Results of the 2026 Open Call

This year, we received 464 applications to the LINA Open Call, which ran from 26 May to 3 August 2026. The quality and range of the proposals received confirm that the platform now reaches well beyond the networks of its own members. The applications describe a field in which architectural practice is increasingly inseparable from research, ecology and work with communities, film and exhibition-making, and in which practitioners at the beginning of their careers are addressing questions of climate, memory, housing and displacement with a seriousness that the profession's established institutions are still catching up with.

The 2026 Spotlight LINA Fellows will be presented at the LINA Forum in Barcelona, held in a year in which the city is UNESCO World Capital of Architecture, and organised in collaboration with the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. The Forum is where the Fellows meet the platform's member organisations and where the collaborations that make up the following year's programme begin to take shape.

LINA thanks all those who applied, and the member organisations whose representatives read, weighed and voted on 464 applications over the summer, and whose Selection Committee gave the final roster its shape.

For more information on the selection process, eligibility criteria and an overview of this year's proposals, check the report linked below.