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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Building between partitions located in the urban core of Els Monjos, at the foot of the old N-340 road. It is a rectangular building intended for housing, with premises for commercial use on the ground floor and a garden at the back. It has a ground floor, two floors and a gable roof with a ridge parallel to the main façade. This has five axes of vertical composition constituted by openings of various typologies. On the ground floor there are four semi-circular arched doorways, as well as two nearly joined upright semi-circular arched windows. All of them have a simple framing, and the upper part is followed by a continuous moulding that runs horizontally across the floor.

On the upper floor there are five ogival arched windows with sills and a partial framing consisting of a continuous line that traces the upper part of the openings along the entire façade. Openings at both ends of the façade lead to individual semi-circular base balconies with wrought iron railings. On the first floor and symmetrically placed with respect to those on the lower floor, there are five very simple rectangular openings with sills and no framing. Those at the ends open to individual balconies with a rectangular base with rounded vertices and wrought iron railings. The central openings of the first and second floors form an open vertical tribune supported by pillars. The main façade is finished by a false tile roof and an eave supported by wooden rafters.

The rear façade also has a symmetrical composition.

The façade of the building is plastered and painted, although the ground floor has a large padded plinth.

The architectural composition of the Casa Bolet façade is imbued with the language of modernism, although refined by the noucentista aesthetic. It is a language specific to those architects who, like Santiago Güell, projected their works at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, in full effervescence of the modernist movement.

The building was built in 1925, according to the project carried out by the architect Santiago Güell i Grau and presented on January 12 to the city council for approval.

Source: Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya (IPAC)

Noucentista building with clear elements of Gothic modernism. It consists of a ground floor and two floors. The façade is perfectly symmetrical from a central projecting body, which is supported by columns that are used to locate two balconies, on the first and second floor. The ground floor stands out for having openings made with semicircular arches, while on the first floor the openings are with pointed arches. At the ends there are two semi-circular balconies. The upper floor has square openings without arches or decoration. At the top there is a series of simple corbels, at the ends there are two elements with loophole openings projecting from the main body. To finish the façade there is a small roof decorated with a concrete ball decorated with plant motifs.

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

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