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The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona will bring together more than 200 speakers across over 100 sessions on eight stages over three days in Barcelona.

Structured around six thematic lines — Becoming More-than-human, Becoming Circular, Becoming Embodied, Becoming Interdependent, Becoming Hyper-conscious, and Becoming Attuned — the Congress dedicates one half-day to each, framing discussions through carefully curated subtopics that connect disciplines, scales, and geographies.

Across the three days, the programme combines collective moments and focused conversations, creating a rhythm between keynote contributions, critical responses, and open debate. Each session is introduced and moderated by dedicated hosts, ensuring that contributions are interrelated and situated within a broader conceptual framework. In the evening, an open gathering at the Three Chimneys extends the dialogue in a shared and informal atmosphere, reinforcing the Congress as a space of active exchange rather than a sequence of isolated talks.

Monday, June 29 Tuesday, June 30 Wednesday, July 1
Becoming More-than-human
Becoming More-than-human
Becoming Embodied
Becoming Hyper-Conscious
Becoming Hyper-Conscious
Becoming Circular
Becoming Circular
Becoming Interdependent
Becoming Attuned
Becoming Attuned
09:00
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18:00
Stage 1
Plenary Session Becoming More-Than-Human
Mark Wigley , Bas Smets , Dirk Sijmons + KK+N+S , Eva Franch + TAKK , Design Earth , Simulaa
09:00h 10:30h.
Plenary Session Becoming Embodied
BC architects & studies & materials , Bruther , TEN , Nuno Melo Sousa , Marina Tabassum , Philip Ursprung
09:00h 10:30h.
Plenary Session Becoming Hyper-conscious
Brandlhuber+ , Forensic Architecture , Ibiye Camp , Common Accounts , Timothy Morton , Marina Otero
09:00h 10:30h.
Radical Ecologies: Architecture as Political Engagement
Interspecies Alliances
Andrés Jaque
10:45h 12:00h.
Unveiled Ecologies: From Data to Spatial Awareness
Data Ecology
Limbo Accra , shaā/SOC , 300.000km/s
10:45h 12:10h.
Locally Grounded: material, climatic and communities for resilience
Materials of Belonging
Marina Tabassum , Palinda Kannangara
12:05h 13:15h.
Amid Landscape, matter, and atmosphere
Atmospheric materiality
Junya Ishigami
12:15h 13:30h.
Politics, Ecologies and Technologies of Spatial Practice
Data Ecology
Marina Otero , Paulo Tavares
12:25h 13:30h.
Economies of Means: Architecture between Efficiency and Generosity
Carbon Policies
Lacaton & Vassal , H Arquitectes
13:45h 14:50h.
Spatial Politics, Memory, and Resistance
Decolonising Practices
Samia Henni , Malkit Shoshan , Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman
13:45h 15:10h.
In Sequence: Rooms, Rules, Transformations
Specific Intederminacy
MOS , OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen , Pezo von Ellrichshausen
13:45h 15:10h.
The Politics of Reuse: Housing, Policiy, and Urban Strategy
Carbon Policies
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes , House Europe!
15:05h 16:30h.
A Common Good Approach to the Economy (implications for housing and the built environment)
Mutual Care
Mariana Mazzucato
15:25h 16:30h.
Vernacular Frictions: Between Ancestral Knowledge and Contemporary Experiment
Poetics of belonging
Ted’A , Leopold Banchini
15:25h 16:30h.
Plenary Session Becoming Circular
Baukunst , Structural Xploration Lab , H Arquitectes , Nicolas Dorval-Bory , Mio Tsuneyama & Fuminori Nousaku , Matthias Schuler , Sana Frini
16:45h 18:15h.
Plenary Session Becoming Interdependent
Anna Puigjaner , Colectivo C733 , Assemble Studio , Plan Común , Giovanna Borasi , Juan Herreros
16:45h 18:15h.
Plenary Session Becoming Attuned
A JDVIV / IVJDV A , Atelier Bow-Wow , Bangkok Tokyo Architecture , BeAr , Matilde Cassani , Enrique Walker
16:45h 18:15h.
Stage 2
Post Extractivism Urbanism
Urban Metabolism
Urban Systems Lab , Paola Viganò , 51N4E
10:45h 12:15h.
Experimental Tectonics: Embodied Techniques for Everyday Spaces
Technological Vernacular
Adamo-Faiden , Arrhov Frick , Josep Ferrando
10:45h 12:10h.
