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The Architectural Guides project is innovative and combines several tools (online and offline), in order to promote and promote Architectural Tourism in Portugal.

The project is coordinated by the Architects Nuno Campos and Patricia Matos, who select, visit, and photograph the projects, and then are responsible for editing the books.

In 2010, the “Architecture Guide - North and Center of Portugal” was published.

In 2011 the second volume was launched: “Architecture Guide - South and Islands of Portugal”.

In 2012 the APP "ArchitecturalGuidePortugal" was launched for Iphone and Ipad.

In 2013, the third volume was launched: “Guide to Architecture - Spaces and Buildings rehabilitated”.

In 2020, the fourth volume will be launched: "Architecture Guide - Porto and North of Portugal".

The architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, the most awarded and prestigious Portuguese architect, states in one of the presentation texts he wrote for the books that: “It is clearly useful to publish a Guide to Contemporary Architecture in Portugal. (…) The search for Architectural Guides, not only by architects, today follows the widespread habit and taste of traveling ”.

They are bilingual publications (Portuguese / English) with a “travel guide” character that disclose the work of a wide range of architects, including most of the works of the two Portuguese Pritzker Prize winners - Álvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto Moura, both major references of the prestigious Porto School of Architecture.

In parallel with the edition of the paper guides, a free online tool was developed to spread - such as the guides - the most interesting architectural works built in Portugal between 1974 and 2017: the portal www.guiasdearquitectura.com. In the Apple App Store you can download the application: ArchitecturalGuidePortugal. This App is free and features most of the works published in the guides.

In the different supports, each work is presented with photographs and information that contextualizes it in time and space.
The exact location of all works is also available through GPS coordinates.

This project contributes to the promotion of our tourism, our culture and one of the few disciplines in which there is a strong international recognition of our ability to do well: architecture.