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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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  • Old Pujol i Bausis Ceramics Factory

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    Old Pujol i Bausis Ceramics Factory

    The old ceramic factory in Pujol i Bausis, popularly known as "La Rajoleta", was one of the most important centres of industrial ceramic production in Catalonia. It is located between Carrer de l’Església and Passatge del Puig d'Ossa, in the city centre of Esplugues de Llobregat. This industry began its activity in the last quarter of the 19th century, although its industrial antecedent began its activity in the middle of the 19th century. The culminating moment of its manufacturing activity came at the end of the 19th century during the modernist era with the commissions of prominent architects of this artistic movement such as: Gaudí, Domènech i Montaner or Puig i Cadafalch. The factory ended its activity in 1984 and then the city council acquired the property. Several buildings were demolished and archaeological surveys were carried out which allowed the underground spaces to be discovered and documented, such as the large underground oven, which is, 20 m long, or the six Arab-type ovens (ca. 1887). The large 22-metre-high brick chimney located at the southern end of the plot and the two large bottle ovens also made of brick remain standing. These last bottle kilns, named because of their shape, were built between 1913 and 1914 to bake stoneware and porcelain, in the context of a remodelling of the factory under the direction of its owner, Pau Pujol. With a circular base, they are formed by a cylindrical section covered by a conical section topped by a chimney. They are made of brick reinforced with a steel mesh made of iron rings and strips to prevent expansion of the facing during the firing of the pieces. Several semicircular arched openings at the base. The industrial antecedent of the Pujol i Bausis ceramics factory dates back to 1858, when two French businessmen built a mill on this land owned by the Pujol family. In 1876 the factory was acquired by Jaume Pujol i Bausis, who remodeled it in the 1880s to manufacture ceramics, and since then it has been known as "La Rajoleta". Its heyday corresponds to the period of modernism, during which the main architects of this artistic movement commissioned work at the factory. In 1901, Joan Baptista Alòs, renowned ceramic designer and teacher at several arts and crafts schools, began working there as artistic director. After the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the factory became a limited company, it stopped manufacturing ceramic tiles and started manufacturing high voltage insulators for the electricity companies. Finally, its activity ended in 1984 and the city council acquired the property. After several archaeological prospecting campaigns, in 2002, the La Rajoleta Ceramics Museum was inaugurated in a newly constructed space located in the centre of the old industrial site.

    1880

  • 1902 - 1903

  • Refurbishment of Masia de Can Brillas

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    Refurbishment of Masia de Can Brillas

    From 1808 until the end of the 19th century, it was the first house you could see if you were coming from L'Hospitalet. From 1906 to 1923, it became the social residence of the Cultural and Recreational Entity ‘L'Avenç’. In 1924, the Brillas family set up a wine business which later became the Marguery champagne cellars. In 1972, they sold the house to the town hall, which used it as a ceramics school and exhibition hall. The building is structured on three levels: ground floor, first floor and attic. It is made up of three sections, with a gable roof. The façade is almost symmetrical. The main door opens on the central axis, topped by a segmental arch, above which is the inscription: ‘Anno Domini MDCCCVIII’. The side door is pierced by a lintel. It was rebuilt in 1906, maintaining a certain Catalan Art Nouveau touch in the wrought-iron balconies and the second-floor window. Recently, a side section was added to the left of the main façade. Extensions were carried out to accommodate the cultural activities of the house. The 2000 m2 of gardens that surround the house are worth mentioning.

    1906

  • 1946

  • Iranzo House

    Josep Maria Sostres i Maluquer

    Iranzo House

    The project outline, very generous and permissive, is interpreted in this case from a desire for a very strict correspondence between each of the parts of the house and its own structural and volumetric solution, so that the articulation between the different bodies is forced upon themselves. The result is a combination of volumes and openings that form a series of tense rhythms where no element is repeated. Sostres revitalises several compositional guidelines from the modern movement: the location of the entire program on the first floor refers to Le Corbusier, while the strict equation of use-form-structure comes from the more rigid principles of the Bauhaus. Despite everything, the result is not a mere exercise of historicism: by interpreting ideas and procedures, and not stereotyped forms, Sostres manages to regenerate the vitality of the house as a complex system of rooms, where the blown volume of the living room being ends up playing a predominant role.

