Funded by the Government of Navarre, the Spanish Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, and the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, the BAI Institute is a National Reference Center for Industrialization, Robotization, and Innovation in Construction and Architecture. Its main objective is the research in innovative technological systems applied to architecture and engineering, and the training of architects, engineers, and construction professionals through cutting-edge design and construction methods...
FORO BAI 2026 will close its first edition with the participation of Fabio Gramazio, architect and Professor of Architecture and Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich, an internationally recognized figure in the integration of industrial robotics into architecture.
In this new session, the series focuses on one of the most rapidly evolving fields of our time: the convergence of artificial intelligence, digital design, and advanced fabrication.
BAI participated in the 1st Congress on Innovation in Construction, Building, Infrastructure and Concessions (IC2), held from June 1 to 5, 2026, at the Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander, with a written paper and an oral presentation.
On May 28, BAI – Building Architecture Institute held a new session of FORO BAI featuring Manuel Bouzas, architect, recipient of the 2025 Princess of Girona Arts Award, and curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
BAI participated in the IEEE CAI Congress held in Granada from May 8 to 10, reinforcing a line of work the institute has been developing around artificial intelligence and its implications for architecture, the city, and the contemporary project.
TECH TALKS BAI held a new session in Pamplona on Monday, May 11, 2026, focused on some of the key challenges currently shaping territorial development, housing, and the transformation of the construction sector.
As part of the BAI LATAM TOUR’26 organized by BAI Building & Architecture Institute, UCC welcomed Francisco Mangado and Andrea Deplazes for an academic and cultural event. The day included a fully attended masterclass and the signing of collaboration agreements aimed at strengthening institutional ties and joint work in the field of architecture.
A particularly significant milestone has now been reached with the completion of the structural reinforcement, a key step in the building’s refurbishment process that will allow further development of the space set to host the institute’s academic, research, and design activities in the coming years.
BAI held in Pamplona the first session of TECH TALKS BAI, a new series of technical lectures promoted within #BAIforma and #BAIacademy to create a space for exchange between vocational training, industry, business, innovation, and the realities of construction. In contrast to other formats more focused on theoretical reflection and disciplinary debate, this new cycle is conceived with a clearly applied approach, aimed at bringing knowledge, processes, and experiences related to the technological
BAI shares how the LATAM TOUR’26 ARGENTINA unfolded, a week of academic and institutional activity held from April 13 to 17, 2026, across five leading universities in the country...
Marc Angélil, architect, researcher, and Professor Emeritus at ETH Zurich, delivered a lecture focused on the relationship between architecture, technology, sustainability, and climate.
BAI held in Lugo the workshop “Digital Crafts. Stone Construction,” an intensive program developed from April 13 to 17, 2026, at the quarry...
BAI held “AI & Architecture”...
FORO BAI 2026 was inaugurated with the participation of Rafael Argullol, one of the most prominent voices in contemporary thought in the Spanish-speaking world. Titled “Between Faust and Mephistopheles: A New Humanism,” the session took place on March 26, 2026, at the Salón Pinaquy in Pamplona, in a conversational format alongside Eduardo Prieto and Francisco Mangado.
BAI held the signing and presentation ceremony of the collaboration agreements between the Public University of Navarra (UPNA), the...
BAI took part in REBUILD 2026, one of the leading international events in the fields of building, industrialisation and innovation in construction, with a double participation that reinforces its role in the debates shaping...
Eduardo Prieto, Technical Director of BAI, took part on March 12, 2026, in the...
BAI ON SITE is a new masterclass format that continues previous editions, this time presenting BAI on-site. In this first session, held in...
The BAI Institute aspires to be a response and an instrument of action that combines the reality of the practice of architecture today – at least in the countries we include under the heading of ‘developed’...
Modern architecture wanted to be industrial; today's architecture also wants to be industrial. But in a different way. In the convulsive and promising times of the Modern Movement, the ‘factory,’...
Patxi Mangado and Andrea Deplazes have launched BAI in Navarre, a demanding postgraduate program for architects adapted to robotic construction...
‘When a building looks like a flower vase, it's because we've done it upside down,’ argued architect Jonathan...
In the radio show ‘Más de uno Pamplona’ we had the opportunity to...
What do we talk about when we talk about ‘industrialization’ today? That is the question posed by the BAI Institute in its project to bring new technologies closer...
Rising almost 30 meters, Tor Alva is the tallest 3D-printed tower in the world. Located in Mulegns, a small Swiss village with only eleven inhabitants, it has been built by Nova Fundaziun Origen with ETH Zürich...
Contemporary version of a medieval donjon: Five-story wood construction made from prefabricated frame elements. The isolated mountain location mandates the greatest possible self-sufficiency...
The Maintenance Base at the Bernina Pass is used for clearing snow from the road during the winter season. Architecturally, it is one of the “functional buildings” of the Cantonal Civil Engineering Office of the Canton of Grisons...
It all starts with a triple conflict of objectives: the plot in the municipality of Urmein, in the Heinzenberg area, is large, and only an equally large and voluminous building will be able to fill the void in the town's urban structure...
The project consists of 85 social housingunits on a plot previously occupied by the emblematic Cinema Pisa in the city of Cornellà de Llobregat. It is a five-story freestanding building with a wood structure...
In a part of the city that creates a transition between the built-up fabric and the open urban expansion area characterized by the imposing presence of public facilites, the project proposes 35 apartments...
The project is located in the twelfths district of Paris, completed in October 2020 for the real estate company GECINA, enclosed at the heart of a block, surrounded by an apartment complex built in the 1970s...
This block of five houses is located in a garden neighborhood near Santiago’s financial center, on a corner lot with a 50-meter front, purchased by a group of friends to develop a housing format that strays...
The Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and the Italian company WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project), which specializes in 3D printers, present TOVA, a prototype built with earth and a Crane WASP...
A fruit of the collaboration between Mario Cucinella Arquitectos – based in Bologna and New York – and WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project), the Italian company specialized in 3D printing, this circular housing...
Lennar, the homebuilding giant, and Icon, wose specialty is large-scale 3D printing, have together announced that a project for a hundred single-familiy houses in Austin, Texas, designed in collaboration with BIG...
Foster Partners is part of a consortium set up by the European Space Agency (ESA)to explore the possibilities of 3D printing to construct lunar habitations. Addressing the challenges of transporting materials to the moon...