IAAC - Advanced Architecture Barcelona

16/06/2026

Nature produces no waste. What if architecture worked the same way? 🌿

On 26 June, IAAC hosts a public talk at ITNIG Spaces to mark the opening of Internalities: Architectures for Territorial Equilibrium – an exhibition that represented Spain at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025, now arriving in Barcelona.

Curated by Roi Salgueiro and Manuel Bouzas, and with Daniel Ibáñez, Director of IAAC, leading the exhibition’s materials research, the talk brings together architects, researchers and curators to discuss how architecture can build more regenerative relationships between materials, territories and the built environment.

The exhibition opens the same day at MUHBA Oliva Artés and runs until 13 September 2026.

📍 ITNIG Spaces, Barcelona · 26 June · 12:00–15:00

Know more at the link in bio.

15/06/2026

Who decides how AI shapes our cities?

On 16 June, AI for ALL opens with a public round table on how artificial intelligence can become more transparent, inclusive and socially meaningful in the built environment.

Joining the conversation:
Fernando Cucchietti (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
Lluis Nacenta (Dhub Design Museum Barcelona)
Oana Taut (infrared.city)

Moderated by Areti Markopoulou (IAAC’s Academic Director) and Joaquin Rodriguez Alvarez (UAB).

The same evening we open AI for ALL, an exhibition of six interactive installations where you can touch, navigate and question AI first-hand. On view until 25 September.

📅 16 June, 18:30
📍 IAAC Atelier, Pujades 59

Part of Barcelona 2026, World Capital of Architecture.

🔗 More info in bio

10/06/2026

Every two years, they come back. 🌍

IAAC celebrated its 5th Alumni Meeting in Barcelona – graduates from across the world reuniting to share the paths they have built since leaving here.

Ami Nigam · Irene Rodríguez · Mahsa Nikoufar · Kunaljit Chadha · Lena Dagouli · Vicky Simitopoulou · Luis Arturo Pacheco

Seven alumni on stage. Presentations spanning AI, computational design, robotic fabrication, cooperative practice and speculative futures. Long tables, old friendships and conversations that only happen when people who share a history finally sit together again.

This is what architects of change look like. 🔴

See you at the 6th edition.

Relive the story at iaac.net

10/06/2026

Every two years, they come back. 🌍

IAAC celebrated its 5th Alumni Meeting in Barcelona – graduates from across the world reuniting to share the paths they have built since leaving here.

Ami Nigam · Irene Rodríguez · Mahsa Nikoufar · Kunaljit Chadha · Lena Dagouli · Vicky Simitopoulou · Luis Arturo Pacheco

Seven alumni on stage. Presentations spanning AI, computational design, robotic fabrication, cooperative practice and speculative futures. Long tables, old friendships and conversations that only happen when people who share a history finally sit together again.

This is what architects of change look like. 🔴

See you at the 6th edition.

Relive the moment at the link in bio

02/06/2026

From IAAC to BIG ✨

João Albuquerque, IAAC alumnus and Partner at BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, delivered a lecture at IAAC as part of the IAAC Lecture Series 2025/26, tracing the professional path from his Master in Advanced Architecture here to leading one of the world’s most recognised architecture offices.

From a thesis project exhibited at the Beijing Architecture Biennale to establishing BIG’s Barcelona office and becoming Partner – a career built on computational thinking, design rigour and the conviction that architecture can change how we inhabit cities.

The kind of conversation that reminds you why it matters where you start.

More info at iaac.net

01/06/2026

29/05/2026

Yesterday, the Saló de Cent of Barcelona’s City Hall was full of future ✨

IAAC celebrated its 25th anniversary with the presentation of the book – Arquitecturas Avanzadas 2001–2051. Prototipos del Futuro – a 720-page archive of 25 years of research, experimentation and radical architectural thinking.

With Jaume Collboni, Mayor of Barcelona. Vicente Guallart, co-founder of IAAC. Daniel Ibáñez, Director. Juan Velayos, President. Maria Buhigas, Chief Architect of Barcelona. And live from Boston, Neil Gershenfeld, MIT – the connection that brought the first Fab Lab in Europe to Barcelona.

“We must transform reason into action.” – Vicente Guallart

2,500 graduates. 113 countries. 25 years of prototyping the future. 🌍

And in 2028, a new chapter begins – with the Barcelona Urban Tech Hub, IAAC’s new headquarters.

Thank you to everyone who made it possible. 🙏

Full story at the link in bio. 🔗

22/05/2026

One Gaudí project. 300 words. One spot at IAAC Barcelona. 🏛️

The Gaudí Scholarship closes 31 May – earn up to 10% off your IAAC Masters tuition with one image from a Gaudí project and a personal reflection on what his thinking still offers architecture today.

Gaudí didn’t follow rules. He asked better questions.

Now it’s your turn.

Enrol at the link in bio. 🔗

20/05/2026

AI is reshaping architecture. But are we asking the right questions? 🤖

On 26 May at 19:00, IAAC Barcelona welcomes Shajay Bhooshan – Associate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects and co-founder of ZHACODE – for the next session of the IAAC Lecture Series 2025/26.

His argument: AI must not detach architecture from its lineage – it must extend it. Geometry, tectonic intelligence, material precision. The foundations remain. The tools evolve.

Tuesday 26 May · 19:00 · IAAC Barcelona

Open to students, alumni and invited guests.

Full story at the link in bio. 🔗

19/05/2026

If you are a Spanish architect, this scholarship could change your life ✨

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, together with Fundación Bosch Aymerich is launching two fully funded scholarships to research for six months at MIT in Boston. And upon return, six more months at IAAC under an employment contract.

An opportunity rooted in the legacy of Josep María Bosch Aymerich – the first Spaniard to graduate from MIT, who studied alongside Le Corbusier, Aalto, and Gropius.

Requirements include: Spanish nationality, a degree completed between 2010 and 2025, advanced English, and full availability.

Apply before May 31. Barcelona and Boston are waiting.

🔗 All the information in the link in bio.