Call for Participants

This Call for Participants invites contributions to the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona, aligning with the Becoming. Architectures for a planet in transition, research lines in three different formats:

Critical Design
Critical Essay
Critical Image

Becoming explores the transformation of existing reality, understanding time as a design tool and addressing the relationship between the urgency of contemporary challenges and a long-term perspective, through six research lines: More-than-human, Attuned, Embodied, Interdependent, Hyper-Conscious, and Circular.

This call will select a significant number of speakers for the congress, evaluated by a renowned jury of experts. We invite research that critically explores how architecture connects to these six lines. Submissions must address at least one of them.

More About Becoming

Who can participate?

UIA 2026 is aimed at architects, landscape architects, urban planners, designers, engineers, photographers, filmmakers, artists, and researchers in the social sciences and humanities—focusing on transdisciplinary approaches related to practical space.

Contributions - Three submissions formats

Critical Design

This format invites submissions of Design projects, industrial design concepts, prototypes, or explorations of design methodologies. The focus is on innovative approaches within the design field, ranging from conceptual ideas to practical solutions, whether built or unbuilt.

Critical Essay

Submissions in this format should be written works such as academic essays, research papers, or theoretical discussions that address critical analyses, theoretical perspectives, or research findings while also connecting to the themes of the Becoming research lines.

Critical Image

This format encompasses visual works, including films, photography, multimedia pieces, and experimental or creative visual projects that engage with design themes and the critical discourse surrounding architecture and spatial practice.

Scientific Committee & Jury

Scientific Committee Members

Joan Busquets, Honorific President of The Congress

Fuensanta Nieto, President of the Scientific Advisor Committee

Curators of the Congress: Pau Bajet, Mariona Benedito, Maria Giramé, Tomeu Ramis, Pau Sarquella and Carmen Torres.

Delegates UIA Regions: 5 Representative Members

COAC/CSCAE Advisors: Oscar Miguel Ares, Meritxell Inaraja, Josep Lluis Mateo, Mar Santamaria, Elisa Valero.

Academic support
This open call counts with the institutional support from the ETSAB-UPC (Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and the academic advice of Areti Markopoulou.

Jury of Experts
Critical design. Critical essay. Critical image. Each format will have an associated Jury of Experts, a panel of distinguished professionals and academics, each linked to one or more of the research lines of the congress. The complete list of the jury members will be disclosed in further announcements.

Evaluation Committee
The Evaluation Committee will consist of academics and professionals from diverse nationalities, with established academic ties in the case of the critical essay. The total number of evaluators will be determined according to the number of submissions received through the Call for Participants. The complete list of evaluators will be made public prior to the start of the selection process.

Critical Design Jury

Design projects, industrial design concepts, design prototypes or explorations of design methodologies. These could range from conceptual designs to practica

Carlos Facio

Architect. Co-founder of Colectivo C733

In 2015, he founded TO, a collaborative and interdisciplinary workshop established in Mexico City, along with José Amozurrutia. His practice sees architecture as a vehicle for human knowledge capable of promoting a social and artistic stance, sensitive to natural processes. He is a co-founder of the C733 Collective, composed of four architecture offices to develop public projects in Mexico. He is currently a member of the National System of Art Creators.

Among their recognitions are the Obel Award 2024, the AR Emerging Awards in London 2023, the League Prize from The Architectural League of New York 2022, and the Grand Prize of the Pan American Architecture Biennial of Quito BAQ 2023. Their work has been exhibited and awarded at various national and international biennials and published in media outlets such as Domus, Architectural Record, Architectural Review, Arquitectura Viva, Casabella, among others. They have given various lectures and classes at national and international universities, such as Columbia GSAPP in New York, Master Class at Crowhall IIT in Chicago, at the WAVE 2019 program in Venice, and at Beijing Design Week 2019. They are currently a professor at the Max Cetto Workshop at the FA of UNAM.