Technological Vernacular: Paradoxical Hybrids of Expression
Technological Vernacular
Bruther
12:25h 13:30h.
Territorial Frameworks: Landscape, Infrastructure, and Time
Territorial Metabolism
Michel Desvigne
12:30h 13:30h.
From Salvage to Systems: Infrastructures of Reuse
Carbon Policies
Rotor , Zirkular
13:45h 14:50h.
Domestic Space as Social Project. Architectural Strategies for Shared Living
Housing as Commoning
Peris Toral Arquitectes , EMI Architekt*innen
13:45h 14:50h.
Structures in Transition: From Demolition to Reassembly
Spatial Cycles
Baukunst , Søren Pihlmann , PARABASE
15:05h 16:30h.
Beyond the Household: Collective Futures of Housing
Co-Design / Co-Housing
Lacol , Erika Nakagawa , Clauss Kahl Merz Atelier
15:05h 16:30h.
Stage 3
Architecture in Multispecies Landscapes
Territorial Metabolism
Elii , Lydia Kallipoliti
10:45h 12:15h.
Situated Structures: on Topography, Gravity, Matter and Form
Technological Vernacular
Manthey Kula , GruA , Max Núñez
10:45h 12:10h.
Regulation and Form: Designing within Systems
Design by Law
Hiroyuki Ito , XDGA
10:45h 12:00h.
Invisible Ecologies: Architecture in the Age of Microbial Life
Interspecies Alliances
Beatriz Colomina
12:30h 13:30h.
Collage as Construction: Reuse as Design Intelligence
Spatial Cycles
Jo Taillieu , Flores & Prats
13:45h 14:50h.
Care and systemic transformation
Gender Policies
Yasmeen Lari , MAIO
13:45h 14:50h.
Housing as Commoning. Administration and Innovation in Sustainable Living
Housing as Commoning
Josep Maria Borrell (IMPSOL.AMB) , Silvia Hofer , Andreas Hofer
15:05h 16:30h.
Slightly Tilted: Assemblies from Reassigned Signs
The Ordinary
Un Parell d’Arquitectes , Kosmos , Infraestudio
15:05h 16:30h.
Interventions in the Everyday
Spatial Cycles
Burr , SO? Architecture and Ideas
15:15h 16:30h.
Stage 4
Architecture, Territory, and Practices of Care
Territorial Metabolism
Al Borde , Boonserm Premthada , Gustavo Utrabo
10:45h 12:15h.
Earth Futures: From Craft Traditions to Technological Innovations
Fabrication Research
BC architects & studies & materials , Hive Earth , Lehm Ton Erde
10:45h 12:10h.
Entangled Landscapes: Culture, Food, and Climate Ecologies
Cultural Entanglements
Cooking Sections , Lluís Alexandre Casanovas , Afreetekture
10:45h 12:10h.
Reinventing Stone: Ecological Continuities and Tectonic Invention
Material Gestures
Roger Boltshauser , AAU Anastas
12:25h 13:30h.
Investigating Mass Violence: Architecture as Evidence
Geopolitics of Space
Forensic Architecture , Center for Spatial Technologies
12:25h 13:30h.
Atmospheric Territories: Reclaiming Climate through Design
Energetic Cycles
Bas Smets
12:30h 13:30h.
Post-Extractivist Territories: Justice, Waste and Urban Cycles
Carbon Policies
Lara Almarcegui , Imani Jacqueline Brown
13:45h 14:50h.
Reframing Urban Infrastructures, Care, Gender, and Inequality
Mutual Care
Colectivo C733 , Roman Meyer
13:45h 15:00h.
Reclaiming Local Cycles: Material, Structure, and Climate
Carbon Policies
Carles Oliver , Solano Benítez
15:15h 16:30h.
Housing, Care, and the Right to the City. Towards an Ethics of Urban Co-existence
Mutual Care
Raquel Rolnik , Elizabeth Añaños
15:15h 16:30h.
Stage 5
Rivers as Commons
Hydrocommons
Taller Capital , Turenscape , Alday Jover
10:45h 12:10h.
Architectural Acupuncture: Enhancing Rural Territories
Materials of Belonging
DnA Design and Architecture
10:45h 11:50h.
Image, Representation, Media: Architecture After the Screen
Data Ecology
Lev Manovich , Javier Fernández Contreras , MILLIØNS
10:45h 12:00h.
