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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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