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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2025 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2025 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:
2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse ViuExternal Collaborators:
2019-2025 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 site where the complex was located, known as ‘Godó colony’ and a manufacturing centre, had an area of 15,000 m2 with two longitudinal warehouses with a large number of openings on the outside to facilitate the entry of air into the warehouses. The power station measures 50 x 14 m with an approximate surface area of 700 m2 and is five storeys high.
Part of the foundations are made of solid brick, forming arcades that are understood to be on sandy ground due to the proximity of the river. The four-storey warehouses have a very simple structure that is determined by the rectangular structure of the building.
Three rows of cast iron pillars support the ceilings - on the first floors they are interspersed with wooden pillars of the same shape. The ceilings are made of wooden boards with reinforcing planks to support the weight of the looms.
The roof has two slopes, leaving a central nave with a row of wooden pillars and trusses, and there are skylights in the ceiling.
Next to the west façade stands the square brick chimney.
The most remarkable element of the whole complex is the entrance gate to the enclosure, formed by a segmental arch made of smooth stone voussoirs and a triangular finial that is like a recreation of the Roman triumphal arch.
Founded in 1842, under the promotion of the Godó family, it was in its beginnings one of the most important cotton manufacturing industries in Catalonia, both for the diversity of its production and for the number of workers employed there.
It was also the first textile factory in Igualada to use a steam engine and the first to install electric lighting in 1885.
Its most famous owner was Joan Godó i Llucià, after whom the street is named. As well as being a businessman he was a politician and the head of Sagasta's party in Igualada, becoming a member of parliament for the district of Igualada, where he had also been mayor.
This company was known by different names depending on the owner: between 1842-1853, Fabril Igualadina Cotonera; 1853-1868, Compañía Fabril Igualadina Algodonera; 1868-1873, Igualadina Cotonera S. A.; 1873-1876, ceased operations; 1880-1936, Joan Godó i Llucià took over; 1936-1939, during the Spanish Civil War it was collectivised; 1939-1957, Joan Godó i Pelegrí recovered it; 1957-1967, S.A. Textil Igualadina. Finally, in 1967, the company disappeared, leaving the building and annexes abandoned. It would suffer subsequent demolitions, with the central nave and the steam chimney still remaining intact.
It is included in the Inventory of Spanish Architectural Heritage of a Historical and Artistic Nature. [Province of Barcelona, 1979-1980, r.:1095]
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