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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
IEFC
Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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The auditorium is located on a peripheral site in the Eixample, the result of the union of two blocks of houses, very common in this urban fabric. The building responds to its location by means of a compact body, with the intention of initiating a conformation of the whole area that the other buildings will have to complete later. The design of the project chooses to define a concrete mesh that is the correlate of its urban form, while the audition room, inside, responds carefully to the quality of its function. The seats adopt a skewed layout to favour the foresighted vision of the musicians, very different from the visuals required for theatrical performances. The two main rooms, the audition room and the rehearsal room, are separated by an outdoor space that stages the social aspect of the musical events and is covered by a large glass lantern decorated by the artist Pablo Palazuelos.
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Barcelona Auditorium
The auditorium is located on a peripheral site in the Eixample, the result of the union of two blocks of houses, very common in this urban fabric. The building responds to its location by means of a compact body, with the intention of initiating a conformation of the whole area that the other buildings will have to complete later. The design of the project chooses to define a concrete mesh that is the correlate of its urban form, while the audition room, inside, responds carefully to the quality of its function. The seats adopt a skewed layout to favour the foresighted vision of the musicians, very different from the visuals required for theatrical performances. The two main rooms, the audition room and the rehearsal room, are separated by an outdoor space that stages the social aspect of the musical events and is covered by a large glass lantern decorated by the artist Pablo Palazuelos. -
Catalunya College of Music
Arriola & Fiol Arquitectes, Andreu Arriola Madorell, Carme Fiol i Costa
The project of the Catalunya College of Music is located inside the L'Auditori building with the aim of revitalising a musical complex that will develop complementary activities to those of the audition of symphonic music concerts. In this way, the complex program of L'Auditori will be articulated over time and will be transformed into a true city of music that is almost self-sufficient. The new conservatory includes the second and third cycle music studies, a library, sheet music library and specialised sound library, rehearsal rooms, electroacoustics laboratory, administration, with all the complementary services of dressing rooms and instrument storage for an auditorium of 700 localities. This program takes place on the first, second, third and fourth floors of the L'Auditori building on Lepant Street in Barcelona. The rooms, where the ESMUC program is housed, are organised around two large courtyards: the central atrium open to full height with the glass impluvium, which are the support for Pablo Palazuelo's paintings, and the superior cloister, open to the second and third floors with access from the latter. -
Music Museum
Arriola & Fiol Arquitectes, Andreu Arriola Madorell, Carme Fiol i Costa
The L’Auditori-Barcelona Musical Centre project began in 1989. The program was written for a set of musical activities that far exceeded that of a strict concert hall. Thus, the new centre would host, in addition to the three audition rooms (symphonic, chamber and multipurpose rooms), a school of advanced musical studies and the Music Museum. This construction project for the Music Museum will complete the L’Auditori complex. The spaces where the museum's program is housed are organised around a large courtyard: the central atrium open to full height with the impluvium of glassvsupports Pablo Palazuelo's paintings. The main access to the museum is from the main staircase of Les Arts Square, which goes directly to the second floor. This floor houses all the museum administration, reception and information, services, reception room, permanent exhibition and temporary exhibition. From the second floor you can reach the third floor, where the library is, via the internal stairs. The library has a reserve of funds that can be visited and a research room. Finally, the restoration and photography workshop, the publication archive, the administration and the reserve fund are located in the basement. -
FAD Award
Finalist. Category: Interior DesignMusic MuseumArriola & Fiol Arquitectes, Andreu Arriola Madorell, Carme Fiol i Costa