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Firas Safieddine at IAAC Lecture Series

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Firas Safieddine will be at IAAC Lecture Series AI for the Built Environment on Tuesday 14th of November. This lecture is part of the events organized in the framework of the 10th Advanced Architecture Contest that invites architects, designers, and innovators to explore the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the built environment.

Firas Safieddine is a leading practitioner whose work spans architecture, urbanism, design, Ecology, and neurotechnology. He coined “Electrical Ecologies”, and aims at designing the first ‘architecture brain implant’. With the mission to redefine the spatial design discourse, Firas is the founder and executive strategist at Spatial Forces, a next-gen spatial design practice operating across scales and media, from the microcontroller to the territory. His professional involvement goes beyond design, to strategy, writing, community building, and academia. He is the Chief Architect at Gamium, Founder and Creative Strategist at Urbanitarian, author at UrbanNext, and Chapter lead at NeurotechBCN, the Barcelona chapter of NeurotechX.

He holds a bachelor’s in Architecture from the University of Balamand through the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts and a post-professional master’s degree from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya through the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, and certifications from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT on Smart Mobility and Emerging Design and Technologies beyond Smart Cities.

The What, Why, and How Behind the Buzzword of the Year – AI

Much like past technological advancements that reshaped architecture, AI stands as a contender to be a vital element in the future of design. AI models are now integral throughout the design process, from data collection and simulation to conceptualization, modeling, and visualization.

Understanding intelligence as an emergent property of material assemblages unlocks new highways of exploration within the context of spatial design and creative production at broad. On the one hand, understanding the fundamentals and defining AI within the design context, and on the other, experimenting with design workflows and AI models to create works relevant within the architecture and spatial design context.

The talk will set the groundwork for a comprehensive understanding of what is AI, examine architectural and design questions that can be the catalysts behind AI experimentation, and finally, run through workflows and projects that adopt AI as as an integral component of the creative process.

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AI for the Built Environment Lecture Series – Firas Safieddine

Date: Tuesday, 14th of November, 2023
Time: 19.00h (CET)

Title: The What, Why, and How Behind the Buzzword of the Year – AI

Location: Online

The new realist

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The new realist. Catalan and balearic architecture from the 2008 crisis

The new realist is the exhibition at the Disseny Hubthat shows the work of a group of Catalan and Balearic architects – those we call ‘new realists’ – who, following the 2008 crisis and aware that a change of cycle was taking place both in society and in the profession, redefined new parameters in the exercise of architecture.

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Moments from the new realist exhibition

Harquitectes, Bosch Capdeferro arquitectura, Carles Oliver Barcelo, ibavi, Huguetmallorca, un parell d’arquitectes, Vora arquitectura, Claudi Aguilo Aran Datae, Aulets arquitectes, Maio architects, Lacol arquitectura, Peris Toral arquitectes, Jordi Adell Roig, Alex Gallego arquitectura,Gerard Puig Freixas, Aixopluc architectures, Nua arquitectures, Michele & Miquel, Comas Pont arquitectes, Teda arquitectes, Bunyesc arquitectura, David Sebastian arquitectes…

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Moments from the new realist exhibition

It is a new generation of architects who question the expansionist parameters that were worked on until then, and which is strengthened as the climate emergency becomes more apparent.

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Iñaqui Carnicero at IAAC Lecture Series

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Iñaqui Carnicero is the Secretary General of the Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture in Spain.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is delighted to present him on Friday 27th October in the framework of the Opening Events of the Academic Year 2023-24.

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Carnicero holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) in 2015, with a unanimous “Cum Laude” distinction, and received his professional degree from the Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) in 1998. His research work was awarded a scholarship by the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome in 2008.

In addition to his professional work as an architect, he has been active in the fields of teaching, research, and curatorial work, addressing issues related to housing, urbanism, and the revitalization of existing architectural fabric.

