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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
Grup de cases disposades entorn d'un carrer. Són 12 blocs que alberguen cadascun dues famílies, i tots ells de les mateixes característiques: són de fets de totxo, coberts a dues aigües amb teula, i duen una data a la part superior amb ceràmica vidriada: 1918. La seva característica principal és la partició del bloc per la meitat verticalment, i no per pisos. De planta rectangular, tenen un cos annex a cada lateral, també d'estructura rectangular. Cada bloc es voltat d'un petit jardí que delimita molt bé les cases, que són a peu pla, i tenen dues portes d'accés: una a la façana i l'altra al lateral, que dona a la cuina.
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Grup de cinc edificis o torres voltades i separades alhora per un ampli jardí. Són cases destinades als executius.
Els cinc blocs obeeixen a la mateixa planta malgrat algunes petites excepcions. La característica principal és que cada bloc està partit verticalment per la meitat i alberga a dues famílies.
Observant les façanes laterals i frontals s'observa la diferenciació de les tres plantes marcada per una sanefa que delimita exteriorment els pisos. La sanefa del primer pis recorre tota la casa mentre que la del segon tan sols recorre els laterals llargs. Als peus dels murs hi ha una espècie d'encoixinat de mig metre d'alçada. El tercer pis és més baix que els altres dos.
Tot l'edifici està treballat amb totxo vista i els elements decoratius també. La coberta a dues aigües és de teula, algunes vidriades de color verd. També hi ha rajoles blanques i verdes a una part de la façana, combinades rítmicament.
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