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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

2019-2026 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental Commission:

2019-2026 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 Gemma Ferré Inés de Rivera Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2026 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Marianela Pla Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2026 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.

 

ETSAB

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Catalan Art Nouveau in El Maresme

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The fact that Catalan Art Nouveau, a thoroughly bourgeois movement, developed significantly in the Maresme region should come as no surprise. The 1848 railway connection between Barcelona and Mataró, the first on the Iberian Peninsula, gave the region a definitive boost, which would ultimately cement its romance with the wealthy classes by establishing summer holidays as a form of social prestige in the early 20th century.

As a result, we can highlight three events of great relevance in terms of the Catalan Art Nouveau architecture built in the region: the birth of Josep Puig i Cadafalch in the city of Mataró, the long stays of Lluís Domènech i Montaner at his house in Canet de Mar, now a museum, and the first building by Antoni Gaudí, a nau per a la Cooperativa Obrera Mataronense, today known as Nau Gaudí.

In addition to these three significant events involving the three most international exponents of Catalan Art Nouveau, there are a large number of notable works that make up the fabric of what we know as Catalan Art Nouveau Maresme: works by Eduard Ferrés i Puig, Ignasi Mas Morell and Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó, among many others. This unique heritage consists mainly of private houses, but also includes markets, slaughterhouses and casinos.

The proposed itinerary aims to highlight some significant examples in a tour that covers the entire region and attempts to include a varied sample of authors and types that allows for a comprehensive overview.

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