He has served as a visiting professor at various international universities, including Cornell University, Columbia University, Yale University, and MIT. His work has been internationally recognized with awards such as the Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Biennale, the AIA New York Housing Design Award in 2015, the Hauser Award in 2012, the Design Vanguard Award in 2011, the FAD Architecture Award in 2012, and the COAM Award in 2012.

From June 2020 until his appointment as Secretary General of the Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture in February 2023, he held the position of General Director of Urban Agenda and Architecture.

IAAC Lecture Series – Iñaqui Carnicero

Date: Friday, 27th of October, 2023
Time: 18.00h (CEST)

Location: In-house at IAAC Main hall, C/ Pujades 102 & Zoom

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2023 FAD awards winners

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The García Márquez library and the Reggio School win the FAD awards

The Gabriel García Márquez library in Barcelona, won the 2023 FAD Architecture Prize last Thursday. This work, signed by Guillermo Sevillano and Elena Orte , members of the Madrid studio SUMA, shared the award ex aequo with the Reggio School in Madrid, built in Encinar de los Reyes by Andrés Jaque, from Madrid, at the head of its Office for Political Innovation. A library and a school, which the jury considered “excellent works, of a complementary nature, representatives of a broad-spectrum contemporary architecture.”

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The García Márquez Library 2023 FAD Award Architecture winners © Jesús Granada

This argument suggests both coincidences and divergences in the criteria of the winners. That’s how it is. The two works express their concern for environmental problems. But they do it in a different way. The García Márquez Library, in the Sant Martí district, is built using a structure of wooden panels, hybridized with steel, and achieves loose spaces flooded with overhead and lateral light, ideal for reading, while its volume adapts , without losing character, to the chamfer on which it stands.

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Reggio School 2023 FAD Award Architecture winners © José Hevia

The Reggio School, for its part, also expresses environmental concern, for example, in the cork insulation on the façade or in its interior garden on the fourth floor, under a greenhouse roof. It also includes powerful proposals, such as those of the large agora on the rear façade, or the adjoining loggia, and others of a different nature, such as the main façade, with a capricious formal resolution.

The FAD Interior Design Award went to Barcelona-based Jorge Vidal Estudio and Marcos Catalán Estudio, for their renovation of the Garciaz farmhouse in Cáceres, carried out with sensitivity and appreciation for local materials and techniques.

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Porto do Con (Coruña) 2023 FAD Award Landscape winners © Luis Díaz Díaz

The FAD for City and Landscape was awarded to the conditioning of the port shore in Porto do Con (Coruña), signed by architects Juan Creus and Covadonga Carrasco, together with Marcial Rodríguez, Alberto Redondo and José Valladares. The FAD for Ephemeral Interventions went to the Twist project, in Madrid, of circus and rock inspiration, created by Javier Jiménez (Studio Animal). FAD International Susan’s House, a work in the USA by Xavier Vendrell and Mary English, and The Dark Line, in Taiwan, by Miquel Batlle and Michèle Orliac. FAD Thought and Criticism went to Architecture of Bacalhau and other species by André Tavares and Diego Inglez de Souza, and ugly Spainby Andrés Rubio.

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The Dark Line 2023 FAD Award International winner

The jury of this 65th edition of the FAD for Architecture and Urbanism, was chaired by many prestigious architects, among whom we would like to highlight the presence of two members of our team at Barcelona Architecture Walks as leading Architects  they are Jelena Prokopljevic and Rafael Gómez-Moriana.

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Chris Precht at IAAC opening event 23/24

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The opening event of the IAAC Lecture Series 2023/2024  will be on Thursday 19th October with Chris Precht and his Lecture “Architects Anonymous”

Chris Precht is the co-founder of Studio Precht. He is husband to Fei, father to Tio and Emma and an architect in the mountains of Austria.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is delighted to present his lecture in the framework of the Opening Events of the Academic Year 2023-24.