Catherine Mosbach

Landscape Architect. Founder of Mosbach Paysagistes

Catherine Mosbach is a landscape architect and the founder of Paris-based design firm mosbach paysagistes & the magazine Pages Paysages. Catherine’s key projects include the Solutre Archaeological Park in Saone-et-Loire, Walk Sluice of Saint-Denis, the Botanical Garden of Bordeaux, the other side in Quebec City, Shan Shui in Xian & Lost in Transition in Ulsan. She was the recipient of the Equerre D’argent award with Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa for the Louvre Lens Museum Park FF & was honoured in the Iconic Concept Award category by the German Design Council DE, Platine Award by INT. design 15th Montreal for Phase Shifts Park in Taichung and the BLT Build Design Award Landscape of the Year for Phase Shifts Park, Taichung Luzern. The team is honoured Firm of the Year 2021 in Landscape and Urban Design by Architecture Master Prize Los Angeles, USA. Catherine is named knight of the Legion of Honour proposed by the President of the Republic Francois Hollande in 2016. In the net of desires explores the infinitesimal of the living by XXI Triennale de Milano. IT_ 2017. Some of her latest essay are ‘emersion’, dialog Jerome Boutterin with Catherine Mosbach. Jerome Boutterin Reboot 1999-2022. (eds.) snoeck MMBOOKS Bruxelles, BE and ‘de passage’ la couleur en questions, directed by Michel Menu, Jean-Marie Schaeffer, Romain Thomas; Collection la Nature de l’oeuvre, (ed.) Hermann, FF_ 2023. ‘Cultivating Water, From the Dew to the Sky Vault’ directed by Laura Cipriani, ed Routledge, UK_2024. Eindrücke. Spuren des Gartens in zeitgenössischer französischer und deutscher Landschaftsarchitektur. Jürgen Weidinger ed français allemand. Berlin, DE_2024. Catherine Mosbach is visiting professor at GSD Harvard Boston 2017, 2019 & 2023.

Kersten Geers

Architect. Co-founder of OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen

Kersten Geers is an architect. Together with David Van Severen he is the founding partner of OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen based in Brussels. OFFICE has received numerous honours and awards, including the Belgian Prize for Architecture, the Silver Lion at the 12th Venice Biennial of Architecture, and Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Apart from practicing architecture, Geers has been teaching at various institutions, such as Harvard GSD, Columbia GSAPP, Yale School of Architecture, and EPF Lausanne. He currently holds a professorship at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio.

Xu Tian Tian

Architect. Founder and Director of DnA_Design and Architecture

Xu Tiantian is the founder and principal architect of DnA_Design and Architecture. She holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor in Architecture from Tsinghua University. Since founding DnA in the early 2000s, Xu has focused on projects that engage with local communities, cultural heritage, and landscape, integrating architecture into existing social and ecological systems. Her Architectural Acupuncture approach—introduced in Songyang County, Zhejiang Province, in 2014—has been recognized by UN-Habitat as a model for strengthening urban-rural linkages. This method applies precise, small-scale interventions to underutilized spaces, aiming to revitalize local economies, preserve heritage, and reinforce community identity.

Beyond her practice, Xu Tiantian is active in academia, serving as a Visiting Professor at institutions including Yale University, Tsinghua University, the University of Hong Kong, and the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as MoMA (New York), the Venice Biennale, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA).

Xu Tiantian has received numerous awards, including the 2022 Swiss Architectural Award, the 2023 Berlin Art Prize (Architecture), the Marcus Prize, the UNESCO Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, the Holcim Gold Award for Asia-Pacific and the 2025 Wolf Prize for Architecture. In 2024, she was elected a Member of the Akademie der Künste (ADK) in Berlin.

Carmen Torres and Mariona Benedito

On behalf of the UIA2026BCN Curatorial Team

Mariona:

Architect graduated from ETSAB-UPC in 2000, with an Advanced Studies Diploma in Housing from the 40’s-60’s in Barcelona. She is an Associate Professor of Architectural Design at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia since 2003, and her research studio has been recognized as a finalist among the best pedagogies of the XIII BIAU. She is Associate Professor and Coordinator at IE Architecture&Design school. Mariona has previously taught and directed workshops at institutions such as ETSALS URL, ETH-Zurich, Fundació UPC, BAU School of Design, Sam Fox School of Design at Washington University in Saint Louis, ESARQ-UIC, and ETSAB-UPC.

