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What if the best building material was the one you were about to throw away?

That is exactly what students from the Master in Advanced Architecture explored in the Digital Matter Studio – six projects that investigate banana fibre, biochar, cork, reclaimed concrete and earth as the building blocks of a more honest, circular architecture.

The studio sits at the intersection of urban mining, embodied carbon analysis and advanced digital workflows. The results are technically rigorous, visually striking and deeply uncomfortable with the status quo.

Full recap at the What’s on link in bio.

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.

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

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