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Programme

19:00 Doors Open
19:10 Welcome and Introduction by Daniel Ibañez, IAAC Director
19:30 Opening Lecture by Chris Precht
20:15 Q&A session
20:30 Refreshments

Architects Anonymous

Architecture events often present idealistic standards of perfection, concealing the challenges architects face beneath the surface. Precht, with six years of experience in Studio Precht, has learned that the initial enthusiasm of architecture often gives way to a heavy responsibility. Creatives protect their work in a competitive industry, showing confidence and success while keeping as private their failures and conflicts. In this lecture, Chris Precht aims to share the shift in perspective that parenthood has revealed to him, underlining the value of sharing struggles and vulnerability alongside successes as a way to grow. Read the full statement in his post

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Barcelona Design Week 2023

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The Barcelona Design Week (BDW) takes place from 16th to 28th October, with an extensive programme that includes installations, exhibitions, showrooms, talks, workshops and open days, created by Barcelona Design Centre in 2006, this is the annual event on design and creativity in Barcelona.

BDW 2023 is a very special edition, number 18, our coming of age. In addition, this edition is expressly associated with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals declared by the United Nations.

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Faced with a global scenario increasingly marked by uncertainty, complexity and volatility, design is a key element for people’s present and future, to create a human future. In this sense, this year we have set ourselves a clear goal, to launch a global initiative to promote SDG goal number 18 and it becomes our motto: Design for Human Future.

Halfway to achieving the goals of the 2030 Agenda, launched in 2015, now is the time to take a realistic view of what has been achieved so far and what is still pending. And, for this reason, at BDW we believe that it is time to give design the importance it has and deserves by launching this transversal initiative.

BDW is the first design week proposing a SDG on design and is a member of the World Design Weeks network, whose headquarters are in Barcelona. The network consists of nearly 40 design festivals around the world on design and creativity fields.

BDW is organised by Barcelona centre de Disseny and promoted by Barcelona City Council, in collaboration with FAD Fostering Arts and Design and Disseny Hub Barcelona (DHub).

Here you have the extensive programme that includes installations, exhibitions, showrooms, talks, workshops and open days to cellebrate this amazing event on design and creativity in Barcelona.

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Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today

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The DissenyHub Barcelona presents Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today a critical survey of the achievements and the working conditions of women designers in the last century.

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Ray Eames working in a model. pic Getty images

The exhibition presents objects created by leading female protagonists in different areas of design ranging from furniture, interiors, graphic design and lighting, to textiles, ceramics and jewellery. The designers featured include Charlotte Perriand, Gae Aulenti, Lina Bo Bardi and Eileen Gray. The exhibition is produced by the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein (Germany) and comes to the Disseny Hub Barcelona with an additional section focusing on Spanish design. The display in Barcelona includes the results of research carried out by the Collections departmanent. One section will be devoted to pioneering women designers in the 60s, 70s and 80s, looking at some sixty names. Another section with designs for women has also been added, with contemporary pieces.

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As a parallel activity of the exhibition Here we are! Women in Design. 1900 – Today.

Interviews open to the public in which some of the pioneers of design will be discussed in a gender perspective, exploring the challenges, the legacy and the milestones that these generations achieved. These interviews will be incorporated into the oral memory collection of the Disseny Hub Barcelona Documentation Centre, as part of the research and documentation work being carried out to preserve this valuable memory of local design.

Tuesday 17 October: Ana Zelich, Mont Marsà and Pepa Estrada
Wednesday 18 October: Mireia Riera, Montse Padrós and Nani Marquina
Tuesday 24 October: Loni Geest and Eugènia Vidal
Wednesday 25 October: Agnés Padrós, Rosa Vila-Abadal and Núria PiéModerated by Patricia Escalona from Agencia Letraherida.

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Shelving. Beth Galí. Barcelona, 1966. MADB 138.851. Photo: Estudio Rafael Vargas

CURATOR: Viviane Stappmanns, Nina Steinmüller and Susanne Graner CURATOR FOR THE SPANISH SECTION: Teresa Bastardes, Isabel Cendoya, Isabel Fernández del Moral

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Special tours for Architects

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In recent years Barcelona has positioned itself as a pioneer in the implementation of urban resiliency. Resulting in many architecture offices around the world come to Barcelona focusing on discover these strategies with which it is being designed the future of our city. The objectives include not only a greener city, but also the capacity to integrate multicultural complexity into our urban fabric in a way that is more respectful and sustainable.

