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The University has signed a collaboration agreement with Mutua de Propietarios Foundation to promote accessibility in architecture. The initiative is led by accessibility expert and School of Architecture lecturer Enrique Rovira-Beleta.

Josep Miàs, a lecturer at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, is the architect behind the rehabilitation of a social rental housing building in Barcelona’s El Raval district that the City Council has allocated to 17 young tenants, a project that reflects the identity, personality and multicultural character of the neighbourhood

Sandra Bestraten, a lecturer at UIC Barcelona School of Architecture and the newly elected dean of the Architects' Association of Catalonia (COAC), has been named Barcelona Woman of the Year 2026 by the newspaper El Periódico, which highlighted her commitment to addressing housing challenges.

The installation "Hubble Bubble", which stands more than six metres tall at its highest point, was built collaboratively by students from UIC Barcelona School of Architecture and was on display on 7 and 8 September outside Disseny Hub Barcelona.

The selected initiatives are developing new solutions in areas including patient care, telerehabilitation, sustainable building refurbishment and the emotional wellbeing of healthcare professionals.

UIC Barcelona has signed a cooperation agreement with the passive construction company PAPIK Group to promote research in the field of passive architecture. The initiative will be led by the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture

Fredy Massad, a lecturer at UIC Barcelona School of Architecture and architecture critic for the newspaper ABC, organised the first Ibero-American Architecture Conference, which brought together five architects from Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay

The lecturer at UIC Barcelona School of Architecture took part as a speaker at the first Inclusive Mobility Congress in Europe, held in Barcelona on 10 and 11 July, where he predicted that the number of people relying on wheelchairs is likely to increase in the coming years

In the Making: Cartography of Catalan Architecture and Design Schools is an exhibition that brings together nine leading institutions from across Catalonia to show how architectural education is helping to address today’s major ecological, social and material challenges

Sandra Bestraten, who has been teaching in the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture since 2010, has taken on the role of dean of the Association of Architects of Catalonia (COAC), becoming only the second woman to head the institution