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.
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
Open Forum
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3 Chimneys Open Stage
CCIB. 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 + House Europe!
, Forensic Architecture
, Ibiye Camp
, Common Accounts
, Timothy Morton
, Marina Otero
09:00h
10:30h.
Radical Ecologies: Architecture as Political Engagement
Interspecies Alliances
Petra Blaisse
, Andrés Jaque
Host:
Alberna Yaneva
10:45h
12:00h.
Locally Grounded: material, climatic and communities for resilience
Materials of Belonging
Marina Tabassum
, Palinda Kannangara
Host:
Marta Thorne
10:45h
11:50h.
Unveiled Ecologies: From Data to Spatial Awareness
Data Ecology
Limbo Accra
, shaā/SOC
, 300.000km/s
Host:
Roger Paez
10:45h
12:10h.
Material as Time: Structure, Economy, and Emergency Architecture
Primary Structures
Shigeru Ban
Host:
Jordi Badia (BAAS)
12:05h
13:30h.
Politics, Ecologies and Technologies of Spatial Practice
Data Ecology
Marina Otero
, Paulo Tavares
Host:
Olga Subirós
12:25h
13:30h.
Economies of Means: Architecture between Efficiency and Generosity
Carbon Policies
Lacaton & Vassal
, H Arquitectes
Host:
Albert Ferré
13:45h
14:50h.
Spatial Politics, Memory, and Resistance
Decolonising Practices
Samia Henni
, Malkit Shoshan
, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman
Host:
Ramon Faura
13:45h
15:10h.
Fragile Architectures: Radić and Walker in Dialogue
Uncertain Beauty
Smiljan Radic
, Enrique Walker
Host:
Moisés Puente
13:45h
15:00h.
The Politics of Reuse: Housing, Policiy, and Urban Strategy
Carbon Policies
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
, House Europe!
, Iñaqui Carnicero
, Ann Pettifor
Host:
Ana Méndez de Andés
15:05h
16:30h.
In Sequence: Rooms, Rules, Transformations
Specific Intederminacy
MOS
, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
, Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Host:
Pedro Pitarch
15:05h
16:30h.
A Common Good Approach to the Economy (implications for housing and the built environment)
Mutual Care
Mariana Mazzucato
Host:
Javier Burón
15:25h
16:30h.
Plenary Session Becoming Circular
Baukunst + Structural Xploration Lab
, H Arquitectes
, Nicolas Dorval-Bory
, Mio Tsuneyama & Fuminori Nousaku
, Transsolar
, Sana Frini
16:45h
18:15h.
CCIB. Stage 2
Post Extractivism Urbanism
Urban Metabolism
Urban Systems Lab
, Studio Paola Viganò
, 51N4E
Host:
Marc Montlleó
10:45h
12:15h.
Experimental Tectonics: Embodied Techniques for Everyday Spaces
Technological Vernacular
Adamo-Faiden
, Arrhov Frick
, Josep Ferrando
Host:
Ariadna Perich (Perich Such)
10:45h
12:10h.
Generative AI and the revival of creative imitation in the visual arts
Synthetic Intelligence
Mario Carpo
Host:
Lluís Nacenta
10:45h
11:35h.
Architectures of Intelligence: Systems, Media, and Design Agency
Synthetic Intelligence
Areti Markopoulou
, Lluís Ortega
Host:
Lluís Nacenta
11:50h
12:35h.
Technological Vernacular: Paradoxical Hybrids of Expression
Technological Vernacular
Bruther
Host:
Jorge Vidal
12:25h
13:30h.
Territorial Frameworks: Landscape, Infrastructure, and Time
Territorial Metabolism
Michel Desvigne
Host:
Joan Busquets
12:30h
13:30h.
Digital Intelligence: Carpo, Markopoulou and Ortega in Dialogue
Synthetic Intelligence
Mario Carpo
, Areti Markopoulou
, Lluís Ortega
Host:
Lluís Nacenta
12:40h
13:30h.
From Salvage to Systems: Infrastructures of Reuse
Carbon Policies
Rotor
, Zirkular
Host:
Martí Riera (Socotec)
13:45h
14:50h.
Domestic Space as Social Project. Architectural Strategies for Shared Living
Housing as Commoning
Peris Toral Arquitectes
, EMI Architekt*innen
Host:
Alvaro Martín Fidalgo (Oazeta Fidalgo)
13:45h
14:50h.
