BEAR

BEAR is an architecture office in Bilbao founded in 2016 by Ane Arce and Iñigo Berasategui, who describe the practice as a discursive one: buildings are arguments about territory, memory and collective life rather than isolated objects. The studio moves between public housing, schools, cultural facilities and landscape, and has won the Elgoibar health centre and the offices and social centre in Zorrotzaurre, Bilbao.

Recognition has arrived steadily, with the Peña Ganchegui Prize for the best young Basque architects in 2019, an Egurtek Award in 2020 and several COAVN Awards, alongside a place in the Spanish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Biennale. Its Zubitegi Park was nominated for the EU Mies Award. At Concéntrico 2026 the studio installed Temblores de superficie among the vines of Viña Lanciano, the festival’s only project outside Logroño.