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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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The La Farigola School Group is located in the block in the Gràcia district bounded by Sant Camil, Sant Eudald, Baleares and Farigola streets. It is a school building separated from the street by the school playground. The entrance is on Carrer de Sant Camil through a porch that gives access to both the building and the school playground.
The building consists of a basement, ground floor, first floor and attic. It is organised as a set of united and superimposed volumes, two of them being open porches, and occupies a surface area of 870.73 m², of which 329.65 m² corresponded to the building and 514.08 m² to the playground – given that the school was designed for girls and infants, the playground was very important. On both sides of the almost cubic volume of the building, he placed porticoed galleries leading to two terraces.
The façade has an asymmetrical composition of openings on vertical axes. The openings in the south are square in proportion and of large dimensions, typical of school classrooms. The openings in the other orientations are smaller and of vertical proportions. The façades of the open porches are formed by semicircular arcades supported by pillars with Classicist capitals. Above the arcades are the solid balustrades of the roofs.
The roof of the building is flat, also forming roof terraces. The perimeter of the crowning is resolved with a masonry sill with balusters and classical moulding. The cornice has a classical profile with a dentil. The sill is crowned with vases that emphasise the corners.
Artistically, it is worth highlighting the sgraffito work that occupies all the façades with geometric motifs that are subordinated to the composition of the façade, creating a formal unity with the openings and arches. The most striking visual elements are the ceramic vases with floral elements of highly stylised proportions.
The building is considered Noucentista because of the style of the decorations and the balance achieved between ornamentation and façade composition with few materials: the large, high windows in the classrooms stand out and the entire wall is covered in two-colour stucco; there are sgraffiti with geometric motifs, designed by the artist Francesc Canyellas. The ensemble is influenced to some extent by the Italian villa and Baroque architecture, in harmony with the aesthetics of Noucentisme.
The La Farigola School Group was built on land owned by Barcelona City Council, where there had previously been a school in a precarious state that had to be closed. The construction of the renovated centre was carried out within the framework of the planning of the Technical Advisory Office of the Culture Commission to solve the city's school problem. Thus, in 1913, the old building was demolished and around 1917, the architect Josep Goday began to plan a new school for girls and a nursery school. The initial name was "Escuela Graduada de Niñas de Vallcarca" and it was later called Grupo Escolar el Tomillo de Vallcarca, as the Tomillo stream was nearby. In 1935 Goday closed one of the porches to increase the capacity of the classrooms.
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