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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.

Becoming More-than-human
June 29, 2026. Morning Sessions

Post Extractivism Urbanism

Urban Systems Lab, Studio Paola Viganò, 51N4E

Radical Ecologies: Architecture as Political Engagement

Petra Blaisse, Andrés Jaque

My work

Junya Ishigami

Architecture, Territory, and Practices of Care

Al Borde, Boonserm Premthada, Gustavo Utrabo

Rivers as Commons

Taller Capital, Turenscape, aldayjover
Becoming Circular
June 29, 2026. Afternoon Sessions

Economies of Means: Architecture between Efficiency and Generosity

Lacaton & Vassal, H Arquitectes

From Salvage to Systems: Infrastructures of Reuse

Rotor, Zirkular

Structures in Transition: From Demolition to Reassembly

Baukunst, Søren Pihlmann, PARABASE

Interventions in the Everyday

Burr, SO? Architecture and Ideas
Becoming Embodied
June 30, 2026. Morning Sessions

Locally Grounded: material, climatic and communities for resilience

Marina Tabassum, Palinda Kannangara

Reinventing Stone: Ecological Continuities and Tectonic Invention

Roger Boltshauser, AAU Anastas

Earth Futures: From Craft Traditions to Technological Innovations

BC architects & studies & materials, Hive Earth, Lehm Ton Erde

Architectural Acupuncture: Enhancing Rural Territories

DnA Design and Architecture

Experimental Tectonics: Embodied Techniques for Everyday Spaces

Adamo-Faiden, Arrhov Frick, Josep Ferrando
Becoming Interdependent
June 30, 2026. Afternoon Sessions

Spatial Politics, Memory, and Resistance

Samia Henni, Malkit Shoshan, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman

Domestic Space as Social Project. Architectural Strategies for Shared Living

Peris Toral Arquitectes, EMI Architekt*innen

Beyond the Household: Collective Futures of Housing

Lacol, Clauss Kahl Merz Atelier

Reframing Urban Infrastructures, Care, Gender, and Inequality

Colectivo C733, Roman Meyer

Practices of Engagement. Experimental Architectures for Collective Spaces

Raumlabor, teco studio
Becoming Hyper-Conscious
July 1, 2026. Morning Sessions

Unveiled Ecologies: From Data to Spatial Awareness

Limbo Accra, shaā/SOC, 300.000km/s

Investigating Mass Violence: Architecture as Evidence

Forensic Architecture, Center for Spatial Technologies

Regulation and Form: Designing within Systems

Hiroyuki Ito, XDGA

Editorial Infrastructures: Magazines, Politics, and Cultural Agency

Real Review, PLOT, Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme, Accattone

Politics, Ecologies and Technologies of Spatial Practice

Marina Otero, Paulo Tavares
Becoming Attuned
July 1, 2026. Afternoon Sessions

In Sequence: Rooms, Rules, Transformations

MOS, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Vernacular Frictions: Between Ancestral Knowledge and Contemporary Experiment

Ted’A, Leopold Banchini

Ritual and the Choreography of Space

Matilde Cassani, Tatiana Bilbao, Bêka & Lemoine

Fragile Architectures: Radić and Walker in Dialogue

Smiljan Radic, Enrique Walker

Calendar

June 18, 2026

Inauguration of the Central Exhibition Three Chimneys

June 19–27, 2026

International Emerging Workshop  Three Chimneys

June 28, 2026

Opening Ceremony Three Chimneys

June 29, 2026

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

Congress Day
June 30, 2026

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

Congress Day
July 1, 2026

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

Congress Day
July 2, 2026

UIA own Awards and Closing Ceremony CCIB

UIA Member Sections Exhibition DHub
Central Exhibition Three Chimneys

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