News from Architecture Walks

The Architect Rebuilding a Country.   Good-looking, charming and a celebrity in his native Chile, the surprise winner of this year’s Pritzker cares more about solving social problems than exercising his artistic chops. THE EARTHQUAKE, one of the biggest ever recorded, hit … Read More

Very proud to receive the TRIPADVISOR certificate of           excellence 2016 !!! Thanks to our walkers this is possible one more year. We love our walkers! Come and walk with us and verify it !!! look … Read More

Hi walkers! Our walking tour BARCELONA & GAUDI has received some reviews like that one: “Informative and enjoyable tour We booked BAW’s Gaudi walk before we left for Spain. It was easy to do and Miguel from BAW was prompt replying to questions … Read More

A sustainable strategy for regenerating the city.   Superilles, or Superblocks in English, is a project designed by Barcelona City Council in collaboration with the Urban Ecology Agency that aims to foster sustainable mobility, the intensive use of public spaces, … Read More

Cerdà’s was the first meticulous scientific study both of what a modern city was, and what it could aspire to be.   Constricted by its medieval walls, Barcelona was suffocating – until unknown engineer Ildefons Cerdà came up with a … Read More

La arquitectura nacida de la crisis. Los comisarios españoles para la próxima Bienal de Venecia, Iñaqui Carnicero y Carlos Quintáns, presentarán en el Pabellón de nuestro país en la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia “Unfinished”, una muestra formada por 67 … Read More

Folds and Changes Shape On Its Own Imagine a house that could fit in a backpack or a wall that could become a window with the flick of a switch. Harvard researchers have designed a new type of foldable material … Read More

Te’ls trobaràs oberts.  A les 19 h del dissabte 21 de maig, els museus no tanquen les portes: te les obren de franc i et conviden a conèixer les seves col·leccions d’una altra manera: de nit! I hi passaran coses. … Read More

This is the first RIBA Award to be open to any qualified architect in the world. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced its longlist of 30 buildings to be considered for the inaugural RIBA International Prize. According to … Read More