Architectural Decisions, Planetary Implications: Interview with UIA 2026 Barcelona Curatorial Team

Curatorial team for the congress. Photo © Silvia PochBarcelona is the first city in the history of the UIA World Congress of Architects to host the event twice. The 1996 edition, Present and Futures: Architecture in Cities, arrived at a charged moment, when the post-Olympic city was consolidating an urban model that would become one of the most studied and contested in contemporary urbanism, and when architecture was learning to think through the large metropolis as its primary site of inqu