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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque Directors arquitecturacatalana.cat
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Directors:
2019-2024Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
Documental Commission:
2019-2024 Ramon FauraCarolina B. GarciaEduard CallísFrancesc RafatPau Albert Antoni López DaufíJoan FalguerasMercè BoschJaume FarrenyAnton PàmiesJuan Manuel ZaguirreJosep FerrandoFernando MarzáMoisés PuenteAureli MoraOmar Ornaque
Collaborators:
2019-2024Lluis AndreuSergi BallesterMaria Jesús QuinteroLucía M. VillodresMontse Viu
External Collaborators:
2019-2024Helena CepedaInès Martinel
With the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura
Collaborating Entities:
ArquinFAD
Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico
Basílica de la Sagrada Família
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona
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EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
We kindly invite you to help us improve the dissemination of Catalan architecture through this space. Here you can propose works and provide or amend information on authors, photographers and their work, along with adding comments. The Documentary Commission will analyze all data.
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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.
The pavilion turns its back to the golf course and faces southwest, forming a body with two wings that house two distinct groups of functions. A main transparent area is accessed through the axis of the two wings towards the opposite façade, where the lounges, bar and dining room are located. On the north side there is the service staff wing, with its own courtyard, which contains all the openings. On the south side there is the second wing, which houses the offices and changing rooms. The pavilion responds to the landscape qualities of a golf course by means of a single-storey construction, glazed from floor to ceiling on a large part of the façade, and unified by a large flat roof that forms an overhang on most of its perimeter. This creates areas directly related to the exterior and well delimited below the treetops.
Author: Maurici Pla
Source: Catalunya : guia d'arquitectura moderna, 1880-2007
The only golf courses that had been built in Barcelona were the Real Club de Golf de Pedralbes (1910) and the Club de Golf de Sant Cugat (1914), but the Golf de Pedralbes was being surrounded by the city and, at the end of the 1940s, when Avinguda Diagonal was opened, it had to disappear. As an alternative, a group of partners from Pedralbes and Sant Cugat undertook the project to build the RCG El Prat on an estate located between Barcelona airport and the sea.
The building is single-storey to respect the treetops and is conceived from the roof, which is a reinforced concrete slab lined with sheet metal larger than the building itself. Because of both its height and its curvature, it was decided that this slab should be as thin as possible. The transparency achieved through glass walls and interior courtyards is very important in the project. In this way, a multiplicity of interior and exterior spaces are superimposed, bringing the landscape into direct contact with the viewer, who can enjoy the views of the golf course with the sea in the background. Wherever appropriate, the glass enclosures are replaced by brick walls cut in half. They were cut with the pot and a very rough texture was obtained.
The pavilion turns its back to the golf course and faces southwest, forming a body with two wings that house two distinct groups of functions. A main transparent area is accessed through the axis of the two wings towards the opposite façade, where the lounges, bar and dining room are located. On the north side there is the service staff wing, with its own courtyard, which contains all the openings. On the south side there is the second wing, which houses the offices and changing rooms. The pavilion responds to the landscape qualities of a golf course by means of a single-storey construction, glazed from floor to ceiling on a large part of the façade, and unified by a large flat roof that forms an overhang on most of its perimeter. This creates areas directly related to the exterior and well delimited below the treetops.
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