arch guide

Explore architecture you pass every day at your pace. Follow routes, read profiles, or just check what's nearby. Curious what style you're seeing? Snap it and find out.

Actually see the city.

Arch Guide is your personal architecture guide to California. It turns any trip through the city into a tour through design history, explaining the buildings you pass every day without a second look.

California is full of architecture hiding in plain sight. Arch Guide stops you, and tells you why it matters.

WHAT'S INSIDE

Audio-narrated tours across neighborhoods Real architectural history, from Case Study Houses to Craftsman landmarks A style identifier: snap any building, anywhere, and find out what you're looking at Turn-by-turn navigation to every stop Ask Ellie anything about a building while you're standing in front of it A photo journal that keeps every building you've seen

EXPLORE YOUR WAY Go at your own pace. Pull up any building on the map to read up on it, follow a guided tour, or build a route of your own anywhere in the city.

FOR ARCHITECTURE LOVERS AND THE CURIOUS Whether you already know the big names or you've just always wondered about a building near you, this is architecture without the homework.

Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego are our first cities. More are on the way.