The exhibition "Vogadors . Architectural Rowers: Catalan & Balearic Threads : Hard Materiality for a Permeable Architecture" officially scheduled Collateral Events in the Venice Biennale in 2012 and curated by Félix Arranz and Jordi Badia, led to the publication of this digital application that gathers 151 works and projects included in the "contexts".

The word Vogadors (rowers) comes from a phrase Jorge Oteiza: "The advances makes creating something new as a rower, moving forward, but back row, looking back to the past, to what exists to reinvent their keys", and refers to the Mediterranean Sea, which separates yet connects Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.

The exhibition based in 9 works, 20 backgrounds and 151 types of context, can argue one way of thinking and doing careful architectural traditions, the direction of motion, proximity and necessity that connects with the local and international contemporary discourse and also with the "architecture for life", and permanent characteristic of the Mediterranean culture.

The Ajuntament de Barcelona and the Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya - COAC brings within one’s reach an architectural guide of Barcelona which contains more than a hundred buildings, each one of them documented with photographs, plans and explanatory texts which allow us to easily get to know the architecture as well as the distinguished architects of the city.

The COAC was established in 1931 and since then has defended the social value of architecture on behalf of architects. Its headquarters are located in Barcelona and it carries out its activity throughout the whole of Catalonia through several head offices located within the Catalan region. It is the COAC’s responsibility to safeguard architectural quality, as well as to circulate and disseminate architectural work and to promote the culture of this discipline amongst society. The development of information and the attraction of society to the fields of architecture, urbanism and Catalan landscapes are among its main purposes.

Barcelona City Council offer this guide to publish and disseminate contemporary architecture of the city of  Barcelona to citizens and visitors from Catalonia or elsewhere.