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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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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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The Clock House is one of the most characteristic buildings in Sitges, and it stands on the corner between Carrer Major and Carrer A. Vidal and opens onto the Plaça Cap de la Vila, to whose configuration it makes a decisive contribution. It is a large building between partitions, with a ground floor, three floors and a roof with a sinuous railing. It is accessed through three doors, two of them located on Carrer Major and Carrer A. Vidal, and the third and main door on the square. The distribution of the rest of the openings, which are generally rectangular, is rectangular. The most remarkable part of the building is the one on the corner with Carrer Major, which has a wooden tribune on the first floor and, above all, an overhanging tower, where the clock that gives the house its name is located and which ends in a spike covered with a mosaic of white, yellow and blue tiles. Overall, the decorative elements play a very important role in the external appearance of the building: ceramics, iron and sgraffito, although the latter are quite damaged.
The Clock House, known as "Casa del Rellotge" is located at Cap de la Vila, where in the 17th century there was one of the six gates of the new wall of Sitges. This area was reformed according to the initial project by Gaietà Buïgas i Monravà, approved on 17-6-1889 and carried out with many modifications by Ignasi Mas i Morell in 1913.
In December 1912, permission was requested for the construction of the building. The project was presented in May 1913 and was approved by the Town Council. The work was completed in 1915 – the date that appears sgraffitoed on the corner of Carrer d'Àngel Vidal.
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