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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental 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 Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès 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

 

IEFC

 

Fundació Domènench Montaner.

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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.

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Detached house with a basilica floor plan and three bays. It consists of a ground floor, a first floor and an attic and has a two-slope roof with the ridge perpendicular to the façade. The entrance doorway, with a semicircular arch, is covered by an advanced porch with ceramic pillars, with the upper part used as a balcony. At both corners of the balcony there is a circular tribune with ceramic Solomonic columns and a spherical vault roof. The balcony is accessed through a flat-arched doorway made of dressed stone. In the attic there is a gallery with five openings with a ceramic mixtilinear arch. The southeast-facing bay has a lookout tower with a quadrangular ground plan and four levels of elevation, with a four-slope glazed ceramic roof. Each level of the tower has ceramic mixtilinear-arched windows, grouped in threes on the fourth floor. On the southeast façade, between the third and fourth floors, is a sundial. Small circular oculi are interspersed between the corbels supporting the eaves. The tower gives access through the rear façade to a walkable terrace delimited by a ceramic balustrade. The corridor facing the northeast has two levels, opened with a ceramic round-arched doorway and stone jambs on the ground floor, and a double window with a ceramic mixtilinear arch on the first floor, which opens onto a balcony with a masonry railing supported by corbels. On the rear façade there is a porch with ceramic pillars, on which there is a walkable terrace with a ceramic balustrade. Parallel to the main façade, there is a bastion with battlements and sentry boxes, which encloses the house from behind. It is accessed from the southeast through a gateway that leads to the courtyard, where there is a rectangular body that corresponds to the wine cellar. The cladding of the walls is rendered and painted in an ecru colour, where the eaves, corbels, railings and openings are made of exposed ceramic tiles and the decorative ceramic tiles on the chimney caps, balconies and cornices stand out.

The Xoriguera country house has been documented since the 13th century, when it belonged to Arnau de Xoriguera, trustee of Ribes. Between the 16th and 17th centuries it belonged to the Puig de Xoriguera family, and later to the Mironet family. In the land registry of 1717, Emanuel Giralt was the owner and Jaume Artigas was the farmer, while in 1764 a certain Joan Miró de Munxuriguera appears. Later, as recorded in the 1847 land registry book, it belonged to Antoni Giralt. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was acquired by the Soler family of Vilanova i la Geltrú, who built a Catalan Art Nouveau house on top of the old country house.

Source: Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya (IPAC)

Manor house located on the old road to Vilanova, to the south of Solers. It is an isolated house with a basilica floor plan and three bays. It consists of a ground floor, a first floor and an attic and has a gable roof with the ridge perpendicular to the façade. The entrance doorway, with a semicircular arch, is covered by an advanced porch with ceramic pillars, with the upper part used as a balcony. At both corners of the porch there is a circular tribune with ceramic Solomonic columns and a spherical vaulted roof. The balcony is accessed through a flat-arched doorway made of stone. The attic level opens onto a gallery of five porticoes with ceramic mixtilinear arches. The southeast-facing bay has a quadrangular, four-storey lookout tower, which is covered with glazed ceramic. Each level of the tower opens with ceramic mixtilinear-arched windows, grouped in threes on the fourth floor. On the southeast façade, between the third and fourth floors, there is a sundial-shaped panel. Small circular oculi are interspersed between the corbels supporting the eaves. The tower gives access through the rear façade to a walkable terrace delimited by a ceramic balustrade. The corridor facing northeast has two levels, opened with a ceramic round-arched doorway and stone jambs on the ground floor, and a double window with a ceramic mixtilinear arch on the first floor, which opens onto a balcony with a masonry railing supported by corbels. On the rear façade there is a porch with ceramic pillars, on which there is a walkable terrace with a ceramic balustrade. Parallel to the main façade, there is a bastion with battlements and sentry boxes, which encloses the house from behind. It is accessed from the southeast through a gateway that leads to the courtyard, where there is a rectangular body that corresponds to the wine cellar. The cladding of the walls is rendered and painted in an ecru colour, where the eaves, corbels, railings and openings of exposed ceramic tiles and the decorative ceramic tiles of the chimney caps, balconies and cornices stand out.

The Xoriguera country house has been documented since the 13th century, when it belonged to Arnau de Xoriguera, trustee of Ribes. Between the 16th and 17th centuries it belonged to the Puig de Xoriguera family, and later to the Mironet family. In the land registry of 1717, the owner was Emanuel Giralt and the farmer Jaume Artigas, while in 1764 a certain Joan Miró de Munxuriguera appears. Later, as recorded in the 1847 land register, it belonged to Antoni Giralt. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was acquired by the Soler family from Vilanova i la Geltrú, who built a Catalan Art Nouveau house on the old country house. Some sources (LACUESTA 2006: 41) suggest that it may have been built by the architect Miró i Guibernau, who also designed the Casa del Indiano de Vilanova for the Soler family. It was completely restored at the end of the 20th century and is used as a tourist establishment.

Source: Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural. Diputació de Barcelona (diba)

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