Architecture without leaving home
ArchiMaps: It’s about doing architectural tourism without leaving home.
ArchiMaps a new application that has been built, this allows you to explore and discover the best works of architecture through your mobile.
These days in most of us we are confined at home, ArchiMaps has been built so that we can travel virtually, registering the best architecture of the main cities in the world or exploring the work of the most outstanding architects.
The application has been built for sightseeing from the house is organized in several independent guides, each focused on a city or a specific architect. You can browse each guide through the map, or use the list to take a quick look at all the buildings included in it. You can filter and sort the results based on different criteria, search to locate an architect or a specific building.
Each guide includes several ArchiRoutes, which shows the strengths of the city or the architect or the one it is about. Some specified a selection of essential works; others delve into more concrete aspects of local architecture or the author’s work.
Find them and discover how wonderful the architecture of each country is.
ArchiMaps includes buildings belonging to all eras and styles. Its database is constantly growing, and new guides are continually being added or complications being improved and expanded. Currently it has more than 2,000 works of architecture spread over 12 guides:
Architects: Adolf Loos – Antoni Gaudí – Sáenz de Oíza – Mies van der Rohe – Eero Saarinen
Cities: Barcelona – Chicago – London – Los Angeles and Southern California – Madrid – Mexico City – New York- Japan – Spain- Miami – Colombia – Peru.
We have good news the ArchiMaps application works on iOS and Android systems, and can be downloaded completely free of charge in the App Store and Google Play.