UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona
In June 2026, Barcelona will host one of the largest global gatherings dedicated to architecture. Over three days, more than 10,000 participants and 250 speakers from around the world will come together across eight stages, with over 100 sessions, a 4,000-square-metre central exhibition and seventy architectural itineraries unfolding across the region. Set along the Mediterranean seafront — from the iconic Three Chimneys turbine hall to major civic venues — the Congress expands beyond a conventional conference format to experience the city. Plenary talks, lectures and debates, open forums, workshops, research presentations and public celebrations will activate the city as a concentrated space of exchange. From 28 June to 2 July, Barcelona becomes a worldwide meeting point for architects, researchers, students and institutions. This is more than a congress. Be part of it.
Post Extractivism Urbanism
Radical Ecologies: Architecture as Political Engagement
My work
Architecture, Territory, and Practices of Care
Rivers as Commons
Economies of Means: Architecture between Efficiency and Generosity
From Salvage to Systems: Infrastructures of Reuse
Structures in Transition: From Demolition to Reassembly
Interventions in the Everyday
Locally Grounded: material, climatic and communities for resilience
Reinventing Stone: Ecological Continuities and Tectonic Invention
Earth Futures: From Craft Traditions to Technological Innovations
Architectural Acupuncture: Enhancing Rural Territories
Experimental Tectonics: Embodied Techniques for Everyday Spaces
Spatial Politics, Memory, and Resistance
Domestic Space as Social Project. Architectural Strategies for Shared Living
Beyond the Household: Collective Futures of Housing
Reframing Urban Infrastructures, Care, Gender, and Inequality
Practices of Engagement. Experimental Architectures for Collective Spaces
Unveiled Ecologies: From Data to Spatial Awareness
Investigating Mass Violence: Architecture as Evidence
Regulation and Form: Designing within Systems
Editorial Infrastructures: Magazines, Politics, and Cultural Agency
Politics, Ecologies and Technologies of Spatial Practice
In Sequence: Rooms, Rules, Transformations
Vernacular Frictions: Between Ancestral Knowledge and Contemporary Experiment
Ritual and the Choreography of Space
Fragile Architectures: Radić and Walker in Dialogue
Calendar
Inauguration of the Central Exhibition Three Chimneys
International Emerging Workshop Three Chimneys
Opening Ceremony Three Chimneys
Becoming More-than-human
Becoming Circular
Congress Sessions CCIB
UIA Working Bodies. Exhibition, lectures, and seminars CCIB
UIA Member Sections Exhibition DHub
Collateral Events Various locations
Central Exhibition Three Chimneys
Open Forum Sessions Three Chimneys
Student Competition Awards Ceremony Three Chimneys
Becoming Embodied
Becoming Interdependent
Congress Sessions CCIB
UIA Working Groups. Exhibitions, conferences, and seminars CCIB
UIA Member Sections Exhibition DHub
Collateral Events Various Locations
Central Exhibition Three Chimneys
Open Forum Sessions Three Chimneys
UIA Triennial Awards Sagrada Familia
Becoming Hyper-conscious
Becoming Attuned
Congress Sessions Three Chimneys
UIA Working Groups. Exhibitions, Conferences, and Seminars CCIB
UIA Member Sections Exhibition DHub
Collateral Events Various Locations
Central Exhibition Three Chimneys
Open Forum Sessions Three Chimneys
Congress Final Night Three Chimneys
Gala Dinner Montjuïc Castle
UIA own Awards and Closing Ceremony CCIB
UIA Member Sections Exhibition DHub
Central Exhibition Three Chimneys