BAW has designed various tours for Architects to showcase these strategies. These routes will take the walker through different projects, public spaces, green zones, and “superblocks”. We will consider what are the difficulties and challenges of each project in reaching the common goal of increasing space for public interaction to reinforce the social fabric of each neighborhood thus making Barcelona a city that is greener, more diverse, and more sustainable.

Some tours for Architects that we have done are:

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SOLA – Studio Oslo Landscape Architecture

-SOLA – Studio Oslo Landscape Architecture from Norway. They were walking through our Landscape special tour with 18 architects from this ofice based in Oslo. Our tour lead by Daniela our lanscape guide and Mario Suñer landscaper from Batlle i Roig office. For this ocasion we design an special Landscape tour focused on what they were interested, it’s landscape architecture, urban planning, green mobility and cycling! projects around Barcelona, but also in new housing concepts, particularly ones that are socially sustainable and incorporate the landscape.

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L2 Arkitekter

-L2 Arkitekter from Nordway were walking with us through our Future City tour they were especially interested in the super blocks, architecture (modern and old), and urbanism.

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SG&CO Arkitekter

-SG&CO Arkitekter Barcelona & Highlights Tour including  Montjuic Area with the Castle Restauration, The Olympic Area and the Mies Pavilion, then the Ribera Neighbourhood with the Santa Caterina Market of EMBT and finally a walk through Passeig de Gracia to see Casa Batllo and Casa Mila.

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MUUAN Architects

-MUUAN an architectural office from Helsinki walk with our Urbanism tour with 15 person of its office. Our leading architect Pia Wortham wander through courtyards, avenues and squares to feel the pulse of local Barcelona and the architectural richness of Cerdà’s Barcelona.

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Skapa

-Skapa a small architectural practice in Oslo, they were walking around our Gothic to Modern tour, exploring and learning what Barcelona has to offer of modern and off course historical architecture.

Barcelona has been a source of inspiration for multiple disciplines, but especially for the world of architecture and planning, our tours for Architects will help you to discover it! 

Tell us about your interests and together we will design a tour experience with everything you want to discover!

BARQ festival

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BARQ festival internacional de cine de arquitectura de Barcelona

Desde el 26 de septiembre hasta el 1 de octubre de 2023 Barcelona celebra la III edición del BARQ Festival Internacional de Cine de Arquitectura. El BARQ es el único festival de cine de arquitectura en España y ofrece una selección de documentales de alta calidad cinematográfica de todo el mundo. Este evento cinematográfico ha demostrado su capacidad para llevar las discusiones actuales a la sociedad a través del cine.

 

En esta edición, el BARQ aborda temas como la vivienda social, la segregación urbanística, la resignificación de los espacios urbanos e incluso el impacto de la arquitectura en el bienestar humano. Durante seis días, se proyectarán diez largometrajes y trece cortometrajes enmarcados en la tercera edición del BARQ Festival, el único festival de cine de arquitectura en España.

Algunos de los largometrajes destacados de esta edición incluyen Skin of Glass, la película que inaugurará el festival con la presencia de su directora, Denise Zmekhol, y que ha sido proyectada en el Architecture+ The City Film Festival; El Tren y la Península de Sky Richards y Andreas Kruger, que trata sobre el impacto de la megaconstrucción del tren de Yucatán en la cultura maya; y Racist Trees de Sara Newens y Mina T. Son, un documental reconocido internacionalmente en el IDFA Festival, Palm Springs IFF, Florida Film Festival y Millennium Docs Against Gravity, que aborda la lucha de una comunidad contra la segregación y la discriminación racial. En esta tercera edición, la mayoría de los directores participarán en las sesiones para dialogar con el público y profundizar sobre las diferentes temáticas.

