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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Neo-Romanesque style church of the 20th century following the Romanesque forms of the 11th century and synthesising great contributions of the Catalan Romanesque style from different places in order to achieve a prototype of a Romanesque church. The style used within the historicist forms is the First Romanesque or Lombard Romanesque: it has blind arches, Lombard bands, semi-circular arches, barrel vaults, a bell tower with floors which is separate from the church and regular stones placed at the junction. The dome that crowns the transept forms a Latin cross plan that tends to the Greek cross. It has three apses in degradation and the central one has three apsidioles.
The Neo-Romanesque church of La Mare de Déu del Roser in Colònia Gomis was inaugurated in 1930 and is the work of the architect Alexandre Soler i March. It was the last work of the colony, which was made up of the factory, the housing for the workers and the church with additional religious buildings. La colony had been founded in 1891 by the industrialist Francesc Gomis i Soler and until recent years has been dedicated to cotton yarns and fabrics.
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Gomis Colony
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The colony consisted of a factory, a row of houses and the Neo-Romanesque Church of the Virgin of the Rosary. The Can Gomis textile industrial colony was founded in 1891 by Francesc Gomis i Soler from Manresa. Dedicated from its beginnings to the production of cotton yarn and fabrics, in 1909 a power plant was installed here, supplying electricity to Monistrol de Montserrat, Olesa de Montserrat, the mountain and the Monastery of Montserrat, as well as other towns. The plant became part of the Segre group of hydroelectric forces created by the same company. The Neo-Romanesque church of the Gomis Colony, dedicated to the Virgin of the Rosary, was designed by architect Alexandre Soler i March. In the summer of 1985, the Gomis Colony factory was closed, at that time employing 72 workers, 80% of whom came from the town of Monistrol de Montserrat. Years later, the factory reopened and remains in operation today. -
Mare de Déu del Roser de la Colònia Gomis Church
Neo-Romanesque style church of the 20th century following the Romanesque forms of the 11th century and synthesising great contributions of the Catalan Romanesque style from different places in order to achieve a prototype of a Romanesque church. The style used within the historicist forms is the First Romanesque or Lombard Romanesque: it has blind arches, Lombard bands, semi-circular arches, barrel vaults, a bell tower with floors which is separate from the church and regular stones placed at the junction. The dome that crowns the transept forms a Latin cross plan that tends to the Greek cross. It has three apses in degradation and the central one has three apsidioles. The Neo-Romanesque church of La Mare de Déu del Roser in Colònia Gomis was inaugurated in 1930 and is the work of the architect Alexandre Soler i March. It was the last work of the colony, which was made up of the factory, the housing for the workers and the church with additional religious buildings. La colony had been founded in 1891 by the industrialist Francesc Gomis i Soler and until recent years has been dedicated to cotton yarns and fabrics.
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