Wood Metabolisms: Ecologies of Timber Technology
Fabrication Research
Tomoaki Uno , Enric Vadell Guiral , Unai Gorroño. Egoin
12:05h 13:30h.
Editorial Infrastructures: Magazines, Politics, and Cultural Agency
Geopolitics of Space
Jack Self , PLOT , Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme , Accattone
12:15h 13:30h.
Ecologies in Process: Between Land and Water
Hydrocommons
Kate Orff , Dirk Sijmons + KK+N+S
12:25h 13:30h.
The Renewal of Building Materials
Material Cycles
Lu Wenyu
13:45h 14:50h.
Architectures of Resilience. Communities Between Rural and Urban Frontiers
Decolonising Practices
Rural Urban Framework , Rahul Mehrotra
13:45h 15:00h.
Ritual and the Choreography of Space
Poetics of belonging
Matilde Cassani , Tatiana Bilbao , Bêka & Lemoine
13:45h 15:10h.
Earthly Cycles: Bio-based Materials and Territorial Networks
Material Cycles
Anupama Kundoo , Nzinga Biegueng Mboup , Natura Futura
15:05h 16:30h.
Urban Design and the Architecture of Coexistence
Mutual Care
Jan Gehl
15:15h 16:30h.
Imaginaries of Belonging: Architecture, Representation, and Power
Poetics of belonging
AD-WO , NEW SOUTH
15:25h 16:30h.
Stage 6
Soil as Living Matter
Soil Ecologies
Charles Waldheim , Catherine Mosbach
10:45h 12:00h.
Architecture as Structure: From Gravity to Matter, Form and Space
Primary Structures
Jun Sato , Mario Monotti
10:45h 11:50h.
Architectural Labour: Precarity, Fees, and the Political Economy of Practice
Design by Law
The Architecture Lobby , Ruth Schagemann
10:45h 11:45h.
Futures of Architectural Pedagogy: Knowledge, Practice, and Emerging Contexts
Cultural Entanglements
EPFL , Rural Studio , Tongji University , African Design Centre
12:05h 13:30h.
Designing with Climate and Energy
Energetic Cycles
Philippe Rahm
12:25h 13:30h.
Thermodynamic Architectures: Energetic Circularity and Environmental Design
Energetic Cycles
Javier García-Germán , Matthias Schuler , Atmos Lab
13:45h 15:10h.
Reproductive Labor and the Politics of the Commons
Gender Policies
Silvia Federici
13:45h 14:50h.
Working Within the Generic
The Ordinary
Yanfei Architects , Éric Lapierre , Jean Jacques Balzac
13:45h 15:10h.
Practices of Engagement. Experimental Architectures for Collective Spaces
Co-Design
Raumlabor , teco
15:05h 16:30h.
Building Thought, Thinking Building
Energetic Cycles
Barbara Buser , Curro Claret
15:25h 16:25h.
Composed Quotations: Ornament as a collage
Poetics of belonging
Fala , Point Supreme
15:25h 16:30h.
Stage 7
Green Corridors as Living Infrastructure
Territorial Metabolism
10:45h 12:00h.
Water as Common Infrastructure
Hydrocommons
12:15h 13:30h.
Practices of Care: Cycles of Inhabitation
Poetics of belonging
13:45h 14:45h.
Architecture as a Practice of Interdependence
Architectures of Care
13:45h 15:00h.
Groundwork: Soil Ecologies in Urban Transformation
Soil Ecologies
14:55h 15:40h.
Economy of Means
Specific Intederminacy
15:00h 16:00h.
Territorial Politics
Memory, Justice, and Spatial Implications
15:15h 16:30h.
Urbanisms of Reuse: Mapping Material Flows
Material Cycles
15:45h 16:30h.
Stage 8
Architectures of co-evolution
Interspecies Alliances
10:45h 12:00h.
Ecologies of Food Production
Food Ecologies
12:15h 13:30h.
Unremarked Landscapes
Spatial Cycles
13:30h 14:45h.
Housing Futures and the Right to Remain
Spatial Cycles
13:45h 15:00h.
Unfinished Territories: Reassembling Interdependence
Urban Settlements
13:45h 15:00h.
Delight and Choreography
Delightful Uselessness
15:00h 16:00h.
Rewriting Territorial Metabolisms
Territorial Metabolism
15:15h 16:30h.
Everyday Practices of Interdependence
Spatial Agency
15:15h 16:30h.

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