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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
La casa Drudis assenyala la plena inserció de Gomà en els procediments compositius de l’arquitectura moderna, especialment pel que fa a l’arquitectura dels edificis d’habitatges en un context urbà. Gomà explota el gruix de la façana per dibuixar una composició isòtropa formada pels ampits dels balcons, amb independència dels requeriments imposats per les estances que donen a la façana. Darrere del pla ingràvid format pels balcons es reparteixen els buits de les terrasses, els panys revestits de rajola i les obertures amb persianes, tots situats al mateix pla de la darrera filera de pilars, que queden gairebé ocults. La claredat del pla dibuixat per les plaques llises dels balcons permet una gran flexibilitat a l’hora de definir els elements de tancament, fins i tot amb la presència desordenada de tendals de colors que atenen les exigències de protecció solar allí on els usuaris ho consideren convenient.
El expresivo juego volumétrico de la fachada caracteriza este edifico plurifamiliar entre medianeras, situado en una ancha vía de salida de la ciudad de Lleida. Los balcones prominentes, dispuestos al tresbolillo y con antepechos frontales macizos, se alternan con los vacíos de las terrazas, dando una profundidad inusual a la fachada que destaca entre los insulsos edificios circundantes. Esta claridad en la organización geométrica esconde, de hecho, una gran versatilidad a la hora de disponer distintos tipos de cerramiento. Finalmente, las persianas correderas exteriores de madera y los toldos de colores brillantes añaden movimiento al conjunto. La composición se completa retrasando la fachada en planta baja y entresuelo para dejar exentos unos potentes pilares apantallados, conformando así unos soportales a doble altura. En la parte superior se repite una operación similar, desnudando la estructura de pilares a modo de coronación a nivel de la azotea.
El arquitecto Marià Gomà, junto con Ramón Puig i Andreu, es responsable de firmar algunos de los edificios más relevantes de las décadas de 1960 y 1970 en la ciudad de Lérida, en un ambiente poco propicio para la experimentación e innovación arquitectónica en el que edificios como la Casa Drudis destacan por su contundencia y claridad formal.