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. 🔗
11/05/2026
The forest canopy is the eighth continent. And we’ve barely explored it. 🌿
On 14 May at 19:00, IAAC Barcelona welcomes Dr. Meg Lowman – known worldwide as “Canopy Meg” – for the next session of the IAAC Lecture Series 2025/26.
A forest canopy ecologist, explorer and founder of Mission Green, Lowman has spent four decades pioneering canopy science across 46 countries and all seven continents.
Her bold initiative?
Building canopy walkways in the world’s ten most biodiverse and endangered forests – turning biodiversity hotspots into sites of research, education and sustainable economic opportunity for indigenous communities.
📍 IAAC Barcelona · Thursday 14 May · 19:00
Open to students, alumni and invited guests.
Full story at the link in bio. 🔗
29/04/2026
From IAAC to BIG. 🌍
As part of the 5th IAAC Alumni Meeting, João Albuquerque –Partner at BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and alumni of the Master in Advanced Architecture – will return to IAAC on 8 May at 19:00 for a lecture that traces the career path he built on the foundations of advanced architecture.
From his thesis at IAAC, exhibited at the Beijing Architecture Biennale, to leading BIG’s Barcelona office and becoming Partner in 2021 – this will be an honest conversation about computational thinking, international practice and what advanced architecture makes possible.
Full story at the link in bio. 🔗
16/04/2026
Mark your calendars 📅
FABRICATE 2027 will be hosted at COAC – Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (), Plaça Nova 5, Barcelona, on 14–15 May 2027 – with early registration and a special book launch evening on 13 May at IAAC.
We are delighted to welcome COAC and COAC Foundation as conference partners, alongside co-chairs Areti Markopoulou () and Xavier De Kestelier ().
The vision for this edition: rethinking extractive models of architectural production, learning from local contexts, and empowering broader communities of designers, makers and builders worldwide.
Full story at the link in bio. 🔗
13/04/2026
✨IAAC at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2026
This year, IAAC contributed to the design and the development of the pavilion and presented two installations at the intersection of architecture, robotics and digital fabrication.
Digital Cloud materialised the invisible infrastructures of our connected world into a timber lattice structure – visitors could physically inhabit.
Crafting the Future, developed with Ceràmica Cumella, captured human gesture and translated it into robotic motion, proving how technology can expand craft traditions rather than erase them.
Architecture as a medium for the technologies shaping our cities.
Full story at the link in bio.
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