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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
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.
El 2011 els fills de l’Hermínia prenen el relleu de la carnisseria familiar. Situada al pas de la carretera 66 per Celrà i amagada als viatgers que la veien de reüll al passar, només els celranencs hi acudien fidelment. Després d’uns anys de feina constant, decideixen renovar les seves installacions per continuar oferint als seus clients la carn i els embotits de sempre.
Tot comença com un treball d’arqueologia: tombar parets, desenterrar paviments, destapiar finestres, gratar murs, descobrir voltes i netejar històries per retornar a l’estat primigeni de l’espai.
Un cop arribat a la tabula rasa s’inunda el volum interior de blanc pintat i rajoles blanc-aigües per tal d’higienitzar i dotar de llum i reflexos un local amb llum de nord. Vora els clients, jugant amb reminiscències també nòrdiques, els acabaments es realitzen en fusta de pi per atorgar calidesa i confortabilitat.
El requisit primordial es implacable: maximitzar els metres lineals per exposar productes. El mobiliari esdevé el protagonista. Gestiona l’entrada en un joc de mirades i descobriments, organitza en la diagonal més llarga l’espai per guiar la compra dels clients, exposa carn i embotits, i ens fa apuntar la mirada cap als productes en què tothom s’hi llepa els dits.
El blanc nuclear rellisca per les finestres de l’aparador fins a la façana de la carretera de Celrà i embolica tot l’edifici de forma que mai no tornarà a passar desapercebuda per cap conductor estressat. Una franja fosca que gira i lliga confereix a la mitgera el mateix estatut que una façana principal. Esdevé així el mural d’un pàrquing per als clients que arriben entre gramínies a buscar els seus queviures.
Els reclams publicitaris juguen amb la subtilitat i l’imaginari collectiu. Un tímid porquet a la mitgera fa bandera i emblema del contingut de l’edifici recordant-nos la silueta del brau animal d´unes bodegues del sud. Uns grocs neons proclamen des de lluny que alguna cosa s’hi cou a la ruta 66, camí de Palamós. Però és de nit, quan la carnisseria dorm i la façana es mou, que descobrirem que ara són ells, els germans Soler, qui ens ofereixen els millors talls de la comarca.