Vernacular Frictions: Between Ancestral Knowledge and Contemporary Experiment
Poetics of belonging
Ted’A
, Leopold Banchini
Host:
Ophélie Herranz (NOMOS)
13:45h
15:00h.
Structures in Transition: From Demolition to Reassembly
Spatial Cycles
Baukunst
, Søren Pihlmann
, PARABASE
Host:
Maria Rius Ruiz
15:05h
16:30h.
CCIB. Stage 3
Architecture in Multispecies Landscapes
Territorial Metabolism
Elii
, Lydia Kallipoliti
Host:
Antonio Bernacchi (Animali Domestici)
10:45h
12:15h.
Regulation and Form: Designing within Systems
Design by Law
Hiroyuki Ito
, XDGA
Host:
Andy Peñuela (MHAP)
10:45h
12:00h.
Relational Architecture: Proportion, Enclosure, Openness
Specific Intederminacy
Go Hasegawa
, Arquitectura G
Host:
José Zabala
10:45h
11:50h.
Situated Structures: on Topography, Gravity, Matter and Form
Technological Vernacular
Manthey Kula
, GruA
, Max Núñez
Host:
Alberto Sánchez (Feina)
12:05h
13:30h.
Law as a Design Tool: Spatial Potential and Architectural Policies
Design by Law
Brandlhuber+
Host:
Ivan Blasi
12:15h
13:30h.
Invisible Ecologies: Architecture in the Age of Microbial Life
Interspecies Alliances
Beatriz Colomina
Host:
Ivan Lopez Munuera
12:30h
13:30h.
Collage as Construction: Reuse as Design Intelligence
Spatial Cycles
Jo Taillieu
, Flores & Prats
Host:
Alejandro Martínez del Río (Bona Fida Atelier)
13:45h
14:50h.
Architectural Acupuncture: Enhancing Rural Territories
Materials of Belonging
DnA Design and Architecture
Host:
Fuensanta Nieto
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
Host:
Pablo García Astraín
15:05h
16:30h.
CCIB. Stage 4
Architecture, Territory, and Practices of Care
Territorial Metabolism
Al Borde
, Boonserm Premthada
, Gustavo Utrabo
Host:
Ferran Grau
10:45h
12:15h.
Earth Futures: From Craft Traditions to Technological Innovations
Fabrication Research
BC architects & studies & materials
, Hive Earth
, Lehm Ton Erde
Host:
Sara Ferran (Taller 11)
10:45h
12:10h.
Entangled Landscapes: Culture, Food, and Climate Ecologies
Cultural Entanglements
Cooking Sections
, Lluís Alexandre Casanovas
, Afreetekture
Host:
Laida Memba
10:45h
12:10h.
Reinventing Stone: Ecological Continuities and Tectonic Invention
Material Gestures
Roger Boltshauser
, AAU Anastas
Host:
Claudi Aguiló (Data AE)
12:25h
13:30h.
Investigating Mass Violence: Architecture as Evidence
Geopolitics of Space
Forensic Architecture
, Center for Spatial Technologies
Host:
Judit Carrera
12:25h
13:30h.
Atmospheric Territories: Reclaiming Climate through Design
Energetic Cycles
Bas Smets
Host:
Hans Ibelings
12:30h
13:30h.
Post-Extractivist Territories: Justice, Waste and Urban Cycles
Carbon Policies
Lara Almarcegui
, Imani Jacqueline Brown
Host:
Manuel Bouzas
13:45h
14:50h.
Reframing Urban Infrastructures, Care, Gender, and Inequality
Mutual Care
Colectivo C733
, Roman Meyer
Host:
Alejandro Echeverri
13:45h
15:00h.
Architectural Behaviorology: creating better accessibility to local resources
Ordinariness
Atelier Bow-Wow
Host:
Javi Jimenez Iniesta
13:45h
14:50h.
Ordinary Evidence: Imaging Territories
Ordinariness
Maxime Delvaux
, Takashi Homma
Host:
Urtzi Grau (Fake Industries)
15:05h
16:30h.
CCIB. Stage 5
Rivers as Commons
Hydrocommons
Taller Capital
, Turenscape
, aldayjover
Host:
Carme Ribas
10:45h
12:10h.
Wood Metabolisms: Ecologies of Timber Technology
Fabrication Research
Tomoaki Uno
, Enric Vadell Guiral
, Unai Gorroño. Egoin
Host:
David Tapias (Aixopluc)
10:45h
12:10h.
Image, Representation, Media: Architecture After the Screen
Data Ecology
Lev Manovich
, Javier Fernández Contreras
, MILLIØNS
Host:
Laura Bonell (Bonell Doriga)
10:45h
12:00h.
