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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

    autoria desconeguda

    1840

  • Font de la Plaça del Repartidor

    autoria desconeguda

    1867

  • Casino del Centre

    autoria desconeguda

    Casino del Centre

    1873

  • Fàbrica Can Batllori

    autoria desconeguda

    1874

  • 1878 - 1880

  • 1884

  • 1894

  • Fàbrica Can Llopis

    autoria desconeguda

    second half of the 19th century

  • Ca n'Arús

    autoria desconeguda

  • Torre Gran

    autoria desconeguda

  • Can Casas

    Mariano Tomàs i Barba

    Can Casas

    Building between partitions consisting of a ground floor and two floors with a gable roof that has the ridge parallel to the main façade. On the ground floor there are two large semi-circular arched doors made of brick; the facing of this floor is plastered and imitates stone ashlars. Between the ground floor and the first floor there is a strip of ceramics with different motifs and in blue, yellow, green and white – this same strip is repeated in the separation between the first and second floor. On the first floor there are two double windows made with stepped arches and in the space between the two arches of each window there is a ceramic plate. In addition, a smooth moulding frames each window. In this floor, the facing is of exposed brick. The second floor is the same as the first. Between the windows on the first floor there is a ceramic image of the Virgin of Montserrat. Building from 1904 promoted by Macari Golferichs. Originally it had a ground floor and a main floor, but in a subsequent remodelling, the second floor was added.

    1904

  • Can Vilumara

    Andreu Audet i Puig

    Can Vilumara

    Set of buildings built in two different moments. The oldest are from 1907 and present the modernist gatehouse and two pavilions. One is of exposed brick, rectangular in plan, with a gable roof covered with Roman tiles, and very narrow and high openings. The other is a large building of almost square plan, of plastered brick and exposed brick accenting the angles, windows and top line of the roof rail, with a tiled floor where there is a large tank. One of the houses has a marked modernist style which, despite the humility suggested by its small volume and the fact that it is the hall of a factory, is not exempt from the decorativism typical of the period. It has plastered brick walls highlighting the openings and angles with exposed brick rows. There is an ornamental band of terracotta butterflies at the top. On the façade facing the factory courtyard, you can see a large rectangle with a Virgin Mary in white and blue glazed ceramics. The interior is in perfect condition, preserving an early 20th century object that worked as a fire alarm. The other block of buildings corresponds to the expansion of the 1920s and consists of four large rectangular buildings of plastered brick and a gable roof each, but covered with uralite. A large exposed brick chimney rises between the two parts. It is about 60 metres high and has a hexagonal base. Can Vilumara was installed in 1907 next to La Farga. At that time there were already 35 large industries in the municipality. Prosperous company dedicated to textiles, especially silk, underwent remodelling and expansions between 1922 and 1928 and is currently leased by its owner, Mr. Josep Mª Vilumara, since 1982, as a secondary school and sports field.

    1906 - 1907

  • 1908

  • Josep Oliveras House

    Mariano Tomàs i Barba

    Josep Oliveras House

    A building with a ground floor and two storeys, dating from the end of the first decade of the 20th century, which combines noucentist and modernist elements. In the centre of the ground floor there is the segmental-arched doorway with the initials J.O. inscribed on the key, and the wall around the door is cushioned. On either side are two biforas, the upper part of which is decorated with vegetal reliefs. On the first floor there are four doors with four iron balconies, and all the openings have lintels decorated with reliefs. Separating the first floors there are medallions with floral motifs. On the first floor there are, again, four openings, but in this case there is only one balcony to which the two central openings lead; on this floor, the openings are also aligned and have vegetal reliefs at the top. Crowning the façade there is a cornice supported by corbels and above it there is a semi-circular pediment, with a floral ornament in the tympanum, and behind the enclosing wall of the roof. The entrance hall of the building is decorated with sgraffito, stuccoed floral motifs and female heads on the corbels. In 1907, the second Eixample of the Vila Vella, which was already beginning to be too limited for the needs of the time, was begun with the opening of the Rambla Just Oliveres. Initially, it was to be the "residential" and avant-garde street, since magnificent examples of modernism were built (cheap houses, Sabadell house, etc.) and also, later on, some examples of rationalism (Santfeliu house, Central Bank, etc.). Today it is still one of the most important hubs of social life in L'Hospitalet.
  • 1888 - 1910

