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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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2019-2025 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental Commission:

2019-2025 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:

2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2025 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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  1. Casa del Gremi dels Calderers: Segona Ubicació

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  2. Boilermakers' Guild House: Third Location

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    Boilermakers' Guild House: Third Location

    Located in the Ciutat Vella district, the Boilermakers' Guild House faces the Plaça de Sant Felip Neri with its only façade. It is a building between partitions consisting of a ground floor, a main floor and an upper floor. Its floor plan is irregular, as it was built anew by filling the gaps in a plot occupied by a building and part of others destroyed by the ravages of the Civil War. The façade is a good example of hybrid solutions, combining classical and baroque elements in the openings but preserving a façade composition typical of the Catalan romanticism (La Renaixença). It has a symmetrical composition with a single vertical axis of openings. On the ground floor there is a monumental stone portal in neoclassical style with Corinthian columns and an entablature rich in decorations. It has a medallion in the centre with two figures holding a shield with symbolism supposedly of the guild. The entablature is crowned with decorative elements and includes two corbels that initiate the classical composition that houses the first-floor window. This composition repeats the scheme below in a smaller staircase, but with the addition of a large stone archivolt that is reminiscent of the Gothic style. On this level there is also a large medallion between the entablature and the archivolt. Finally, the first floor has a rectangular opening framed by Corinthian pilasters and a Classicist entablature. Its roof is flat with a stone sill formed by the façade itself and crowned by a classical cornice with grooved mouldings and a tooth of pearls at the bottom. To drain the roof, just below the cornice, there are three stone gargoyles formalised in three figures of winged mammals or fantastic birds of mythological inspiration. The entire façade is made of ashlar stone masonry, which becomes a magnificent canvas from which this axis of openings stands out, the forceful protagonist of the façade, complemented only by a small window on the ground floor with very austere lines. The architectural typology to which the building belongs could be identified as Renaissance given the simplicity and rigour of the façade's composition. However, there is a profusion of complex classical details in the main openings of the façade. The building as such dates from the middle of the last century, as the site was vacant after the destruction of the existing building by Franco's bombs during the Spanish Civil War. The moved façade had its original location in Carrer de la Bòria, facing the Plaça dels Àngels with an arcade that passed over a small alley, Carrer Fileteres. On this site it had withstood the bombardment of 1714, but this sector was affected by the opening of the Via Laietana in 1911. However, the façade was saved and initially moved to Plaça Lesseps, a place where it was really out of context. In 1959, it was moved again, this time to Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, which had suffered the ravages of war mentioned above. The arcade that was not used in this new building was also used in the neighbouring building to give way to an alley, Montjuïc del Bisbe, to allow one of the two entrances to the square. Probably due to the Mora family, this building, usually known as the Boilermakers' Guild House, was erected in Carrer de la Bòria, over the Filateres gateway, next to Plaça de l'Àngel. When the street was restructured due to the opening of the Via Laietana, the façade of the building was moved in 1911 to Plaça Lesseps, where it was rebuilt. It was moved again in the 1950s to its current location in Plaça de Sant Felip Neri.

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