BAC Barcelona Architecture Center

📐✨ Final Design Studio Reviews

This Wednesday and Thursday we will host the final presentations of the Design Studio — the moment where a semester’s work comes together.

Projects will be presented before a jury composed of faculty from different universities, alongside the BAC teaching team and invited architects, creating a rich environment for dialogue, critique and exchange.

We’re looking forward to two days of thoughtful discussions, strong proposals and diverse perspectives. The energy is high, the atmosphere is engaged and the studio is ready.

👏 Best of luck to all students — we can’t wait to see the results.

📐✨ Phase 3 — Pre-Final Review

This Monday we held the Phase 3 submissions and presentations, a key stage prior to the final review, focused on refining and consolidating each project.

The session brought together a wide range of material — plans, sections, site plans, diagrams, axonometries and renders — fostering a space for critical discussion and constructive feedback. At this stage, proposals are carefully evaluated, decisions are clarified, and details are rigorously developed in preparation for the final presentation.

This phase represents an essential moment in the design process, where precision, coherence and resolution are further strengthened.

👋 To our current students: this is the moment to be precise, rigorous and ambitious — the final review is just ahead.

🎓 To our alumni: how do you remember your Phase 3? The last decisions, final adjustments?

🇵🇹✨ Portugal Study Trip

One of the moments that has stayed with us from this semester’s trip to Portugal is the visit to the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, by Eduardo Souto de Moura.

Beyond its striking presence, what lingers is the way the building is experienced through its sequence of spaces — a carefully choreographed route defined by changes in scale, controlled openings, and the use of filtered natural light. The iconic red concrete volumes, so forceful from the outside, give way to a more restrained and introspective interior atmosphere.

Looking back, visits like this gain even more value with time — when observations turn into understanding, and experiences begin to shape the way we think about architecture.

👋 To our alumni from past semesters — what aspect of the building left the strongest impression on you?

✈️🇵🇹 Portugal Study Trip — Halfway Through the Adventure!

We’re halfway through our architecture study trip in Portugal, and it’s already been an incredible experience.

So far we’ve been exploring Lisbon and Cascais, and tomorrow we’re heading to Sintra — before continuing north to Porto later in the week. So much architecture, history, coastal landscapes, and urban life still to discover!

Sketchbooks are getting heavier, step counts are going up, and coffee consumption is definitely part of the curriculum ☕😅

👋 To our alumni who have done this trip before:
What was your favorite moment? Any Sintra or Porto tips for our students heading there next?

🎒 To our students on the trip right now:
How are you feeling at this halfway point?
Favorite discovery so far?
Ready for Sintra tomorrow? 👀

This trip keeps building memories, year after year, student by student.

Portugal, we’re coming for more. 🇵🇹✨

Phase 2 is almost done!

This week, our Spring 2026 students meet with the BAC Design Studio faculty — Miguel Roldán, Mercedes Berengué, David Espuña, María Díaz and Martí Pardo — for their midterm presentations: a moment to clarify ideas, challenge assumptions, and push their work to the next level.

We’re excited to see how far each project has come, and where the conversation will lead!

Phase 1 is officially done — and very well done.

Clear concepts, rigorous analyses, and a lot of potential on the table.

Congratulations to our Spring 2026 students for a solid start.

A special thanks to our Design Studio faculty — Miguel Roldan, Mercè Berengué, David Espuña, Pilar Llop, Maria Diaz i Martí Pardo — for their guidance, critical insight, and the generous discussions that shaped this first review.

As we move into Phase 2, the focus shifts to development, precision, and stronger architectural intent.

Alumni of the BAC: What’s the one thing you wish you had known in your first review?
Share it with the new generation ✨

Phase 1 is officially done — and very well done.

Clear concepts, rigorous analyses, and a lot of potential on the table.

Congratulations to our Spring 2026 students for a solid start.

A special thanks to our Design Studio faculty — Miguel Roldan, Mercè Berengué, David Espuña, Pilar Llop, Maria Diaz i Martí Pardo — for their guidance, critical insight, and the generous discussions that shaped this first review.

As we move into Phase 2, the focus shifts to development, precision, and stronger architectural intent.

Alumni of the BAC: What’s the one thing you wish you had known in your first review?
Share it with the new generation

From the BAC Archive — and still impossible to forget.

Molly Speth’s Fall 2024 project stood out from day one: ambitious and completely unafraid to imagine at an urban scale.

Molly, if you’re out there:
What are you working on now?
Did you ever end up building that tower?
And what would you tell today’s students facing their own big ideas for the first time?

Barcelona turns electric this weekend.

From February 12–15, the city celebrates Santa Eulàlia, one of its most vibrant winter festivals — with fire runs, human towers, giants, parades, and the kind of energy you only understand when you’re right in the middle of it.

If you’re in town, go feel the heartbeat of Barcelona up close.
Life in BCN hits different when the whole city celebrates.

And for our former BAC students —
did you ever experience Santa Eulàlia?
Drop your tips and favorite moments below so this year’s students know what not to miss.

Welcome to the Spring 2026 Design Studio.

A new semester, a new coastline, and a new group of students ready to design in the heart of Barcelona.
This year’s site — the Water Sports Campus — gives our Clemson, Texas A&M, and Roger Williams students the chance to work where the city meets the sea: big ideas, bold experimentation, and a studio culture built on collaboration.

Barcelona becomes the classroom, the laboratory, and the daily source of inspiration.

From the first sketches to the final presentations, this semester is about pushing your thinking, discovering your voice, and learning what design can do when you’re immersed in a place that never stops moving.

To the Spring 2026 group: enjoy the ride, stay curious, and make the most of every moment.

Barcelona Visits — Palau de la Música Catalana
Designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner

A visit to the Palau de la Música is always a moment of collective awe.
Students step inside one of Barcelona’s most emblematic cultural spaces, taking in its atmosphere, its light, and the layers of history that make it so distinct.

It’s the kind of experience that stays with you — and one that always sparks new conversations within the group.