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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

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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 Ornaque

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2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

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2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel

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ArquinFAD

 

Fundació Mies van der Rohe

 

Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico

 

Basílica de la Sagrada Família

 

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

 

Fomento

 

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  • 1853 - 1857

  • Ateneu Canetenc

    Lluís Domènech i Montaner

    Ateneu Canetenc

    El 1883 es funda la societat Ateneo de Canet de Mar, entitat social d’arrel catalanista. Encarreguen a Domènech i Montaner el projecte per la seva seu, a la cantonada més cèntrica del poble, entre la Riera i el carrer Ample. Domènech va aprofitar part de les construccions que ocupaven el solar adquirit, i va aixecar un edifici de planta baixa i pis, unint-lo amb el teatre principal del costat. Tenia un saló de sessions, sala de lectura i biblioteca, sala de juntes, saló de billar i sala de “tresillo”. Un balcó corregut arriba fins a la cantonada, on una torre que arrenca des del primer pis el fa girar fins a la façana del carrer ample, que és on hi havia l’accés, donant continuïtat a les dues façanes. La façana a la riera té una clara composició simètrica amb un cos central rematat amb un frontó i una gran rosassa. El balcó corregut pren una doble volada en aquest punt, recolzat sobre mènsules metàl·liques d’inspiració violletiana. Les façanes estan acabades amb estucats decoratius, realitzats per la prestigiós firma de Barcelona Saumell i Vilaró. Els motius decoratius són al·legories mitològiques, en gran part extretes de l’Atlàntida de Verdaguer. També hi ha una rica decoració de forja i planxa de ferro retallada dels serrallers Pujadas de Canet. L’any 1923 I'edifici va acollir I'Ateneu Obrer i durant el franquisme, I'obra sindical d'Educación i Descanso. El 1985 I'edifici va ser adquirit per I'Ajuntament de Canet. L’interior va ser completament modificat al llarg dels anys, i només es conserven les façanes. Des del 1999 és la biblioteca Gual Pujades de Canet de Mar.

    1884 - 1887

  • Roura House

    Lluís Domènech i Montaner

    Roura House

    Jacint Capmany and his wife Francesca Roura, Lluís Domènech's brothers-in-law, commissioned the architect to build a summer house in 1889, which was finally built in 1891. The building has a rectangular ground plan and a gabled roof, with exposed brick façades and a circular corner tower crowned with a conical dome covered with ceramic scales. This tower, which makes the façade turn and is reinforced by a continuous balcony-terrace, had already been used in the Ateneu de Canet and would be a common solution in other projects by Domènech. It has a ground floor and first floor, but the central part houses a large double-height living room covered with an impressive wooden truss in the manner of an inverted naval construction. The rest of the building's horizontal structure, other floors and balconies, are made of metal. An extensive programme of applied arts decorates the entire interior and exterior of the house: glazed ceramics, mosaic flooring, woodwork, wrought ironwork, stone sculpture, etc. The ceramics are the work of Josep Ros and Pau Pujol. The ornamental references to the medieval world are continuous, and for example the front and back façades are resolved with a stepped gable with medieval central European reminiscences. It is currently a restaurant.

    1891 - 1892

  • 1897 - 1898

  • Refurbishment of the Can Rocosa Country House

    Lluís Domènech i Montaner

    Refurbishment of the Can Rocosa Country House

    Domènech spent the summers with his family at Can Rocosa in Canet de Mar. In order to enlarge the space, they had bought the two houses next door that chamfered Riera de la Gavarra and Riera dels Buscarons and unified their courtyards into a single courtyard. The old country house was used as an architectural studio and personal refuge. He kept the Baroque elements of the building, such as the sgraffito on the façade, the courtiers, the peephole in the staircase and the stone lintels, but at the same time he incorporated numerous decorative elements from his works, sometimes plaster models of the sculptures or ceramic samples. The large room on the first floor still has its drawing table and library shelves. It is now part of the Casa Museu Lluís Domènech i Montaner Canet de Mar.

