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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
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 OrnaqueCollaborators:
2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse ViuExternal Collaborators:
2019-2025 Helena Cepeda Inès MartinelWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaFundació 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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Igualada Working Class Cultural Association
Pau Riera i Galtés, Pau Salvat i Espasa
One-storey building. The façade is divided into three sections - a central section with three doorways and three windows, and two side sections with four openings each. Once up the entrance stairs, we find ourselves in a large atrium, formerly a theatre, which now serves as a hallway leading to the different rooms: library, theatre, café and office. Art Nouveau leaded glass windows above the doors alternate floral representations with allegories of the organisation. The theatre, attributed to the architect Pau Salvat i Espasa, is the most important room. Structurally, it is horseshoe-shaped and consists of a stalls area and two floors. The decorative features include the frieze surrounding the ceiling and the iron railings, designed by the Igualada-born set designer Pere Valls i Bofarull. Outside, the Municipal School of Music is located to the left of the building and the garden is to the right, with a fountain decorated with trencadís mosaic. The Athenaeum was founded in the heat of the romantic progressivism that was in vogue in Catalonia during the second half of the last century, and its combination of cultural, educational and recreational activities played a fundamental role in spreading progressive ideas and popular culture. After the fire that destroyed the old headquarters in 1873, the current building was constructed in 1877. In the 19th century, it ran a primary school, a theatre and a library. Between 1919 and 1935, the organisation gained momentum with the establishment of a school group linked to the Catalan educational movement, a music conservatory, a weaving school and a sports ground. After 1939, the national forces seized the building and it was renamed the ‘National Centre’. -
Old Igualada Slaughterhouse
Isidre Gili i Moncunill, Pau Salvat i Espasa
It covers an area of approximately 13,000 square metres. The main building is rectangular in shape. The two square-shaped sections are on both sides. Two wings joined to the central section by a covered corridor lead to the courtyards. Behind the main building are a number of small outbuildings. The supporting structure of the central nave and the two smaller ones is made of iron. The corrals have wooden trusses. The basic construction materials are brick and stone. Green ceramics are used for decoration. The complex of buildings is symmetrically distributed with respect to an axis perpendicular to the street, which passes through the central nave and the main door. The building's origins date back to 1902, when its construction was approved at a town council meeting. The plans were signed in 1903 and the building was inaugurated in 1905. It was built outside the town on land known as ‘Foristeries de Sant Agustí’, which was donated by Mr Castillos. -
Cal Ratés
Isidre Gili i Moncunill, Pau Salvat i Espasa
Block of flats comprising a commercial ground floor and two floors. The main façade on Carrer de Sant Maria is made entirely of ashlar. The rhythm of the arches on the ground floor is repeated in the openings on the first floor, while the sharp shapes of the stepped lintels of the gallery on the first floor are used again in the battlements that crown the building, presenting an alternation of vertical shapes. It has a side tower or stand which is circular in shape and crowned with a pinnacle and is covered with yellow-red glazed ceramics. The rear façade on the Plaça de Sant Miquel has three storeys, with seven openings on each storey in the form of sill balconies, separated by pilasters and with stepped lintels, finished with battlements crowned with green ceramic pinnacles. It is also flanked by a small belfry. It is made entirely of exposed brick. Block of flats with a commercial floor. It was carried out by the architect Isidre Gili Moncunill during the years 1908-1909. The project was drawn up by Pau Salvat i Espasa, the municipal architect, although the ownership corresponds to Isidre Gili i Moncunill. -
Seu de l'Editorial Salvat
L'Editorial Salvat es troba ubicada a l'illa del districte de l'Eixample delimitada pels carrers Rocafort, Provença, Calàbria i Mallorca. Es tractava d'una edificació industrial de gran extensió realitzada per l'arquitecte i propietari de l'empresa Pau Salvat i Espasa. Actualment només resta dempeus de l'edifici original l'estreta part davantera del carrer Mallorca. La part de l'edifici original que es conserva, de planta rectangular, presenta una estructura en alçat de semisoterrani, planta baixa i planta pis, tot cobert per un terrat pla transitable tancat per un coronament esglaonat i una barana de ferro forjat. La façana s'articula en tres cossos diferenciats i respon a un eix axial situat a l'accés principal central. El cos central presenta el portal central emmarcat per un arc angular. A la part superior destaca la presència d'una gran obertura ogival dividida en una finestra triforada i un gran finestral. En el lloc més preeminent d'aquesta obertura s'ubica un escut amb l'inicial de l'editorial situada sobre una roda dentada. Aquesta obertura serveix de punt d'il·luminació a l'interior. El cos central té un coronament esglaonat més alt i és el que dóna la forma característica de la façana. El parament es presenta llis i recobert per estuc, excepte al sòcol de pedra de la planta baixa i els emmarcaments de les obertures, on es combina la pedra i el maó vist, donant-li una traça goticitzant. També hi ha alguns tocs de color en forma de trencadís. En conjunt es presenten a l'edifici uns elements formals propis d'un modernisme senzill. -
Concurs Anual d'Edificis i Establiments Urbans
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Arquitectura - Millor Edifici ConstruïtSeu de l'Editorial Salvat