IE School of Architecture & Design Presents WORK, its Annual Student Exhibition, at IE Creative Campus in Segovia

Segovia, October 27, 2026 – IE School of Architecture & Design has inaugurated WORK 25–26, its annual student exhibition, at its Segovia campus, housed in the 12th-century Palacio de Mansilla. The exhibition presents a selection of projects developed by Bachelor’s and Master’s students during the past academic year, highlighting the diversity of their creative approaches, technical skills and research interests. The opening also marked the presentation of the School’s latest yearbook, which documents student work and academic activity throughout the 2024–2025 academic year.

Curated by Saskia Bostelmann, Director of Exhibitions, Publications and Events at IE School of Architecture & Design, the exhibition is conceived around the concept of "Constellations," bringing together projects from different programs and academic levels through shared ideas, methodologies and creative processes. Rather than organizing the exhibition by discipline or year of study, the curatorial approach identifies connections between projects, encouraging visitors to discover similarities and intersections across the different disciplines taught at the School.

The exhibited works have been selected from projects developed at the School’s campuses in Segovia and Madrid, spanning the early stages of Bachelor education through to Master’s projects, including work developed in collaboration with companies and other organizations. The selection illustrates the students’ creative and technical abilities, while exploring how different disciplines can inform one another.

"Invisible connecting lines run across different programs and courses, generating synergies and leading us towards different forms of reasoning and applied creativity," explained Bostelmann. These connections emerge through projects involving craftsmanship, garment making, construction, critical thinking and digital technologies. From experiments with paper and materials to fashion patterns and architectural spatial systems, the exhibition places different scales and forms of creative exploration in dialogue.

The exhibition also examines the relationship between human creativity, traditional techniques and emerging technologies. At a time when AI is transforming creative disciplines, WORK 25–26 emphasizes the continuing importance of hands-on experimentation, material knowledge and human judgment in design processes. As Bostelmann noted, "human closeness to creative and craft processes comes together with diverse materials, technologies and universes."

Alongside the exhibition, IE School of Architecture & Design presented WORK 2, the second edition of its yearbook, featuring a curated selection of student projects from the 2024–2025 academic year. The publication provides an overview of work developed across the School’s undergraduate and master’s programs, from design studios and academic research to final projects, interdisciplinary initiatives and entrepreneurship. The publication also reflects a year of academic growth for IE School of Architecture & Design, with Dean David Goodman highlighting the opening of the Creative Campus in Segovia, the development of new educational facilities and the launch of new academic programs such as the Master in Interior Design 

As Bostelmann, the editorial curator, explains in the introduction, the yearbook documents the creative activity taking place in the School’s classrooms and studios, highlighting not only the final outcomes but also the experimentation, research and collaboration behind them. It offers a record of the students' academic journey, the ideas developed across disciplines, and their experiences both on campus and beyond the classroom.

Photos by Pau Velarde