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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Civil building.
It is only linked to another building on the right side, which allows you to see three of its walls. It consists of a ground floor, two floors, attic and roof. Externally, all the interest lies in the ornamentation, which could be considered completely eclectic, with Arabic details, such as the horseshoe arches of the entrance or the lobed arches of the first floor, and Gothic or medieval elements such as the arches of the third floor or the small circular openings in the attic.
In the left corner of the facade there was a tribune of which only a few remains have survived until today.
Its interior is more modernist than eclectic.
The Arabic elements were proposed by the owner, Mr. Sensat Pagès, after spending a season in a hotel in Tangier.
The house was restored and converted into a House of Culture in 1975.
House between partitions in Passeig Prat de la Riba which is on the corner with Carrer Doctor Agell, with a rectangular plan aligned with the street plan and consisting of a ground floor and two floors with a flat roof that can be used as a rooftop.
The façade is inspired by the neo-Arab repertoire to compose a façade of great plasticity, combining salmon and white stucco and various types of lobed and horseshoe arches. The domed tribune in the corner should be highlighted. Inside, much of the decoration and furniture has been preserved.
Jaume Sensat and Rosa Pagès, originally from El Masnou but residents in Barcelona, were the promoters of reforming the façade of their house on the road after a trip they made to Egypt, a project they commissioned to the master builder Pere Andreu.
The house was given to the municipality in 1975 and restored in 1988 to turn it into a House of Culture. The last restoration was done under the direction of the architect Claudi Arañó i Bertran.
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