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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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We kindly invite you to help us improve the dissemination of Catalan architecture through this space. Here you can propose works and provide or amend information on authors, photographers and their work, along with adding comments. The Documentary Commission will analyze all data. Please do only fill in the fields you deem necessary to add or amend the information.
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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El Garraf County Historical Archive building is located on a plot within an industrial and equipment complex on the outskirts of Vilanova i la Geltrú.
It is a deposit building and document container, complementary to the public use building of the Garraf archive located inside the castle in the old town.
The building is configured based on the repeated and aligned placement of four rectangular units of the same dimensions on a single floor - three of them corresponding to deposit documents and the fourth one to multiple uses linked to the stored documentation.
The unevenness of the plot and the development of the requested programme on a single ground floor in relation to the highest point of the plot allows the formation of a plinth in the building and the use of a semi-basement floor as a possible extension of the deposits.
Externally, the building is completely opaque, as a result of its use as a warehouse, placing the four surface finish boxes of natural wood slats on the concrete base. These integrate, adapt visually and will age like the park that borders the plot.
One of these front façades rises and becomes an announcing banner and a large access door to the building, both for documentation and for potential users.
Internal circulation takes place exclusively through a transversal corridor that cuts through all the tanks perpendicularly to their length, thus minimising and facilitating the relationship between all the spaces and allowing the distribution of various uses of the spaces that this cut generates.
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El Garraf County Historical Archive
El Garraf County Historical Archive building is located on a plot within an industrial and equipment complex on the outskirts of Vilanova i la Geltrú. It is a deposit building and document container, complementary to the public use building of the Garraf archive located inside the castle in the old town. The building is configured based on the repeated and aligned placement of four rectangular units of the same dimensions on a single floor - three of them corresponding to deposit documents and the fourth one to multiple uses linked to the stored documentation. The unevenness of the plot and the development of the requested programme on a single ground floor in relation to the highest point of the plot allows the formation of a plinth in the building and the use of a semi-basement floor as a possible extension of the deposits. Externally, the building is completely opaque, as a result of its use as a warehouse, placing the four surface finish boxes of natural wood slats on the concrete base. These integrate, adapt visually and will age like the park that borders the plot. One of these front façades rises and becomes an announcing banner and a large access door to the building, both for documentation and for potential users. Internal circulation takes place exclusively through a transversal corridor that cuts through all the tanks perpendicularly to their length, thus minimising and facilitating the relationship between all the spaces and allowing the distribution of various uses of the spaces that this cut generates. -
FAD Award
Shortlisted. Category: ArchitectureEl Garraf County Historical Archive