COMMON ACCOUNTS

Common Accounts has designed the exhibition environment for Things To Come by Danish artist Maja Malou Lyse, presented at the Danish Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Working collaboratively with Malou Lyse and curator Chus Martinez, Common Accounts developed a synthetic environment that integrated artistic interventions into the pavilion architecture. Informed by Lyse’s consideration of science, fiction, pornography, and the influence of images, Common Accounts created an environment of intensified media transmission. Screens—both giant and micro—are a central motif in the pavilion. In the building’s elongated Brummer gallery, an in-the-round multi-screen installation refers both to the language of the billboard and to the immersive goggles used to view virtual porn increasingly available in sperm bank donation rooms. The film, which Malou Lyse created in collaboration with @dis , brings the laboratory environment into the gallery at the scale of architecture. The outcome is a pavilion in which image and architecture are fused together. The environment—where a deluge of colour and video offer the visitor instrumental signals—revels in artifice, denoting a clear departure from the verdant grounds of the Giardini. An enfilade condition permits a view from the Brummer gallery to a défilade of modified yellow dry shipper cases used to transport cryogenic vessels containing sperm—a series of ready-made sculptures—embedded in the far wall of the pavilion’s Koch gallery. The commission for Lyse’s pavilion falls within a lineage of interest at Common Accounts, and a series of projects that have explored the place of image in survival, as well as the relationship between bodies and hostile environments, like Clima Fitness, Have a Nice Day, and Refresh Renew. Architecture by Common Accounts with project management and execution by the incomparable @mplusb_studio Photos by Ugo Carmeni @ugocarmeni_studio @the_chus_martinez @habitual_body_monitoring2 @danishpavilion

Introducing exhibition designers for ‘Things to Come’ @commonaccounts ★ Led by Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler, Common Accounts is an experimental architecture studio based in Madrid and Toronto. They explore situations where design intelligence is abundant but under the radar. Much of their work is driven by an interest in self-design and the human body’s interface with its environment. Focused on Maja Malou Lyses Lyses exploration of how we create images and how they create us, Common Accounts has transformed the Danish Pavilion into an environment that synthesized Lyses work into the building's architecture 🏛️ 📸 Geray Mena, Christopher Sherman, Common Accounts. #kunstfonden #statenskunstfond #danishartsfoundation @labiennale @igorbragado @milesgertler @habitual_body_monitoring2

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by @commonaccounts 📸 @christophershermanphoto

Common Accounts’ 2026 Lookbook, designed by Nav Dhanoa @n.sd and featuring work made by our studio with numerous brilliant collaborators.

More of Common Accounts’ spatial design for Maja Malou Lyse’s Danish Pavilion, curated by Chus Martinez at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Photos by Ugo Carmeni 2026 @ugocarmeni_studio

🚧tomorrow🚧 @danishpavilion @habitual_body_monitoring2 @the_chus_martinez @dis @mplusb_studio opening at 2pm in the giardini

Feel Conditions is a speculative housing project in Toronto by @commonaccounts led by architects Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler. Designed for a group of artist friends, the project stages domestic life as an endless feed across a continuous interior surface that supports sharing, ambiamory, and retreat. Programmatic zones derived from resident interviews prioritize everyday romance, independent cooking areas, acoustically private spaces for sleep and sex, and shared rooms for hosting, rehearsing, partying, and working. Commissioned for “The House Transformed” at Princeton University, the project reimagines Stan Allen’s “Field Conditions” as a platform-like architecture of intentional sharing. Review this project

