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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 exhibition Species of Spaces, based on Perec’s homonymous book, aims to transform the generic space of a museum into a particular one. That is the starting point of the display designed by MAIO, where a new system of square rooms of identical dimensions define and organize a series of works along the exhibition space.
The display for the exhibition consists in the creation of a grid of rooms within one of the circular spaces of Richard Meier’s building. The second floor of the MACBA becomes a domestic-like space where works of art are placed all along the rooms. The 4,8 x 4,8 m grid allows the construction of a maze-like space, where the specificity of each space is defined by the content but not the continent. The labyrinthine perception arises here by means of a strict repetition of rationality and modularity. Only some windows, strategically placed, communicate the rooms between them.
The walls have been painted in a subtle pink gradient that decreases towards white as the installation gets nearer to the end of the room. The design deals with Perec’s idea of the ordinary and uses a common dry-wall system where the steel studs are uncovered and visible in the doors situated at the corners of the room.
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MACBA Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona
Richard Meier & Partners, Isabel Bachs, Richard Meier, Fernando Juan Ramos Galino
The museum is part of a strategy to reorganise the Raval neighbourhood through the introduction of new municipal institutional buildings. In this case, it is a newly created museum, without a pre-established art collection, so the main determinations of the project come from the urban morphology. Meier occupies an old block of houses at the back of the Charity House, thus completely renewing the character of the Àngels square. The building gives subtle and attentive answers to the elements of the environment. The winding body that contains the small, specialised exhibition halls determines the view from Àngels Street. The entrance takes place through a large crack reminiscent of the winding streets of the Raval. The building scrupulously respects the height of the urban fabric of the area and is strictly adapted to the width of the Charity House. It is a formally exuberant organism, prepared for the most flexible and indeterminate forms of exhibition of works of art. -
FAD Award
Finalist. Category: Arquitectura - Edificis de Nova Planta, Obres de Reforma o Rehabilitació d'Edificis ExistentsMACBA Contemporary Art Museum of BarcelonaRichard Meier & Partners, Isabel Bachs, Richard Meier, Fernando Juan Ramos Galino
FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner (opinion). Category: Arquitectura - Edificis de Nova Planta, Obres de Reforma o Rehabilitació d'Edificis ExistentsMACBA Contemporary Art Museum of BarcelonaRichard Meier & Partners, Isabel Bachs, Richard Meier, Fernando Juan Ramos Galino
Species of Spaces Exhibition
MAIO, Maria Charneco Llanos, Alfredo Lérida Horta, Guillermo López Ibáñez, Anna Puigjaner Barberà
The exhibition Species of Spaces, based on Perec’s homonymous book, aims to transform the generic space of a museum into a particular one. That is the starting point of the display designed by MAIO, where a new system of square rooms of identical dimensions define and organize a series of works along the exhibition space. The display for the exhibition consists in the creation of a grid of rooms within one of the circular spaces of Richard Meier’s building. The second floor of the MACBA becomes a domestic-like space where works of art are placed all along the rooms. The 4,8 x 4,8 m grid allows the construction of a maze-like space, where the specificity of each space is defined by the content but not the continent. The labyrinthine perception arises here by means of a strict repetition of rationality and modularity. Only some windows, strategically placed, communicate the rooms between them. The walls have been painted in a subtle pink gradient that decreases towards white as the installation gets nearer to the end of the room. The design deals with Perec’s idea of the ordinary and uses a common dry-wall system where the steel studs are uncovered and visible in the doors situated at the corners of the room.FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Intervencions EfímeresSpecies of Spaces ExhibitionMAIO, Maria Charneco Llanos, Alfredo Lérida Horta, Guillermo López Ibáñez, Anna Puigjaner Barberà
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