    1955 - 1956

  • Moratiel House

    Josep Maria Sostres i Maluquer

    Moratiel House

    It is the best critical interpretation that Sostres made of the masters of the modern movement that influenced him so much. The program is developed on a single floor, slightly raised from the ground, and with the different rooms well placed with respect to the solar abacus. The combination of different types of supporting elements and facings, originating from the interest in Terragni and other Italian rationalists, tends to dematerialise the house and to incorporate transparencies as a more intense experience of space. From the street, the two plans differentiated by colour, the cut of the entrance and the view of the two overhangs of the roof, the study and the staircase, reflect a revision of the old icon of the Savoie Villa: an almost square house almost, with the passable roof, and a small inner courtyard that completes the organisation of the whole space and contributes to creating a richer domestic atmosphere than that of the old international style interiors.

    1955 - 1957

  • 1956 - 1957

  • 1957

  • 1959 - 1960

  • 1962

  • Fàbrica Montesa

    Correa Milá Arquitectes, Federico Correa Ruiz, Alfonso Milá Sagnier

    Fàbrica Montesa

    Cuando Correa y Milà se enfrentaron al proyecto, ya existía una propuesta previa que fijaba unas luces entre pilares de 24 m. Los autores consideraron que se trataba de una decisión automática y la analizaron de un modo crítico, juzgando innecesario recurrir a grandes luces para una instalación industrial que funcionaba con máquinas pequeñas. Decidieron, por lo tanto, dividir las luces por la mitad, hasta 12 m, lo que les permitió reducir los costes de la cimentación y hacerse con el encargo. El programa exigía construir una solera de hormigón en masa que fuera capaz de resistir uniformemente las cargas para permitir que la distribución de las máquinas pudiera cambiarse en cualquier momento. Esta solera no podía contener ningún tipo de instalación o conducto que obstaculizara los posibles cambios, por ello las instalaciones se dispusieron vistas en el techo, mientras que los bajantes pluviales se llevaron al exterior. La importancia de esta decisión se refleja en la longitud de los canalones, que discurren 100 m entre los dientes de sierra. También había que garantizar la estanquidad de la nave, de manera que los lucernarios se construyeron totalmente verticales.

    1957 - 1964

  • 1963 - 1965

  • 1971

  • Garbí School

    MBM Arquitectes, Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola, David Mackay, Josep Maria Martorell i Codina

    Garbí School

    Construction of a new school, built in three phases, for Kindergarten, Primary and Secondary for a total of approximately 1300 students. The construction of the first phase was developed in accordance with the team of pedagogues, with the idea that the architecture had to collaborate in the educational process, creating in the student the full awareness of belonging responsibly to a community. All the outbuildings were grouped around a central multi-use covered square, although primarily used as a dining room. The organisation had a certain urban analogy: the central community square that gathered around it the various more privatised areas. Shortly after, it was decided to transform and expand the building in three successive phases, in which they tried not to modify the initial concept. The common space, with its urban analogy, was maintained, but the image of the square was transformed into that of a succession of interior and exterior streets and squares. The enlargement technique was simply additive, thanks to the fact that the building had no compositional rigidity and could grow according to an almost unforeseen morphology, in a way related to popular forms. This aspect is underlined by the materials and construction systems used: brick walls, traditional ceramic tiles, concrete and natural wood.

    1962 - 1973

  • 1969 - 1976

  • 1997 - 1998

  • 1995 - 1999

  • 2005

  • 1968 - 2017

  • 2020 - 2022

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