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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Can Ricart, dating from 1854, is one of the first mechanical stamping factories for cotton fabrics in Catalonia. It is located next to the central park and faces the industrial axis of Pere IV, together with Oliva Artés, Ca l’Alier, la Escocesa, and Ca l’Illa.
The complex is made up of several neoclassical buildings and a series of green spaces that connect them to each other. Its interest lies in the unitary style of the pieces that make it up; that is to say, in the analogy of their shapes, rhythms and spatial arrangements.
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Can Ricart
Can Ricart, dating from 1854, is one of the first mechanical stamping factories for cotton fabrics in Catalonia. It is located next to the central park and faces the industrial axis of Pere IV, together with Oliva Artés, Ca l’Alier, la Escocesa, and Ca l’Illa. The complex is made up of several neoclassical buildings and a series of green spaces that connect them to each other. Its interest lies in the unitary style of the pieces that make it up; that is to say, in the analogy of their shapes, rhythms and spatial arrangements. -
Extension of the Hangar Artistic Creation Centre at Can Ricart
Arantxa Manrique Gimeno, Yaiza Terré
The beauty of something unfinished, intervening without destroying, valuing the character of the space and at the same time reinterpreting it, rehabilitating it while being respectful of history and thinking of new uses, recognising the scars of the site as a key imprint of its personality...That's what this project is about. The Hangar project is located within the "Factories of Creation" program. It is about adapting the existing buildings with the minimum intervention and the minimum possible economic cost. Hangar is a Centre for Visual Artists located in an old warehouse within the Can Ricart factory complex since 1997. The intervention is carried out respectfully, recognising the character and physical qualities of the existing space, reinterpreting it but not transforming it; maintaining the scars that show the transformations suffered over time and adding those that will arise from it. Strategically, a common element is introduced in all the industrial units, "the module", exempt, which opposes old and new. -
Premi AJAC (Associació de Joves Arquitectes de Catalunya)
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: ArchitectureExtension of the Hangar Artistic Creation Centre at Can RicartMostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
Shortlisted. Category: Intervencions de Rehabilitació, tant de Promoció Pública com PrivadaExtension of the Hangar Artistic Creation Centre at Can Ricart