Co-founder of the Architecture Studio MIM-A in 2000, she has been working on her own solo practice since 2020. Her work has been awarded with relevant Prizes such as the ARQUIN-FAD Award 2020, New European Bauhaus Mention, Catalunya Construcció Prize, ARQUIN-FAD Award 2015, finalist for the XV BEAU and EU Mies van der Rohe Award and selected for the 7th European Landscape Biennal. Mariona has curated and designed exhibitions such as Arquitectura, Universitat i Territori at COAC (2000), Emergencias at COAC (2000), Maquina Climàtica (2025) and the EPISODE lecture series (2020-2024) at ETSAV-UPC.

Carmen:

Architect graduated from ETSAB-UPC in 2011. She is an Associate Professor of Architectural Design at ETSAV UPC (2019 – to date), where her research studio was recognized as a finalist among the best pedagogies of the XIII BIAU. After three years working for various architectural practices in Paris, Carmen moved to Bangkok, Thailand, to teach as a studio professor at INDA Chulalongkorn University (2015-2018).

In 2019 she founded Sarquella Torres Architects in Banyoles with Pau Sarquella. The practice has been awarded in the ARQUIN-FAD International Award 2019, with a jury mention and the opinion prize for the Bang Nong Saeng Kindergarten (Thailand, 2018). Other recognitions include the International Bauwelt Prize: First Works 2015 (Germany), Arquia Próxima (2014, 2018, 2022), AJAC Awards (IX, XI, XII) and Europan17. They have also curated exhibitions, including Premis d’Arquitectura de les Comarques de Girona, INDA Parade (2018 Thailand), El Millor Disseny de l’Any (2019-2021), Arquitectura i Ciutat a Banyoles, and A través de les Pesqueres – L’exposició que no es va dur a terme (2023).

Critical Essay Jury

Original written works such as essays, academic articles, or research papers. Proposals should focus on critical analyses, theoretical discussions, written interviews, or research findings related to the field of design and spatial practice, maintaining a connection to the themes of the congress.

Keller Easterling

Architect, designer and professor

Keller Easterling is a designer, writer and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale. She is currently working on a book about land activism in the US after the Civil Rights Movement. Other books include, Medium Design (Verso 2021), Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999). Easterling is also the co-author (with Richard Prelinger) of Call it Home, a laserdisc/DVD history of US suburbia from 1934-1960.Easterling lectures and exhibits internationally. Her research and writing was included in the 2014 and 2018 Venice Biennales. Easterling is a 2019 United States Artist in Architecture and Design.

Lydia Kallipolity

Architect, engineer, historian and curator

Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, and scholar whose research focuses on the intersections of architecture, technology and environmental politics. She is the Director of the MS in Advanced Architectural Design and an Associate Professor at Columbia University [GSAPP] in New York. Kallipoliti is the author of The Architecture of Closed Worlds, Or, What is the Power of Shit (Lars Muller Publishers, 2018), Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia (Actar, 2024) and the editor of EcoRedux, an issue of Architectural Design in 2010. Her work has been awarded, published and exhibited widely including the Venice Biennial, the Istanbul Design Biennial, the Shenzhen Biennial, the Oslo Architecture Trienalle, the Onassis Cultural Center, the Lisbon Triennale, the Royal Academy of British Architects, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and the London Design Museum. She is the principal of ANAcycle research thinktank, which has been named a leading innovator in sustainable design in Build’s awards, Design Educates Awards and the Architect’s Newspaper among others. Kallipoliti was Head Co-Curator (with Areti Markopoulou) of the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale with the theme “Edible, Or, The Architecture of Metabolism.” She holds a Diploma in Architecture and Engineering from AUTh in Greece, a Master of Science (SMArchS) from MIT and a PhD from Princeton University.