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Skin of glass de Denise Zmekhol / El Tren y la Península de Sky Richards y Andreas Kruger

Fuera de competición, también habrá dos sesiones especiales de dos largometrajes nacionales: el preestreno de Ricardo Bofill: La hoja en blanco, una producción de RTVE dirigida por Manel Arranz y Elisabeth Anglarill, sobre el difunto arquitecto catalán reconocido internacionalmente; y Protegim les escoles de Jaume Cebolla, que aborda cómo mejorar el entorno de una escuela mediante materiales naturales.

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Ricardo Bofill: La hoja en blanco, de Manel Arranz y Elisabeth Anglarill / Casa Bloc rehabilitación de una idea, de Patricia Tamayo y Albert Badia

El festival tendrá un cierre muy especial con la proyección de Casa Bloc, rehabilitación de una idea. La película documental, dirigida por Patricia Tamayo y Albert Badia, está dedicada al emblemático Casa Bloc, el primer edificio de viviendas sociales en España.

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Great images from our Summer tours

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Now that Summer has end, we want to share with all of you, some amazing images of the 2023 Summer tours. We are very proud because many travellers have been walking with us on these weeks and have enjoyed Barcelona through our Walking Tours…

As you know our aim is to present the essence of Barcelona to the larger public, so it has been a pleasure to walk with you and let you immerse with our Summer tours, in a city that will not leave you indifferent.

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Our walking tours for this 2023/2024 season
We have our usual five regular weekly tours where you get to meet fellow walkers from all over the globe. You can also reserve private tours of these same routes to better fit your schedule with one of our guides dedicated exclusively to your group or family.
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BARCELONA & GAUDI  A perfect start for your Barcelona stay!
BARCELONA & THE FUTURE CITY walk through the smart-city looking for our Future and discover with us the new Superblock at Poblenou.
BARCELONA & URBANISM Travel with us to the origins of modern Barcelona!
BARCELONA & THE SEA  Discover the history of Barcelona through its architecture!
BARCELONA & GOTHIC TO MODERN see Barcelona through the eyes of Enric Miralles.
On top of our regular tours we also offer five special tours with routes designed for those who want to explore more specific topics like Barcelona and landscape or Barcelona and RCR, the Spanish Pritzker Prize winners from 2017, or even a more in depth look at one of our regular tours, Modernismo XL, for example.
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As always each route is driven by a set of themes and concepts that decode the city whilst stimulating new ways of thinking about and seeing Barcelona.
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Fundació Miró collaboration

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Barcelona Architecture walks collaboration with the Fundació Miró

Today we are very happy to share our collaboration with the Fundació Miró. They contacted Barcelona Architecture Walks to ask for help in making a little documentary where our CEO Miguel Angel Borràs explains a new way to contribute to the legacy of Josep Lluís Sert and Joan Miró and to live in first person a selection of experiences linked to the architectural and cultural heritage of Barcelona.

The Miró&Sert group brings together people with a special feeling for art and architecture who wish to forge a close link with the Fundació Joan Miró. Its members share a tremendous interest and admiration for Joan Miró and Josep Lluís Sert and, with their support, help the Foundation to celebrate, preserve and raise awareness of the important legacy of these two great artists.

These kinds of proposals are essential for discovering the ideas, concepts and stories that feed Barcelona’s architecture, we are very proud of this collaboration and we love the final result!

Here you have the video

As you know at Barcelona Architecture Walks our aim is to present the essence of Barcelona, its culture, history and architecture to the larger public, so we are delighted with this opportunity to have collaborated with such a prestigious entity in the cultural sphere in Barcelona as the Fundació Miró.

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Start you engines: 2023/2024 season is here!

