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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental 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 Ornaque

Collaborators:

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

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès 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

 

Fomento

 

AMB

 

EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona

 

IEFC

 

Fundació Domènench Montaner.

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  • 1892

  • 1897

  • Safareigs de la Baixada de Palau

    autoria desconeguda

    1901

  • 1902

  • Anastasi Miralles Shop

    Josep Graner i Prat

    Anastasi Miralles Shop

    Historicist language. Frames of the entrance door and upper balcony within horseshoe arches of Arab influence. Plastered walls and compartmentalised façade with linear schemes. Elongated rectangular floor plan. Narrow façade. Gable roof with the ridge parallel to the street. It consists of ground floor, main floor and attic. On the ground floor there is the access door. On the first floor we find a balcony and three openings in the attic. The use of ceramics in the decoration is remarkable. Detached house - home that is attached to a free space of land intended for the orchard or private garden. They are intended for all social classes. The houses are built at a distance from the side boundary of the street.

    1908 - 1910

  • Cal Palurdo

    Josep Graner i Prat

    Cal Palurdo

    The set of homes in Castellar del Vallès presents the typical characteristics of bourgeois architecture from the beginning of the century, with all the stylistic elements of the time. It consists of a group of three houses of the same structure with a ground floor and a main floor. They have two openings per floor. It presents the incorporation of ornamentation and decoration elements inscribed on the façades. The openings on the upper floor have floral reliefs, typical of the plastic sense of the time, inscribed in the middle of the upper part of the span. In the balconies we can also appreciate the presence of floral motifs in the bars and in the lower part distributed symmetrically above the openings of the lower floor, in the form of small corbels formed by groups of leaves in relief that want to represent elements of support. The architectural ensemble presents a sense of unity and coherence.

    1910

  • Cal Blanquer

    Josep Graner i Prat

    Cal Blanquer

    Casa Blanquer responds to Catalan Art Nouveau parameters. The façade presents a symmetrical solution, marking the axis of the entrance door. In each corner we can find two windows surrounded by a frame of undulating lines with a clear modernist effect, and the decoration is completed by a quilting of ashlars arranged in an alternating manner. Floral motifs adorn the door and windows. Above the door, there is a shield with the owner's initials: Blai Blanquer. At ground level, two windows translate the presence of the basement into the façade. The tile features a profile of undulating lines mixed with wrought iron decoration with geometric motifs. The façade is located at street level due to an uneven ground, and from the exit area the distribution of the floors changes. The basement is the ground floor, the house itself is on the first floor and the attic above. The master builder who carried out the building was Mr. Puig. The house was built at the beginning of the 20th century for Blai Blanquer, owner of the mill in Fontscalents (Castellar) from 1900 to 1928. When leaving this industry, Francesc Blanquer, son of the previous one, created Fontscalents, the first printing house in Castellar: "Gràfiques F. Blanquer”.
  • Cases al Carrer Torras

    autoria desconeguda

    1910 - 1914

  • 1916

  • Castellar del Vallès Cemetry

    Antoni de Falguera i Sivilla

    Castellar del Vallès Cemetry

    62. The Castellar del Vallès Cemetery stands as an architectural witness within the different styles that were carried out in the city, always, however, on a small scale. On the other hand, these are also a symbolic and psychological proof of a period in the history of architecture which goes from romantic neoclassicism to the postmodernist limits. The Castellar del Vallès Cemetery responds to the latest trend, in which we find the last examples of monumental tombs next to the rows of niches. The funerary elements in this period abandon their triumphalism and show us the loss of life and the persistance of memory. The entrance seems to imitate the French models of avenues and gardens. The pantheon chapels seem to pass from floral naturalism to a cyclopean structure. The entrance to the cemetery is reminiscent of the French avenues and post-romantic gardens. This cemetery maintains a naturalistic evocation of imitations of French models. The characteristics of the pantheons entail the transformation and amalgamation of artistic aspects that encompass the total decoration, in every detail. The project of the entrance is the work of Antoni de Falguera Sivilla. It was made in 1916. The pantheon tombs are from the 1920s. Urban cemeteries emerged from the second half of the 19th century.

    1914 - 1925

  • Castellar Apartments

    Jaume Bach i Núñez

    Castellar Apartments

    It is a building with eighteen apartments, commercial premises and a garage, located on the corner of a street that leads to the Plaça Major de Castellar de Vallès. The position of the stairs - and the commercial valuation of the chamfer on the ground floor - requires some adjustments to be made in the type of housing. The façade is solved with exposed brick given that the work had to be done with a very low budget.

    1970

  • 20th century

  • Castellar del Vallès Primary Healthcare Centre

    Charmaine Lay, Carles Muro i Soler, Joaquim Rosell i Gratacòs

    Castellar del Vallès Primary Healthcare Centre

    The building takes up the model strictly determined by the ordinances and interprets the program of a primary healthcare centre while dividing it into two parts on either side of the entrance. The part occupied by the healthcare areas is developed extensively from a basic unit, made up of a consultation room, an infirmary, a waiting room and a patio. The set of two units forms an area which can be identified by the colour of the patios. The roof reflects the distribution of the plant and indicates the entrances of air and light. On the other side of the entrance, the rest of the program is located compactly and occupies two floors.

    1995 - 1999

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