Marina Otero

Architect, researcher and curator

Marina Otero Verzier is an architect and researcher. She is a professor at GSAPP, Columbia University in New York, where she leads ‘Data Mourning’, an initiative focused on the intersection of digital infrastructures and climate catastrophe. In 2022, Otero received the Wheelwright Prize from Harvard. Previously, Otero was the Director of the MA in Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven and the Research Director at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Otero has curated exhibitions such as Wet Dreams at Mayrit / CentroCentro (2024), Compulsive Desires: On Lithium Extraction and Rebellious Mountains at the Municipal Gallery of Porto (2023), Work, Body, Leisure at the Netherlands Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2018), and After Belonging at the Oslo Architecture Triennale (2016). Otero is the author of In the Depths of the Cloud (2024). she has co-edited Automated Landscapes (2023), Lithium: States of Exhaustion (2021), More-than-Human (2020), Architecture of Appropriation (2019), Work, Body, Leisure (2018), and After Belonging (2016), among others. Otero is a member of the Advisory Committee on Architecture at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Philip Ursprung

Art and architectural historian and professor

Philip Ursprung is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zürich where he served as Dean 2017- 2019. He studied art history in Geneva, Vienna and Berlin and taught at UdK Berlin, Columbia University, the Barcelona Institute of Architecture, the Singapore ETH Center in Singapore and Cornell University. He curated Herzog & de Meuron: Archeology of the Mind at the CCA in Montreal (2002) and represented Switzerland with Karin Sander with the exhibition Neighbors at the 18th Architecture Biennale (2023). His most recent books are Joseph Beuys: Kunst Kapital Revolution (2021) and Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook (co-edited 2022).

Samia Henni

Architect, historian and professor

Samia Henni is an architect, a historian and an exhibition maker of the built, destroyed and imagined environments. She is the author of Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria and Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara, the editor of Deserts Are Not Empty and War Zones, and the maker of various exhibitions, such as Psychocolonial Spaces (2025–), Performing Colonial Toxicity (2023–), Discreet Violence (2017–22), Archives: Secret-Défense? (2021), and Housing Pharmacology (2020–2021). She received her PhD in the history and theory of architecture (with distinction, ETH Medal) from ETH Zurich and has taught at several universities, including ETH Zurich, Princeton and Cornell University. She is currently teaching at McGill University’s Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture. 

Raquel Rolnik

Architect, urban planner and professor

Architect and urban planner with more than 35 years of academic life, activism, and practical experience in planning, urban policies, and the housing issue. She is a Professor of Urban Planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo and the coordinator of the Research/Action Laboratory LabCidade and the Evictions Observatory.

Throughout her career, she has held various government positions, including Director of Planning at the Municipal Planning Secretariat of São Paulo (1989–1992) and National Secretary for Urban Programs at Brazil’s Ministry of Cities (2003–2007). She has also served as Urban Planning Coordinator at the Pólis Institute (1997–2002) and as a consultant for Brazilian and Latin American cities.

From 2008 to 2014, she was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council as Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, a role that provided her with a global perspective on housing issues. Some of the insights from this mandate are documented in her book Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance (Editorial Descontrol, 2018).

In addition to this book, Raquel Rolnik has numerous publications and articles and maintains a blog and a Facebook page where she critically follows urban and housing policies in São Paulo, Brazil, and around the world.

Pau Bajet and Tomeu Ramis

On behalf of the UIA2026BCN Curatorial Team

Pau Bajet:

Architect graduated from ETSAB-UPC in 2013. Awarded a PhD in 2023 by The School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University granted by La Caixa Fellowship for Postgraduate Studies. He is an Associate Professor of Architectural Design at ETSAB since 2017, and a teacher in Social Logics at MIAD, ETSALS-URL since 2020.

After working at David Chipperfield Architects in London, he co-founded Bajet Giramé in 2017 with Maria Giramé. The practice has been awarded the ARQUIN-FAD Award 2024 for the category of “City and Landscape” for the project Camping Alfacs and has been finalist for the AR Emerging Awards (UK) 2024 that recognises the 15 most relevant young architectural practices of the year. Other recognitions include the XI, XII, and XIII AJAC Awards as well as the Gold Award Best Architects 2018. Bajet Giramé has been acknowledged in international competitions, including the Lisbon Triennale, Eme3, and Europan, and has been awarded 1st prize in multiple national public competitions. Pau co-directed Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme No. 274 (Spring 2024) and co-curated the exhibition Unveiled Affinities: Quaderns in Europe at COAC Barcelona in 2019.