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Now that the holidays are over we are excited to start the 2023/2024 season. The beginning  of a new season is a great time to start new projects! Everyone gets back to work with more energy and enthusiasm.
These months has been fantastic for Barcelona Architecture Walks, lot of people has been walking with us during the summer time and this September Barcelona Architecture Walks has all our leading architects and our tours ready to help you discover our city from a new perspective.
Let’s to know something more about our regular leading architecture team!
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Carmen Popescu, Bucharest. Architecture Studies between Bucharest and Barcelona (1992-2003) Specialized in Heritege Preservation and PhD in Barcelona, ETSAB-UPC, thesis in Urban Heritage Management and Protection. Baw walker ( 2017-today)
Jelena Prokopljevic, Belgrade. Architect degree from the Belgrade University (1998) and PhD from the Polytechnic university of Barcelona (2006) Practicing architect, researcher, writer and professor and is currently a member of the board of directors at Arquin-FAD.

Rafael Gomez-Moriana, Montreal, Canada Studied architecture at the University of Waterloo (1989) and the Berlage Institute Amsterdam (1995). Associate Adjunct Professor University of Calgary. Has taught at several universities, contributor to architecture magazine and member of the jury of the FAD prize for thought and criticism 2023.

Pia Wortham, Mexico City, Mexico. Tufts University Civil Engineering and Fine arts Museum School of Boston Massachusetts, Masters of Architecture Columbia University, Winner of the Matthew Del Gaudio Award for Design Excellence Columbia University 1989, has work at Enric Miralles Architect 1990-1993, 1994-1997, and has taught at several american Universities.

Ricard Pons i Mascases, Barcelona. Studies in Barcelona and Brussels. Architect by ETSAB-UPC (2004), two postgraduate courses on town planning and energy saving (2011-2012) Currently working for the Catalan Government and has worked for the COAC (Architect’s Association of Catalonia) International Department.

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And about our walking tours for this 2023/2024 season…
We have our usual five regular weekly tours where you get to meet fellow walkers from all over the globe. You can also reserve private tours of these same routes to better fit your schedule with one of our guides dedicated exclusively to your group or family. On top of our regular tours we also offer five special tours with routes designed for those who want to explore more specific topics like Barcelona and landscape or Barcelona and RCR, the Spanish Pritzker Prize winners from 2017, or even a more in depth look at one of our regular tours, Modernismo XL, for example.
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As always this season 2023/2024 each route is driven by a set of themes and concepts that decode the city whilst stimulating new ways of thinking about and seeing Barcelona.
Come and walk with us and live a fantastic experience!!!
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Pantalla Pavelló 2023 Film Series

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Pantalla Pavelló 2023 Film Series: on 7th August 2023 Drift by Helena Wittman

‘Pantalla Pavelló’ is the film series directly projected on the travertine of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion that delves into the relationship between the built environment, its limits and its borders, the people who inhabit it, and how this relationship is accentuated and revealed in its maximum expression. Architecture, and our cities along with it, determines and influences how we live in the same way as our rules of coexistence and the laws that govern our societies. A reflection on the built environment around us, the cities we want and therefore the society we desire.

2023 Blue Diversity

On the occasion of the appointment of the city of Copenhagen as World Architecture Capital 2023, the director of the Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Josephine Michau, presents the Blue Diversity film series, which will include films set in seas and oceans in order to talk about their biodiversity, and our current relationship, conception and management of water as a vital resource.

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The second film of the Pantalla Pavelló 2023 series is Drift by Helena Wittmann.

Drift is a mysterious and immersive exploration of the oceanic realm, as depicted through the lens of two nameless protagonists sharing their thoughts and stories about ancient myths and legends of the sea. Through dreamlike sequences and hauntingly beautiful imagery, the film invites us to surrender ourselves to the ebb and flow of the sea and to find new modes of being in its timeless rhythms. Drift is a poetic and sensorial masterpiece, a celebration of the beauty and strangeness of the natural world, and a reminder of our place within it.

In this case, the topics of discussion will revolve around the sea subverting our solid, stable spatial and temporal orientation, its teachings about our terrestrial biases and how can architecture adopt spatio-temporal schemes from the oceanic realm.

