Barcelona’s Horta-Guinardó district is the main focus for June’s World Capital of Architecture 2026 programme, with exhibitions, guided walks, workshops and talks running across the area. The month puts the district’s urban form, heritage and public spaces in the spotlight.
The main venue is Casa de les Altures, a Neo-Mudéjar building from around 1870 that now houses the district headquarters. The district’s landscape, shaped by hills such as Rovira and the Serra de Collserola, has helped create its fragmented urban layout. More information on the wider programme is available from the World Capital of Architecture 2026 website.
Horta-Guinardó’s built environment reflects that geography. The area includes water infrastructure linked to the city’s growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Parc de les Aigües and Casa de les Altures. It also brings together 20th-century popular and residential architecture, Rationalist examples such as Montbau and Llars Mundet, and Modernisme at the former Hospital de Sant Pau i la Santa Creu.
At Casa de les Altures, the June programme includes the travelling exhibition From Party Walls to Facades. A Legacy for the City, from 15 June to 13 July. There is also a debate on 16 June, Can a Party Wall Transform Your Home and Neighbourhood?, plus Architecture Dialogues on 29 June, which will discuss the demolition of the Guinardó ring road viaduct. On 14 June, the venue hosts a new edition of Feminist Routes and Cartographies between the Urban and Urban Planning.
The district programme also includes routes and visits across Horta-Guinardó. These include Sound Architecture of Horta-Guinardó on 11 June, a Jane’s Walk on 13 June, a route through the gardens of Doctor Pla i Armengol, a visit to Llars Mundet on 13 June, and From the Fence: Visits to Works in Progress, Torre Garcini on 17 June. For more local coverage, see our Community and Sport pages.
Workshops are also part of the month’s offer. Families can join a session by the Construint la Sala Association at Vall d’Hebron Market on 13 June, while an urban intervention workshop is set for Recinte Mundet the same day. Children can take part in Let’s Improve the Neighbourhood in Horta-Guinardó on 14 June, and adults can attend Bringing Cases of Architecture and Social Design to Citizens, District by District. Horta, Guinardó on 22 June.
Other Horta-Guinardó venues are also involved. The Palau del Marquès d’Alfarràs hosts Re-edified Atlas from 19 June to 27 September, while the Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau stages an immersive 360-degree piano concert on 25 June as part of Sound and Space | Resonant Architecture. Across Barcelona, June also brings a wider set of exhibitions, including Parlour Gardens, The City We Want, The Instinct of Architecture, Regenerations: China and Spain in the Mirror, From Miró to Solano, Award-winning Architecture: 125 Years of Architecture Awards, and Internalities.
