Events

75th anniversary of IFLA establishment of Webinar Program
Education & Academic Activities Chair Session

Hanoi’s development has experienced a turbulent history with more than a thousand years of foreign influence from China, French colonization (1873-1954), and socialism following the model of the USSR (1945-1986). Since 1986, Vietnam’s Đổi Mới economic reforms brought rapid urbanization and growth as well as greater connection to the global capitalist market. All these economic and political transitions had a significant impact on the development of housing in the city.

The first architectural exhibition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC) in 2023 will officially open on Tuesday, July 18. "Infinity Ground - Thailand and Taiwan Contemporary Architecture Exhibition" is organized by The Association of Siamese Architects Under Royal Patronage and Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture (Taiwan), and in cooperation with Chulalongkorn University - Faculty of Architecture, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang - School of Architecture, Art, and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi - School of Architecture and Design, and Silpakorn University - Faculty of Architecture.

This 10-day workshop will be a collaborative experience, allowing for various ways of involvement through presentations, seminars, collaborative work sessions, site visits, city trips and more!

This fall the Pulitzer Arts Foundation gleans insights into pressing issues of the built environment by way of building artifacts, the architectural salvage left in the wake of urban renewal and accelerated material change in St. Louis. Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis presents more than 25 objects—from a theater façade to a hand-pressed clay brick—drawn from the National Building Arts Center (NBAC), the nation’s largest collection of architectural, structural, and industrial artifacts, located in a former steel foundry 10 minutes from St. Louis’s downtown.

At Outsider (leading Slovene language magazine on architecture and space), we are dedicated to the promotion and research of earth/loam construction, which we perceive as the building material of the future. We have published extensively on the topic and organised festivals, workshops and an international architectural competition dedicated to building with earth. This year, we are expanding our activities even further: with the support of the Creative Impact Research Centre Europe (CIRCE), we have started developing a modular formwork system, aimed at simplifying rammed earth construction and encouraging new, innovative ways of using this material.

Matsue City is steeped in history, from carefully preserved samurai residences and tea houses to the majestic fortress of Matsue Castle. Completed in 1611, Matsue Castle is one of only a few castles in Japan to retain its original castle keep and is designated a national treasure. At this talk, Matsue Mayor Akihito Uesada illuminates the city’s fascinating samurai history, rich cultural heritage and culinary treasures. The program includes an exclusive viewing of a historical reenactment video of the construction and establishment of Matsue Castle. Previously only available on-site at the Matsue City Museum, this video is being shown for the first time outside Japan—at Japan Society. Attendees will also discover Matsue’s culture first-hand through special on-stage demonstrations by some of the city’s highly skilled craftspeople.

The New York Institute of Technology is pleased to invite you to the "Students as Researchers: Creative Practice and University Education" Collateral Event of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia - "The Laboratory of the Future" curated by Lesley Lokko. The Collateral Event, curated by Maria Perbellini with deputy curators Marcella Del Signore, Sandra Manninger, and Athina Papadopoulou is hosting a book discussion on Artificial Intelligence: “Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information: From Big Data and Simulation to Artificial Intelligence”by Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Routledge, London 2023. The Collateral Event is located at the Armenian Culture Studies and Documentation Center, Dorsoduro 1602, Venice.

Please join us next month for our Zoom webinar panel discussion, Inflection Point, which will consider the ways that Generative AI impacts, hinders, or helps the future of the Architectural Visualization industry.

Istanbul, save the date, it is time to celebrate!

I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O N F E R E N C E O N
A R C H I T E C T U R E A S B U I L T C R I T I C I S M

July 1, Saturday, 18:00, the courtyard of the Bulgarian Pavilion, Biennale Architettura 2023, 18th International Architecture Exhibition The Laboratory of the Future, Venice
panel discussion with:
Andreas Ruby, director, the Swiss Architecture Museum S AM in Basel
Aneta Vassileva, architect, architecture critic and historian, professor at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia
Erich Schoenenberger, architect, adjunct assistant professor at Pratt Institute; director of su11 architecture+design
Katrine Daugaard Jørgensen, architect, head of transformation at Henning Larsen; consultant of the design brief for the architecture competition of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Center in Gabrovo
Tania Hristova, mayor, Gabrovo Municipality
Vladimir Yavachev, operations and project director, Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Unbuilt is a studio-based private network for architects and a fresh take on paper architecture. Unbuilt hosts exhibitions of studio work in an experimental digital space. Viewers will inhabit an immersive, social exhibition to experience the architecture together.

Atlas of Hope Conference
29 June 2023

The Los Angeles Design Festival returns Thursday, June 22-Sunday, June 25, 2023, with the theme, “Design for the People.” Join global and local creatives in celebrating art, design, culture, and community at ROW DTLA, Helms Bakery District in West L.A., and the Downtown Long Beach Design District, along with a variety of independent events hosted throughout the city. From talks and studio tours to exhibitions, installations and block parties, the 2023 Los Angeles Design Festival is free to attend.

We invite you to join re:arc institute—a new philanthropic organization supporting architectures of planetary well-being—in celebration of the opening of The Greenhouse: a UIA Pavilion in the form of a new, youth-focused environmental education space in Copenhagen.

MLA+ is opening its doors to the public on Saturday the 24th of June and you are invited!