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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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The buildings are located right at the beginning of the Passatge de la Banca (formerly Passatge del Comerç), designed by the architect Antoni Rovira i Trias between 1865 and 1866. It was commissioned by the owners Ignasi Girona Agrafel, Mariano Casi i López and Miquel Martorell i Peña. The site was named after the former Banca de Crédito y Docks, located in the background, which is now the Wax Museum. All the buildings, including these, are the work of Elies Rogent i Amat, who built them between 1869 and 1882.
They are two identical buildings occupying, respectively, numbers 1-3 and 2-4 of Passatge de la Banca, located at the beginning of the latter and framing it from the side of La Rambla, where they have the main façades. Each one consists of a ground floor, a mezzanine, a main floor and two other floors. The ground floors are articulated by four simple openings that belong to commercial premises, given that the entrance to the building is through the open access to the side façade, located inside the passageway. The mezzanine has balconies with wrought-iron railings. In the case of the main floor, the four balconies are connected by a continuous iron railing resting on a stone slab, which is supported by a group of eight corbels. Only the pediments of the four main balconies are decorated with a very stylised vegetal relief. The other balconies on the upper floors, in addition to being individual, have lost all ornamentation. A series of vents precede the straight, moulded cornice. The facing is stuccoed with padded strips on the ground floor, mezzanine and corner, while the rest of the façade is plain.
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Passatge de la Banca
In 1865-66, the architect Antoni Rovira Trias designed a passageway for a group of three landowners (Girona, Martorell and Casi) which, under the name of ‘Pasaje del Comercio’, was to join the Rambla with what is now Carrer de Josep Anselm Clavé in the shape of an ‘L’, forming a small irregular octagonal square at the corner. In the report presented together with the project, Rovira envisaged a building with unitary façades. Although he himself designed an entrance, the buildings that were built in 1869-82 framing it are the work of Elies Rogent. At the end of the small square (numbered 8 according to the parcel list, but with the number 7 on the door) is the former building of the Banca del Crédito Docks – since 1973 occupied by the Museum of Wax – with a curious convex marble façade, according to three sides of the octagon. The complex is interesting as an example of one of the different types of passageways that were opened up in the second half of the 19th century in the interior of the old city in order to obtain a larger building area, and which constitute the most important urban reforms carried out at that time in the old quarter. -
Passatge de la Banca Buildings
The buildings are located right at the beginning of the Passatge de la Banca (formerly Passatge del Comerç), designed by the architect Antoni Rovira i Trias between 1865 and 1866. It was commissioned by the owners Ignasi Girona Agrafel, Mariano Casi i López and Miquel Martorell i Peña. The site was named after the former Banca de Crédito y Docks, located in the background, which is now the Wax Museum. All the buildings, including these, are the work of Elies Rogent i Amat, who built them between 1869 and 1882. They are two identical buildings occupying, respectively, numbers 1-3 and 2-4 of Passatge de la Banca, located at the beginning of the latter and framing it from the side of La Rambla, where they have the main façades. Each one consists of a ground floor, a mezzanine, a main floor and two other floors. The ground floors are articulated by four simple openings that belong to commercial premises, given that the entrance to the building is through the open access to the side façade, located inside the passageway. The mezzanine has balconies with wrought-iron railings. In the case of the main floor, the four balconies are connected by a continuous iron railing resting on a stone slab, which is supported by a group of eight corbels. Only the pediments of the four main balconies are decorated with a very stylised vegetal relief. The other balconies on the upper floors, in addition to being individual, have lost all ornamentation. A series of vents precede the straight, moulded cornice. The facing is stuccoed with padded strips on the ground floor, mezzanine and corner, while the rest of the façade is plain.
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