Intro

About

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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

credits

About us

Project by:

Created by:

Directors:

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.

Design & Development:

edittio Nubilum
Suggestions

Suggestion box

Request the image

We kindly invite you to help us improve the dissemination of Catalan architecture through this space. Here you can propose works and provide or amend information on authors, photographers and their work, along with adding comments. The Documentary Commission will analyze all data. Please do only fill in the fields you deem necessary to add or amend the information.

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.

Detail:

* If the memory has known authorship or rights, cite them in the field above 'Comments' .

Remove * If the photographs has known authorship or rights, cite them in the field above 'Comments'.
You can attach up to 5 files of up to 10 MB each.

Informació bàsica de protecció de dades

Responsable del tractament: Col·legi d Arquitectes de Catalunya 'COAC'
Finalitat del tractament: Tramitar la sol·licitud de còpies digitals dels documents dels quals l’Arxiu Històric del COAC gestiona els drets d'explotació dels autors, a més d'aquells que es trobin en domini públic.
Legitimació del tractament: El seu consentiment per tractar les seves dades personals.
Destinatari de cessions o transferències: El COAC no realitza cessions o transferències internacionals de dades personals.
Drets de les persones interessades: Accedir, rectificar i suprimir les seves dades, així com, l’exercici d’altres drets conforme a l’establert a la informació addicional.
Informació addicional: Pot consultar la informació addicional i detallada sobre protecció de dades en aquest enllaç

Awarded
Cataloged
Disappeared
All works
  • 1861

  • Casa al Carrer Bonavista 1- 5

    autoria desconeguda

    second half of the 19th century

  • Can Banús

    autoria desconeguda

  • Antic Ball - Teatre Xaconet

    autoria desconeguda

  • Can Sisteré

    autoria desconeguda

  • 1909

  • Can Roig i Torres

    autoria desconeguda

    Can Roig i Torres

    The building is in the French modernist style. It has its back to the streets that delimit it, where it forms a chamfer, and has its main façade in the garden. The house is made up of two angled bodies, with a ground floor and a first floor (and a semi-basement in the left body) and an attic, joined by the access body with the staircase, crowned by the characteristic spiked tower. The entire roof is made of blue ceramic. The interiors have examples of decorative arts, such as woodwork, ironwork, etc. It was built on the initiative of Rafael Roig i Torres, Uruguayan consul in Barcelona. In 1913, the house received an award from the City Council. During the war it was a hospital, then it was the headquarters of the Falange and, later, a school. In 1987 it was remodelled to become the Municipal School of Music. In 2007, the city's new auditorium was inaugurated in the basement of the building.

    1906 - 1911

  • Rectory of the Major Church of Santa Coloma de Gramenet

    Francesc d'Assís Berenguer i Mestres

    Rectory of the Major Church of Santa Coloma de Gramenet

    Interesting treatment of the stone façades, which harmonises with the adjacent church and the fences delimiting the site. The building, with a semi-basement and three storeys, plays with the staggering of volumes, especially in the entrance area, where a small staircase leads to a porch supported by a simple column with an Ionic capital. The façades combine symmetry and asymmetry. It was built at the same time as the new parish church of Santa Coloma, with which it forms an ensemble.

    1912 - 1915

  • Portería del Recinto Torribera Pavilion

    Rafael Masó i Valentí, Josep Maria Pericas i Morros

    Portería del Recinto Torribera Pavilion

    It is a rectangular two-storey building designed as an access door to the Torribera complex which forms the axis of symmetry of the whole complex. The facings of the main façades combine stucco with artificial stone ornamentation. In the middle it has three arches, a large one for vehicular traffic and on both sides a smaller one for pedestrians. It has a cornice that surrounds the entire property with neo-baroque gables. Four prestigious medical doctors are represented by sculptures: Marià Cubí, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Emil Wilhelm Magnus Georg Kraepellin and Jean-Martin Charcot. The roof is of Arabic tile on two sides and presents the crossing with the roof of the central body of the same characteristics. The goal of the Torribera complex is part of the project that in 1917 was the winner of the competition promoted by the Mancomunitat of Catalonia.

    1917 - 1936

  • Torribera Precinct

    Rafael Masó i Valentí, Josep Maria Pericas i Morros

    Torribera Precinct

    A health complex built in various phases from 1927 to 1936, based on the winning project of the competition organised in 1917 by the Mancomunitat de Catalunya. This project, drawn up by Rafael Masó and Josep Maria Pericas, was executed nine years later when Masó, affected by a political sanction, cannot be listed as the architect of the works, although it is recorded that he was working at least in 1926 and 1927.
  • The Tower of the Torribera Precinct

    Rafael Masó i Valentí, Josep Maria Pericas i Morros

    The Tower of the Torribera Precinct

    Four-sided building with a square ground plan and a hipped roof with flat ceramic tiles and pronounced eaves. The façade has a hierarchy of triple central openings in contrast to the flat, solid wall. On the ground floor, there is a doorway in the form of a semicircular arch, preceded by a porch with an opening in the centre and another on each side. On the ground floor and above this atrium, there is a balcony with a triple window. On the top floor there are three horizontal windows. The building used to be the residence of the director of the mental clinic. It is currently used as a centre for higher studies at the UNED - Terrassa and is known as the Tower building.
  • Col·legi Fuster

    autoria desconeguda

    first half of the 20th century

  • Casa al Carrer de Sant Joan 8

    autoria desconeguda

  • Can Valls

    autoria desconeguda

  • Acadèmia Manent

    autoria desconeguda

  • Ca n'Altés

    autoria desconeguda

  • Cooperativa La Colmena

    autoria desconeguda

  • Vil·la Esperança

    autoria desconeguda

  • House at Passeig Mossèn Jaume Gordi, 27

    autoria desconeguda

    House at Passeig Mossèn Jaume Gordi, 27

    It is a single-storey semi-detached house with a side body that has two levels. The roof is flat and finished with a balustrade. This body has an oval window and a balcony on the roof. The façades, following an eclectic style, are plastered and painted. At the corners, the façade has an imitation of ash trees. The entrance is covered by a porch.
  • Panteó de la Família Gordi

    autoria desconeguda

Bústia suggeriments

Ajuda’ns a millorar el web i el seu contingut. Proposa’ns obres, aporta o esmena informació sobre obres, autors i fotògrafs, o comenta’ns el què penses. Participa!