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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
Fomento
AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
IEFC
Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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An internal street, perpendicular to Montcada Street, traces the access road to the back garden and the annex building, thus reinforcing the public character of the ground floor, turning what could be a simple interior transformation into an urban operation.
The new building houses the "Picasso Museum Barcelona study centre", with complementary activities that allow the Museum to be more closely connected with its surroundings.
The main façade facing Sabartés Square defines a new composition plan, independent of the current Museum as a whole but with a close relationship established by proximity. A large glass protected by an overhang opens it over the city. In addition, this allows for visual continuity between the Museum's garden and the square, highlighted in a unitary manner. The other two façades, the one on Flassaders Street and the Picasso garden, are more hermetic due to the private world created inside the volume. All the shapes, the openings, of the same size as the existing ones in the Picasso Museum, allow the view and the relationship with the street and the garden.
Two materials ensure the permanence of the building in its urban environment, thus adding to the complexity of its vision: the stone on the ground floor and the stucco on the upper floor.
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Restoration of Casa Berenguer d'Aguilar as the Museu Picasso
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FAD Award
Finalist. Category: RestorationExtension of the Picasso Museum and Annexation to the Baró de Castellet and Meca PalacesGarcés -Sòria Arquitectes, Jordi Garcés i Brusés, Enric Sòria i Badia
FAD Award
Shortlisted. Category: Interior Design - RehabilitationRemodelació i Condicionament de la Planta Baixa del Museu PicassoGarcés -Sòria Arquitectes, Jordi Garcés i Brusés, Enric Sòria i Badia
Remodelació i Condicionament de la Planta Baixa del Museu Picasso
Garcés -Sòria Arquitectes, Jordi Garcés i Brusés, Enric Sòria i Badia
El carrer Montcada forma part del cas antic de Barcelona i està configurat en gran part per una successió de petits palaus del XIIIè i XIVè segles. El Museu Picasso ocupa cinc d’aquests palaus, del n. 15 al n. 23 del carrer Montcada. El projecte s’apropa a la qüestió urbana, com a punt de partida, i defineix el museu com un element de requalificació de la zona. Els patis interiors a cel obert i accessibles des del carrer són peces molt importants, es crea un corredor central paral·lel per unir-los. Així s’ordena i s’interpreta el nou ús fusionat dels palaus, es dona un ordre visual al conjunt. L’establiment de passadissos clars porta a totes les plantes un espai central representatiu de la naturalesa pública de l’edifici. En planta baixa el corredor central es transforma en un carrer interior que aporta un valor arquitectònic a la totalitat dels tres palaus sense fer malbé, gracies a la seva esveltesa, les característiques pròpies de cadascun d’ells. Aquesta voluntat d’afegir sense treure és la que ha prevalgut des de la concepció general. Els nous elements se superposen al context constructiu existent al servei d’una imatge inèdita del conjunt.FAD Award
Finalist. Category: ArchitectureExtension of the Picasso Museum and Annexation to Mauri and Finestres HousesGarcés -Sòria Arquitectes, Jordi Garcés i Brusés, Enric Sòria i Badia
EU Mies Award
NominatedExtension of the Picasso Museum and Annexation to Mauri and Finestres HousesGarcés -Sòria Arquitectes, Jordi Garcés i Brusés, Enric Sòria i Badia
Annexe to the Picasso Museum
Garcés-de Seta-Bonet Arquitectes, Anna Bonet i Giné, Daria De Seta, Jordi Garcés i Brusés
An internal street, perpendicular to Montcada Street, traces the access road to the back garden and the annex building, thus reinforcing the public character of the ground floor, turning what could be a simple interior transformation into an urban operation. The new building houses the "Picasso Museum Barcelona study centre", with complementary activities that allow the Museum to be more closely connected with its surroundings. The main façade facing Sabartés Square defines a new composition plan, independent of the current Museum as a whole but with a close relationship established by proximity. A large glass protected by an overhang opens it over the city. In addition, this allows for visual continuity between the Museum's garden and the square, highlighted in a unitary manner. The other two façades, the one on Flassaders Street and the Picasso garden, are more hermetic due to the private world created inside the volume. All the shapes, the openings, of the same size as the existing ones in the Picasso Museum, allow the view and the relationship with the street and the garden. Two materials ensure the permanence of the building in its urban environment, thus adding to the complexity of its vision: the stone on the ground floor and the stucco on the upper floor.FAD Award
Finalist. Category: ArchitectureAnnexe to the Picasso MuseumGarcés-de Seta-Bonet Arquitectes, Anna Bonet i Giné, Daria De Seta, Jordi Garcés i Brusés
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