    1888 - 1905

  • Santa Florentina Castle

    Lluís Domènech i Montaner

    Santa Florentina Castle

    Ramon Montaner, Lluís Domènech's uncle and co-owner of the Montaner i Simón publishing house, bought the Casa Forta in Canet in 1881, thus returning the property to his family. He commissioned his nephew to restore and extend the building in order to monumentalise it and turn it into a representation of his lineage. With this intention, the publisher had acquired several historical buildings to extract their architectural elements of value and transfer them to his castle, such as the medieval monastery of Tallat. The original building was an old domus, the Casa Forta de Canet de Mar, which before the intervention had the appearance of a compact fortified country house. Domènech's project consisted of building new rooms around a courtyard that recreated a castle, reusing stone elements from other medieval buildings. From the monastery of Tallat, Ramon Montaner bought a large part of the cloister and several window and door frames, which were drawn, numbered piece by piece, dismantled and transferred to Sant Florentina, where they were reassembled in their new location. The new courtyard had a monumental exterior staircase in the style of Gothic palaces, and the towers were topped with battlements, barbicans and machicolations. The complex has many stone sculptures, decorated corbels, sculpted gargoyles, medievalist stained glass windows, polychrome wooden coffered ceilings and antique furniture, in which original Gothic pieces were mixed with modern fragments to achieve a medieval fantasy. Antoni Samarra i Tugues, Carles Flotats i Galtés and Dídac Massana collaborated on the stone sculptures and Josep Pujol on the stained glass windows. In 1905 work began on the crypt, in the basement of one of the old towers of the fortress, for the late wife of Ramon Montaner, Florentina Malató. In 1908, with the renovation of the castle almost finished, King Alfonso XIII was there, the same year that he granted Ramon Montaner the title of Count of the Canet Valley. The Montaner family ruled the castle until the marriage of their daughter Julia passed to the Capmany family. It is currently owned by investors and although it is still used as a private home, it is a museum and can be visited.

    1900 - 1908

  • 1906 - 1909

  • Jover Serra i Cia Factory

    Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Pere Domènech i Roura

    Jover Serra i Cia Factory

    The building designed by Domènech i Montaner follows the same structure that Josep Puig i Cadafalch used for the neighbouring Carbonell factory. The project consisted of two elongated naves arranged symmetrically with a building in between that provided the power for both buildings. In the end, however, it was only possible to build a 75 metre-long by a 15-metre wide nave, with a total of 1000 square metres. A diaphanous space with a height of more than 7 metres. The structure is made of iron beams arranged perpendicular to the length of the nave, forming corbels with a gable roof. The roof is supported by cast pillars located in the centre of the nave. The nave is accessed through four doors, one on each façade. It is a very sober construction. The side of the nave has a simple decorative moulding that frames the windows. The ends of the nave have two large circular medallions decorated with the image of a Latin sailing boat made of mosaic on either side of the door. The crowning of the building is followed by a fragmented frieze. At the ends of the nave were two closed rooms. In one there was the warehouse and in the other the offices. The Jover, Serra i Cia knitwear factory was founded in 1894. For this company, Isidre Jover Lavera and Francesc Xavier Serra Font joined forces and started the business in a house on Carrer Sant Benet. Five years later, as sales were going well, they decided to build a factory on the outskirts of town. They entrusted the project to the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, who worked together with his son, Pere Domènech i Roura. The works began in May 1900 and in September it was inaugurated. Despite the speed with which the works were carried out, the new factory was not occupied until 1903. In 1909, the factory was expanded. In any case, however, the twin nave that had been initially projected was not built. Two independent buildings were built, a warehouse and office and the other to house the machinery. It is the only industrial building designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner.

    1899 - 1910

  • Villa Flora

    Eduard Ferrés i Puig

    Villa Flora

    Two-storey house from 1920 with a detached ground floor and a separate gate at the entrance. It has a very large garden which continues on the other side of the stream, with a large entrance gate. Inside the garden there are small temples, fountains and other architectural elements. The building has influences from different styles, as the author was a man who traveled a lot. The influence of the Vienna Secession stands out.

