In addition to the physical collection, the Libraries of the UPC They are subscribed to the Digital Library of Catalonia, a whole collection of electronic journals, electronic books i databases accessible through the search engine Discovery

The collaboration agreement signed between the family of the architect José Antonio Coderch de Sentmenat and the ETSAV has made it possible to make available to the research and scientific community the collection of documents from his professional study, the Fund Digital Coderch. The Coderch Digital Fund is launched with a dual purpose. On the one hand, to preserve and preserve the legacy of one of the most important Catalan architects of the XNUMXth century. On the other hand, to encourage the study, analysis and research of his architectural work.

The documentary collection, processed and digitized covers from 1941 to 1978 and, among others, you can find the original documentation relating to such well-known works as the Torre Valentina urbanization, the Trade buildings, or the extension of the Barcelona School of Technical Architecture. The Coderch Digital Collection is characterized by a generous documentary typology that, among others, includes: invoices and receipts, photographs of the work, personal photographs, memoirs, sketches, drawings, plans, correspondence, notes, drawings, etc.
 

Digital Coderch Fund

The Coderch Digital Fund and its digitized fund can be consulted from a computer of the ETSAV Library during its opening hours. Likewise, the documents and images of interest can be printed. The documents are printed in A4 format (0,20 € per page) and images in A3 format (0,35 € per page). In order to be able to print the images, a form must be filled in, where the applicant's personal data must be recorded, the justification that motivates the search, the relationship of the printed documents and a compromise as there will be no commercial exploitation of the documents and that its use will be limited to teaching or research uses.

The ETSAV Library has been incorporated into UPCommons final degree projects, final degree projects (portfolios) and final master's theses from 2008 onwards. Provided the author has authorized it, these works are accessible online. The works prior to 2008 are cataloged and can be consulted on site at the Library.

Jobs can also be searched by geolocation through GEOcommons.

From the second semester of the 2020/2021 academic year, students who defend their final project (TFG-TFM) do not need to carry out any formalities with the Library regarding its delivery. The work will be stored in UPCommons automatically with the conditions of consultation that you have indicated during the deposit process. It is necessary, however, that you make the double deposit (documentary and administrative) through Atenea TFE / e-Secretary. Once evaluated and approved, the deposit a UPCommons guarantees its preservation, ease of access and consultation, the generation of contacts with people interested in your work and protection against plagiarism.

If you submitted your work before the second semester of the 2020/21 academic year but now you want to apply for the degree, contact us (biblioteca.etsav@upc. Edu) and we will provide you with a space in the cloud to deposit it. Once we have hung it up UPCommons we will inform you and the Academic Secretary so that you can manage the degree.

6 steps to make your TFG / TFM a success

The Library receives about 100 paper journals and most titles can be borrowed. The titles of the journals that are lent according to the place of publication can be located on the map and it gives an idea of ​​the geographical coverage of this collection.

In recent years, the gender perspective in the field of architecture and urban planning has become relevant. For this reason, the Library has created a collection specializing in documents that seek to distort the hierarchical character historically attributed to the relationship between genres.

Architecture and genre

Since its beginnings, the Library has incorporated into it valuable valuable reference works that have, over time, become authentic collectors' pieces. In the Reserve section, you will find, among others, the following titles: 

• Aalto, Alvar
  • The architectural drawings of Alvar Aalto (11 volumes)
  • Alvar Aalto (3 volumes)
     
• Le Corbusier
  • Le Corbusier: complete oeuvre (8 volumes)
  • Le Corbusier: plans (16 volumes)
     
• Fuller, Richard Buckminster
  • The artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller (4 volumes)
     
• Gropius Walter
  • The Walter Gropius archive (4 volumes)
     
• Khan, Louis I.
  • The Louis I Khan archive (7 volumes)
     
• Mies Van der Rohe, Ludwig
  • The Mies Van der Rohe archive (20 volumes)
     
• Wright, Frank Lloyd
  • Frank Lloyd Wright (12 volumes)  

The Library has an important collection of antique books of great interest for the study of the history of architecture. The collection comes from books that were used in the School, in its beginnings, and also from donations made by various architects at the end of their professional life. In total there are more than half a thousand books, the oldest of which dates from 1808, although most are from the first half of the twentieth century.
 

Historic background at BETSAV

The Library has a collection of portfolios of different sizes and materials that can serve as a reference for students who must present this work at the end of the Degree in Architecture.
 

Portfolios

From the ETSAV Library we suggest you participate in a book club to share the thoughts of interesting, encouraging and not very obvious readings in the field of architecture, urban planning, construction, etc. For the second semester of the 2022-2023 academic year, we suggest you read two books that present the phenomenon of isolation or separation from two very different perspectives.  

The name of this new cycle of readings is "Loneliness & solitude, from the city to nature", and we will make a distinction between the two, the first being an unwanted state that causes suffering and the second a situation in which 'he gets there by personal conviction.

In March, we will comment The lonely city, an essay byOlivia Laing edited by Captain Swing. In this text, Laing speaks of herself as an inhabitant of a city, a place where many lonelinesses coexist, and, based on her experience, she invokes artists whose lives were also marked by loneliness.

In the month of May, we will read Walden, Thoreau, considered one of the seminal non-fiction classics of the modern essay. Many editions of this book, published in 1854, can be found and all of them are valid for reading in the club. In its pages, the author narrates his stay of two years, two months and two days on the shore of Lake Walden where he seeks to rediscover what he considers the true life of a free man and to regain respect for nature.

By reading these two essays, we will trace a path between an urban environment where the author seeks to solve her loneliness understood as a problem and nature, where we find Thoreau who, intentionally, has isolated himself in order to live fully.

If you want to join the club, send us an email (biblioteca.etsav@upc. Edu) and we will contact you to help you get the book. The reading club sessions will be on:

• March 14 for The lonely city, by Olivia Laing (check availability at university libraries and to them public libraries)
• May 16 by Walden, by Henry David Thoreau (check availability at university libraries and to them public libraries)