Craft and Care at IE School of Architecture and Design
Lecture by Alice Rawsthorn, an award-winning design critic and author, whose books include "Design as an Attitude", "Hello World: Where Design Meets Life" and, most recently, "Design Emergency: Building a Better Future", co-written with Paola Antonelli, senior curator of design at MoMA, New York. Alice's books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and her weekly design column for The New York Times was syndicated worldwide for over a decade. In all her work, she champions design's potential as a social, political and ecological tool to foster positive change.
Open House Stockholm 2025 poster. Courtesy of Open House Stockholm.
Open House Stockholm celebrates its 10th anniversary with a weekend of free tours and activities from 3 to 5 October, inviting residents and visitors alike to explore the city through architecture. Marking a decade of opening doors, the festival continues to reveal the hidden sides of Stockholm, offering rare access to buildings and spaces that are usually closed to the public.
Making its debut this October, Weaving Dialogues is the public programme of Time Space Existence 2025, designed as a platform to enrich ECC Italy’s biennial architecture exhibition as a space for exchange and reflection. Extending the exhibition’s themes into wider conversations, it brings together voices from the show to engage with this year’s recurring topics: Repair, Regenerate, and Reuse. The inaugural edition of Weaving Dialogues will take place on 9 and 10 October in the iconic venue of Palazzo Michiel in the heart of Venice.
Held at New York City's Rockefeller Center, home to World Monuments Fund (WMF)'s global headquarters, the 2025 Summit welcomes experts and audiences from around the globe for a one-of-a-kind event.
OPEN Bilbao 2025 poster, courtesy of Asociación Open Urbanity.
The Open House festival in Bilbao, OPEN Bilbao, returns for its ninth edition with an extensive programme of visits and activities that invite the public to discover the city’s architectural heritage while highlighting new ways of understanding and practising architecture. Taking place from September 29 to October 5, the festival not only explores some of Bilbao’s most emblematic buildings but also highlights alternative approaches to the profession, offering a broader perspective on what architecture can mean today.
Held within the framework of Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, Tomorrow.Building World Congress aims to catalyze a positive change in the way we plan, construct, renovate and operate buildings and urban infrastructures.
Scaling for Enough – How do we scale solutions while knowing the limit of "enough"? Imagine a construction industry not only driven by profit and growth, but also by sufficiency, care, long-term visions, and urgent action. This year's theme at Building Green CPH is "Scaling for Enough", unfolding across five stages at Lokomotivværkstedet in central Copenhagen on 29–30 October. Together, we will explore concepts such as moderation and sufficiency in a time when construction must both slow down and reduce emissions, while simultaneously finding solutions that create more affordable housing. Join us in identifying our real needs and, with sufficiency in mind, discovering solutions that can truly make a difference and ensuring they become widely accessible.
Small Lots, Big Impacts Design Competition, cityLAB – UCLA, 2025
This panel discussion will explore how the right to housing—in Los Angeles and globally—isn’t just a political, legal and economic issue, but also an architectural one. What does the right to housing mean in practice? And how can designers contribute? Moderators Dana Cuff (cityLAB UCLA) and Karen Kubey (University of Toronto) will be joined by architect Julie Eizenberg and Professor of Urban Planning Ananya Roy to discuss these urgent questions and examine promising housing models, laying the groundwork for ways forward.
Janet Echelman (American). “Enfold,” Hill House Montecito, CA, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Joe Fletcher.
Step into a world in which interconnectedness and innovation abound with "Janet Echelman: Radical Softness," on view Nov. 16, 2025-April 26, 2026, at Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design. Janet Echelman's solo exhibition at Sarasota Art Museum traces more than four decades of her path-breaking career, offering an intimate look at Echelman's artistic evolution through drawings, paintings, textiles and the artist's renowned monumental, netted sculptures and sculptural dance performances. The exhibition also marks the debut of a series of cyanotypes created from 3D models and photographs made during her design process, translating her monumental forms into a new photographic medium that uses the environment — sunlight — as both method and subject.
Keller Easterling is a designer, writer and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale. She is currently working on a book about land activism in the US after the Civil Rights Movement. Other books include, Medium Design (Verso 2021), Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999). Easterling is also the co-author (with Richard Prelinger) of Call it Home, a laserdisc/DVD history of US suburbia from 1934-1960.
The Case Study House program was founded in 1945 with the goal of adapting wartime era technologies and materials into future forward, mass produced, middle class homes for a peacetime economy.
Hsinming Fung, AIA has been Principal and Co-Founder of Hodgetts + Fung since 1984, a studio with expertise in the design of unique places for learning, cultural events, and civic functions. H+F’s approach is multifaceted, embracing visitor experience, technology, and iconic presence in a disciplined process, resulting in a bold, uncompromising architecture. The firm’s award-winning projects include the design of the renovated Hollywood Bowl, Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center, CalArts’ Wild Beast Pavilion, Jesuit High School Chapel, and Nashville’s new Ascend Amphitheater. Current projects include the renovation of Culver City’s historic Robert Frost Auditorium and a West Hollywood mixed-use development. H+F was awarded the AIA Gold Medal and the AIA CC Firm of the Year Award.
Mark Lee is a principal and founding partner of the Los Angeles-based architecture firm Johnston Marklee. Since its establishment in 1998, Johnston Marklee has been recognized nationally and internationally with over 50 major awards. A book on the work of the firm, entitled HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE, was published by Birkhauser in 2016. Monographs include: 2G N. 67, El Croquis N. 198, and A+U N. 614.
Rooms that resonate, colours that breathe – the exhibition presents a multifaceted chapter of Ingeborg Kuhler's œuvre bringing together travel sketches, watercolours and technical drawings to create a dialogue that renders architecture tangible as visual poetry.
Mark Jarzombek is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at MIT's School of Architecture + Planning. Jarzombek works on a wide range of topics – both historical and theoretical. He is one of the country’s leading advocates for global history and has published several books and articles on that topic, including the ground-breaking textbook entitled A Global History of Architecture (Wiley Press, 2006) with co-author Vikramāditya Prakash and with the noted illustrator Francis D.K. Ching. He is the sole author of Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective (Wiley Press, 2013), which is a sensitive synthesis of first society architecture through time and includes custom-made drawings, maps and photographs. The book builds on the latest research in archeological and anthropological knowledge while at the same time challenging some of their received perspectives. Jarzombek also published a book that interrogates the digital/global imaginaries that shape our lives: Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).
Life adapted to our material environment. Until the moment we discovered tools, technology and architecture. Then we acquired the power to adapt our material environment to life. You can look at the evolution of human history as a tale shaped by the materials we have known how to harvest and process. As evidenced in how we name the epochs of human history – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age – our capacity to manipulate matter is perhaps the greatest force driving the development of our culture. By reclaiming the term materialism from the realm of empty consumerism, we aim to bring it back to the practice of formulating our future through form and matter. We will go on an odyssey through the material world through the works of BIG starting with solid rock and ending with the flow of electrons.
