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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 is made up of three distinct but interrelated bodies. It is a villa surrounded by a garden. The bodies have two or three storeys (the central one), covered with hipped roofs and with an eave supported by a wooden beam. The openings have straight or semi-circular arches. The gates or accesses to the garden stand out. The main doorway has a semicircular arch, voussoir-shaped and with stone imposts. On the main façade there is another doorway over which there is an overhang or balcony supported by columns with cylindrical shafts and a base and capitals with quarter-round mouldings. All the elements, harmoniously combined, contribute to giving the house a stately air: the quality of the materials, staircases, balconies and terraces, etc. A tower, with a hip roof, stands out on one of the lateral bodies.
Tona began its expansion with the construction of the road to Barcelona and the discovery of sulphurous waters in 1874, which favoured the creation of several spas and the attraction of bourgeois foreigners, who enjoyed both curing illnesses and forming an enclave for cultural and leisure activities. On the extension of the Carrer Major - the old royal road from Barcelona to Vic - and the road, some islands with the characteristics of a garden city constitute a small enclave of summer towers, built between 1918 and 1923, when the Catalan Art Nouveau in decline and the plethoric noucentisme were blending together in a harmonious symbiosis of forms, composition and ornamentation.
This house is one of the houses that the industrialist Joan Llussà i Duran had built at the beginning of the 20th century for himself and his family. It coincided with the improvement of communication routes, both by road and by train. This new infrastructure helped the great industrialists of Barcelona, such as Joan Llussà himself, Santiago Simon and Joan Maragall, the poet, to invest in construction or to spend long periods in Tona, increasing the prestige of the city.
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