Editorial Infrastructures: Magazines, Politics, and Cultural Agency
Cultural Entanglements
Real Review
, PLOT
, Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme
, Accattone
Host:
Guillermo López (MAIO)
12:15h
13:30h.
Ecologies in Process: Between Land and Water
Hydrocommons
Kate Orff
, Dirk Sijmons + KK+N+S
Host:
Miriam García (LandLab)
12:25h
13:30h.
Care and systemic transformation
Gender Policies
Yasmeen Lari
, MAIO
Host:
Atxu Amman (teperaturasextremas)
12:25h
13:30h.
The Renewal of Building Materials
Material Cycles
Amateur Architecture Studio
Host:
Miquel Mariné
13:45h
14:50h.
Architectures of Resilience. Communities Between Rural and Urban Frontiers
Decolonising Practices
Rural Urban Framework
, Rahul Mehrotra
Host:
Zaida Muixi
13:45h
15:00h.
Ritual and the Choreography of Space
Poetics of belonging
Matilde Cassani
, Tatiana Bilbao
, Bêka & Lemoine
Host:
Amadeu Santacana
13:45h
15:10h.
Earthly Cycles: Bio-based Materials and Territorial Networks
Material Cycles
Anupama Kundoo
, Nzinga Biegueng Mboup
, Natura Futura
Host:
Laura Reus (Societat Orgànica)
15:05h
16:30h.
CCIB. Stage 6
Soil as Living Matter
Soil Ecologies
Charles Waldheim
, Catherine Mosbach
Host:
Beatriz Borque
10:45h
12:00h.
Architecture as Structure: From Gravity to Matter, Form and Space
Primary Structures
Jun Sato
, Mario Monotti
Host:
Alonso Atienza (Atienza Maure)
10:45h
11:50h.
Architectural Labour: Precarity, Fees, and the Political Economy of Practice
Design by Law
The Architecture Lobby
, Ruth Schagemann
Host:
Albert Nogueras
10:45h
11:45h.
Futures of Architectural Pedagogy: Knowledge, Practice, and Emerging Contexts
Cultural Entanglements
Sophie Delhay (EPFL)
, Tongji University
, African Design Centre
, Rural Studio
Host:
Eulàlia Gómez (ETSAB)
12:05h
13:30h.
Support and Performance: Temporalities, Radical Collectives, and Political Infrastructures of Living
Temporal Stratification
Langarita Navarro
, ZAV
, BeL
Host:
Begoña de Abajo
12:05h
13:30h.
Designing with Climate and Energy
Energetic Cycles
Philippe Rahm
, TAKK
Host:
Pablo Ibáñez Ferrera (Bartlebooth)
12:15h
13:30h.
Thermodynamic Architectures: Energetic Circularity and Environmental Design
Energetic Cycles
Javier García-Germán
, Transsolar
, Atmos Lab
Host:
Ferran Vizoso
13:45h
15:10h.
Urban Design and the Architecture of Coexistence
Mutual Care
Jan Gehl
Host:
Itziar Gonzalez
13:45h
15:00h.
Working Within the Generic
Uncertain Beauty
Yanfei Architects
, Experience
, Jean Jacques Balzac
Host:
Anna Bach (Anna & Eugeni Bach)
13:45h
15:10h.
Practices of Engagement. Experimental Architectures for Collective Spaces
Co-Design
Raumlabor
, teco studio
Host:
Ethel Baraona
15:05h
16:30h.
CCIB. Stage 7
Green Corridors as Living Infrastructure
Territorial Metabolism
OESST + MARBORIS, Openact architecture, TAV, Carlos Zeballos-Velarde
Host:
María Fandiño
10:45h
12:00h.
Structural Infraestructures in Productive Landscapes
Primary Structures
Máximo Bertoia, AGENdA, Atelier Ars, Estudio ALA
Host:
Eduardo Mediero (Hanghar)
10:45h
12:10h.
Territories of Violence: Memory, Infrastructure, and Spatial Justice
Geopolitics of Space
Ana Laura Bertero, Nadia Habash, Damien Greder & Javier Fernández Contreras, Yevheniia Berchul & Nabi Agzamov
Host:
Marina Povedano
10:45h
12:00h.
Water as Common Infrastructure
Hydrocommons
A Gang of Three, Arsomsilp Community and Environmental Architect and Turenscape, Carles Enrich Studio, Milena Villalba
Host:
Elena Albareda
12:15h
13:30h.
