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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
Fomento
AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
IEFC
Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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It is a building between partitions intended for multi-family housing and commercial uses.
The building is composed of two bodies with an irregular floor plan, differentiated in the façade and in its interior levels: basement, ground floor and three landings. The roof is flat, and the ladder boxes and small complementary sheds protrude. The corridors are perpendicular and parallel to the façades. The rear main staircase has four flights.
The load-bearing walls are of common masonry and billet. In the basement there are lowered vaults of bullion. The floors are made of wooden and/or iron beams and flat tile surrounds. The roofs and the stairs are covered by Catalan vaults. The columns and girders are made of metal.
The façade is made up of two different sections. One has portals with a lintel on the ground floor, the other has a balcony with a lintel and tribune on the first floor, and there are also balconies with an opening and windows on the second floor and anarched gallery without windows with double columns on the third floor, with capitals and a horizontal band on the column with floral ornamentation. The attic consists of a cornice and a roof rail.
The chronology of Artigas House, also known as Tomàs House or Galofré House, presents several stages. In 1872, the house began to be designed, with a ground floor and two floors, in accordance with the aesthetics of eclecticism by the architect Josep Inglada i Estrada. In 1913, the owner Ramon Tomàs i Estalella commissioned a project to refurbish and extend a new floor to the architect Santiago Güell i Grau. The project, presented on April 4, was approved on the 23rd by the City Council. In 1926 the same architect signed the extension of the house and remodelling of the façade. Finally, the ground floor was renovated in 1944.
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