    1910

  • Font Montaner Family Pantheon

    Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Pere Domènech i Roura

    Font Montaner Family Pantheon

    In 1912, the shipowner Font Torres, Domènech's uncle, commissioned a family pantheon in the cemetery of Canet. The pantheon follows a neo-medieval style with Catalan Art Nouveau elements. The dome of the roof is covered with ceramic brittle. The interior is also highly decorated.

    1912

  • Santuari de la Misericòrdia Restaurant

    Josep Puig i Cadafalch

    Santuari de la Misericòrdia Restaurant

    Double-height main nave with a parabolic arch framing windows made with careful brickwork. The same treatment can be seen in the annex, the restaurant facilities and the gabled house.

    1914

  • Domènech i Roura Family Pantheon

    Lluís Domènech i Montaner

    In 1910, Ricard de Capmany commissioned a family pantheon from his uncle Domènech i Montaner in the cemetery of Canet de Mar. But in 1919 he offered it to the Domènech Roura family to bury their son Ricard.

    1915

  • Domènech House

    Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Pere Domènech i Roura, Francesc Guàrdia i Vial

    Domènech House

    Domènech carried out a number of renovation projects for his political colleagues. Francesc Macià, a military engineer and politician who became president of the Generalitat, commissioned him to renovate the interior of his house in Lleida, the Macià chalet. It is the last work Domènech carried out in Canet de Mar. As was the case with most of his works of this period, he had the collaboration of his son Pedro and his son-in-law Francesc Guàrdia. The Domènech family had their second residence in Canet de Mar, in the old Rocosa country house. This building did not have enough space to house the architect's large family and his studio. In 1877, they bought two houses on the corner of Riera Gavarra and Riera de Buscarons, which were connected to the house by the rear courtyards. Masia Rocosa became the architect's office and workshop and the new building the family residence. A first unrealised project is preserved at the Fons Cabruja in Canet de Mar. In 1918, a building permit was requested for the renovation and restoration of the Domènech house of the project that was finally carried out. The original building, on a corner at the confluence of the two streams, was two small 17th-century buildings. The previous constructions were not demolished, but a large part of the walls were reused. Domènech went up again and redistributed and ennobled all the openings, adding a hall with exposed brick arches at the top and monumentalising the chamfered corner with a tribune decorated with floral and zoomorphic elements. Inside the house, all the rooms were renovated, ensuring that all the rooms had windows on the outside. A staircase with ceramic risers connects the ground floor with the first floor, leading to a double-height entrance hall. On the floor of this space is a walk-through skylight that brings light from the upper skylight to the ground floor. A spiral staircase connects this space with the perimeter balcony on the first floor. Several rooms in the building contain the plaster casts of some of the sculptural works in its buildings. In 1980, it was renovated to house a bank and an extension was built in the garden. After the transfer of all the buildings to the Town Council and a second refurbishment in 2011, it is now a facility that houses the Domènech i Montaner House-Museum in Canet de Mar.

    1918 - 1919

  • Pere Gual i Pujadas Public Library

    Lluís Planas i Calvet

    Pere Gual i Pujadas Public Library

    Library which follows the Public Library of Valls, inspired by Greco-Roman architectural models. The façade with its portico of Ionic columns and pilasters crowned with a curvilinear pediment stands out. Although, initially, the two lateral bodies of the façade culminated in a small temple with a hemispherical dome, a later refurbishment and extension of the library eliminated them. The Pere Gual i Pujades Popular Library was the second one built by the Mancomunitat in 1919. Initially, it had a ground floor, but in 1970 the first floor was added to provide more space for cultural activities.

