On the weekend of October 12th and 13th, Open House Tallinn returns with more than 40 buildings opening their doors for free guided tours. The programme offers fascinating locations across Põhja-Tallinn, the city centre, Mustamäe, Tondi, Nõmme, and Kadriorg.
Ergonomics is a layered focus that promises happier, and more efficient employees. It is material, acoustic, and cerebral, necessitating highly creative solutions that improve many dimensions at once. The Hushoffice team is pleased to highlight a few considerations toward the aim of better ergonomics, offering their hushFree booths as strong supports, now equipped with the intuitive hushAssistant system.
AFFR is the place to be again this year for the best documentaries, thrilling feature films and fascinating shorts about architecture, landscape and the city! In 2024, the festival has a new programme organized around thematic sections, and with more feature films than ever before, among them the Oscar-winner The Zone of Interest - including an introductory lecture by the film's production designer, Chris Oddy, the classic film NO by Pablo Larrain, and the pre-premiere of the latest film by Andrea Arnold, Bird.
10th month of the "12 Months” project will be curated by Meganom architectural studio and untitled architecture at Library for Architecture in Yerevan.
“Ordinary Architecture” is a curated program exploring the essence and quality of everyday spaces where people live and interact daily.
The main idea is to speak about the utopian city of Yerevan and make noticeable the layer of Ordinary architecture.
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At LFA we are focusing on the research of texts supporting the theory and its link to professional practices. In Italian tradition theory is explicitly implemented into the practice of architects and designers.
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Meganom bureau and untitled architecture invited Italian studios to LFA, who will present in both formats: offline and online.
1. @fosburyarchitecture, 2. @cinozucchiArchitetti, 3. @jacopolaveratto, 4. @formafantasma, 5. @alessandr.o.rocca.
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Many thanks to our sponsors and partners!
General sponsors: Green construction & Glasswork
Partner: Casa Ricca
Supporter: d’Arvestanots
Special thanks to: Ibis Hotel Yerevan
'Like the trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, so over the years an architect leaves behind a body of work, generated by the attitudes he gradually accumulates towards the agenda he deals with: climate, building materials, structural systems, functional requirements, and so forth.'
- Charles Correa in his essay 'Snail Trail', 2013
Black Creative Builders (BCB) is hosting a must-attend event on Sunday, October 13th at 2.00 pm at the inspiring EOTO Headquarters in Berlin!
ArchiBuild Expo, supported by the Australian Institute of Architects, is Australia's leading event for architects, designers and builders, showcasing cutting-edge products and solutions for the future of our built environment.
One of America’s finest art museums challenges designers to create ‘a museum for all’
Buildner, in collaboration with building materials manufacturer Kingspan, has announced the winners of the MICROHOME Kingspan Edition, awarding a total prize fund of 150,000 EUR. This year's competition, now in its seventh edition, attracted professional and student architects and designers from 115 countries.
From 4 to 5 October, the Biennale svizzera del territorio returns for its fifth edition ready to address an ever wider and more diverse audience.
"Back to the Future" is the theme of this year's edition, calling for bold visions of tomorrow and encouraging collective efforts to shape concrete alternatives to today's rapidly changing world. In a time marked by continuous crises, this edition places future visions at its core, aiming to promote shared aspirations over individual solutions. An invitation, especially to young people, to express their ideas to reclaim the future.
Visit ORGATEC 2024 from 22-25 October and experience innovative solutions and trends for the office world of tomorrow. Find out more about smart technologies, flexible working concepts and sustainable design. Be part of it!
As individuals, we all have the power to create a more equitable and compassionate world. The 67th Year Annual NASA Design Competition, organised by the National Association of Students of Architecture, India, is designed to inspire participants to go beyond conventional design thinking. Moderated by Ar. Dean D'Cruz, it challenges you to craft not just spaces but environments that elevate humanity and promote inclusivity alongside positive change.
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This year's edition of Open House Stockholm will take place from October 4 to 6, 2024, and expand its scope to showcase a wider variety of architectural sites across Greater Stockholm, offering a unique opportunity to explore both contemporary and historic buildings. The festival offers access to diverse spaces that are typically closed to the public, bridging the gap between modern architectural developments and historical landmarks.
"Open House Stockholm creates a unique forum where experts, decision-makers, and an interested public can meet and discuss the city's history, present, and future. It is a democratic piece of the puzzle in the development of our city," says Executive Officer Joanna Messmer.
The festival's program is thoughtfully curated to include a variety of building types — from newly constructed sites that highlight modern architecture to well-preserved historical landmarks that reflect Stockholm's past. It features functional spaces such as residential buildings, hospitals, and churches, alongside cultural venues like art galleries and theaters. Recognizing the importance of engaging diverse communities, the festival has extended into the Greater Stockholm area, allowing for broader audience participation.
