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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

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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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  • Pere Sitges Bassa House

    Eduard Ferrés i Puig

    Pere Sitges Bassa House

    Civil building. Construction with a ground floor, main floor, attic and a rooftop with a square tower that remains in the central part of the façade. Its interest lies in the refurbishment that took place at the end of the 19th century. It is characterised by the great profusion of ornamental sculptural elements that crown the openings (curiously none of them are of the same shape or size): breakwaters with shields, fleurons, garlands, human figures; imposts and capitals with floral and animal elements; animal gargoyles at the corners of the tower. The main floor is accessed via a two-flight staircase with sculpted handrails. The façade is decorated with sgraffito. There is a garden at the front of the house, enclosed with an iron gate also decorated with floral elements. It is one of the most characteristic buildings of Passeig de Vilassar. There is no date of construction, but in the photographs we can see that it was already built in 1898.

    1899

  • Lladó Houses

    Eduard Ferrés i Puig

    Lladó Houses

    Set of houses that form a homogeneous group. All are single-family homes with a ground floor and have an exit or patio at the front and another at the back. In all of them, the top stands out; which, although it hides the roof, it is purely ornamental. None of them are the same: some feature crenellations, others sinuous lines in the form of waves, etc. All of them are sgraffito with garlands and floral motifs. Above the three openings of the façade there are several floral motifs. Above the three openings of the façade there are various types of breakwaters: garlands, cornices with antefixes, etc. All the houses have an identical grid that gives more homogeneity to the whole.

    1919

  • Bricall House 1 and 2

    Studio PER, Pep Bonet Bertran, Cristian Cirici i Alomar

    Bricall House 1 and 2

    The house was designed as a second residence and was built on what had been the garden of a modernist house on the sea front. At the time, it was one of the first buildings in a half-developed street that was being formed at the borders of the gardens and exits of the houses on the sea front. Precisely the lack of defined environmental pre-existences, in a street that has evolved in a chaotic way in which blocks of up to seven floors are juxtaposed with single-family homes of ground floor and main floor, led us to consider the house as a construction separated from the neighbours and facing the block’s interior garden. The different spaces of the functional programme are located at different levels, which in a certain way are the landings of the scale of the vertical communication. The stairs take such a prominent place that, up to the bottom of the service staircase that goes up to the roof, it forms a complex roof of the dining room that is located below it. A few years later, we had the opportunity to grow the volume of the house, with the addition of two duplex apartments, with terraces and a swimming pool, forming a new set designed with the same formal language.

    1968 - 1975

  • Vaixell Burriac Primary School and Vilatzara Secondary School

    Brullet - De Luna Arquitectes, Manuel Brullet i Tenas, Alfonso de Luna Colldefors

    Vaixell Burriac Primary School and Vilatzara Secondary School

    The project joins two school complexes, a school and a high school, within the entirety of a block of trapezoidal houses, of 5,000 square metres, located in the new extension of Vilassar de Mar, laid out on an old agricultural area. Although the school and the high school are included in the same plot, they are two organisations with a completely independent operation, which are related by the simple juxtaposition of the subsequent contact areas. Both buildings are organised by means of pavilions connected to each other through external circulations, which may or may not be covered. The variety of outdoor spaces (cloisters, courtyards, small squares, gardens, porches, vegetal roofs) define the character of each of the buildings. The project is structured based on the arrangement of these exterior spaces, connected to the building through alternating roofs.

    1990 - 1993

  • 14 Subsidised Housing Units, Cultural Amenity and Rehabilitation of Can Bisa

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

    14 Subsidised Housing Units, Cultural Amenity and Rehabilitation of Can Bisa

    Can Bisa is a colonial house of great heritage value located in the historic centre of Vilassar de Mar. Around it, the city council decided to create a pole of social attraction; forming a new public space in its gardens and building a new multi-family housing block with an auditorium, on the annexed plot of Can Bisa that was previously occupied by the Can Bosch factory. This conglomerate of uses and buildings relate naturally today, thanks to the unitary treatment we gave to the complex. Timeless elements such as the ceramic lattices, the painted concrete, the plasters with different textures and the tile roof, have helped us relate comfortably to the environment and convey a unique character to the new set of equipment.

    2009 - 2012

  • Reforma i Ampliació d'un Habitatge Unifamiliar entre Mitgeres

    Ramon Andreu i Muñoz, Núria Canyelles Torrents

    2020

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