News from Architecture Walks

Floating Piers. The Project For sixteen days – June 18 through July 3, 2016 (weather permitting) – Italy’s Lake Iseo is being reimagined. 100,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular floating dock system of 220,000 high-density … Read More

For the architecture-obsessed reader, it can sometimes be tough to keep up with the publishing world. With architecture-related interests spanning from photography to philosophy, new books are released at an alarming rate and it can be difficult to spot the … Read More

The idea is spreading. In Japan, country club memberships famously went for millions of dollars in the late 1980s. Then, too many courses were built in 1990s and 2000s during a real estate boom. Now the nation faces the question … Read More

Hi walkers! Today we want to introduce our  BARCELONA & GAUDI walking tour. A perfect start for your Barcelona stay! Around the Modernism Route, we paint the sinuous dream that took  Antoni Gaudí from his concern into the social, to his … Read More

Barcelona is re-designing its streets. Barcelona city planners released a new plan that takes city spaces back from cars, for the people. Re-orienting the city to the human scale, Barcelona’s leaders have decided to create more space for walking and … Read More

While mass tourism overshadows the historic value of Gaudí’s work, we celebrate the life of the genius from Reus (Catalonia), who passed away ninety years ago. “Any profound interpretation is swept away by tourism. Visitors always get a superficial overview”. … Read More

Serpentine Pavilion Opens Alongside 4 Summerhouses. The 2016 Serpentine Pavilion, designed by BIG, has today been unveiled at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park, London. The design consists of an “unzipped wall” in which a straight line of tubular fiberglass bricks at the … Read More

Urbanism in the Experience Age. The Responsive Cities Symposium / Urbanism in the Experience Age is one of the main activities carried out under the Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism – KAAU (www.ka-au.net) EU co-funded project. Based on the assumption that … Read More

See Barcelona through the eyes of Enric Miralles. In our BARCELONA & THE MARKET walking tour you will see Barcelona through the eyes of Enric Miralles. “If you can work using the record, instead of imposing, you are checking things from … Read More