As part of the Open House Europe 2024 programme, which focuses on accessibility and inclusion, a key component of this year's festival is its focus on inclusivity and providing a platform for diverse perspectives. For example, parks have been included in this year's program to create spaces where architecture, play, and learning intersect, particularly for our younger audiences. Additionally, an audio tour will be available during the festival weekend, offering insights into architecture and urban planning from an LGBTQ+ perspective, exploring how different groups experience and interact with the city.
Explore the full programme of the festival at openhousestockholm.com.
Open House Stockholm is part of the Open House Europe cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union. The project seeks to embrace a more inclusive debate about architecture and strengthen the role of architecture as a positive change-maker, addressing relevant social and environmental challenges. For more information about the project, visit openhouseeurope.org.
From October 1 to 6, Open House Bilbao returns with an exciting programme that invites the public to explore the city's rich architectural landscape through fresh and innovative lenses. This year, the festival embraces an open, inclusive approach, showcasing architecture in all its forms—from traditional spaces to new, unconventional practices that reflect the changing face of the profession.
The 8th edition of Open House Bilbao seeks to expand the public's understanding of architecture by highlighting its diversity. The festival will explore how the profession has evolved since the 2008 economic crisis, offering visitors the chance to engage with hybrid, sustainable, and participatory approaches to design. By featuring architectural practices that focus on community, ecology, and creative innovation, the festival aims to expand the public's view of architecture, showcasing not only iconic buildings but also lesser-known projects that challenge and diversify the traditional narrative of the field.
This year, Open House Bilbao introduces a range of activities designed to engage participants of all ages and backgrounds. The festival's programme is structured around six key actions: WALK, TALK, DESIGN, PLAY, SEE, and VISIT. Visitors can embark on thematic urban walks that explore the relationship between neighbourhood design and community life or join family-friendly tours that use play to explore Bilbao's architectural heritage. Creative workshops and exhibitions will offer additional ways to engage with the city's built environment.
As part of the Open House Europe 2024 programme, which focuses on accessibility and inclusion, Open House Bilbao places a strong emphasis on these issues. From guided walks led by experts in social design to creative workshops on inclusive urbanism, the programme is designed to engage participants from all walks of life. The interactive workshop 'Rethinking School Playgrounds' will explore the importance of inclusive and healthy educational spaces, while the discussion 'Ladies Make the City' will focus on the vital role women play in architecture, urban planning, and design.
As always, visitors will have the opportunity to explore over 70 architectural spaces throughout the city, including new additions to the festival's catalogue. Guided tours, many of which require no prior registration, will provide a unique chance to learn more about the city's architectural treasures, from contemporary buildings to historically significant sites. Special visits to peripheral areas and emerging local studios will also offer a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges and opportunities faced by today's architects.
Open House Bilbao 2024 celebrates architecture's diversity, innovation, and potential to transform communities. With a wide variety of events, tours, and activities, there's something for everyone to enjoy. Don't miss your chance to explore Bilbao's architectural heritage and discover new ways of thinking about the spaces we live and work in. Explore the full festival programme at openhousebilbao.org.
Open House Bilbao, organised by Asociación Open Urbanity, is part of the Open House Europe cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union. The project seeks to embrace a more inclusive debate about architecture and strengthen the role of architecture as a positive change-maker, addressing relevant social and environmental challenges. For more information about the project, visit openhouseeurope.org.
The "Architectural Material Technologies Commons" conference aims to revolutionize our approach to material responsibility in architecture and design. By focusing on novel, regenerative, resilient, indigenous, and traditional materials, AMT2025 seeks to foster sustainable practices that respect our environment, honor cultural heritage, and empower practitioners through the democratization of knowledge and skills.
New Exhibition at Danish Architecture Center Water is Coming
‘FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape’ focuses on the radical evolution of computational and material technologies that, during the last 25 years, have catalyzed one of the most creative and prolific periods in architecture since the early 20th century. The widespread uptake of computational tools did not yield a singular architectural or urban typology despite the sharing of genetic traits derived from the use of common tools, methods and even materials. Rather, the heterogenous products of this period, organized in this book through a taxonomy of eight themes—Stacked Aggregates, Modular Assemblages, Pixelated Fields, Cellular Clusters, Serial Iterations, Woven Meshes, Emergent Surfaces, and Multi-Agent Networks—each of which explores a dominant logic and set of morphological traits, reflect the complexity of advancing tools, logics, and systems whose evolution continues to breed new evolutionary types and an unlimited diversity of architectural species. These themes are theoretically explored and elaborated through the presentation of 145 built works and experimental architectural projects, which are then expanded through analytical and generative diagrams and models that further the design potential of the logics used to create them. Within the book, the architectures presented are considered as a population of objects responsible for the evolution of something that far exceeds the trajectory of a single project. They are thus explored less as autonomous works than as a collection of interrelated and interacting cultural artifacts in flux, whose formation, methods, and tools, as well as their experience, perception, and meaning are necessarily tied to a broader field of cultural production, contributing to the dynamic generation of new architectural and urban models.