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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

    Domènec Boada i Piera

    Eulàlia Matas House

    Civil building located on the sea front of the town, oriented in such a way that it has a view of the sea. In the design of the building, much importance is given to the front, which is the only one with decoration. The complex has a rectangular, elongated and narrow floor plan, and consists of a ground floor, two floors and a roof. In front of the access door a small porch stands out, on two pillars and two pilasters, which supports the balcony of the upper floor. The second floor is organised by means of six small windows in the shape of a semicircular arch. The decoration is the most interesting element. It follows a historicist style, with special reference to the Middle Ages with large mouldings, plant elements, chimeric animals and heraldry, represented by the Catalan shield in the centre of the façade.

    1900

  • Sensat-Pagès House

    Pere Andreu i Cisa

    Sensat-Pagès House

    Civil building. It is only linked to another building on the right side, which allows you to see three of its walls. It consists of a ground floor, two floors, attic and roof. Externally, all the interest lies in the ornamentation, which could be considered completely eclectic, with Arabic details, such as the horseshoe arches of the entrance or the lobed arches of the first floor, and Gothic or medieval elements such as the arches of the third floor or the small circular openings in the attic. In the left corner of the facade there was a tribune of which only a few remains have survived until today. Its interior is more modernist than eclectic. The Arabic elements were proposed by the owner, Mr. Sensat Pagès, after spending a season in a hotel in Tangier. The house was restored and converted into a House of Culture in 1975.
  • Pere-Grau Maristany i Oliver Pantheon

    Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó

    Pere-Grau Maristany i Oliver Pantheon

    Complex building in the form of an angle, given the layout of the plots acquired. Two of the plots are occupied by the crypt and the third one is occupied by the staircase. The main volume is the outer part of the crypt. On a podium, which is accessed via a flight of four steps, stands the sculptural group of "Faith consoling pain", by Josep Llimona i Bruguera, where Faith is an angel and pain is a woman who cries inconsolably. The sculpture is made of marble, except for the angel's wings which are made of bronze. The pantheon is finished with a cross, also of bronze, richly decorated with floral and zoomorphic motifs. The perimeter is surrounded by pillars decorated with flames and crowns at the top. These pillars were attached by iron chains decorated with bronze medallions, but they were stolen. The sculptural group stands on a large marble plinth. On the front there is an inscription with the date and the name of the owner. On one side, there is a plaque placed by the City Council on the industrialist's death in 1926, in tribute to his favourite son. The staircase body is a construction created from an ogival vault. The main façade, facing north, has a pointed arched door made of wrought iron. The side walls are a continuation of the same stepped roof. At the ends there are pilasters topped by capitals in the shape of a cul-de-lampe. It is also delimited around the perimeter by the same type of pillars in the crypt sector, where they were also joined with chains that were also stolen. Pere Grau Maristany i Oliver is one of the most illustrious characters in the town of El Masnou. He made his fortune as a wine exporter in the Americas (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, ...). He was very present in the economic, social and cultural life of the Catalan capital. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce, royal delegate of the Provincial Development Council, juror of the Universal Exhibition of Barcelona in 1888. Fund XII decorated him with the Grand Cross and Alfonso XIII granted him the noble title of Count of Lavern. He bought two more plots from the cemetery to annex them to the one he already had and build a new pantheon, the design of which he commissioned Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó.

    1901

  • Charity House

    Gaietà Buïgas i Monravà

    Charity House

    Religious building made up of two parts. On the one hand, the front part, where the entrance is located, in the form of a square tower crowned by a four-sided dome covered with ceramics. On the other hand, the back part, has a rectangular plan covered by a gable roof and with large side windows. All the ornamental elements that make up the ensemble are located in a neo-Gothic and eclectic tradition: bipartite windows with a column and Gothic tracery, trefoils and mouldings that serve as ogival-shaped dust guards, semicircular arches and attached columns with Corinthian capitals. The facings are of red bricks with white stuccoed recesses in the corners and framing the openings in the fashion of false arches. Access is via a staircase presided over by an ogival portal where you can read Casa Benèfica, on top of the year 1901 and a double window. There are many subsequent annexes suitable for the specific needs of the moment. Despite the construction dates given by Gaietà Buigas, 1901 is written on the façade.

    1901 - 1902

  • Salvador Millet Bertran House

    Enric Fatjó i Torras

    Salvador Millet Bertran House

    Civil building the façade of which can only be seen partially because it is attached to two other buildings on both sides. It has an elongated rectangular plan. Its façade, which is the most interesting element, is divided into three parts, a ground floor and two floors. The ground floor is entirely occupied by the access door, framed within a large ogival arch. The second floor is made up of a large balcony with wrought iron and two access doors to the interior, and the third floor is made up of three low-arched windows separated by columns. The cornice is decorated with blue tiles, and the windows on the first floor decorate the lintels with mouldings and vegetal motifs of a medievalist style.

