The 12th edition of Open House Madrid, the international architecture and city festival that enables the city’s most emblematic buildings to be visited through guided tours in small groups and virtual visits, is here. From 6 to 8 November 2026, more than 100 buildings and architecture studios that are normally closed to the public can be visited, and there will also be outdoor routes that will make up this guided walk around Madrid's architecture.
Over the course of four days, Open House Madrid will offer more than a hundred free activities including visits to emblematic and usually inaccessible buildings, outdoor routes, exhibitions, workshops and conferences that show how architecture and design contribute to improving life in the city.
Open House Madrid objectives include enhancing the transformational power of the architecture, or in other words, fostering the architectural culture and quality in the built environment, showcasing how design, innovation and sustainability can transform the city for the well-being of all. For this reason, it created the annual City Awards to reward those initiatives that foster more inclusive and sustainable urban development through design, mobility and architecture.
Founded in 2015
Open House Madrid is a non-profit initiative that aims to bring Madrid’s architecture and design closer to society free of charge. Since its first edition in 2015, the festival has become consolidated as the reference architecture event in Spain. The support of more than 330,000 visitors from all over the world in the previous ten editions have turned Open House Madrid into a not to be missed event for fans of architecture and design.
Madrid forms part of Open House Worldwide, the world’s first network of architecture festivals visited by millions of people in more than 40 cities (London, Lisbon, New York, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Milan, Rome, Sydney, etc.).