Tomeu Ramis:

Architect graduated from ETSAB-UPC in 2002. He is an associate Professor of Architectural Design at Washington University, since 2024, and at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia since 2003. His research studio was finalist at the best pedagogies of the XIII BIAU. Tomeu has previously taught and directed workshops at institutions such as ETSALS, URL, ETH-Zurich, UdG University, IE University, the IASAP-Illinois, and ESARQ-UIC.

He co-founded FLEXOarquitectura in 2002, whose work has been widely exhibited and published internationally. His projects have earned recognition as finalists for the ENOR Awards (2011), CSCAE Awards (2020–2021), and XV BEAU (2021), and have been shortlisted for the FAD Awards (2011, 2020). His work was showcased at the Venice Biennale (2012, 2016) and nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2013.He has received several prestigious prizes, including 1st Prize at the Premis AJAC IX (2014), the Ciutat de Palma award (2012), the Menorca awards (2005-2008) and the Mallorca awards (2007-2010). His work includes designing the exhibition “2G 10 Years Competition” (Barcelona, Venice, Las Palmas, 2019), the installation “Memoria Cronotopica” at MODEL architecture Festival (Barcelona, 2023), and co-curating the EPISODE lecture series at ETSAV-UPC (2020-2024).

Critical Image Jury

Visual works such as films, photography, multimedia pieces, or visual conversations. This format also includes creative and experimental work.

Giovanna Borasi

Architect, editor and curator. Director of the Canadian Center for Architecture

Architect, editor, and curator, Giovanna Borasi joined the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in 2005 as Associate Director of Programs and has held subsequent positions as Curator of Contemporary Architecture (2011-13) and Chief Curator (2014-20) before becoming Director and Chief Curator in 2020. In this role she oversees the CCA’s curatorial trajectories and processes of institutional revaluation. Borasi’s work explores ways of doing architecture that challenge the conventional definition of the architect and that lie at the heart of the dialectic between societal and architectural change. She studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano (1996), worked as an editor of Lotus International (1998-2005) and Lotus Navigator (2000-04), and was Deputy Editor in Chief of Abitare (2011-13). Among Borasi’s recent major curatorial projects are the CCA exhibition and book A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention (2021), and a three-part documentary film series, What It Takes to Make a Home (2019), When We Live Alone (2021), and Where We Grow Older (2023), observing contemporary architecture’s reckoning with salient demographic changes. She regularly contributes to international architectural publications, workshops, university courses, committees, and symposia.

Louise Lemoine

Filmmaker. Co-founder of Bêka & Lemoine

Artist and filmmaker working at the crossroads of visual arts, non fiction cinema and architecture. For the past twenty years she has been collaborating with Ila Bêka as part of the duo Bêka & Lemoine. Together they experiment with new narrative and cinematic forms to explore how people experience, perceive, and relate to space from an emotional, social, and cultural standpoint. Together they made over 40 films among which Koolhaas Houselife, (2008), The Infinite Happiness (2015), Moriyama-San (2017), Rehab From Rehab (2023), Homo Urbanus (2017 – 2025). Their films are widely shown at renowned international film festivals and prominent art and architecture museums. In 2016, the MoMA – Museum of Modern Art in NY acquired the entire work of Bêka & Lemoine produced until that date for its permanent collection. Their films are also part of other important public and private art collections, such as MAXXI, The National Museum of 21st Century of Arts (Rome, Italy), CNAP, Centre National des Arts Plastiques (Paris, France), Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy) among others.

Bêka & Lemoine are regularly invited to lecture in some important universities: GSD / Harvard University (USA), GSAPP / Columbia University (New-York, USA), AAP / Cornell University (USA), Bartlett School of Architecture / UCL (London, UK). In 2018 they have been laureate of Villa Kujoyama, French residency program for artists in Japan, and Ila Bêka has been laureate Italian Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. The have been invited as guest professors at GSAPP / Columbia University (New York) for the New York / Paris Program, at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (Switzerland) and at HEAD in Geneva (Switzerland). From 2019 to 2021, they have been teaching the design Studio Diploma 16 (M.Arch.) at AA Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. In 2023, they published the book « The Emotional Power of Space » (B&P ed.).

