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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Project by:
Created by:
Directors:
2019-2024Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
Documental Commission:
2019-2024 Ramon FauraCarolina B. GarciaEduard CallísFrancesc RafatPau Albert Antoni López DaufíJoan FalguerasMercè BoschJaume FarrenyAnton PàmiesJuan Manuel ZaguirreJosep FerrandoFernando MarzáMoisés PuenteAureli MoraOmar Ornaque
Collaborators:
2019-2024Lluis AndreuSergi BallesterMaria Jesús QuinteroLucía M. VillodresMontse Viu
External Collaborators:
2019-2024Helena CepedaInès 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
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.
In interior design there is a tendency to use elements that are alien to the function of the premises simply for the sake of their specific appeal. The result is usually a superimposition of divergent aesthetic concepts that give the whole an air of rigid and unjustified display where the user generally feels uncomfortable. The case of Jardín is precisely the opposite. The solutions used come to highlight only the use for which the premises are intended and it cannot be denied that the result has been achieved in an optimistic search free of formal dogmatism. The space to be treated, situated on the ground floor of a wide avenue, is of a regular amplitude. The different areas have been distributed logically and coherently, highlighting the different atmospheres required by means of incandescent or fluorescent lighting. The separations between the different exhibition and sales areas, warehouse and conference room have been ingeniously resolved by means of half-height wooden partitions and roller blinds. Likewise, the offices have been located on a mezzanine with a metal structure of grooved profiles covered by an evocative wooden framework. The pavement with pavement-type tiles completes the uniformity of the atmosphere achieved. On the outside, the façade has been treated with a panel of metal-paired panels. Superimposed on the panel there is a neon sign that covers the whole of the panel, making it easy to read from cars. At the points of the sign that are accessible to pedestrians, the neon has been passed over the inside of the panel.
Source: Hogares modernos : la revista de la decoración, el mueble y la arquitectura. Nº 101 (p. 26-30). Jardín, el verde entre persianas. Barcelona : Escopress, 1975
In interior design there is a tendency to use elements that are alien to the function of the premises simply for the sake of their specific appeal. The result is usually a superimposition of divergent aesthetic concepts that give the whole an air of rigid and unjustified display where the user generally feels uncomfortable. The case of Jardín is precisely the opposite. The solutions used come to highlight only the use for which the premises are intended and it cannot be denied that the result has been achieved in an optimistic search free of formal dogmatism.
The space to be treated, situated on the ground floor of a wide avenue, is of a regular amplitude. The different areas have been distributed logically and coherently, highlighting the different atmospheres required by means of incandescent or fluorescent lighting. The separations between the different exhibition and sales areas, warehouse and conference room have been ingeniously resolved by means of half-height wooden partitions and roller blinds. Likewise, the offices have been located on a mezzanine with a metal structure of grooved profiles covered by an evocative wooden framework. The pavement with pavement-type tiles completes the uniformity of the atmosphere achieved.
On the outside, the façade has been treated with a panel of metal-paired panels. Superimposed on the panel there is a neon sign that covers the whole of the panel, making it easy to read from cars. At the points of the sign that are accessible to pedestrians, the neon has been passed over the inside of the panel.
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