    1902

  • Casino del Masnou

    Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó

    Casino del Masnou

    Civil building. Its interest lies in the adaptation of a new building to the old country house, located in the centre of the complex, of which the ground floor, the access door and one of the Gothic windows on the façade are preserved. The new building covers the defense tower and reproduces the original windows. The left side of the Casino constitutes the theatre area and the right side is made up of the main entrance and the Rotunda, on the roof of which the intersections of the framework are finished with decorative elements so that they look like hanging keys. The architectural elements are absolutely heterogeneous: Gothic, neoclassical, modernist and eclectic. Theater It has a neoclassical and romantic nature. It consists of a platform with lateral tribunes on the ground floor and a roughly semicircular curved balcony supported by cast iron columns. The decorations, mouldings and ceiling panels are made of plaster. The wrought iron railings and modernist lamps are also interesting. Some pieces of this theatre are reused from some places of Barcelona. Forgings The old Mas Vell Casino gate closes the garden. The access door is in the centre and on it are the initials M.A. of its former owner, Miquel Amat. It is made of iron and consists of a set of parallel and crossed bars. There are rows with vegetal elements and sinuous lines, typical of modernism. Constructive elements that demonstrate the marked modernist trend of the Casino. They observe how both the door handle or the wrought iron of the rotunda's pergola accentuate the decorative value through sinuous, asymmetrical curves that end in squiggles or spirals. The "Casino" del Masnou was born as an entity in 1876. The idea of a new building was put into practice by Pere Grau Maristany -Count of Lavern-, located in the "Can Fontanills" country house, owned by Miquel Amat i Lluch. In 1903, the Rotunda, game rooms, billiards and other outbuildings were inaugurated. In 1904, the theatre also opened. The modernist main entrance is from 1902.

    1902 - 1904

  • 1904 - 1905

  • Castellet de Ca l'Aymà

    Roc Cot i Cot

    Castellet de Ca l'Aymà

    Civil building made up of four distinct bodies, with rectangular and square floors, all of them of different heights. The compositional elements of the complex can be classified as modernist or eclectic. Two of these bodies are crowned by battlements and the third and highest one is topped by a roof with four steep slopes. The cornices of the whole set are formed by a cantilever of tiles and brick corbels, a material widely used throughout the building. The windows have a stepped shape at the top, with cantel brick. There is a tribune with coloured stained glass and ceramics. The whole results from the combination and interplay of independent volumes. It was possibly built at the beginning of the 20th century.

    1907

  • Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó's House

    Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó

    Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó's House

    Civil building. Externally, the most important element is the façade, since it is attached laterally to the two neighbouring buildings. It has an elongated rectangular plan. The façade is divided into ground floor, two floors and a roof. The ground floor is occupied by the access door and a window; the first floor consists of two large balconies that occupy most of the facade; and the second floor is made up of four low-arched windows separated by small columns. The decoration is absolutely eclectic: tile mosaics around the balcony windows, capitals with plant elements, and in the centre of the facade there is an ornamental element with the figure of Sant Jordi. All the ornamentation is historicist.

    1909

  • Cal Senyor

    Juli Maria Fossas i Martínez

    Cal Senyor

    Civil building. Made up of a ground floor, two floors and a roof. Although these two floors are made up of a window and a balcony, originally, in place of the balcony on the first floor there was a typical modernist display case. Despite the importance of the building given to the façade, as the left side wall is visible externally it is decorated with vegetal and geometric motifs, stuccoed and painted. One of the most interesting features of the building is its side courtyard, enclosed by a low stone wall and very rare in El Masnou buildings. In terms of decoration, the horizontal strips of glazed coloured tiles that cover the entire façade can be highlighted. Fence Made of wrought iron. It serves as the fence of Cal Senyor's garden. The door is made up of two movable elements and an immovable crown that occupies the whole complex. Its composition is fundamentally dominated by the curved line and the swirls or spiral finishes.

    1911

  • Millet House

    Gaietà Buïgas i Monravà

    Millet House

    Civil building made up of a ground floor, a first floor, an attic and a roof. Three openings are distributed on each floor: a central one and two symmetrically arranged lateral ones. Around the windows there are sgraffitos of typical modernist sinuous lines, as are the elegant balconies on the first floor, while those on the ground floor are formed by a classical balustrade. The typical balustrade on the roof has been replaced by a running border of vegetal motifs. The interior is totally eclectic: neoclassical, romantic, oriental, modernist. The dining room has a modernist lantern, and so does the gate. The ceiling of the dining room is Neomudejar and the wall is decorated with Leonardo's Last Supper and the Four Seasons.

  • second half of the 20th century

  • 2007 - 2016

  • 2017 - 2020

  • 2020

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