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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 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.
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Building between partitions with ground floor and two landings. It presents a symmetrical façade with a vertical outline, this one accentuated by the size and the format of the openings, in parabolic arches that connect in an upward direction until ending in stepped gables in the first place and in an arch at the top.
The ground floor has two parabolic arches with buttressed sandstone reliefs. The first floor has an iron balcony and moulded cement profiles in the arches. The second floor has the same layout and balconies. It presents the cornice crowning that follows the gables.
The façade has a stone plinth and the rest is plastered in grey. The interior floor is divided into two areas divided by a monumental staircase. The floors are walled with a typical Catalan vault support by iron beams. The back of the first floor, which is under the roof, is covered by a brick vault supported by braces. The third floor, only partially built, has a crystal skylight shaped like saw teeth. The carpentry and forging work should be highlighted.
It is a very representative example of Muncunill's adaptation of the classic type of house to turn it into an industrial building without the need to alter the image of the city. It participates in the most typical stylistic currents of the moment.
It was built at the request of Joaquim Alegre and was a textile warehouse until it was abandoned. Finally, the property passed to a real estate agency in Barcelona. The defunct "Grup d'Arquitectes de Terrassa" had a brilliant and efficient action to save the building from destruction. Later, at the end of the 1970s, it was acquired by Manuel Tobella i Marcet to install the archive that bears his name – a foundation dedicated to the city where a series of private collections are already of public use of photography, programmes and local brochures, in addition to various documentation. The entity is governed by a board, has a staff, library and organises cultural activities and publishes works of local interest.
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