    1919

  • 1920

  • Rovira House

    José Antonio Coderch de Sentmenat

    Rovira House

    Casa Rovira is built for families with two brothers, on a plot located in a garden-city area, bordering a rocky massif 40 m above the sea, with views to Canet beach and Roca de la Catel. The set forms two staggered volumes with breaks that facilitate adaptation to the abrupt topography of the terrain. Unity is achieved through patios and porches, their setback geometries and the staircase that connects them. The permeability of the façade is high when the visual vector is directed to the horizon and zero when connected to the street. Regarding the spatial scheme, the service area and the resting area are articulated in an L shape, with the rooms located in the concavity, while the main lobby forms its corner as an articulation. Its spatial arrangement is part of an experimental line that would begin in the Ferrer Vidal house and end in the Luque House. The Rovira House is a clear variation of the Uriach house. Coderch adapts the same scheme of relations to the new framework that was presented in the Canet de Mar plot. However, Casa Rovira presents a greater definition in its limits, since it has to adjust to more restricted circumstances, the architect himself declared that those conditions were more exciting. The structure is made up of a system of unidirectional reinforced concrete slabs supported on walls and pillars. On the outside, the façade is covered with lime plaster and the floors are made up of ceramic tiles arranged in a herringbone pattern, the openings are screened by white booklet blinds. All this provides it with that Mediterranean house style that supports the living tradition that Coderch insistently defends.

    1967

  • Remodelling and Extension of Domènech House as a Bank Headquarters

    B01 Arquitectes, Roser Amadó i Cercós, Lluís Domènech i Girbau

    Remodelling and Extension of Domènech House as a Bank Headquarters

    'La Caixa' acquired the Domènech de Canet de Mar estate which was composed of an 18th century country house, a house built by Domènech i Montaner and a garden shared by both. The intention was to locate its bank headquarters there, building a pavilion in the garden and adapting the modernist house, leaving the restoration of the country house for a future intervention. Later, however, it was ceded to the Canet de Mar Town Hall and became the Domènech i Montaner House - Museum. The project is mainly based on the creation of a new pavilion that relates the Domènech House and the old country house in a different way. The relationship with the modernist house is based on two basic considerations: respect for the building's architectural uniqueness and the conservation of the character of the house's enclosed garden, which formed an overall image of a strong urban presence. To achieve these two objectives, it is proposed to build a closed volume that faces the Riera, respecting the height of the garden wall and that connects coherently with the exterior balcony with which Casa Domènech ends over the Riera.

    1980 - 1982

  • Casa-Estudi

    Valor-Llimós Arquitectura, Laura Llimós, Jaume Valor i Montero

    Casa-Estudi

    L’edifici acull un doble ús com a habitatge i estudi, busca el confort climàtic mitjançant sistemes passius i la integració en el casc antic de la població. El clima mediterrani costaner condiciona la configuració interior i la relació amb l’exterior. L'absència de particions i les connexions verticals converteixen l'interior en un únic espai. Les relacions amb el carrer i el jardí es produeixen sempre a través d’espais intermedis: pati, porxo, terrasses i balcons amb protecció solar i visual –persianes enrotllables tradicionals de fusta–. Aquests espais funcionen tant tèrmicament com per proporcionar privacitat a l'interior i entre els diferents usos, alhora que permeten la captació solar a l'hivern.S’opta per sistemes de construcció pesats per la seva inèrcia tèrmica, especialment indicada en un edifici amb ocupació permanent. Els materials escollits són formigó vist i maó sense revestir, carpinteries de fusta sense pintar, terres continus de morter i revestiments exteriors de suro. Per no alterar l’aspecte en brut dels materials, s’utilitzen tractaments superficials com ceres, olis o lasurs incolors. També s'incorpora la mitgera de pedra existent.L’alçada de tres metres de les estances facilita l’estratificació de l’aire calent a l’estiu, que s’elimina durant la nit mitjançant la ventilació a través de reixetes altes, que s’extreu per una xemeneia solar en l’última planta, la qual cosa evita la necessitat de comptar amb sistemes mecànics d’aire condicionat. Com a suport a aquest funcionament passiu, a l'hivern s’opta per un terra radiant a baixa temperatura alimentat per una màquina d’aerotèrmia, que proporciona confort sense escalfar l’aire amb un consum de només 20 kWh/m2/any.

    2017

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