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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2025 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

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2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

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2019-2025 Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel

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  1. Casa del Guarda del Mas Noguera

    Marcel·lí Coquillat i Llofriu, Ignasi Oms i Ponsa

    Casa del Guarda del Mas Noguera

    Casa d'estiueig, d'estil modernista. Presenta planta rectangular, amb planta baixa, planta primera i golfes. Té coberta de doble vessant, de tipus nòrdic (amb el carener perpendicular a la façana principal, però retallat de forma descendent), de petites teules vermelles. Les façanes estan pintades d'un to salmó, i les finestres es troben emmarcades amb maó vermell i decorades amb una sanefa de ceràmica verda i blanca. A la façana principal, a ponent, hi ha la porta d'entrada i dues finestres enreixades a la planta baixa. A la planta primera hi ha tres finestres molt allargades. La central dona a un balcó; està flanquejada per falses obertures a cada costat, de la mateixa mida. A la planta segona hi ha una obertura amb tres arcs correguts de mig punt. A la planta primera d'una de les façanes laterals hi ha una terrassa amb columnes salomòniques fetes amb maó. Casa modernista i de prestigi construïda com a casa d'estiueig o segona residència per un pròsper burgés, tal vegada de Manresa, a principis del segle XX. Segons el Catàleg de Masies, podria ser obra de l'arquitecte manresà Ignasi Oms. L'insigne arquitecte Ignasi Oms Ponsa (1863-1914), deixeble de Doménech i Muntaner, i responsable dels edificis modernistes més notables de Manresa (el Casino, l'Escorxador, casa Lluvià, Casa Torra, Casa Torrents, Ca la Buresa, la Florinda ...) va rebre l'encàrrec, el 1901, de remodelar la mansió veïna de Can Gallifa, obra que no va acabar en persona. No sabem si el fet d'adjudicar l'autoria del Xalet a Oms és més per la proximitat de can Gallifa que a dades documentals fefaents.
  2. Can Ginestar

    Marcel·lí Coquillat i Llofriu

    Can Ginestar

    Only the cellar remains of the original country house, as it was completely renovated. The rehabilitation of 1904 destroyed the beautiful architectural lines that it possessed, characteristics of the Catalan manor house, despite the remarkable interest formed by the final result, classifiable within the Catalan Art Nouveau current of medievalist orientation. It should even be noted that the pre-existing scheme is clearly maintained with a central body of three frames, to which the chapel on the right and a body completed by a gallery on the left are added. The house is in the middle of a garden surrounded by a winding wall. The resulting set contains a large number of elements of medieval reminiscence. It has interesting internal decorative elements, among which the beautiful ceramic details, added in the last refurbishment, and the beams from 1904 stand out. On the ground floor there is a lintel from 1403 and inside another from 1669. While on the first floor there is one from 1703 and crowning the building the one from 1904. In 1904, the rehabilitation project was carried out by Joan Bta. Modolell. It consists of demolition works and reconstruction of the entire hall that contains the gallery, as well as the one-metre elevation of the central part of the roof and the construction of the chapel and the fence wall. It also includes the repairs of the façades.
  3. Can Bordoi

    Marcel·lí Coquillat i Llofriu

    Can Bordoi

    Noucentista complex by Marcel·lí Coquillat located around a farmhouse from the 16th - 18th centuries. The farmhouse is a three-bay building with a double-sloped roof and ridge perpendicular to the façade with an added body at the back covered with a double slope and off-centre ridge. It has a ground floor, main floor and attic with a symmetrical composition of the openings. The portal, located in the centre, is vaulted and accessed via a five-step semicircular staircase. It is accompanied on both sides by two stone windows, the one on the right is molded and has a sill. On the first floor two molded stone windows open on each side with a central balcony covered with a small gabled roof and an almond-shaped sundial. In the attic you can see three openings of recent manufacture. To the right of the farmhouse, we can find the 19th century tower. It is a quadrangular building with a built-up roof. In the central part a square lookout tower stands with a roof on four sides and watchtowers at the top crowned with pinnacles. A glazed gallery of undulating shapes protrudes from the main facade, which is accessed by a staircase of eight semicircular steps. The roof constitutes the balcony of the first floor. On the east façade, a semicircular body protrudes, the roof of which serves as a balcony with a side opening. The rest of the openings combine rectangular and compound shapes. A rectangular body is attached to the rear façade which serves as a first-floor terrace. The wide wooden eaves crowned by an acroterium at the top of the ridge should be highlighted. To the left of the farmhouse there are the stables. It is a double building with a U-shaped front body with a ground floor covered on one side. On one of the sides a polygonal tower stands with a pavilion roof. In the centre, a large wooden door covered with a gabled roof gives way to an L-shaped rear body covered with gables with the ridge running parallel to the façade. In the north corner there is a second tower with similar characteristics to that of the previous body but with a circular plan. All these structures are located on a terrace delimited by masonry walls covered with stone and crowned by a balustrade of wavy shapes. The east side of the wall is crowned by a profusely decorated wrought iron trellis. In the north-eastern corner of the enclosure there is a viewpoint with a circular plan which is accessed by a staircase attached to the wall that takes the form of a curve. It is made with the same construction equipment as the fence, covered with a metal structure in the form of a pergola with a tiled roof placed in the form of scales. Outside the complex there is the chapel, which is part of a garden area. It is a single nave building with a gabled roof preceded by a large porch of lesser height and a gabled roof with a large central opening of a semi-circular arch and buttresses at the corners. At the back there is the apse, pentagonal in plan and lower in height with a composite roof. Can Bordoi is a farmhouse documented in the 13th century. It is mentioned in the 1553 census as "en Bordoy". The noucentista work is a commission from Josep Comas i Masferrer (1842 - 1908), a Catalan industrialist and politician, founder of the Monarch Liberal Circle, deputy and provincial senator for Barcelona and president of the Barcelona City Council. It is believed that the building was built by the architect Marcel·lí Coquillat, because there is a plan of an architectural element of the garden not built but signed by him. The whole set is of a stylistic homogeneity that suggests a single author.
  4. Elias Valero House

