and traditional ceramic vaults. The roof is made of asbestos cement and is ready to be transferred to the new floor proposed in the original project, which was never built.

  3. Escorial Apartment Building

    Josep Alemany i Barris, Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola, Josep Maria Martorell i Codina, Francesc Mitjans Miró, Antonio Perpiñá Sebriá, Josep Maria Ribas i Casas, Manuel Ribas i Piera

    Escorial Apartment Building

    The block has established the typical arrangement of buildings lined up along the surrounding streets with large building depths around a central courtyard, which is also buildable in part. The urban planning proposal consisted of breaking this closed scheme and opening up the interior as a public space related to the streets, trying, however, not to contradict the morphological reality of these streets. It was a question of combining three fundamental premises: to improve the hygienic conditions of dwellings in depth that occurred in traditional urbanisation; to integrate the public use of the inner spaces of the building, breaking the formal recidivism of the streets; to maintain, however, the urban character of the adjacent streets that belong to an urban network very characteristic of a Barcelona neighbourhood. That is why two linear buildings were organised following the alignment of two streets and the interior space was opened towards Escorial Street, which has a less local nature. The tall building that accumulates in height a large part of the buildability of the building was in the middle of this space. The housing types are adapted to the obvious general morphological requirement: the linear buildings group paired homes with access by stairs for each of them (of 80 and 90 m2), and the tall building corresponds to homes in two floors with access through longitudinal corridors, (100 m2). The exterior finish of the tall building is concrete and white tile and that of the low buildings is solid brick and ceramic lattices.

  4. FAD Award

    Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture
    Escorial Apartment Building

  5. Fàbrica Devesa

    Manuel Ribas i Piera

    Este complejo industrial está situado en una zona agrícola, rodeado de viñedos para la producción de vinos y cavas, y se completa con tres viviendas para el personal directivo permanente. La organización de las piezas va de atrás hacia adelante según las necesidades de la producción, dejando en primer término el edificio de la torre de trituración, donde acaba la elaboración y salen las mercancías. La presencia de esta torre permite identificar el complejo desde la carretera. Aunque no había ningún tipo de problemas para disponer de materiales como el hormigón armado y pretensado, se decidió construir el conjunto según los presupuestos del Grup R, que trataban de recuperar los materiales y los valores locales. Aunque se recurre a los valores de la construcción tradicional, los criterios de composición son extremadamente abstractos. El complejo viene caracterizado por la austeridad en el uso de los materiales y por la combinación de volúmenes prácticamente ciegos. El cuerpo vertical de la trituradora contrasta con el horizontal de la fábrica y aporta el elemento plástico principal al conjunto. Destaca la simplicidad y la abstracción en la composición de los huecos, que están sometidos a variaciones visuales muy refinadas.

  6. Complex Industrial per a Deves, S.A.

    Manuel Ribas i Piera

    Complex Industrial per a Deves, S.A.

  7. FAD Award

    Shortlisted. Category: Architecture
    Uriach Laboratories

  8. Cendrós House

    Manuel Ribas i Piera

    Cendrós House

    El programa inclou l’ús de la planta baixa per a locals comercials, un habitatge de lloguer i l’habitatge de la família propietària. Aquest darrer se situa a doble alçària a l’última planta, de manera que l’habitatge de lloguer queda a l’entresòl. Les dimensions estretes del solar i les complexes servituds de les circulacions fan que es disposin dues caixes d’escala jerarquitzades i s’opti per reservar espais compartits, com ara els dormitoris de tots dos habitatges o el garatge de la planta baixa. La configuració externa de la casa reflecteix el caràcter del programa, que ofereix una imatge insòlita entre els edificis dels voltants.

  9. Habitatges Marina

    Manuel Ribas i Piera

    Habitatges Marina

  10. Uriach Laboratories

    Manuel Ribas i Piera

    Uriach Laboratories

    The complex is located in an irregular area of Barcelona’s Eixample, where housing and industry are combined and it adjusts to the specific volumetry approved by the City Council in 1956, which was later retouched in 1961. The office tower, with a vertical component, is located in one of the corners of the block and is separated from the ground to mark the access. The laboratory block, with a horizontal and slightly curved composition, is set back from the street to create a parking lot protected by a small embankment. Subsequently, different extensions were made until the block was completed with facilities for industrial use. Currently, a rehabilitation of the complex is in the making, adapting the tower to housing and the block to offices. The set’s lightness and compositional freedom are due to the use of a metal structure that frees the walls from their load-bearing condition. This effect is amplified by the treatment of the façades, covered with white limestone, which enhances the surfaces as abstract planes. The vertical guidelines of the metal pillars meet the horizontal strips of glass in the same plane. Between 2002 and 2006, the building underwent important modifications to modify its use and house homes and offices, maintaining the volumetry and façades.

  11. Llibreria PPC

    Manuel Ribas i Piera

  12. Habitatges a la Vila Olímpica de Barcelona

    Manuel Ribas i Piera

    Habitatges a la Vila Olímpica de Barcelona

  13. District 3 Library

    Ravetllat-Ribas Arquitectes, Carles Casamor i Maldonado, Pere Joan Ravetllat i Mira, Manuel Ribas i Piera, Carme Ribas i Seix, Anna Ribas Seix

    District 3 Library

    Located between the street’s sidewalk and one of the paths projected for the park, the building aims to give meaning to the topographical difference between the street and the torrent’s esplanade. The proposal involves two stories in order to build one facing the park and recovers the roof as a public space on the city level, and another one on the city level on the street that becomes the main access and guarantees the visibility of the library from the city.

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  • Casa per a Lluís Uriach Balari

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    Casa per a Lluís Uriach Balari

    © Fons Manuel Ribas Piera / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Casa per a Lluís Uriach Balari

    Drawing

    Casa per a Lluís Uriach Balari

    © Fons Manuel Ribas Piera / Arxiu Històric del COAC

  • Casa per a Lluís Uriach Balari

    Drawing

    Casa per a Lluís Uriach Balari

    © Fons Manuel Ribas Piera / Arxiu Històric del COAC

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