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2026 Spring Midterms:
IASAPBV Junior and Senior studios
Visit @iasapbv to learn more about what our Barcelona students are up to
Spring 2026 School of Architecture Lecture Series
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures are scheduled to begin at 5:30 PM in the Plym Auditorium.
03.30 | 2026
5:30PM / Plym Auditorium.
Kimberly Dowdell
VP of Strategic Partnerships at Amrize, Chicago
04.01 | 2026
12:15PM / Atrium
Marci Uhlein
Associate Director for Research and Associate Professor at ISoA
Book talk
04.06 | 2026
5:30PM / Architecture 120
Ron Klemencic
Chairman and CEO at Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Seattle
Theiss Lecture
04.13 | 2025
5:30PM / Plym Auditorium
Amin Taha
Founder, Chairperson at Groupwork, London, UK
Tutor, Royal College of Art, London
04.20 | 2026
5:30PM / Plym Auditorium
Balazs Bognar
Partner at Kengo Kuma & Associates,
Tokyo, Japan
The ISoA lecture series invites reflection on the evolving role of designers as critical agents in shaping equitable, resilient, and culturally grounded futures. In the face of today’s social and environmental urgencies, this series explores how designers think, make, and act within and beyond the built environment. Contributing practitioners and educators working across architecture, landscape, and urbanism activate design as a tool for critique, transformation, and care. Together, these voices sketch a field in motion—one that is actively reshaping what it means to practice today.
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As we are enjoying our first day of spring break, here is a look back on our 2026 Spring Midterm Reviews.
Seeing all of the spectacular work students have done, ranging from beautiful drawings and models to digital fabrication prototyping, has been a great reward for the School of Architecture Community. Thank you to our faculty, students, and guest reviewers for another memorable midterm.
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Spring 2026 Midterm Reviews
Junior and Senior Studio
Congratulations to the Senior Studio Earl Prize Honorable Mentions, Alexander Hoffert and Tucker Viramontes, advised by Prof. Hugh Swiatek.
About the winning project, Ke Kai Dance Center:
“Ke Kai Dance Center is a performance center where movement, structure, and community interweave, celebrating rhythm, cultural expression, flowing through choreography, architecture, and collective gathering.”
Congratulations again!
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Congratulations to Professor Didem Ekici on her new book! Surface, Textile, and German Material Culture: Bodies, Interiors, and Architecture, 1830–1914 has been published by Bloomsbury in 2026.
Design workshops and studios for sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Core and elective graduate studios.
An in-depth look at selected projects.
