This year, SDD celebrates its 10th anniversary: 10 years of design experiences, networking, and creativity in the company of the best design brands and an ever-growing community of professionals and design lovers. To mark this milestone, we offer a rich program of activities throughout the year, an extended opportunity to discover the latest in design during the May Festival (16-23), and an open invitation to visit all our spaces on SoHo Design Day, Saturday, May 18.
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Open House Lisboa 2024. Coutesy of Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa.
The Open House Lisboa returns on the weekend of May 11 and 12, 2024, with a programme of guided tours and urban walks curated by sociologist Sandra Marques Pereira and architect Alexandre Marques Pereira.
A rendering of the exhibit With Every Fiber, designed by Studio Cooke John Architecture + Design, opening May 4, 2024 at Grace Farms; visualization by Hayes Davidson
Where do our building materials come from and are they made with fair labor?
The exhibition delves deeper into the story of Villa Mairea’s famous swimming pool.
The Pool series of four exhibitions, to be opened at the Aalto2 Museum Centre on 18 May 2024, will bring together Alvar Aalto’s architectural heritage, international skateboarding culture, and rap and hip hop culture. The three exhibitions themed around skateboarding are linked by the design of the swimming pool at the Villa Mairea, by Alvar Aalto, and its impact on international skateboarding culture.
The Summerschool Rurapolis is an offsite programme of the ÉNSA Versailles in collaboration with the University of Oviedo and LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, developed during the Laboral Impulsa residency programme. It is also an integral part of the NO-CITY open inter-university educational programme. The Summerschool Rurapolis will be structured around a series of lectures with well-known personalities at European level, and prospective explorations of the territory where the students will be sent on different paths in order to discover on their own way the multiple post-industrial, peri-rural and natural landscapes of Asturias.
RIBA's latest exhibition explores the narratives and attitudes embedded within the fabric of RIBA’s headquarters at 66 Portland Place, London, unpacking themes such as gender, race and imperialism through a series of new and exciting creative works.
The 39:39 edition of Camposaz will be in collaboration with Urbana Cooperativa Sociale, the promoter of the In-Mobility project which develops the themes of urban regeneration, sustainable mobility and social animation in 5 high schools in the Province of Vicenza. The objective of the workshop is to create 5 hubs based on a modular system which will be installed in the schools involved in the project. The hubs will have a social aggregation function, support for sustainable mobility (bike repair station) and teaching. The themes will be better defined by the outputs obtained during the workshops conducted with the students as part of the project's training course.
Collective Language - Asian Contemporary Architecture Exhibition, curated by Jenchieh Hung and Nada Inthaphunt
The first architectural exhibition at the IMPACT Arena Exhibition and Convention Center in 2024 will officially open on Tuesday, April 30th. "Collective Language - Asian Contemporary Architecture Exhibition" is the country's biggest and most important international architectural exhibition from The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage Exposition 2024 (ASA Architect Expo 2024), organized by The Association of Siamese Architects Under Royal Patronage, in collaboration with TTF International Company Limited. The principal curator is Jenchieh Hung, who is the exhibition chairman of The Association of Siamese Architects Under Royal Patronage, as well as an acclaimed architect from Hung And Songkittipakdee / HAS design and research. The executive curator is Nada Inthaphunt from The Association of Siamese Architects Under Royal Patronage.
Summer Sustainability Summit 2024 by One Click LCA
With a focus on sustainable construction & manufacturing, the Summit is relevant for architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and sustainability professionals. 2 days. 2,000+ digital guests. 100% free registration. 14 keynotes, panels, and talks with top global speakers, including CEO WorldGBC, VP Sustainability Schneider Electric, Sustainability Strategy at Autodesk, and Head of Sustainability at CBRE. Join us.
Avani Summer Workshop 2024 - DYUTI, a program that integrates various art forms to help young individuals hone their inherent talents and creativity. The workshop is designed to kindle young minds by sensitizing them to the intricacies, nuances, and aesthetics of everyday life. DYUTI provides a platform for participants to engage in individual and collaborative learning experiences with their peers and our team of expert faculty members. Through engaging sessions, our goal is to effectively shape their ideas, enhance creativity, and cultivate a sense of design.
ROB|ARCH 2024 , image curtesy of Association for Robots in Architecture
The growing presence of robotics in art, research, design, and construction has changed the way we practice and think through our tools. Since 2012, when the first ROB|ARCH conference was held, the role of robotics in creative practices and manufacturing industries has grown, shifted, and evolved. Robots are no longer a shiny novelty restricted to niche research proposals but are now a fundamental technical tool for interfacing between digital and physical worlds.
Together with our partners Sveriges Arkitekter would like to invite you to the Second conference of the Creative Europe program UREHERIT in Stockholm. This year's theme: Reconstructing the culture of architecture in Ukraine. Register to learn more about Swedish approach to sustainable rebuilding of cities, recommendations on holistic renovation of housing in Ukraine, participatory approach in heritage reconstruction, capacity building with education and continued professional development in the practice and project ‘Future Images for Ukraine’.
Eran Chen discusses ODA: Office of Design and Architecture, the first book to comprehensively consider the full range of ODA's projects, all grounded in a humanistic philosophy that informs and uplifts.
The "Conversations on Architecture and Art Without Boundaries" panel will be held on Friday, April 26, in partnership with The Istanbul Architecture and Urbanism Research Academy - AURA Istanbul and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Architecture.
From 27 April to 5 May 2024, the Peter-Behrens-Bau in Oberschöneweide will be the heart of BERLIN DESIGN WEEK 2024. Visitors can look forward to a comprehensive programme including everything from exhibitions to talks all the way to interactive workshops, all offering in-depth insights into innovative design concepts.