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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 Ornaque

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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 Ornaque

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2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

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2019-2025 Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel

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Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

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ArquinFAD

 

Fundació Mies van der Rohe

 

Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico

 

Basílica de la Sagrada Família

 

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

 

Fomento

 

AMB

 

EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona

 

IEFC

 

Fundació Domènench Montaner.

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Passeig de Pere III was created in 1891 and is home to a number of high-quality Catalan Art Nouveau and Noucentista buildings. The Kursaal is a building set back from the street line and with its main façade opening onto an atrium. It has a ground floor and four upper floors, with a unitary and symmetrical composition. The atrium is defined by a single-storey perimeter porch, supported on pairs of columns with Ionic capitals and crowned by a balustrade. Access is through a classical-style grille with pillars topped by iron and glass street lamps. The façade has a central section with three vertical axes of windows, separated only by the sills. Those on the first and second floors are square and those on the third floor are semicircular arches. In the centre, crowning the building, is a tower centred on a columnar window and topped with a triangular pediment.

The whole building is part of the Noucentista (1900-1914) movement of the time, in its classicist monumentalist aspect.

Currently having been restored (2007) by the architects Joan Forgas and Víctor Argentí, it is the performing arts centre of Manresa, hosting theatre and concerts. The interior has been completely modified.

Newspaper report on 21/02/2007 (El Periódico):

Manresa was all dressed up last night for the inauguration of the emblematic Kursaal theatre. After 19 years of being closed, the theatre raised the curtain once again to offer a show prepared for the occasion, which brought it back to cultural life. The Minister of Culture, Joan Manuel Tresserras, attended the inauguration of the theatre, which, in the words of the mayor of the municipality, Josep Camprubí (PSC), should reinforce Manresa as the ‘cultural capital of central Catalonia’.

INAGURATED IN 1927

The image of the theatre with the spotlights on and the stalls of the main auditorium full was the culmination of a long process of 11 years to refurbish the Kursaal, one of the star projects of the municipal tripartite. The theatre, on the central Passeig de Pere III, was first opened in 1927 and now, being located next to the Casino, a building that has been converted into a library and civic centre, it forms part of an enclave with a special cultural content. After a period of splendour, the theatre was closed in 1988 due to its dilapidation. “La revista Loco, boig musical Hall, Mary Sampere i la companyia d'El Molino” were the last performances.

In 1995, a group of citizens set out to make Manresa a theatre-going town again and the association El Galliner was set up. Its first action was to sell 800 tickets for the hypothetical day the Kursaal would be reopened. The buyers were among the audience today at the double premiere - theatre and show - or will be attending the performances this week.

11.5 MILLION EUROS

Today, the festival of Light in Manresa, the theatre will open its doors to the public so that they can see the restoration, which has cost 11.5 million euros financed by the town council and with subsidies from the regional government and the provincial council. The original façade has been preserved and inside there are now two auditoriums, one with 803 seats, including stalls and an amphitheatre, and the other with 200. and large-format orchestras’.

Until now, most of the cultural programme was put on at the Conservatory Theatre, where El Galliner has made the most of its limited stage space. This association will be in charge of the Kursaal programme, and has already arranged performances by Lluís Llach, Joan Manuel Serrat, Manolo Escobar and theatre and dance premieres. The venue is managed by a municipal public company.

Source: Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya (IPAC)

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  1. Kursaal Theatre

    Josep Firmat i Serramalera

    Kursaal Theatre

    Passeig de Pere III was created in 1891 and is home to a number of high-quality Catalan Art Nouveau and Noucentista buildings. The Kursaal is a building set back from the street line and with its main façade opening onto an atrium. It has a ground floor and four upper floors, with a unitary and symmetrical composition. The atrium is defined by a single-storey perimeter porch, supported on pairs of columns with Ionic capitals and crowned by a balustrade. Access is through a classical-style grille with pillars topped by iron and glass street lamps. The façade has a central section with three vertical axes of windows, separated only by the sills. Those on the first and second floors are square and those on the third floor are semicircular arches. In the centre, crowning the building, is a tower centred on a columnar window and topped with a triangular pediment. The whole building is part of the Noucentista (1900-1914) movement of the time, in its classicist monumentalist aspect. Currently having been restored (2007) by the architects Joan Forgas and Víctor Argentí, it is the performing arts centre of Manresa, hosting theatre and concerts. The interior has been completely modified. Newspaper report on 21/02/2007 (El Periódico): Manresa was all dressed up last night for the inauguration of the emblematic Kursaal theatre. After 19 years of being closed, the theatre raised the curtain once again to offer a show prepared for the occasion, which brought it back to cultural life. The Minister of Culture, Joan Manuel Tresserras, attended the inauguration of the theatre, which, in the words of the mayor of the municipality, Josep Camprubí (PSC), should reinforce Manresa as the ‘cultural capital of central Catalonia’. INAGURATED IN 1927 The image of the theatre with the spotlights on and the stalls of the main auditorium full was the culmination of a long process of 11 years to refurbish the Kursaal, one of the star projects of the municipal tripartite. The theatre, on the central Passeig de Pere III, was first opened in 1927 and now, being located next to the Casino, a building that has been converted into a library and civic centre, it forms part of an enclave with a special cultural content. After a period of splendour, the theatre was closed in 1988 due to its dilapidation. “La revista Loco, boig musical Hall, Mary Sampere i la companyia d'El Molino” were the last performances. In 1995, a group of citizens set out to make Manresa a theatre-going town again and the association El Galliner was set up. Its first action was to sell 800 tickets for the hypothetical day the Kursaal would be reopened. The buyers were among the audience today at the double premiere - theatre and show - or will be attending the performances this week. 11.5 MILLION EUROS Today, the festival of Light in Manresa, the theatre will open its doors to the public so that they can see the restoration, which has cost 11.5 million euros financed by the town council and with subsidies from the regional government and the provincial council. The original façade has been preserved and inside there are now two auditoriums, one with 803 seats, including stalls and an amphitheatre, and the other with 200. and large-format orchestras’. Until now, most of the cultural programme was put on at the Conservatory Theatre, where El Galliner has made the most of its limited stage space. This association will be in charge of the Kursaal programme, and has already arranged performances by Lluís Llach, Joan Manuel Serrat, Manolo Escobar and theatre and dance premieres. The venue is managed by a municipal public company.

  2. Rehabilitació del Teatre Kursaal

    Víctor Argentí i Salvadó, Marta Bosch, Joan Forgas i Coll, Dolors Ylla-Català i Puigrefagut

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