Architectures of Information: Systems, Visibility, and Digital Territory
Synthetic Intelligence
Matias del Campo & Sandra Manninger, Vanessa Ma, Álvaro Andueza & Almudena Ribot, Claudia Orsetti & Paul Swagerman
Host:
Nil Brullet (Brullet de Luna)
12:15h
13:30h.
Reconstructing Memory: Ruins, Interiors, and the Politics of Preservation
Temporal Stratification
Salima Naji, Elias Khuri, Buket Ergun and Gizem Guneri
Host:
Benji Iborra (Mesura)
12:25h
13:30h.
Practices of Care: Cycles of Inhabitation
Poetics of belonging
Anne Gross and Luna Bucherer, Adrià Goula, Caroline Stokholm and Jenny Amdi Sørensen
Host:
Josep Garriga
13:45h
14:45h.
Architecture as a Practice of Interdependence
Mutual Care
Cristiane Muniz and Fernando Viegas, Estudio MMX, Vivas Arquitectos, Chacarita Moderna
Host:
Lucía Millet (Cierto Estudio)
13:45h
15:00h.
Practices of Attention
Displacement
Anne Gross, Luca Quagliato, Aleksandra Redzisz, Simone Marcolin
Host:
Irena Visa
13:45h
15:10h.
Groundwork: Soil Ecologies in Urban Transformation
Soil Ecologies
Edgar Mazo, Beatriz Borque & Jorge Vidal
Host:
Rocio Pina Isla (Enorme Studio)
14:55h
15:40h.
Territorial Politics
Decolonising Practices
Wo-Men Work, Victor Cano-Ciborro, Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi, Aga Kuś
Host:
Cesar Reyes Nájera
15:15h
16:30h.
CCIB. Stage 8
Architectures of co-evolution
Interspecies Alliances
Manuela Valtchanova, Arturo Frediani & Larry Barham, Sophie Falkeis
Host:
Enric Pol
10:45h
12:00h.
Material Frameworks: Structure as Environmental Mediator
Material Gestures
P + S Estudio de Arquitectura, PERCEIVE, CINARK
Host:
David Mayol
10:45h
11:40h.
Planetary Archives: Memory, Deep Time, and Ecological Imagination
Geopolitics of Space
Valentina Labriola, Jose Maria Torres Nadal, Michel Kessler
Host:
Miquel Ruiz (h3o)
10:45h
12:00h.
From Earth to Timber: Material Cultures of Regeneration
Fabrication Research
Francisco Parada & Laura R. Salvador, PERCEIVE, Mass Madera IAAC, Younes Ben Slimane and Nawel Laroui
Host:
David Mayol
10:45h
12:00h.
Ecologies of Food Production
Food Ecologies
Courage Kpodo, Office for Roundtable and JXY Studio, Sebastián Carvajal, FAST
Host:
Cristina Goberna
12:15h
13:30h.
Extractive Territories: Material Geopolitics and Ecologies of Resistance
Geopolitics of Space
Marcos Zegers, Blanca Pujals, Valentina Morales, Elspeth Mary Lee
Host:
Romea Muryn (The Locument)
12:15h
13:30h.
Material Intelligence: Computation, Prototyping, and Circular Fabrication
Fabrication Research
CINARK, Yalei Zhu & Tianyi Gao, Tina Gregoric & Thomas Amann, Juana Colombo & Farah Ali
Host:
Edouard Cabay
12:15h
13:30h.
Housing Futures and the Right to Remain
Spatial Cycles
Docar Films, Rocío Calzado, Pere Joan Ravetllat. Rearq- UPC
Host:
Ana Herreros (Solar xyz)
13:45h
15:00h.
Unfinished Territories: Reassembling Interdependence
Mutual Care
María Isabel Paz Suaréz, Kathrin Golda-Pongratz and Patricia Ciriani, Solam Mkhabela, Isabella De Bonis
Host:
Patricia Reus
13:45h
15:00h.
Unremarked Landscapes
Ordinariness
Felipe Muñoz & Sete Álvarez, Jose Lorenzo Belandres, Ella Fleri Soler & Andrew Darmanin, Nipun Prabhakar.
Host:
Natalia Vera (O-SH Studio)
13:45h
15:10h.
Rewriting Territorial Metabolisms
Territorial Metabolism
Kathy Velikov & Geoffrey Thün, Fernanda Córdova & Rolando Biere, Joan Martí
Host:
Manuel Julià (JAAS)
15:15h
16:30h.