On 7th August 2023 Drift by Helena Wittman

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Title: Drift

Director: Helena Wittmann

Year: 2017

Timing: 96′

Place: Germany

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August tours with BAW

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Barcelona Architecture Walks has their August tours ready to help you discover our city from a new perspective. Barcelona is a perfect city to visit and enjoy discovering its history and culture thorough its streets and architecture.

This August we will have aviable the Gaudi and the future city tour. You can also reserve private tours of these same routes to better fit your schedule with one of our guides dedicated exclusively to your group or family.

Let’s to know something more about our August tours:

BARCELONA & GAUDI a great start to discover the genius of Gaudí and Barcelona architecture. 

Along the Modernism Route, we will trace the sinuous dream path that took Antoni Gaudí from his social concerns to a total absorption with the divine, until he finally became “the last great cathedral builder.”

We will see the Antoni Tàpies Foundation and Casa Lleó Morera by Domènech i Montaner, Casa Amatller by Puig i Cadafalch, some hidden Eixample courtyards and, of course, Casa Calvet, Casa Batlló and Casa Milà by Antoni Gaudí. We don’t go inside the buildings.

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BARCELONA & THE FUTURE CITY walk through the smart-city looking for our Future and discover with us the new Superblock at Poblenou.

This is an urban walking reflection on the main aims of urbanism and how they have been applied in the 22@ district in Poblenou. This was once a neighborhood full of small factories that is now being revitalized in an attempt to recapture the spirit of it’s industrial heyday.

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The Mediterranean light in this season of the year makes colors and forms more vibrant and attractive than ever and for this reason now is a magic moment to discover our amazing city.

All the guides of Barcelona Architecture Walks are practicing architects, most of whom are professors of architecture, as well as architecture critics. This variety of top professionals provides a wide spectrum of knowledge on a huge range of topics that only Barcelona Architecture Walks can provide.

Each route is driven by a set of themes and concepts that decode the city whilst stimulating new ways of thinking about and seeing Barcelona. Come and walk with us and live a fantastic experience!!!

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WAF -World Architecture Festival 2023 awards

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The Barcelonian architecture firm Batlleiroig is finalist in the WAF -World Architecture Festival 2023 awards with the Eco-district laMercedes

The WAF awards, known for their worldwide prestige, recognise and celebrate the most innovative designs of the past year in the field of architecture. This year’s World Architecture Festival will be held from 29 November to 1 December in Singapore. The winning projects will be presented there. Every year, thousands of architects, designers and suppliers gather to celebrate and learn.

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The nerve center of the laMercedes eco-district will be a new green square that preserves the structure of the former Mercedes-Benz factory, preserving the historical memory of the site. / ©SBDA

The Ecodistrito laMercedes by Batlle i Roig Arquitectes, winner in the Re-use category of the WAF award organized by the World Architecture Festival.

The jury has announced the winning projects of the WAFX award, among which the laMercedes eco-district stands out in the Re-use category for being considered an “excellent example” that addresses some of the challenges faced by architecture, society, and the planet. It is the first major urban eco-district, an inclusive and innovative project developed by ConrenTramway and designed by Batlleiroig, which is also a finalist in the Best Future Project – Masterplanning category of the prestigious WAF 2023 awards.

This project reactivates the old industrial site with new economic and residential activity, contributing to the large urban regeneration project of Bon Pastor and Besòs, which has now become the most dynamic urban area in the city. The design of laMercedes has been thought to achieve the highest quality of life, allowing its citizens to live and work in an environment where everything is less than 5 minutes away.

laMercedes must become a neighborhood where you can learn, live and work. A compact neighborhood with houses of all types and characteristics together with a multiple offer of shops on the ground floors, community facilities and economic activities, which configures a new centrality that contributes to unifying the heterogeneous urban fabric of the environment.

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The project laMercedes is committed to a new model of housing, flexible, versatile and non-hierarchical, with habitable outdoor spaces. The limits between the private and the common are redefined, creating a new model of collaborative housing. The project promotes the creation of intermediate spaces, interior or exterior, between the private and public domains. The intermediate space is the scene of neighborhood coexistence, meetings and games, and encourages community life.

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