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For this issue of Dearq, "Tectonic Matter," we are seeking contributions that treat tectonics not as a style or a fetish of detail, but as a rigorous field in which architecture's material realities, its sourcing, craft, labor, structural systems, fabrication protocols, and performance criteria become inseparable from how space is perceived, inhabited, and understood.
Who can submit: We welcome submissions from architects, historians, theorists, engineers, educators, and researchers. Interdisciplinary and context-specific approaches are encouraged, provided they remain anchored in tectonics as a conceptual and practical field of architectural invention.
The editors invite submissions of research articles, case studies, visual essays, and projects will be accepted, provided they are original and unpublished and comply with the journal's editorial policy.
Guest editors:
Nader Tehrani
(The Cooper Union, USA)
Julián Palacio
(The Cooper Union, USA)
Rafael Villazón
(Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)

The Dallas Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing public education about architecture, design, public space and the urban environment, continues its 2025-2026 Lecture Series with The Rose Family Lecture on Thursday, May 7, 2026. The Forum is pleased to present 2025 AIA Gold Medal winner Deborah Berke, Founding Principal of TenBerke Architects and Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. This lecture will be held at the Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station. Forum members may attend for free. Tickets for non-members will be available at the door - $5 for Students (with student ID), $25 General Admission. Check-in and pre-Lecture Reception will begin at 6:15 pm in the lobby of the Angelika.

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On 18 September, Aarhus School of Architecture presents the sixth edition of the international architecture festival OPEN, this year under the title Mies Didn't Come Home That Night.

The 20th Anniversary of the Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier in 2026
To mark this symbolic anniversary, the FAV is evolving its traditional format and presenting a distinctive edition focused on Transmission. In 2026, the festival will once again take over the courtyards of Montpellier’s private mansions from June 9 to 14.
For this occasion, emblematic teams from previous editions are invited to take on a new role: that of mentors. This role represents a symbolic passing of the torch and a gesture of trust toward the new generation, while remaining rooted in a collective approach.

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Register for NeoCon 2026, the premier event for designing spaces where we work, live, travel, and heal. Join us June 8-10, with Preview Day June 7 (Noon-4pm), at The Mart in Chicago for the year's biggest design gathering.

Bridging the gap between architecture and landscape, the Villa Medici Festival des Cabanes presents six original architectural creations in the historical gardens, designed by international teams of architects and architecture students, together with a program of summer events.

The competition was launched on March 20th 2026 following a landmark agreement between the City of Zagreb and the Croatian Government. This €224 million joint investment aims to replace aging infrastructure with a world-class, integrated sports precinct. The organisers invite visionary designs for a 35,000-seat stadium and a 'City of Sport' that honours the site's historic character while meeting 21st-century athletic needs.

In 1933 the United States government created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and gave it jurisdiction over a demarcated region—the watershed of the Tennessee. The TVA was authorized to develop the resources in the Valley and promote the welfare of its residents. The TVA pursued these goals by constructing three large-scale operations, referred as the river, land and power machines. The TVA also invested in social projects, including support for housing and tourist industries in the region. The Mechanized Landscape: Statecraft and Environment in the Tennessee Valley examines this comprehensive effort as a form of statecraft—the art of government persuasion and diplomacy—manifested through environmental transformation. It follows the TVA's physical transformations and its investment in infrastructural power—programs that extended the state's capacity to reach even the most remote residents. The product of this process, the mechanized landscape, is a testament to the TVA's complex approach to democracy, its racial and middle-class biases, and its technical and managerial acumen. By bringing together original photography, newly created maps, and text, this book offers a well-researched, visually compelling appraisal of the TVA's plans and their implementation. Rather than following a linear textual narrative, readers are invited to explore the complexity of the mechanized landscape through multiple media.

MATERIA · FORMA is a visual and editorial project documenting the transformation of Spazio Moby, formerly the site of the Moretti furniture factory in Treviso, Italy. The publication — conceived as a photographic and written reflection — chronicles the full arc of an architectural revitalization: from abandonment to renewal, from raw structure to inhabited space.
Opening with a quote from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, the book sets its tone immediately: cities of the future already exist in the present, layered and folded within one another. This idea of temporal stratification runs through the entire work. In an era defined by speed, the project deliberately slows down, choosing to dwell on the complexity and nuance of a process that cannot be rushed. Quality, the authors argue, demands care, attention, and the willingness to change direction — a process that is rarely linear.
The photographic gaze at the heart of the publication is intentionally unhurried and non-standardized. Rather than imposing a predetermined visual language, the images adapt to the space and context, seeking to read each environment in its deepest essence. The lens captures fleeting, unrepeatable moments — scenes that exist only in a specific "here and now" during the construction site's successive phases.
The building itself becomes the protagonist: first an abandoned shell, motionless and forgotten, yet rich with traces and memories of its industrial past. As demolition and transformation begin, the structure reveals its latent tension — a potential energy pointing toward what it might yet become. This tension becomes the generative force behind the design process, giving rise to new forms, new spatial relationships, and ultimately a renewed dialogue with the surrounding city.
Text by Silvia Possamai accompanies the visual narrative, weaving together architectural reflection and poetic observation. Together, image and word construct a layered account of time, material, and place — a record of how a forgotten building reclaims its identity and is reintegrated into the urban fabric of Treviso.
MATERIA · FORMA is both a document and a meditation: on the nature of transformation, on the patience that meaningful architecture requires, and on the quiet power of spaces that have been given a second life.

The Egyptian Graduation Projects Competition 3.0 Ceremony by We Are Desco, proudly sponsored by Aedas, is a prestigious event celebrating the top architectural graduation projects across Egypt.

New Schools on the Block presents a decade of school building practice by AFF Architekten, a collective of architects, craftspeople and researchers in Berlin and Lausanne.
For AFF, schools are not just places for learning, but also formative spaces for personal identities. As such, AFF aspires to create buildings that, through the interplay of their design and ways of use, provide settings for experiences that foster a sense of identity. The designs in this book range from the transformation of conventional corridor schools to the creation of new learning clusters. Numerous floor plan studies invite the reader to imagine diverse learning environments, and photos of the built projects show that even handrails or sanitary facilities can constitute engaging elements of design. Essays by Barbara Pampe and Gregor Harbusch, an interview with the architects by Josepha Landes, and cartoons by Peter Auge Lorenz contribute further perspectives that add depth over and above that of a lesson on school design.

The Museum of Architecture, the Great Exhibition Road Festival and Dr Neal Shasore have launched an open international design competition to rethink the Crystal Palace for contemporary society, considering what it might look like, how it would function and who it should serve.

Submissions are open to the Drawing of the Year Awards 2026! The seventh annual, global Awards are free to enter and celebrate excellence in creative imagery, drawings and visual representations.

On May 20, join MAP (Metropolitan Architecture Practice) co-founders Katherine Lambert, AIA, and Christiane Robbins in conversation at Rizzoli Bookstore to mark the release of the firm's new monograph. Created between 2022 and 2024, Architecture x Architecture: A Dialectic captures a pivotal moment when architecture began to grapple with its own synthetic reflection and traces how machine vision and generative AI are shaping multidisciplinary design practice in the 21st century. Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda (ORO Publishers) with project direction by Christiane Robbins, the volume includes a foreword by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, essays by Bill Seaman, Katherine Lambert, Christiane Robbins, Kyle Steinfeld, and Amanda Wasielewski, and an afterword by Aaron Betsky.