IE School of Architecture & Design Students and Professors Exhibit Research at Mayrit Biennial 2026
"Procedural Grounds" explores teaching, creative practice, and intergenerational exchange through projects developed by the School’s faculty, students, and alumni.
Madrid, 18 May 2026 — Mayrit Biennial 2026 features the participation of IE School of Architecture & Design as part of its Independent Program with Procedural Grounds, an exhibition exploring the relationship between pedagogy, creative practice, and the transmission of ideas across generations of architects and designers through faculty work presented in dialogue with projects by students and alumni. It will take place in Madrid from May 23 to 25 and will include two open workshops. Mayrit Biennial — a European platform founded and directed by IE University professor Miguel Leiro - brings together exhibitions, talks, workshops, performances, and research projects that foster dialogue between emerging and established voices in architecture, design, and contemporary culture.
Procedural Grounds, curated by Joel Blanco and Eva Marie Pobeda, presents teaching not as a linear transfer of knowledge, but as an active and evolving system through which methods, sensibilities, and forms circulate and mutate over time. It transforms the educational environment into an exhibition space where professional practice and academic experimentation coexist without hierarchy. Rather than presenting direct lines of influence, the exhibition seeks to reveal the more subtle exchanges that shape creative processes across disciplines and generations.
The exhibition features faculty members whose practices engage with material research, industrial design, architecture, and media, including Adam Caplowe, Amaia Sánchez-Velasco, Andrea Caruso, Andrea Muniain, Antonio Daniele, Déborah Lopez, Gianluca Pugliese, Grazielle Bruscato Portella, Hadin Charbel, Igor Bragado, Joana Burd, Joel Blanco, Jorge Valiente-Oriol, Pablo Alabau, Saskia Bostelmann, and Taryn Mead, alongside projects by students and alumni from the School.
As part of the public program surrounding Procedural Grounds, IE School of Architecture & Design will also organize two open workshops: Espacio Común (May 24, 13:00h, registration here), led by the School’s alumni Bárbara Hernández, Simón Sánchez, Alex Boubou, and Valeria Sierra; and Pencil vs Prompt (May 25, 13:00h, registration here), led by professors Grazielle Bruscato and Antonio Daniele. The exhibition will be open to visitors on May 23, 24, and 25 at Nébula Espacio de Creación Contemporánea (C de San Raimundo, 14, Madrid).
On the cover: the project Baan Wang Toei School in Thailandia, designed by professors Hadin Charbel and Déborah López, is part of the exhibition Procedural Grounds at Mayrit Biennial 2026. Photo©Beer Singnoi. More information is available on Mayrit Biennial’s website.