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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 Faculty of Nautical Science is located in Pla de Palau, at the beginning of the Barceloneta district. It is an isolated building with a quadrangular floor plan, consisting of a large ground floor used for services and administration of the centre, two upper floors and a flat rooftop terrace.
Each of the four façades has an entrance with a short flight of steps leading to large porticoes without pediments flanked by Tuscan columns. Above, the two floors have slight differences in volume, but these are not very noticeable, with large openings with balconies in the centre and balconies without overhangs on the sides. Some of the openings on the first floor have an undecorated pediment, while those on the first floor have no openings and a simple segmental arch. The areas without openings are occupied by plain pilasters, with capitals in the centre and fluted pilasters on the sides. The façades are crowned with a prominent eave and a stone balustrade above it. The roof of the building is flat, except for a glass lantern that opens onto the centre of the ground floor. At the ends of the side and rear façades, stone ashlar pilasters protruding from the façade plane rise above the roof balustrade and end with small temples with hemispherical cupolas, delimited by four triangular pediments.
The interior has a free ground floor, generated by a central oval courtyard, illuminated by the large lantern, around which the rooms on the upper floors are organised. From the courtyard, on the south side, the staircase leads to a mezzanine gallery on each floor, which serves as a distribution space for the classrooms; a three-arched gallery with clear Italian echoes leads to the gallery on the first floor. Both on the ground floor and on the staircase there are polychrome leaded stained-glass windows of remarkable artistry. The one that presides over the staircase depicts a caravel with an angel in front of it and bears the date 1932, but not the signature of the artist.
Occupied by anti-fascist militias during the Spanish Civil War, it was later the site of the Escuela de la Marina Mercante del Mediterráneo (Mediterranean Merchant Navy School). Between 1936 and 1939, the school had a training ship attached to it, the President Macià, which was the former Rosa VV yacht of the Count of Godó. Since 1990, it has been part of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), as the Barcelona Nautical Faculty.
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