‘INTERNALITIES’: A GALICIAN PERSPECTIVE. Public Programme

Internalities: Architectures for Territorial Equilibrium, the Spanish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, explores how architects can—and must—minimise the environmental externalities associated with production processes in order to move towards the decarbonisation of construction. Internalities foregrounds the work of a new generation of Spanish practices characterised by the use of local, regenerative, low-carbon resources. Collectively, they contribute to a deeper understanding of the regional ecologies of materials such as timber, stone and earth, as well as of the forests, quarries and soils from which they originate. In doing so, these works generate new territorial equilibria and develop renewed forms of agreement between ecologies and economies.

The presentation of Internalities at the CGAC offers an opportunity to connect the exhibition’s decarbonisation agenda with Galicia’s architectural, economic and ecological conditions. Architects, policymakers, experts and social agents will explore how decarbonisation can be linked to the use of Galicia’s own resources through four conversations brought together under the title 'Internalities': A Galician Perspective.

PROGRAMME

6 FEBRUARY

5.00-6.00 p.m. PRESENTATION OF THE INTERNALITIES CATALOGUE
Roi Salgueiro, exhibition curator
Manuel Bouzas, exhibition curator
Iñaqui Carnicero, Secretary General for Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture, MIVAU
Sol Candela, Director of Fundación Arquia

6.00-7:00 p.m. PANEL 1. TRANSITION AND TERRITORY
Aurora Armental. Estar; Energy Room, Internalities
Xavier Simón, Director of the Galician Wind Energy Observatory
Manuel Rodríguez, Director of Fundación RIA
Juan Requejo, Founder of At Clave
Jesús Montouto, Territorial Director (Lugo), Regional Ministry of Environment and Climate Change

7 FEBRUARY

11.00 a.m.-12.00 m. KEYNOTE LECTURE
Summer Islam, Material Cultures

12.30-13.30 p.m. PANEL 2. HOUSING AND DECARBONISATION
Iñaqui Carnicero, Secretary General for Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture, MIVAU
M.ª Encarnación Rivas, Director General of Urban Planning, Regional Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure Planning of Galicia
Josep Borrell, Director of IMPSOL
Javier Burón, Director of NASUVINSA
Luciano G. Alfaya, Dean President of the COAG
Marta Peris, Peris + Toral

4.00-5.00 p.m. PANEL 3. INDUSTRY AND CONSTRUCTION
Gonzalo Piñeiro, Director of CIS-Madeira, Regional Ministry of Economy and Industry of Galicia
Xosé Mera, President of Fundación Arume
Maite Sainz, Fetdeterra
Carles Oliver, Emissions Room, Internalities
David Mayol, Emissions Room, Internalities

5.00-6.00 p.m. PANEL 4. EDUCATION AND EXPERIMENTATION
David Chipperfield, President of Fundación RIA
Francisco Cifuentes, Full Professor at ETC Zürich; Aulet Architects
Daniel Ibáñez, Director of IAAC; Materials Room, Internalities
Laurens Bekemans, BC Architects

ROI SALGUEIRO BARRIO (A Coruña, 1975) is an architect and urbanist whose work focuses on the relationship between architecture and systems of territorial organisation. He is a professor in the Department of Architecture at MIT, where he is also Director of the Territorial Design Lab and Curatorial Director of the Morningside Academy for Design. Together with Manuel Bouzas, he was Curator of Internalities, the Spanish Pavilion at the 19th Venice Biennale (2025), and Principal Assistant Curator of How Will We Live Together? at the 17th Venice Biennale (2021). He is co-editor of Obradoiro, the journal of the Official College of Architects of Galicia. He was the founder of the practice RSAU and co-founder of Aside Research Collaborative. He holds a PhD summa cum laude from the UPC and a Master in Design Studies with honours from Harvard GSD. He is co-author of The World as an Architectural Project (MIT Press, 2020, with Hashim Sarkis and Gabriel Kozlowski), recipient of the BEAU Award 2021 and finalist for the FAD Awards 2021, and author of more than twenty academic articles published in international peer-reviewed journals. His work has been exhibited at institutions such as ETH Zürich, the Venice Biennale, the Lisbon Triennale, the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Biennale, the MAC in Santiago de Chile and Yale University.

MANUEL BOUZAS BARCALA (Pontevedra, 1993) is an architect, educator and curator based between Pontevedra and New York. His work operates at the intersection of design, ecology and material culture, exploring the environmental externalities of construction processes. In 2025 he received the Princess of Girona Award for the Arts and curated Internalities, the Spanish Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. He is a professor at Cornell University (AAP) and co-editor of Obradoiro, the journal of the Official College of Architects of Galicia. He graduated with honours from ETSAM (UPM) and from the Master in Design Studies at Harvard University (GSD). His work includes projects such as Atlas (Braga, 2025), Cabane 7L (Rome, 2024) and Mediterráneo (Valencia, 2023), supported by the Government of Spain, Villa Médici, the Arquia Foundation and CHANEL. His work has been recognised with the Renzo Piano World Tour Award (2022) and the “la Caixa” fellowship (2021), and has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale (2018, 2023, 2025), the Versailles Biennale (2025) and the Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial - BEAU (2021, 2025).