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Museu Marítim de BarcelonaEl Raval

Barcelona School of Architecture in shaping everyday life in the city (1875–2025)

Now showing18 September 2026 – 11 January 2027Free

Works and writings by ETSAB faculty trace how architecture, planning and landscape shaped daily life in Barcelona, with a focus on the sea.

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You can look for your own street on a 1:2,500 map of Barcelona, pinned with the locations of nearly 600 works by teachers at ETSAB, the city's public school of architecture. They run from small domestic cells to metropolitan structures, and the question is how they shaped daily life since industrialisation.

Around the map are a chronology, a wall of covers of texts the teachers wrote, 24 photographs by Manuel Laguillo and six videos of everyday scenes in these places. Six plaster sculptures from the school's Fine Arts beginnings give the room a human scale. Because it's the Maritime Museum, the centrepiece is six seafront works shown large, with video: from Coderch and Valls's Barceloneta flats to the Fòrum's solar pergola. If you've watched a Primavera Sound set under that pergola, this is where you meet who drew it.

It's the school's own account of itself, chosen by five ETSAB professors. Entry is free, in the Mirador space, daily 10:00 to 20:00, with texts in Catalan, Spanish and English.

Look for

  • The seafront centrepiece

    Six waterfront works shown large with video: Coderch and Valls's Barceloneta flats, the Moll de la Fusta, the Vila Olímpica, the Gas Natural offices, the Fòrum pergola and the Greenh@use.

  • The 1:2,500 city map

    Look for the plan of Barcelona that marks where each of the nearly 600 selected works stands.

  • Manuel Laguillo's 24 photographs

    Everyday scenes in the buildings and spaces the show covers, alongside six videos by Alomar-Guillamon Videography.

  • The plaster sculptures

    Six plaster figures from the school's collection, a reminder that it began alongside the Fine Arts, placed to give the room a human scale.

  • The mural of covers

    A wall made of the covers of the texts ETSAB teachers wrote about the city over 150 years.

Good for

  • Cheap Culture
  • Locals Who've Seen It All
  • Nerding Out

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