Professional Practice
UIA Student Competition ' Catalysts of Resilience'
Date: 7/24/2025 - 11/7/2025
Type: Competitions / Awards
Location(s): International
Description:
The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona (UIA2026BCN) announces the UIA International Student Competition, an invitation for students from all over the world to participate with their proposals around the Congress’s central theme: Becoming. Architectures for a planet in transition.
Participants will be challenged to design spatial interventions that enable resistance and adaptation to predictable threats related to political shifts, social transformations and climate change, among other concerns. This competition asks students to think beyond conventional design methods, using time as a design strategy to catalyse resilient futures.
This single-stage student ideas competition is organised and conducted in accordance with the UNESCO Standard Regulations for International Competitions in Architecture and Town planning and the UIA best practice recommendations. The competition brief has been developed by the UIA2026BCN Curatorial Team and organised by the Higher Council of the Orders of Architects of Spain (CSCAE) and the Architect's Association of Catalonia (COAC).