Maxime Delvaux

Architecture photographer

Maxime Delvaux is a Belgian architecture photographer based in Brussels. He works with different agencies in Europe. He also uses the image as a research and project tool, to deal with topics ranging from urbanism to architectural heritage in the context of exhibitions or publications. At the same time he teaches photography in Brussels and is often invited to architecture schools in Europe to give lectures and work on the relationship between photography and architecture during workshops.

Urtzi Grau

Architect and curator. Co-founder of Fake Industries Architectural Agonism

Urtzi Grau is an architect, an academic in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, and the founder of the office Urtzi Grau / Fake Industries. He uses replicas —both as literal reproductions of pre-existing works and, in a sense, denoted in Romance languages, responses to previous statements—to produce architecture. His recent projects include the Biblioteca de Lorenteggio in Milan, the Murrin Bridge Preschool and the Bass Hill Community Centre, both in NSW, Australia, and the OE House in Tarragona. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Lisbon Triennale, the Istanbul Design Biennial, and the Seoul Biennale, and it is part of the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Grau is the author the books Analogue Images (Perimeter, 2024) Folk Costumes Indo Pacific Air (APE, 2022), Better Together, Stories of Contemporary Documents (URO, 2022), and Learning to Live Together: Humans, Cars, and Kerbs in Solidarity (Bartlebooth, 2021) and holds a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Portland State University’s School of Architecture and a Cullinan Visiting Professorship at the Rice University School of Architecture.

Maria Giramé and Pau Sarquella

On behalf of the UIA2026BCN Curatorial Team

Maria Giramé:

Architect graduated from ETSAB-UPC in 2013. She is an Associate Professor of Architectural Design at ETSALS-URL since 2020.
After working at David Chipperfield Architects in London, Maria co-founded Bajet Giramé in 2017 with Pau Bajet. The practice has been awarded the ARQUIN-FAD Award 2024 for the category of “City and Landscape” for the project Camping Alfacs and has been finalist for the AR Emerging Awards (UK) 2024 that recognises the 15 most relevant young architectural practices of the year. Other recognitions include the XI, XII, and XIII AJAC Awards as well as the Gold Award Best Architects 2018. Bajet Giramé has been acknowledged in international competitions, including the Lisbon Triennale, Eme3, and Europan, and has been awarded 1st prize in multiple national public competitions. Maria co-directed Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme No. 274 (Spring 2024) and co-curated the exhibition Unveiled Affinities: Quaderns in Europe at COAC Barcelona in 2019.

Pau Sarquella:

Architect graduated from ETSAB-UPC in 2011. He is an Associate Professor of Architectural Design at EPS ARQ Girona University, since 2020, and at ETSALS-URL, since 2020. In 2015, he moved to Bangkok, Thailand, to teach as a studio professor at INDA Chulalongkorn University (2015-2018).
In 2019 he founded Sarquella Torres Architects in Banyoles with Carmen Torres. The practice has been awarded in the ARQUIN-FAD International Award 2019, with a jury mention and the opinion prize for the Bang Nong Saeng Kindergarten (Thailand, 2018). Other recognitions include the International Bauwelt Prize: First Works 2015 (Germany), Arquia Próxima (2014, 2018, 2022), AJAC Awards (IX, XI, XII) and Europan17. Pau was also nominated for the International Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative in 2016. He co-founded Persiana Barcelona in 2014, a company that redesigned the traditional roller blind, which won the Silver Delta (ADI FAD) and the Arquia Próxima award in 2016. Pau and Carmen have curated and designed exhibitions such as Premis d’Arquitectura de les Comarques de Girona, INDA Parade (2018 Thailand), El Millor Disseny de l’Any (2019-2021), Arquitectura i Ciutat a Banyoles, and A través de les Pesqueres – L’exposició que no es va dur a terme (2023).

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