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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
Conjunt format per diverses edificacions d'una sola planta :cafè -saló, teatre, dependències i terrassa. Destaca el cos principal per la seva gran alçada; aquest cos té façana al carrer, amb un gran finestral tripartit, i al jardí, on s'obren grans finestrals d'arc de mig punt peraltat. La planta és rectangular, amb coberta a dues vessants que genera la forma de frontó. A la façana principal hi ha esgrafiats que representen angelots músics i, per sobre de l'òcul central, l'escut amb les quatre barres encerclat per llorers i garlandes. Els angles de l'edifici es coronen amb gerres de terracota.
En canvi, la façana de l'edifici del teatre és més austera. El frontó queda més accentuat, i, a banda i banda, pilastres acanalades delimiten l'ample de façana. La presència de l'esgrafiat es troba en la zona central del frontó on figura l'any de la seva construcció. Aquí també es coronen els angles amb gerres de terracota.
Destaca el gran sòcol de pedra que forma també la tanca del jardí i enllaça amb el de la casa nº 28.
El projecte original no es va portar del tot a terme.
El Casal Català va néixer per iniciativa de la Unió Regionalista Hostalenca, creada el 1918, que a través de Joan Vallès, Joan Subirats, Casimir Orriols i Enric Cucurella finançaren la seva construcció, que va ser encarregada a l'arquitecte Josep Goday l'any 1924. Al 1926 en el mes de juliol s'inaugura el casal. Els esgrafiats van ser executats per Ferdinandus Serra el 1933.
Al 1960 es realitzem obre d'agençament i es canvia el nom pel de "Centre Cultural Recreatiu Casal Català". No va ser fins a l'any 1988 que aquesta entitat recuperà el seu nom original, que havia estat esborrat durant els anys de la repressió franquista.