The Buenos Aires Architecture Biennial began

The International Architecture Biennial of Buenos Aires celebrates this year its 40 years of experience and its twentieth edition, one of the most important architecture meetings in Latin America. Since the end of September and throughout October—the Month of Design and Architecture of Buenos Aires—, the City once again becomes a global meeting point for architects, designers, urban planners, artists, researchers, students and architecture lovers. With more than 100 studies, 15 exhibitions, 50 conferences, 40 international guests and representatives of 55 cities in the world, the XX Biennial displays an open agenda and free that for more than a month transforms Buenos Aires into a space of exchange of ideas and proposals. Born in 1985, the Biennial has since accompanied cultural transformations, urban and social aspects of the City, consolidating itself as a reference platform for projects, experiences and new views on architecture contemporary. Over four decades he brought together in Buenos Aires some of the most relevant figures of the discipline worldwide. Each edition of the Biennial proposes a look at the challenges of his time. In 2026 that reflection is summarized in one word: HABITAR, an invitation to think about the multiple ways in which people They build their link with the planet, the cities, the territories and the communities, from large metropolises to the most remote and extremes. The HABITAR Central Exhibition, at the National Museum of Fine Arts, brings together more of 100 national and international architecture studios, each one invited to exhibit in the exhibition photos or a model of a representative work of his trajectory, mounted in an elliptical wooden enclosure that organizes the route by color and shape. inside Within this framework, two unpublished proposals are also presented: Habitar lo Extremo, an architectural biography of the Antarctica developed by the 6044 SUR collective, which portrays two centuries of constructions on the white continent—from minimal living prototypes even displays of Soviet brutalism—and wonders if Antarctica can anticipate the ways of living in the future. A circuit through Recoleta The Biennale returns to two emblematic spaces of its history, the National Museum of Fine Arts Arts and the Recoleta Cultural Center, to which are added the National Library, the National Museum of Decorative Art, the MARQ and the Victoria Ocampo House, forming a cultural circuit with 15 exhibitions in the Recoleta neighborhood and ten associated programs in other parts of the City, including the Museum Modern, Proa, Proa 21, Larivière Foundation, Rolf Gallery, Bisman Editions, Casa República, the CPAU, the República Building and the Curutchet House. At the Cultural Center Recoleta the Union Contemporary Architecture Awards are exhibited European / Mies van der Rohe Awards 2026 (EUmies Awards), with 40 works finalists and winners from 36 cities and 18 countries, whose international jury the Chilean architect Smiljan Radi? presided; also the exhibition Form Follows Fiction: Six Inquiries, curated by Vladimir Belogolovsky, and an installation arising from the Architexture call of the French Institute of Argentina. The agenda in Recoleta is completed with the exhibition César Pelli and Diana Balmori: Architecture of a library shared, at the Book Museum. Another example is: Wood: Looking at the Future of Living, curated by Galia Solomonoff (Columbia University GSAPP), Jeannette Plaut (Gabriela University Mistral) and Marcelo Sarovic (Catholic University of Chile) at the National Museum of Decorative Art, centered on a twelve-meter wooden table built with contemporary technologies; and special exhibits from Argentina, Belgium, Georgia, Italy, Sweden and Venezuela in the MARQ, including Urban Legend by the Belgian studio Ouest. Radi? and the Forum International From Monday From October 5 to Saturday, October 10, the International Forum of the Biennial will take place, with the presence of the Chilean architect Smiljan Radi?, winner of the Prize Pritzker 2026. For six days, references in architecture, design, urbanism and contemporary thought will offer 50 free conferences at the Amigos del Bellas Artes Auditorium (Av. Figueroa Alcorta 2270). Among the Confirmed speakers include Carl Bäckstrand (White Arkitekter, Sweden), Carlo Ratti (director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT), Iñaqui Carnicero (Spain), Noemi Blager, Andrés Escobar (Mexico), Marina Otero Verzier, Andrés Jaque (dean of Columbia) and Adam Dayem (A/O studio, New York). How closing of the Forum, on Saturday, October 10, the Biennial will present its prizes: the Biennial Lifetime Achievement Award will go to Marta Minujín, in recognition of a work that challenges the limits between art, architecture and public space. How to visit the central exhibition The HABITAR Exhibition can be visited at the National Museum of Fine Arts (Av. del Libertador 1473) until 18 October, Tuesday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. All the Biennale programming is free and open access. More information at www.labienalarg.com.ar.