events, calendar and what will happen month by month

Primavera Sound, Sónar, and the UIA World Congress of Architects represent the peak intensity of the year. Alongside the music dimension, Sónar+D will occupy the neoclassical Llotja de Mar building in 2026 to explore the relationship between creativity and technology: a hybrid, multidisciplinary environment where talks, performances, and workshops will address themes such as artificial intelligence and music, the return to the physicality of the digital, and new network ecologies.  However, the UIA World Congress of Architects represents, along with the symbolic inauguration of the Torre of Jesus Christ on June 10, the true centre of gravity of this 2026. From June 28 to July 2, Barcelona will become for the second time after the 1996 edition a global platform for discussion on architecture, bringing together more than 10,000 participants and 250 speakers from around the world. Accessible only to architecture professionals and scholars, Becoming. Architecture for a Planet in Transition will orient the debate toward the major transformations of our time, articulating around six lines of research that can explore new and transformative spatial practices.