    Marcel·lí Coquillat i Llofriu, Santiago Güell i Grau

    Elias Valero House

    House that takes up an entire end of the block, with three sides facing the street and the fourth acting as a party wall. It has a ground floor and two landings. A ground-floor stands at the corner of the boulevard with Plaça de Llorens i Barba, a three-storey tower with a pavilion roof, which forms part of the image of the boulevard. The side gallery with roof is interesting. The asymmetrical composition of the façades combines elements of various styles: "revival" windows, modernist mouldings, noucentist balustrades, etc., that insert the work into the eclectic current of the beginning of the century. The Elias Valero House project is shared by the architects Santiago Güell and M. Coquisllat. The work plans were presented on July 19, 1910. Since 1985 it has been the seat of the Berger Balaguer Forum.
  5. Manso Noguera

    Marcel·lí Coquillat i Llofriu, Ignasi Oms i Ponsa

    Manso Noguera

    This Catalan Art Nouveau house of considerable size is the initial work of Ignasi Oms. It is structured in different bodies. The whole forms a closed enclosure. The load-bearing walls are made of stone. The building has multiple façades; in general, the different sections are rectangular in plan. The roofs are gable-roofed, with a red roof and moulded eaves. The main façades have a ground floor and three upper floors, plus a possibly fitted-out attic. The openings are decorated with ceramics and wrought iron. At one end of the north façade there is a tower crowned with battlements, and on the south façade, at the corner, there is another circular tower, this one topped with a pinnacle. Also noteworthy are the numerous galleries, balconies and sgraffito work on the north façade of the Casal. The exterior is full of ceramic elements, stone reliefs, openwork railings and sgraffito with floral motifs, although the façade is entirely of continuous cladding, with the main door framed in stone, as is the fountain located at the midpoint of the body below the corridor gallery. The openings are closed with wooden shutters and some of them have undulating shapes in a markedly Art Nouveau style, although most are perfectly rectangular. There are also a number of modern-built cutleries. Some of them served when the house was a restaurant and hotel. The caretaker's house has artistically executed façades that combine red, green and white ceramics and continuous cladding. The house called Cal Noguera (which could have an ancient origin, at least from the 16th century) was acquired in 1862 by the Manresa industrialist Francesc Gallifa i Parera in La Seu de Manresa, which he had taken over due to indebtedness of the Noguera family. From then on it was known as Torre de Cal Gallifa, although the current owner recovered and promoted the name of La Noguera (the façade bears the sign ‘Manso Noguera’). The installation of the Gallifa family in Rajadell had great repercussions, as they were one of the main industrial families of Manresa. The distinguished architect Ignasi Oms Ponsa (1863-1914), a disciple of Domènech i Montaner, and responsible for the most notable Catalan Art Nouveau buildings in Manresa (the Casino, the Slaughterhouse, Casa Lluvià, Casa Torra, Casa Torrents, Ca la Buresa, la Florinda...) was commissioned by the Gallifa family in 1901 to remodel the house. In 1914, following the death of Ignasi Oms, the Valencian architect Marcel·lí Coquillat (Elche, 1865 - Busot 1924), who studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture, took charge of the work. The works were carried out between 1901 and 1920. Ignasi Oms planned the renovation of the ancestral home, to which he attached a new building with a ground floor and two storeys, with a basilica section, large windows and a two-storey circular tower at the right end of the south façade, covered by a conical dome. Marcel·lí Coquillat undertook the extension work in 1914-1915, modifying Ignasi Oms' original project and building an additional storey on the manor house. He also designed the corridor gallery, the sharecropper’s house, the caretaker's house and, finally (1922), the chapel; but always maintaining, to a large extent, the style and functionality marked by Oms, seeking to blend the architecture into the landscape and to take advantage of natural light and ventilation. It is possible that the Manresa architect Alexandre Soler March (1874-1949), also a disciple of Domènech i Montaner, had previously carried out an initial remodelling at the end of the 19th century, with gardens and buildings of neo-Gothic and neoclassical inspiration, before Oms' remodelling at the beginning of the 20th century. During the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Can Gallifa was reconverted into La Llar de l’Infant, where children who were refugees and/or orphans because of the war were taken in. It is also known as Torre de Can Gallifa or La Noguera. It appears in the Catalogue of Country Houses and Rural Houses 2014 (num. 51) with the name of La Noguera (in the Catalogue of Protected Assets, which includes other properties, it receives the same name; according to this catalogue, it is BCIL and would also be AEA, Area of Archaeological Expectation). Inside, the vestibule with its great vault on columns and the main staircase, highly ornamented with plant motifs, the richness of the floors, the woodwork and even the elements of the furniture are worth highlighting. Can Gallifa and its natural surroundings constitute a residential complex of great architectural and landscape interest. The chapel of the Virgin of the Angels of Can Gallifa (sheet 15), built by Marcel·lí Coquillat, stands in a separate building. The Girada fountain, built by the Gallifa family, is 700 m south of the mansion and has noteworthy Catalan Art Nouveau elements (card 392). Until recently, Can Gallifa was used not only for residential purposes, but also as a restaurant and hotel (now closed). Hotel and restaurant were independent of each other. The hotel was called Manso-Noguera and was luxurious. It had 12 double rooms (including two suites) decorated with antique furniture. Carles Pressegué's restaurant offered signature cuisine. The manor house has 80.000m2 of garden and is surrounded by trees, with wide views of the tramontana. The doll's house is remarkable. The estate has a heliport. The Gallifa family sold the estate and since 2010 it belongs to the Tous family of jewellers. The mill of Can Gallifa (card 123), located one km west of the country house, was built by Gallifa in 1910, as an inscription indicates. It was used to bring water to some reservoirs, and from these, the water flowed to Can Gallifa. Since 2020, it has not been possible to access the estate. The description corresponds to the PEP 1993, the Masies Catalogue 2014 and other bibliographical sources. Photo 2 is taken from the website Conocer Catalunya and photo 3 - which corresponds to the Torre del Guarda - is taken from the website Barcelona Modernista.
  6. Casino Borràs

