MACBA [Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona] (1997)

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• Fonds: Ábalos&Herreros fonds, 1920-2009
•    Series: Architectural projects, 1953-2009
•      Project: MACBA [Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona] (1997), 1996-2002

People

• Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)
• Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
• Iñaki Abalos (architect)
• Juan Herreros (architect)
• Museu d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona, Spain) (exhibition organizer)

Title

MACBA [Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona] (1997)

Dates of creation

1996-2002

Level of archival description

Project

Extent and Medium

• 61 graphic materials
• 18 reprographic copies
• 15 photographic materials
• 5 drawings
• 2 printouts
• 0,09 l.m. of textual records

Scope and Content

The subseries documents the show-event base “Fabricaciones / Fabrications,” held at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (February 10th to April 20th, 1998). The firm identified this project as number 110.

“Fabrications was an innovative exhibition on architecture conceived and produced jointly by MACBA, MoMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

The exhibition presented sixteen life-size architectural interventions, four at each participating center, each produced by a team of architects who explored tectonic issues in a broad sense. The four installations presented at Plaça dels Àngels – the square in front of the MACBA building – explored and modified the surfaces that defined this public space.

Vicente Gualla (Barcelona) created an intervention on the façade opposite the Museum, which drew attention to the occupation and the population density that was absent from the buildings in the square. Abalos & Herreros (Madrid) acted upon the façade of the MACBA building itself, cladding and decorating its most monumental elements: the tower and the balcony. Riegler Riewe (Graz) worked with the whole of the square, inscribing a broken horizontal line along the perimeter of the public space. Finally, MVRDV (Rotterdam) acted upon the paving through an evocation of a series of different kinds of sports grounds.” (MACBA website)

Documenting the exhibition are design development drawings, correspondence, project descriptions, budgets, notes, and reference, graphic and photographic materials.

Reference Number

AP164.S1.1997.D12

Arrangement

Materials in this project series were kept in their original order.

Archivist's note

• This project series was initially arranged under AP164.S2.SS1 Exhibitions and Publications. It was re-arranged under AP164.S1 Architectural Projects by Alexandra Jokinen in 2020 to reflect the idea that the creators considered exhibitions and publications to be projects.

Language of material

Spanish, English

Related units of description

• Note that there are additional 55 photographic materials and 1 printout related to this project arranged in series AP164.S3. See files ARCH268539 and ARCH274656.

Inventory

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  • Reference Number: ARCH275360
  • Title: Project descriptions and views of the model, MACBA [Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona], Spain
  • Dates of creation: 1997
  • Form: drawings, textual records, photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
  • Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)

  Description:

  Portfolio's title: MACBA (1998).

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 4 chromogenic colour prints, 4 slides, 1 printout, 1 colour positive

  Dimensions:

  portfolio: 36,6 × 51,7 × 2,6 cm

  Inscription:

  inscribed and labelled

  Location:

  Barcelona Spain

  Credit line:

  Abalos & Herreros fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Iñaki Ábalos et Juan Herreros/
  Gift of Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
  

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  • Reference Number: ARCH278341
  • Title: Floral patterns for the facade, MACBA [Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona], Spain
  • Dates of creation: ca. 1997-1998
  • Form: drawings, textual records, graphic materials
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
  • Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)

  Description:

  File's title: Patrones flores (MACBA).
  
  Contains some correspondence and budgets.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file

  Extent and Medium:

  • 38 graphic records, 1 drawing, 1 reprographic copy

  Location:

  Barcelona Spain

  Credit line:

  Abalos & Herreros fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Iñaki Ábalos et Juan Herreros/
  Gift of Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
  

  Folder Number:

  164-218-001

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  • Reference Number: ARCH278342
  • Title: Correspondence, budget and design development drawings, MACBA [Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona], Spain
  • Dates of creation: ca. 1997
  • Form: drawings, textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
  • Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file

  Extent and Medium:

  • 12 reprographic copies, 6 slides, 2 graphic records, 1 printout, 1 drawing

  Dimensions:

  records: 0,01 l.m.

  Physical Description:

  - Most plans are folded.

  Location:

  Barcelona Spain

  Credit line:

  Abalos & Herreros fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Iñaki Ábalos et Juan Herreros/
  Gift of Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
  

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  164-218-002

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  • Reference Number: ARCH278343
  • Title: Correspondence and budget, MACBA [Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona], Spain
  • Dates of creation: 1997-1998
  • Form: textual records, photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
  • Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)

  Description:

  File's title: MACBA.
  
  Contains as well a partial view of the facade.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 drawing, 1 graphic record

  Dimensions:

  records: 0,01 l.m.

  Location:

  Barcelona Spain

  Credit line:

  Abalos & Herreros fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Iñaki Ábalos et Juan Herreros/
  Gift of Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
  

  Folder Number:

  164-218-003

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  • Reference Number: ARCH278344
  • Title: Project description, correspondence and budget, MACBA [Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona], Spain
  • Dates of creation: 1997-1998
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
  • Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Dimensions:

  records: 0,01 l.m.

  Location:

  Barcelona Spain

  Credit line:

  Abalos & Herreros fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Iñaki Ábalos et Juan Herreros/
  Gift of Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
  

  Folder Number:

  164-218-004

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  • Reference Number: ARCH278345
  • Title: Correspondence, project description, reference materials and views of the facade and of the area, MACBA [Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona], Spain
  • Dates of creation: ca. 1996-1997
  • Form: drawings, textual records, photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
  • Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)

  Description:

  File's title: MACBA.
  
  Contains as well a few plans.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file

  Extent and Medium:

  • 20 graphic records, 5 reprographic copies, 2 drawings

  Dimensions:

  records: 0,01 l.m.

  Location:

  Barcelona Spain

  Credit line:

  Abalos & Herreros fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Iñaki Ábalos et Juan Herreros/
  Gift of Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
  

  Folder Number:

  164-218-005

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  • Reference Number: ARCH278421
  • Title: Correspondence, reference materials and notes, MACBA [Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona], Spain
  • Dates of creation: ca. 2002
  • Form: maps, textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
  • Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)

  Description:

  File's title: A&H 2003, B./. Exposición 'Hipercataluña' MACBA. BCN / CCA.
  
  Documents are in English and Spanish.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file

  Dimensions:

  records: 0,01 l.m.

  Credit line:

  Abalos & Herreros fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Iñaki Ábalos et Juan Herreros/
  Gift of Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
  

  Folder Number:

  164-305-004