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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
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Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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The building consists of six homes per floor, of which three face París Street and the other three face the inner courtyard of the block of houses. The houses on the last floor are duplexes, with external stairs connecting both levels, in addition to the internal ones. The supporting structure takes into account the fact that there is a cinema on the ground floor and is resolved by means of straight metal feet of minimum section, which are unloaded below. The distribution of housing reflects the contradictions between the aspirations of the GATCPAC in terms of housing and the permissiveness of municipal ordinances in terms of land use.
This building between partitions has six apartments per landing and a cinema on the ground floor. Three of the houses have views to the street and the other three to the interior patio of the block. The structure is metallic, which makes it possible to reduce the section of the pillars and girders to a minimum and, in addition, to obtain an opening almost 21 metres wide for the lobby of the cinema facing the street. The lobby and the bar of the cinema are resolved with metallic materials, following the boat aesthetic. Rodríguez Arias did not want to publish the plan of the houses in the GATEPAC’s AC magazine because he could not avoid the small internal patios for ventilation, a resource that is practically obligatory due to the building depth in the Eixample of Barcelona and the municipal ordinances that govern it. The composition of the façade follows the Bauhaus compositional criteria, typical of the machine culture: it is a perfectly serial façade, with rhythms of combined horizontal and vertical stripes. The horizontal bands are determined by the windows, with an accent on the parapets, while the vertical bands are defined by the recessed terraces. Concrete balconies with metal railings are cantilevered from these terraces, and they cast very intense shadows on the façade. The constant rhythm of these cantilevers generates a very mechanical image.
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Apartment Building and Astoria Cinema
GATCPAC, Germán Rodríguez Arias
The building consists of six homes per floor, three of which face París Street and the other three face the inner courtyard of the block of houses. The houses on the top floor are duplexes, with external staircases of communication between both levels, as well as the interior. The supporting structure contemplates the fact that there is a cinema on the ground floor, and it is solved by means of metal base with a minimum section, which are unloaded at the bottom. The housing distribution reflects the contradictions between the GATCPAC’s housing aspirations and the permissiveness of municipal ordinances with respect to land use. -
Astoria Cinema
The building consists of six homes per floor, of which three face París Street and the other three face the inner courtyard of the block of houses. The houses on the last floor are duplexes, with external stairs connecting both levels, in addition to the internal ones. The supporting structure takes into account the fact that there is a cinema on the ground floor and is resolved by means of straight metal feet of minimum section, which are unloaded below. The distribution of housing reflects the contradictions between the aspirations of the GATCPAC in terms of housing and the permissiveness of municipal ordinances in terms of land use.