IAAC - Advanced Architecture Barcelona

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.

19/05/2026

One of our own, shortlisted for the EUmies Awards 🏛️

Dinko Peračić, IAAC alumni, has been named finalist for the EUmies Awards 2026 with Gruž Market in Dubrovnik – a project that restores a renaissance palace, reorganises a public market and covers it with a roof that almost disappears. Nine rotating steel beams wrapped in translucent textile. Filters light. Regulates airflow. Glows at night.

This is what advanced architecture looks like in the real world.

Congratulations, Dinko. 👏

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. 🔗

05/05/2026

The opportunity Spanish architects have been waiting for 🎓

IAAC launches the Bosch Aymerich International Scholarship Programme – two fully funded spots to spend six months researching at MIT, followed by six months at IAAC Barcelona under an employment contract.

Boston. Barcelona. Fully funded.

Applications close 31 May at 19:00 CEST.

Are you Spanish, graduated between 2010 and 2025, with a background in architecture or urbanism? This is for you.

Apply at the link in bio. 🔗

04/05/2026

Last chance to get your questions answered⏳

On 14 May at 15:00 CEST, IAAC’s Admissions Team is hosting a live Q&A on Zoom – 50 minutes to get first-hand guidance on the application process and what it means to study and live in Barcelona.

Whether you’re deep into your application or still exploring, this is the moment to get clarity.

This is the last session of the year. Seats are limited.

Register at the link in bio. 🔗