    Marcel·lí Coquillat i Llofriu

    Edifici entre mitgeres, de planta rectangular i tres nivells, format per tres cossos verticals: dos laterals (Sala Polivalent - Sala Teatre) i un central, que separa i distribueix (caixa d'escala). La coberta de les sales és a dues aigües amb carener perpendicular a la façana principal; a l'escala, en canvi, és plana i amb terrassa. El parament, a base de maó arrebossat i pintat, és de carreus ben escairats i amb sòcol buixardat al cos central; i llis en els cossos laterals. El coronament de l'edifici destaca per una estructura de dos frontons que flanquegen el cos de l'escala, de secció quadrangular. Els frontons, són gairebé idèntics i presenten timpà llis i sense decoracions. Un d'ells però, compta amb un balcó decorat amb mènsules en forma de modilló, disposat sobre un fris que recorre tota la façana, ornamentat amb uns elements rectangulars que imiten pilastres i estan coronats per esferes. Pel que fa a les obertures, es distribueixen simètricament a la planta baixa i al primer pis, a excepció del balcó descrit, que quedaria independent i com a única obertura del segon pis. Als baixos hi ha la porta d'accés, flanquejada per vuit obertures distribuïdes simètricament a partir de dues portes d'arc rebaixat i dues finestres allindades. El primer pis, compta amb un balcó central d'arc carpanell i volada amb balustrada; que és flanquejat per tres finestres balconeres. La característica d'aquestes, i que dóna valor a l'edifici, és l'ús dels elements del llenguatge clàssic com són les pilastres amb capitell jònic i els arcs de mig punt decorats amb elements vegetals. Aquest edifici es va inaugurar l'any 1922, i al llarg de la seva història, ha tingut vàries fases de recuperació. Promogut per la família industrial Borràs, que tenia una fàbrica al municipi, va esdevenir un dels centres neuràlgics més importants de la cultura de Castellbell i el Vilar. Des de 1991, és propietat de l'ajuntament. El desembre del 2001 s'hi van detectar greus problemes estructurals que van obligar a tancar-ne l'activitat i, fins i tot, a desallotjar temporalment una entitat d'estalvi que hi havia situada als baixos de l'edifici. En aquell moment es van detectar importants esquerdes en una de les parets i que el sostre s'havia bombat. Quan se'n va analitzar l'estructura es va trobar que una de les bigues centrals de la sala havia cedit uns 15 centímetres. Gairebé un any i mig després (el 2003) es van iniciar les primeres obres: renovació de la teulada i canvi de les encavallades -que eren totes de fusta i es va detectar que estaven molt malmeses- per unes de metàl·liques. A més, es van relligar les parets que més perillaven i es va aprofitar per fer una primera remodelació de la sala. Amb aquella intervenció ja es va poder tornar a obrir el teatre. L'any 2008, es va iniciar la remodelació de la maquinària de l'escenari -barres de telons amb comandament elèctric, renovació de tota la instal·lació elèctrica, il·luminació, cortinatge...- i es va substituir la fusta de l'escenari per un entarimat nou amb tractament ignífug. Finalment, es van renovar totes les escales per accedir al conjunt de l'escenari, se readaptant les portes i accessos i repintant els camerinos i la façana exterior.

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