Spanish architect Joseph Lluís Mateo of Mateo Arquitectura has launched the “BCN Architecture Guide,” a free application to help travelers and architecture lovers explore Barcelona. The app guides users to both highlights of the city’s built environment as well as its natural environment, including some “places to experience nature in tension with the city, places to be rather than objects to look at.”
The app is available for download in both the App Store and Google Play.
“A personal guide is not scientific; it’s about sharing information and experiences. My training as an architect was closely related with discovering my city. Buildings under construction (in the far-off fifties), a great mass of stone near where I lived (that was Gaudí’s La Pedrera), forms, masses, constructions that impressed me then and still do, and that perhaps will impress someone experiencing them for the first time.
I also include places to experience nature in tension with the city, places to be, rather than objects to look at.
The city from the top as a form in three strips: the mountain, the plain, the sea. Green, brown, blue.”
