Bardón de Tena serves on jury for 17th Spanish Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Common Flows

March 9, 2026

BY Emily Capdeville

Andrea Bardón de Tena, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment, was a member of the jury for the 17th Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (XVII BEAU), titled Flujos Comunes, (Common Flows).

Curated by Miguel Ramón and Ander Bados, the XVII BEAU explores how contemporary flows–materials, energy, people, data, and the environment–shape our shared territory. In this framework, architecture is understood as a situated practice within interdependent systems: a discipline able to read, channel, and transform the dynamics that traverse inhabited space, from the global scale to the domestic realm.

This year’s jury was convened not only for its professional backgrounds, but for its capacity to question, interpret, and open new ways of seeing. Echoing Common Flows’ reading of the present as an evolving network of movements and agents, the jury brings together diverse skills, approaches, and sensibilities.

The Biennial opened on December 11 at La Térmica Cultural in Ponferrada, Spain, and will remain on view through March 15. It highlights projects, practices, and students’ final theses that engage these systemic conditions with precision and care, foregrounding architecture’s agency within the infrastructures and ecologies that organize everyday life.

The XVII BEAU is organized by Spain’s Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda –through the General Secretariat for Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture– in collaboration with the Higher Council of the Associations of Architects of Spain (CSCAE) and Fundación Arquia.

More information about the Biennale is available on the BEAU website or the Bienal Beau Instagram.