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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 building meets a program of 12 rent-free homes and 21 controlled rent homes, plus a secluded penthouse understood as a unique piece. Bofill refers to the traditional construction with a brick factory to fit the circular perimeter of the square and provide it with a defining character. Both hierarchies of houses are reflected on the façade and, in the manner of the local modernist tradition, small-scale elements (drainage pipes, gargoyles, chimney pipes, railings) are used to give expressiveness to the building, understood as a delicate work of brick factory and iron elements that adopt a sculptural quality.
These dwellings, made up of two buildings, one of which is of controlled rent, is oriented towards Sant Gregori Taumaturg Square. The design of the façade is of special interest due to the use of materials, closely linked to the Catalan artisanal tradition: the dominant elements are brick, which has horizontal bands embracing the building in its entirety, and two lattices arranged vertically. The ceramic pieces that make up the bands create an effect of transparency inside the homes. The configuration of penthouses and terraces, located further back from the façade line, give it dynamism and favor the integration of the building into the circular shape of the square.
4 Compositor Bach Street: 12 homes + attic and attic
6 Pérez Cabrero Street: 21 homes with terraces on the rooftop terrace
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Francesc Pérez-Cabrero Dwellings
RBTA - Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, Emili Bofill i Benessat, Ricardo Bofill Leví
The building meets a program of 12 rent-free homes and 21 controlled rent homes, plus a secluded penthouse understood as a unique piece. Bofill refers to the traditional construction with a brick factory to fit the circular perimeter of the square and provide it with a defining character. Both hierarchies of houses are reflected on the façade and, in the manner of the local modernist tradition, small-scale elements (drainage pipes, gargoyles, chimney pipes, railings) are used to give expressiveness to the building, understood as a delicate work of brick factory and iron elements that adopt a sculptural quality. -
FAD Award
Shortlisted. Category: ArchitectureJohann Sebastian Bach - Francesc Pérez-Cabrero DwellingsRBTA - Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, Emili Bofill i Benessat, Ricardo Bofill Leví
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