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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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  • Can Miret de les Torres

    Josep Font i Gumà

    Can Miret de les Torres

    Can Miret de les Torres is located next to the village of Les Torres. It is an isolated building consisting of a ground floor and two storeys, with a gable roof. The façade, with a symmetrical composition, has a semicircular arched doorway on the ground floor and two windows framed in brick. The first floor is occupied by three Gothic-inspired windows, and the second floor has four openings the shape of which is determined by a decorative use of brick. The sundial on the first floor is noteworthy, as well as other ornamental elements that enrich the façade (Valencian ceramic tiles and plates from different periods and the wrought-iron weather vane). The ensemble is completed with an auxiliary building consisting of a garage and a fence. Josep Font i Gumà built this house for his brother in 1898 and, when his brother died, the architect became the owner. The building was later sold to the Miret family, who still own it today.

    1898

  • Sant Josep and Sant Pere Hospital and Asylum

    Josep Font i Gumà

    Sant Josep and Sant Pere Hospital and Asylum

    The complex takes up the entire block between the streets of Jacas, Marañón, Maragall and Claret. It is an isolated building, with a complex organisation, formed by two bodies arranged perpendicular to another central body. It includes several outbuildings, including a chapel and a battlemented tower. The roofs are generally two-sided tiles. The construction has openings of various typologies that are framed in brick. There are several entrances to the building, which is surrounded by a garden. At the back, the shelter of Sant Josep has been the subject of several expansion works. The Sant Josep and Sant Pere asylum was built in 1901, according to a project by the architect Josep Font i Gumà. In the Historical Archive of Ribes, there is a document dated 1947, the request to the City Council for works to expand the building, in accordance with the plans signed by the architect Josep Brugal i Fortuny.

    1901

  • La Farmàcia Fountain

    Josep Font i Gumà

    La Farmàcia Fountain

    The fountain of La Farmàcia is located in the middle of the Plaça de la Font (before called L'Assumpta). The base of the fountain rises on a circular stone stepwith a trilobate floor plan that defines the structure of the lower body, made of stone and brick, with three sinks. Above this body, there are two more with a circular cross-section. The first is decorated with a brick mosaic that corresponds to the location of the three taps, two of which are no longer usable; the second, made of predominantly white tile, contains a ceramic panel that also bears the date 1906. The fountain ends in a conical body of brittle, crowned by a lantern with a ceramic decorative base. The construction of this fountain, according to Josep Font i Gumà's project, was carried out in 1906 to commemorate the recent sending of channeled water.

    1906

  • 1923

  • 1918 - 1929

  • Can Xoriguera

    autoria desconeguda

    Can Xoriguera

    Detached house with a basilica floor plan and three bays. It consists of a ground floor, a first floor and an attic and has a two-slope roof with the ridge perpendicular to the façade. The entrance doorway, with a semicircular arch, is covered by an advanced porch with ceramic pillars, with the upper part used as a balcony. At both corners of the balcony there is a circular tribune with ceramic Solomonic columns and a spherical vault roof. The balcony is accessed through a flat-arched doorway made of dressed stone. In the attic there is a gallery with five openings with a ceramic mixtilinear arch. The southeast-facing bay has a lookout tower with a quadrangular ground plan and four levels of elevation, with a four-slope glazed ceramic roof. Each level of the tower has ceramic mixtilinear-arched windows, grouped in threes on the fourth floor. On the southeast façade, between the third and fourth floors, is a sundial. Small circular oculi are interspersed between the corbels supporting the eaves. The tower gives access through the rear façade to a walkable terrace delimited by a ceramic balustrade. The corridor facing the northeast has two levels, opened with a ceramic round-arched doorway and stone jambs on the ground floor, and a double window with a ceramic mixtilinear arch on the first floor, which opens onto a balcony with a masonry railing supported by corbels. On the rear façade there is a porch with ceramic pillars, on which there is a walkable terrace with a ceramic balustrade. Parallel to the main façade, there is a bastion with battlements and sentry boxes, which encloses the house from behind. It is accessed from the southeast through a gateway that leads to the courtyard, where there is a rectangular body that corresponds to the wine cellar. The cladding of the walls is rendered and painted in an ecru colour, where the eaves, corbels, railings and openings are made of exposed ceramic tiles and the decorative ceramic tiles on the chimney caps, balconies and cornices stand out. The Xoriguera country house has been documented since the 13th century, when it belonged to Arnau de Xoriguera, trustee of Ribes. Between the 16th and 17th centuries it belonged to the Puig de Xoriguera family, and later to the Mironet family. In the land registry of 1717, Emanuel Giralt was the owner and Jaume Artigas was the farmer, while in 1764 a certain Joan Miró de Munxuriguera appears. Later, as recorded in the 1847 land registry book, it belonged to Antoni Giralt. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was acquired by the Soler family of Vilanova i la Geltrú, who built a Catalan Art Nouveau house on top of the old country house.