Feel Conditions—a speculation developed for ‘The House Transformed’ at Princeton University School of Architecture—is an apparatus for kinship and homemaking. It takes the form of a continuous feed that stages performances of daily life for its inhabitants, and formally anticipates everyday cultures of resource sharing, ambiamory, and contact on- and offline. The project is conceived for a tightknit group of artists in Toronto. A series of interviews provided us with the programmatic structure of the building, and a series of priorities for each resident: romance in the quotidian; independent zones with their own areas for food preparation; private spaces with sonic separation for sleep, sex, and retreat; and shared spaces for hosting, rehearsing, partying, and work. Stan Allen’s “Field Conditions” (published in 1985 in Points and Lines) argues that architecture should abandon the classical ambition to compose discrete, self-contained “objects” and instead operate as an open field in which form emerges from the interaction of many smaller elements, forces, and events. Allen insists that design be understood less as a bounded figure and more as “a space not defined by fixed points or measurements but by conditions.” Allen’s text could also be read as a polemic which argues for the transition from the individualist spirit of late capitalism to forms of architecture which favour egalitarian and social-democratic values. Feel Conditions is a terminally online cousin to Field Conditions. It is an architecture that spreads out across surface, invested in intentional sharing—and perhaps over-sharing—as much as it’s interested in isolation and logging off. The House Transformed is curated by Mónica Ponce de León and assistant curated by Shoshana Torn and Massimo Giannone. Fabrication Assistance: Rahul Sehijpaul Physical Model: Gladys Lee Client Group and Creative Consultation: Ana Zeiter Smith, Evan Webb, Michael Derworiz, Geoff Scot Workshop and Facilities: John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto

Introducing ‘PARADE!’, a studio led by @commonaccounts as part of the 🟡 International Emerging Workshop. [1/2] Historically, parades and festivals organize civic space, transmit messages to the public and often model prospective worlds or realities yet to come. Parade itineraries have produced urban form in cities like Athens and Rome. Across time, parades have been organized to articulate urban and transurban relationships to power and value. 💭 How can the parade’s capacity to mobilize persuasion realize radical transformations to the city? How can ephemeral events like parades produce lasting vestiges in the lived environment and urban form? Participants will reflect on the power of urban parades, processions and rituals as pragmatic architectures for city building. This workshop proposes to leverage these ephemeral architectures to enhance daily life in the public realm, aiming to provoke lingering changes as it charts a path through Barcelona’s streets and plazas. → The International Emerging Workshop will take place in Barcelona from 🗓️ 19 to 27 June 2026. Participants will engage in collaborative explorations through studio work, site visits and open exchanges. The results of the work will be exhibited during the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026. Interested in applying? Find all details at 🔗 uia2026bcn.org → The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona is organised by the International Union of Architects (@uia_architects ) through the Higher Council of Professional Associations of Architects of Spain (@cscae ) and the Architects’ Association of Catalonia (@coacatalunya ). UIA2026BCN receives institutional support and is funded by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (@viviendagob ), the Government of Catalonia (@territoricat ), and the Barcelona City Council (@barcelona_cat ). #UIA2026BCN #Becoming #Barcelona2026 @bcn_arquitectura Images: 1. Common Accounts portrait, © Rainer Torrado (@rainertorrado ). 2. Remote Rituals, Common Accounts. 3. Verifiable Truths, Common Accounts.

Best of España 2025 AD SPAIN Common Accounts has been included in this year’s selection @ad_spain “BEST OF ESPAÑA.”Special thanks to @mariona__rubio @maitesebastia and @marinaasins and to the entire AD SPAIN team. More in AD SPAIN - October 2025 Issue. Image: Annex Post by @commonaccounts Video: @andrewgilbride

HAVE A NICE DAY — a project by Common Accounts, produced by ArtWorks and currently on view at the mudac in Lausanne until October 5. A suspended structure that acts as an artificial sun, activating heat, light and sound in sync with the presence of visitors. Using everyday devices, the work creates an immersive experience that moves between sculpture and architecture, turning the museum into a living, performative system. 🎥 Full video on our YouTube channel 📷 (2,3) Cynthia Ammann 📷 (6) Saskia Knobel 📷 (5,8) Common Accounts @commonaccounts @mudaclausanne #aw_artworks

„Our practice is driven by a desire to identify the cultural pulse and articulate the moment through design. We see architecture as a lens through which we can understand and engage with the lived environment (in other words, the world).“ The Toronto- and Madrid-based duo Common Accounts engages in a research-driven practice rooted in a desire to identify the cultural pulse and articulate the moment through design. They understand architecture as a lens through which to interact with and interpret their surroundings. In our interview, they speak about their unique approach and their recent projects Have a Nice Day and The Death Report, which explore themes such as the sun’s psycho-social associations and the intersections of death and architecture — all through a design perspective. Read the full interview on the website. Photo 02 by © Bruno Lança – ArtWorks all other Photos by ©️ Common Accounts