On 17 July 2025, M300 hosted the presentation of Cara vista, the debut novel by architect and NeuronaLab founder Ana García López. In a relaxed and intimate afternoon, the author shared with the audience the creative process behind a book born from personal experience: the intricacies of purchasing an old apartment in Barcelona and the long road to obtaining planning permission, transformed into a metaphor for personal reconstruction.

Cara vista is an autofiction novel in which the protagonist, going through a separation, simultaneously undertakes the renovation of a house and her own life. Written with touches of neuroarchitecture (the discipline that studies how built spaces influence the people who inhabit them), the novel connects architecture, emotion and memory in an intimate and revealing way.

An evening that confirmed M300 as a meeting place between architecture, design and contemporary thought.

About Ana García López

Ana García López is an architect and interior designer from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and founder of NeuronaLab, a studio specialised in neuroarchitecture. With more than twenty years of professional experience, she combines her design practice with university teaching, directing the Master's in Wellbeing at LCI Barcelona. Cara vista is her debut novel.