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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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:
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Esbós de planta i secció de la Capella de Sant Miquel del Cros.
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- Author:
- Lluís Bonet i Garí
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- Drawing
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- Llapis
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- Paper
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- Fonds / Held by:
- Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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- Rights:
- © [object Object]
- © Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Esbós de planta de la Capella de Sant Miquel del Cros.
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- Author:
- Lluís Bonet i Garí
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- Type:
- Drawing
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- Technique:
- Llapis
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- Support:
- Paper
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- Fonds / Held by:
- Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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- Rights:
- © [object Object]
- © Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Estàtica gràfica de l'arc de la Capella de Sant Miquel del Cros.
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- Author:
- Lluís Bonet i Garí
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- Type:
- Drawing
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- Technique:
- Llapis
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- Support:
- Paper
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- Fonds / Held by:
- Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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- Rights:
- © [object Object]
- © Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Esbós de planta, alçat i secció de la Capella de Sant Miquel del Cros.
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- Author:
- Lluís Bonet i Garí
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- Type:
- Drawing
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- Technique:
- Llapis
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- Support:
- Paper
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- Fonds / Held by:
- Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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- Rights:
- © [object Object]
- © Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Esbós d'alçat de l'altar de la Capella de Sant Miquel del Cros.
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- Author:
- Lluís Bonet i Garí
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- Drawing
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- Technique:
- Llapis
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- Support:
- Paper
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- Fonds / Held by:
- Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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- Rights:
- © [object Object]
- © Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Esbós de volta de la Capella de Sant Miquel del Cros.
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- Author:
- Lluís Bonet i Garí
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- Drawing
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- Technique:
- Llapis
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- Support:
- Paper
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- Fonds / Held by:
- Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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- Rights:
- © [object Object]
- © Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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The building has a single nave with a rectangular plan. The apse is oriented to the N-E, with an apsidal vault cover and a lantern of wrought iron and glass based on paraboloids and hyperboloids.
The material used is rustic stone with some elements of polychrome glass and glazed tiles. The two-sided roof is made of Arabic tiles. A small, attached bell tower is crowned by mosaic, establishing a certain link with the project of the estate of Josep Puig i Cadafalch. The access, located on the side, is preceded by a porch with three arcades, the rhythm of which recalls a Florentine loggia.
This chapel, which is part of the property of Can Garí del Cros (house built by the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch), was already mentioned in 1187, but it was ruined and only a stone cross with relief, a piece of cornice and a square foot of terracotta are preserved. In 1929, Lluís Bonet i Garí designed a new church.
The documentation on the hermitage is mainly due to Carreras Candi, who explains its existence through the document of 1187. The oldest location is from 1323; there is another, from 1385, in favour of Joan de Caldes due to Bernat d'Agell's renunciation of the benefit of the altar of Sant Miquel del Cros. Around 1884, the Romanesque chapel was demolished and a new one was built, according to Domènech i Estapà's project, which was demolished in 1926, after which the current one was built.
From very early on, Bonet Garí collaborated with Josep Puig i Cadafalch, the author of the remodeling and restoration of Can Garí. At the same time, the admiration he felt for Antoni Gaudí also led him to use some of the solutions in this hermitage.
Currently, the small chapel does not have regular worship and the Garí family gave it to the bishopric, and it depends on the parish of Sant Julià. Once inside the property, a path from the Can Garí entrance leads directly to the hermitage and has a small fence that separates it from the garden area.
Small rectangular nave, with the apse oriented to the N-E, covered with an apsidal vault and lantern of wrought iron and glass based on paraboloids and hyperboloids. The access is through a side porch. The façades are finished in exposed stone, with decorative elements based on polychrome glass and glazed tiles.
The original Romanesque church was demolished in 1884 to build a new one, which was demolished again in 1926. Some fragments of the original chapel still remain, such as a stone cross with relief, a piece of cornice and a square foot of terracotta.
It is currently located within the estate of Can Garí del Cros, surrounded by the estate's own fence, apart from its own, of wrought iron.
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Esbós de planta i secció de la Capella de Sant Miquel del Cros.
© Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Esbós de planta de la Capella de Sant Miquel del Cros.
© Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Estàtica gràfica de l'arc de la Capella de Sant Miquel del Cros.
© Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Esbós de planta, alçat i secció de la Capella de Sant Miquel del Cros.
© Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Esbós d'alçat de l'altar de la Capella de Sant Miquel del Cros.
© Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Esbós de volta de la Capella de Sant Miquel del Cros.
© Fons Lluís Bonet i Garí / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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