Discover the modern design of Barcelona with professional architects as your guides. Explore the origins of urbanism and gain unique insights into the city’s architecture.
- Plaça Universitat - This is a trip to the origins of the guidelines laid out by Ildefons Cerdà on the plain of Barcelona. He was responsible for designing a 133m x 133m grid without borders, hierarchies or suburbs that has given Barcelona the status of an advanced city.
The tour will leave the Plaça Universitat and gradually dive into Cerdà’s grid while we travel in time from the birth of cities to 21st-century Barcelona, through the modern era, the birth of the railway, the Barcelona model and the 22@ district. We will see the Sant Antoni Market in renovation, the Sant Antoni Library signed by RCR architects pritzker price winners 2017 and we will finish our expedition on the roof of Richard Rogers’ Las Arenes Mall Center, where we will reveal and analyze Barcelona’s future projects.
As we wander through courtyards, avenues and squares to feel the pulse of local Barcelona, we’ll talk about communication and the Internet, ways and byways, enlightened despotism, 22@ and the infinite architectural richness of Cerdà’s Barcelona.
- Microguide authored by expert architects
- Join us on a journey to the birthplace of contemporary Barcelona to discover Ildefons Cerdà, the pioneer of urban science!
All Barcelona Architecture Walks guides are active architects, many of whom are architecture professors and critics. This mixture of top-notch professionals delivers a broad spectrum of expertise on an extensive array of subjects that only Barcelona Architecture Walks can offer. We tread with our unique modern viewpoints and a sly grin because… we are passionate about architecture!
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