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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
We kindly invite you to help us improve the dissemination of Catalan architecture through this space. Here you can propose works and provide or amend information on authors, photographers and their work, along with adding comments. The Documentary Commission will analyze all data. Please do only fill in the fields you deem necessary to add or amend the information.
The Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya is one of the most important documentation centers in Europe, which houses the professional collections of more than 180 architects whose work is fundamental to understanding the history of Catalan architecture. By filling this form, you can request digital copies of the documents for which the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya manages the exploitation of the author's rights, as well as those in the public domain. Once the application has been made, the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya will send you an approximate budget, which varies in terms of each use and purpose.
El projecte es mostra com una resposta directa a les condicions urbanístiques de l’indret: la malla ortogonal del campus superposada a una orografia variable i amb una vegetació molt diversa. Un talús sobre els dos carrers inferiors restitueix una horitzontal artificial, on descansen tres cossos transversals que allotgen les aules i els despatxos. Totes les estances reben la llum des dels espais existents entre els volums, de manera que tot l’edifici presenta l’aspecte d’un encaix de superfícies cegues. Un cos de tres nivells d’alçària acull les activitats comunes, alhora que marca l’entrada pel punt més suau del talús.
Amb els seus 7.400 m2 construïts, l’organisme s’implanta sobre el pendent del campus de manera regular, delimitat per l’ortogonalitat del seu traçat, i inventa un sòcol que hi restitueix el pla horitzontal, entès, alhora, com un talús geomètric. Tres cossos transversals allotgen tots els espais, servits per la llum que hi flueix gràcies al joc sistemàtic de pati i interstici. Un dels cossos es dreça a major alçada, amb un volum d’activitats comunes encarat a l’eix principal, i acompanya l’entrada on topogràficament és més fàcil. El conjunt presenta defora un joc de geometries serè i abstracte, i encaixa dins seu un joc permanent de transparència, llum i reflex fortament introspectiu i d’un refinament extraordinari, per bé que s’ha dolgut d’algun problema material en els acabats. L’obra d’aquests autors, més enllà d’un minimalisme que no en fa prou per definir-los, ha suscitat un gran interès contemporani.
RCR Arquitectes, Rafael Aranda i Quiles, Carme Pigem i Barceló, Ramon Vilalta i Pujol
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