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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2025 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental Commission:

2019-2025 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:

2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2025 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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The Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya is one of the most important documentation centers in Europe, which houses the professional collections of more than 180 architects whose work is fundamental to understanding the history of Catalan architecture. By filling this form, you can request digital copies of the documents for which the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya manages the exploitation of the author's rights, as well as those in the public domain. Once the application has been made, the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya will send you an approximate budget, which varies in terms of each use and purpose.

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  • Torreta del Pintor Tàpias. La Pescadora

    Josep Torres Argullol

    Torreta del Pintor Tàpias. La Pescadora

    És un edifici petit de planta quadrada amb quatre portals, un d'accés a l'interior i els altres per accedir a un balcó que envolta l'edifici. Els fonaments són de pedra, la resta és de totxo, utilitzant-lo com a decoració geomètrica. L'edifici es degué construir al mateix temps que una nau nova de la fàbrica de cal Sala amb la qual l'uneix l'estil decoratiu.

    1882 - 1885

  • 1915 - 1918

  • Arau House

    Alexandre Soler i March

    Arau House

    It is a representative house of a family of textile manufacturers. It consists of a ground floor and a first floor with an attic. The façade is of cut stone in the frames of the openings and the cornices, with a plinth of quilted carved stone, and above the plinth there is a frieze of green glazed ceramic with plant motifs in relief. The door and windows are decorated in a manner reminiscent of Corinthian capitals. The first-floor balcony is accessed by three neo-Gothic arcades. The balcony railing was also neo-Gothic, but was replaced by a new one. The rest of the façade is plastered in the imitation of the stonework. A tower juts out from the chamfer above the roof. The site on which the building stands was developed before the 14th century. The house was built in the 20th century by the Arau family, fabric manufacturers and dyers of the village, but they no longer live there.

    1922

  • 1967

  • Torres Amat Public Library

    Batlle i Roig Arquitectura, Enric Batlle i Durany, Joan Roig i Duran

    Torres Amat Public Library

    The Torres-Amat factory-house, now an amalgam of different constructions, is located in Sallent, a small town in the Bages region, in the industrial basin of the Llobregat river. The building itself is a rectangular construction made of stone masonry, three storeys high, sitting on the remains of a water mill that acts both as a foundation and a basement. It is structured in three bays with two lines of cast-iron pillars, parallel to the longest façade. These lines of pillars are joined together by wooden beams, which support ceramic vaults. The top floor replaces the pillars with wooden horses that support the roof made of flat ceramic and Arabic tiles. The nave, as it was joined to the factory house, did not have its own staircase; therefore, as it was separated to become a library, it had no vertical communication. On the other hand, access from the street, due to the steep slope of the street, was from the lowest floor. These problems of accessibility and general mobility were the driving force behind the project. The importance of the relationship with the street given to a popular library such as the one to be installed in the building clashed head-on with the obligation to use only the first and second floors. For this reason, the entrance was modified, placing it at the highest part of the street, considerably reducing the difference in level with the first floor. This made it necessary to create a floor between the ground and first floors, where, apart from the main entrance, the cloakroom and the building's facilities could be located. This ‘mezzanine’ coincided with the bay of the nave closest to the factory house. For this reason, this bay was completely remodelled to locate the accesses, the lift, the staircase, as well as the services and offices, creating an entrance area that allowed the building to be recognised in its full dimension, visually bringing the floors closer to the street, making both the wooden structures of the roof and the general functioning of the building present from the outset. As the building's programme assigned the first floor to reading and consultation, and the second to archives, the staircase was divided into two distinct parts. Up to the first floor, with a single wide, gently sloping flight, and up to the first floor in two narrow, sloping flights that folded in on themselves.

    1989 - 1997

  • OASI. Renaturalisation of the Llobregat River as it passes through Sallent

    Álvaro Alcázar Del Águila, Roser Garcia Llidó, Eduard Llargués Asensio, Sergio Sangalli Borrego

    OASI. Renaturalisation of the Llobregat River as it passes through Sallent

    Oasis is the renaturalisation of an area heavily altered by a latent industrial past, which allows for reconnection with the river and restores the identity of a place that has lost its relationship with the fluvial ecosystem. A genuine transformation of the territory through natural logic enables the landscape’s resilience over time. The master's project started with a clear premise: “a real commission, with a real client and in real time.” In collaboration with the Sallent Town Council, the aim was to reorganise the river spaces of the Llobregat River as it flows through the municipality. A river that passes through the town, yet its presence is ignored: a site that has lost the heritage value of the industry tied to water and its relationship with nature. The selected site, a legacy of Sallent's industrial past, lies between the Torre del Gas and the Fàbrica Vella: a piece of reclaimed land created by the accumulation of sediment from the sluice gate. Strategies were developed for ecological connectivity, water management, biodiversity and the renewal of both the river perception and collective imagination, which convinced professors, ACA, and the Town Council to intervene in an area that was eventually constructed at €16.36 per square metre, with project management undertaken. Oasis becomes a system capable of rediscovering the spirit of fluvial dynamics, providing new uses and functions in public spaces that ensure the resilience of the urban fabric and ecological connectivity of the territory. The renaturalisation process begins with the last phase of human intervention, aiming for an evolving scenario shaped by temporal phenomena. By establishing territorial dynamics as a starting point, the expectation is for natural evolution into an ecosystem typical of river spaces. The topography designs a balanced and strategic earth movement in relation to flooding: water enters, rising in a controlled manner until it reaches a drainage basin that temporarily holds it before releasing it back to the river via a spillway. Paths rest on protective embankments elevated above the flood level to safeguard adjacent urban spaces. Planting restores the riparian woodland structure in relation to the water table, consisting of mixed tree masses complemented by shrub and halophyte communities in the wetter areas. Bioengineering techniques stabilise the exposed banks, reinforcing slopes weakened by the removal of invasive species. The strength of these techniques lies in creating optimal conditions for native vegetation to thrive, depending on the slope’s gradient and its exposure to the river’s force. In the context of a territory adapting to new climatic and social realities, our generation must recover — with respect and empathy for the landscape — the human scale and the place that belongs to nature. The resilience shown during Storm Gloria demonstrated that this space is already part of mitigating the climate emergency.

    2020

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