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UIC Barcelona School of Architecture is committed to the intellectual, professional and personal grow

UIC Barcelona School of Architecture is committed to the intellectual, professional and personal growth of all those who form part of it. The School of Architecture has strongly invested in a teaching model based on individual attention, practical learning based on bringing in all areas of knowledge, cutting-edge technology and teaching staff with international experience in order to train architects to be able to tackle the challenges posed by society.

07/07/2025

On July 10 at 6:30 p.m., fourth-year students from UIC Barcelona School of Architecture will inaugurate the exhibition “A Matrix of Decentralized Ecosystems” at Casa RIA (Santiago de Compostela).

The exhibition is part of the collaboration between Fundación RIA and UIC Barcelona. During the 2024–2025 academic year, UIC Barcelona Architecture students worked alongside Fundación RIA on an academic project focused on the Ría de Arousa. The course was developed with a collaborative approach in response to the challenges of decentralized territories.

The project proposes a renewed reading of the landscape, understood as a layered ecosystem where people, nature and production are interrelated. At the core of the work lies the matrix: a design tool that has enabled the identification of interdependencies, resilience dynamics and local knowledge. With the support of the AMOSAR mobility project, three main areas of study were defined, focusing on the towns of Ribeira, A Pobra do Caramiñal and Boiro.

Based on this shared vision, students developed more than 40 prototype-based proposals aimed at activating territorial regeneration processes. These proposals will be on display at Casa RIA and, later on, in Barcelona as part of the events for Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026.

04/07/2025

UIC Barcelona and Grupo Graphenano sign agreement to research the application of graphene in architectural solutions

The agreement aims to explore new possibilities for this nanomaterial in various construction systems, from structural materials such as concrete and mortars to radiant surface climate control solutions, in which Graphenano is already a leading reference, offering products for this sector on the market for several years.

12/06/2025

📊 LITEIS: Architecture, industry and sustainability in service of urban transformation.

On 26 May, the LITEIS Research Group (Laboratory for Technological Innovation in Industrialised and Sustainable Building) brought together professionals and partner companies to present its most prominent projects, along with two new patents soon to be launched on the market: Flexbrick Solar and Onestep by RosaGres.

26/05/2025

The Sagrada Família in the foreground of the final session of Foros 2025

UIC Barcelona School of Architecture hosted the third and final session of the Foros 2025 Architecture conference series, dedicated to the management of significant sacred heritage with a case example: the Sagrada Família of Barcelona. This session featured the participation of the architectural director of the temple, Dr Jordi Faulí; the engineer, technical manager, and lecturer Juan Ignacio Eskubi; the art historian Chiara Curti, and the architect and lecturer Dr Juan Trias de Bes.

19/05/2025

🌿 Designing for a Net-Zero future! Our Aula Jardí turned into a hub of inspiration with a talk by Juan Gallostra, president of JG Ingenieros, as part of our TFG lecture series.

His talk, “Design & Build: Net-Zero Buildings”, challenged us to go beyond traditional architecture and aim for buildings that generate as much renewable energy as they consume — or even more! 💡🏡✨

From Net-Zero to positive-energy buildings, Gallostra showed us that sustainable design it’s a real, achievable goal for the architects of tomorrow.

Big thanks to everyone who joined us — future-ready architecture starts here! 🚀🏗️

08/05/2025

🎙️ How do music and architecture echo each other?

Today, architect and Foros 2025 director Cinta Lluis joined Joan Vives on , the morning show on , to reflect on the deep connection between two disciplines that shape experience through rhythm, silence, structure and space.

She explored how sacred architecture — like music — is not only deeply symbolic but technically precise. Both arts demand composition, attention to harmony, and a capacity to move us beyond the material.

Sacred space, like sacred sound, is never neutral. It resonates through light, voice, and silence — and it’s always in dialogue with the body and the spirit.

This conversation is inspired by Foros 2025 conference series, under the theme “Principle, Form, and Conservation. The Paradigm of Sacred Architecture” that Cinta co-directs with Dr. architect Josep Lluís i Ginovart.

Special thanks to the wonderful team behind the program Ester Pinart and Joan Vives (hosts), Alba Quinquillà (production), and Pau Blasi (technical control).

📻 Listen to the full interview here:
https://www.3cat.cat/3cat/cinta-lluis-larquitectura-i-la-musica-son-dues-arts-plenes-de-tecnica/audio/1243541/

07/05/2025

📍 Senses meet spirit at Foros 2025!

In our second conference at , we explored how sacred Architecture speaks through sound, light, space — and silence.

Guided by Dr. Josep Lluís i Ginovart and Dr. Cinta Lluís Teruel, the session brought together voices from theology, art, and science to reflect on the sensorial and symbolic power of sacred spaces.

- Dr. Jordi-Agustí Piqué reminded us that churches are sonorous bodies built to host mystery, and should be designed from chant and word, not imposed form.

- Artist Javier Viver presented the Sacred Heart at Boadilla del Monte (Madrid). The temple is a monumental work-in-progress: a 37-meter habitable sculpture inspired by the Shroud of Turin where form, technology, AI and spiritual narrative merge.

- Dr. Rosa M. Alsina showed how architecture transforms sound — and how sound can structure sacred experience.