  • 1910

  • Joan Batlle House

    Mariano Tomàs i Barba

    Joan Batlle House

    House with a rectangular floor plan, with a basement, one floor and roof. In the main façade there are three openings on the ground floor which, originally, were a door in the centre and a window on either side, but nowadays, the window on the right has become a door. The three openings are of lowered arch and are followed by a smooth moulding. On the first floor, on the same axis as the lower openings, there are three balconies. The openings leading to the balconies are of lowered arch and have the upper part decorated with plant motifs in plaster, just like the corbels that support the balconies. The balcony grates are wrought iron with a curved bottom. The roof rail consists of an alternation of rounded pillars and iron railing. The façade facing Tarragona Street has similar characteristics, with four openings per floor. At the back of the house, there was previously a garden, but it is now a garage. Built around 1908, it was initially intended for housing, then it was a kindergarten, and it is currently the headquarters of a bank.
  • Fàbrica Trinxet

    autoria desconeguda

  • Can Buxeres Palace

    Manuel Joaquim Raspall i Mayol, Antoni Serrallach Fernández-Periñán

    Can Buxeres Palace

    The Can Boixeres complex, which is now a municipal park, was originally the garden of a manor house, which is still preserved within the park. Inside the park there is a great variation of elements such as trees, flower plantations, sculptures, fountains... Two sculptures worth noting are "The Family", by Héctor Cesena, and "The Girl with the Pigeon", a nude by Rafael Solanic. "The Family" is a sculpture in white marble, about two metres high including the pedestal, which represents a man holding a woman by the shoulder who is carrying a child in her arms. The figures are life-size. The style is realistic but schematic, hinting at the lines of the composition and the figures but avoiding detail, except for the faces. "The Girl with the Dove" is a sculpture in white marble, about 80 cm high plus a 20 cm pedestal, representing a life-size nude girl in a crouching position holding a dove in her hands. The style is clearly Noucentista, reflecting the influences of Arístides Mallol and, above all, Esteve Monegal, the sculptor’s main teacher. The concrete base is a later addition. There is a modernist pavilion with a circular floor plan, covered with a dome supported by six columns. The drum-shaped dome is decorated with glazed ceramic mosaic. The columns are made of concrete, have small capitals and are decorated with white mosaic on the upper part and dark mosaic on the lower part. A wrought-iron gate encloses the pavilion. There are steps leading up to the building. Inside the park, apart from the manor house, there is also the land. It is a building with a ground floor, a first floor and an attic, with a gable roof and the ridge perpendicular to the main façade. The entrance doorway is paved, with an elliptical arch, and the rest of the openings are rectangular, with rounded lintels, while the jambs alternate stuccoed and smooth voussoirs. The façade has a corrugated roof that hides the roof. On both sides there are two single-storey additions, which on the first floor form a balcony enclosed by a balustrade. A wall over which the railway passes surrounds the garden. The facing is made of stone for the load-bearing structures (the lower parts of the gates, the pilasters that divide the sections, the triangular buttresses...) and of brick for the semicircular arches of the gates. On the road to Esplugues there is a large stone and iron gateway in the Classicist style, with Corinthian pilasters and the date 1911 can be read at the top of the gate. Can Buxeres is the former Can Alemany, owned by the Counts of Alemany, which already existed in 1770. Between 1877 and 1906, the building, owned by Lluís Buixeres, was converted into a mansion. In the following years, the garden surrounding the house, which is now a municipal park, was created. The garden was developed in 1906-1911 and underwent radical transformations when it was declared a public park on the 8th of November 1972.

    1901 - 1911

  • 1911

  • Botiga Nova

    Ramon Puig Gairalt

    Botiga Nova

    This building was built under the influence of the Viennese Secession. It is a block of flats with a ground floor, where the shop is located, and a first floor, where the houses are located. The two floors are separated by a continuous balcony with a large overhang and an iron railing. The building juts out a little from the building on one side as soon as it turns a corner. The upper floor is decorated with green, yellow and red ceramics, such as the horizontal mouldings, one at mid-height and one at the top, and the mouldings of the three openings. At the round corner turn, there is a large ceramic panel protruding from the top of the façade, with the date '1912' and another ceramic panel sgraffitoed underneath. It is one of the first works by Ramon Puig i Gairalt, built in 1912.

    1912

  • 1914 - 1915

  • 20th century

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