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
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. 🔗
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. 🔗
11/05/2026