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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

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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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  • La Massa Theatre

    Rafael Guastavino Moreno

    The most significant element of Guastavino's work is the spherical dome that covers the stalls, made of flat brick following traditional construction procedures, although its execution has been perfected. The rehabilitation of the theatre involves the restoration of the main components of the old building, as well as its technological adaptation to its current use. The theatre, one of the main monuments in the centre of Vilassar, together with the church, the town hall and the future museum, opens up to the urban space through new accesses added to the old factory. The body that houses the café, annexed to the theatre, shares its entrance, together with the staircase leading to the upper floor. The entrance foyer forms another added body, tangent to the gallery of the stalls, which redoes the façade of the theatre facing the square. A platform suspended in the centre of the dome acts as an element which smoothes out the acoustic, as well as the stage lighting bridge and the general stalls lighting.

    1880 - 1881

  • Cases Busquets, Ocaña i Sans

    Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Heliodoro Piñón Pallarés, Albert Viaplana i Veà

    1968

  • Casa 117

    Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Heliodoro Piñón Pallarés, Albert Viaplana i Veà

    1969

  • Casa Reig

    Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Heliodoro Piñón Pallarés, Albert Viaplana i Veà

    1970

  • Restoration of La Massa Theatre

    Lluís Dilmé i Romagós, Francesc Xavier Fabré i Carreras, Ignasi de Solà-Morales i Rubió

    Restoration of La Massa Theatre

    1998 - 2002

  • Espai Descobriment de Tres Forns Industrials Romans

    Toni Gironès i Saderra

    2003 - 2004

  • 12 Social Housing Units Emili Masriera

    Arturo Frediani Sarfati

    Strategy [Typology]. To "hide" a huge existing out-of-order building by interposing a carefully placed volume in front of it. To offer the maximum housing benefits: 50% of the surface area in a single daytime space parallel to the façade (Spanish record for living/dining room surface area). Eliminate corridors. Streamline rooms. Incorporate the balcony into the interior space. [Tectonic] System Semi-industrialised and dry construction. Equal façades and roofs. Prêt-à-porter exterior skin of ZARA-type quilted EPDM (changing it for a new one is cheaper and quicker than painting a "traditional" façade). The windows run along the façade to convert the opening into a balcony. Environment [Topology]. The exterior walkways are a semi-private use space connected to a small garden attached to the existing small buildings that crown the slope. The 42m2 rooms turn the dwellings into small lofts with views.

    2006 - 2007

  • Can Manyer Library

    Dilmé & Fabré Arquitectes, Lluís Dilmé i Romagós, Francesc Xavier Fabré i Carreras

    Can Manyer Library

    The Vilassar Library. The rehabilitation of this industrial unit is an exercise in the recovery of the industrial heritage of Vilassar and a game of rational, clear and diaphanous architecture made from the functionality of the library to give new life to the two large spaces of the old textile factory. The lower floor, with the rows of foundry pillars and the Catalan vaults, is a space from which two new open staircases lead to another even higher space which shows the slender trusses supporting the double side of the roof. It is a placid and serene building, a real temple of our country's textile industry. The largest known collection of hydraulic mosaic tiles with the haunting allegory of Barcelona included has been recovered. The services of the library that must remain closed are solved with wooden constructions inside the two large spaces without reaching the ceiling, covered by themselves like light kiosks.

    2015

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