    first half of the 20th century

  • El Castell de Kafka Residential Building

    RBTA - Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, Ricardo Bofill Leví

    El Castell de Kafka Residential Building

    The approach to the project is born from the influence that the Archigram group exercised in the sixties on some members of the Taller de Arquitectura. It was a matter of clearly separating the order of the circulations from the order of the houses, and of conceiving some vertically growing cubes that could be connected to the network of circulations without their own structural servitudes. The stairwells are made of load-bearing brick walls, which extend to support half of each unit, while the other half rests on a metal pillar located in one corner. Each cube contains an environment – living room-dining room or bathroom-bedroom - separated by a difference in level. The law of vertical growth follows the guidelines of a mathematical equation. It was about adapting architecture to unconventional forms of leisure, linked to a dramatic conception of existence which was very typical of that decade.

    1966 - 1968

  • Alexandre Galí Secondary School

    Ravetllat-Ribas Arquitectes, Pere Joan Ravetllat i Mira, Carme Ribas i Seix

    Alexandre Galí Secondary School

    The project has a main building, with a ground floor and three landings, where a large part of the programme is housed, and another building located at the opposite end of the site intended for the gymnasium. Both buildings, together with the ramp that connects them, delimit the area of the sports court. The absence of clear alignments on which to support the buildings and the irregularity of the perimeters favour a solution that generates its own geometry in order to define the different spaces, leaving the rest of the plot, up to the edges, as a playground. The main building is made up of an outer ring of concrete structure where the classrooms are placed, and a central body of metal structure and paving stones that contains the tutorials, the entrances and the meeting room, a large covered central courtyard located below ground level.

    1992 - 1994

  • Extension and Rehabilitation of El Pi Primary School

    Roldán+Berengué Arquitectes, Mercè Berengué Iglesias, José Miguel Roldán i Andrade

    Extension and Rehabilitation of El Pi Primary School

    At the beginning of 1993 we were commissioned to build a pre-school and primary education centre (3+6 units), adapted to the new study plans, which entailed the refurbishment and extension of two buildings. Both are located, at different levels, on a plot of land between Pi Street, one of the main streets in the old town of Sant Pere de Ribes, and Arquitecte Cerdà Street, already belonging to the recently formed extension. The primary school (module A) already occupied the building next to Arquitecte Cerdà Street. Only the structure of its two floors, of prefabricated panels and pillars, is preserved, and it was extended towards the interior of the plot with a new building of substantially similar volume and layout placed between two interior courtyards. The main part of the program is arranged evenly between the two buildings: the departments, multipurpose room-dining room and service, on the ground floor of the existing wing and the auxiliary classroom on the upper one. The main classroom is located on the ground floor of the new wing, under the gymnasium. The building is completed with two bodies perpendicular to the previous ones that contain ramps, stairs and unique elements in volumes that enclose the courtyards, occupy them in part and open punctually with their own geometries. The first of these bodies, like an internal street, directly connects the two classrooms and the gymnasium, and houses the teachers' room and the complementary classroom under its slopes. The other defines the main façade of the school towards the courtyard with its central porch covered in ceramics. Behind, the double-height lobby visually connects the central courtyard and the large void inside the block and is extended with the library. The pre-school classrooms (module B) are located in what was the village's first school. Between both buildings, at mid-height, is the multi-sports track, connected by ramps and the library's roof to the indoor circulation system. In this way, a circuit is created that allows you to go around the whole school and appropriate the space of the neighbouring yards and gardens.

    1993 - 1996

  • Les Roquetes Dwellings

    Clotet, Paricio & Associats, Lluís Clotet i Ballús, Ignacio Paricio i Ansuategui

    Les Roquetes Dwellings

    The homes that completed the perimeter faced how to make use of the roofs, usually large useless surfaces that end up in absolute abandonment. Ordinances were drawn up that, without increasing the fixed buildability, increased the permitted height on one floor, so that it was possible to organise volumes in which each floor was smaller than the lower one, giving rise to the appearance of generous outdoor terraces in most homes. That lost roof was fragmented at different levels and turned into a series of useful and generous spaces not counting as built-up area. From a formal point of view, the resulting scale of the new buildings is a better match with that of the neighbouring buildings. The construction systems, materials, colours, plinths, carpentry and railings were the same both in the sheltered housing and in the Town Hall building. Only the volume and the voids that responded to the large interior spaces distinguished the houses individually.

    2004 - 2006

  • 2022

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