➡️ Sacred space is seen, felt, heard, and lived.

Next up: Gaudí’s Sagrada Família and the legacy of religious heritage on May 21st, as we look ahead to Barcelona, World Capital of Architecture 2026.

25/04/2025

Architecture lecturer Josep Miàs will design the restructuring of the entrance hall to the Fira de Barcelona.

The proposal L’Avantsala de la Fira, by Bjarke Ingels Group and MiAS Arquitects, the firm founded by Josep Miàs, has won the competition to renovate the Palau del Vestit, which will house the Fira de Barcelona Innovation Hub. This future innovation centre will extend over three floors and will feature a Z-shaped design, surrounded by green spaces accessible to the public. In addition, the current facade on Plaça Espanya will be transformed into a portico, serving as the entrance to the gardens.

23/04/2025

UIC Barcelona students explore new ways of inhabiting the future within the context of the metabolic materiality course. On 26 March, the Barcelona campus hosted the presentation of the projects developed on the Metabolic Materiality course, an elective subject in Architecture in collaboration with CEMEX, Pich Architects, and UIC School of Architecture.

🌏The initiative allowed students to explore new sustainable and resilient architectural solutions, with a multidisciplinary and experimental approach.

11/04/2025

📍 Foros 2025 has officially started!

We kicked off this year’s Architecture lecture series at with a deep dive into sacred architecture — its symbolism, its technical layers, and its spiritual weight.

🕊️ Under the theme “Sacred Architecture: the visible of the invisible”, architects Dr. Héctor Devesa, Leopoldo Gil, and Dr. Nacho Vicens brought three unique perspectives on how liturgical spaces carry form, meaning, memory — and transcendence.

From theology to restoration, from eternity to ephemerality (yes, even Papal stages!), this first session reminded us:

➡️ Architecture is more than space — it’s experience, sign, ritual, and time.

➡️ Design beyond aesthetics – Sacred spaces teach us that architecture is about meaning, presence, and silence.

➡️ Restore with respect – Let time speak through the building, and elevate it.

➡️ Build for the unseen – Architecture is what we feel, remember, and believe.

Conducted by Dr Architects and Professors Josep Lluis Guinovart, Cinta Lluis Teruel and Ricardo Gómez Val.

💡 Next up in the series: conversations on sacred heritage, the Sagrada Família, and what it means to build with soul in a contemporary world. Stay tuned!

09/04/2025

🌿 A more resilient city starts with you!
Discover 🌍 Primavera R, the climate action festival in Barcelona!

📍 With UIC Barcelona and partners like , and local cooperatives, we’re opening up infrastructures and innovative projects that tackle climate change.

🗓️ Registration is still open for April 11 (afternoon)!
✨ Come explore the initiatives that are transforming the city 💡

🔗 Sign up now! [link in bio]

07/04/2025

🚀 Students of the Elective Course “Designing Healthy Public Spaces” Successfully Conclude the 5th Edition
This year, our students worked on transforming Plaça dels Àngels and Plaça Terenci Moix, two iconic spaces in Barcelona’s historic center with high tourist impact and environmental improvement needs.

🌿 Objective: Redesign these areas to increase shade, enhance urban comfort, and promote social interaction, all while respecting the essence of the locations. Proposals explored everything from permeable pavements to dynamic shading structures.

🏆 Escofet Awards 2024:
We congratulate this edition’s winners:

Malgorzata Olejniczak & Alexander Swienton (“Painted Shadows”)
Fatima Sapraniviciute & Anna-Maria Karagiozova (“DECK & DUNE”)
Special mention to Carla Ophey & Hannah Van Reij Willemiene (“The Clique”).
Special thanks to the experts who made this experience possible:

Enric Pericas and Oriol Roig ( ) for their mentorship and annual award.
Anna Segú, Viktor Vilarrasa, Jordi Muñoz ( ) and Mateu Sans ( ) for sessions on lighting, urban furniture, and green spaces in the city.
Roberto Soto (Barcelona Municipal Urban Planning Institute) for sharing the latest sustainable drainage projects.
🔍 Inspirational Visits: Students explored Belloch’s urban tree nursery and IMU offices, learning how the public spaces of the future are planned.

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Amongst these subjects, workshops and courses we highlight the compulsory subjects of Cooperation, Accessibility and Sustainability, this last subject instigated by the CEIM Chair; the Vertical Workshop, which consists of a week-long wokshop at the beginning of the course where all the students work together on a project intended to benefit the community; and lastly, the Foros cycle, a series of conferences that offer students the chance to gain first-hand knowledge of the different methods and philosophies in every facet of the field of architecture.

The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture is the only Catalan school of architecture and one of the five Spanish schools of architecture whose professional qualifications have been recognized after fulfilling all the European Union requirements for the Degree in Architecture. Right after graduation, holders of the Degree in Architecture from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture will be able to work as architects in any European Union country and the United Kingdom.

Thanks to the agreement signed between the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Belgrano (Argentina), students from both universities is able to study a Double Degree Mobility Programme PMDT and they obtain two titles enablers to work both in Argentina and in Spain. In addition, the title of the University of Belgrano has the accreditation of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

If you would like to make a positive impact on the world through architecture, and study in a multidisciplinary and international environment, find out more about our School!

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