What is risk worth? Architecture is inseparable from uncertainty—sometimes embraced, sometimes resisted, but always present. We invent bold forms that may fail. We propose brighter futures that may falter. To practice architecture is to take on risk—with capital, with reputation, with the city, with the lives shaped inside it. For the innovator, risk is agency, progress, recognition, and the chance to improve lives. For those who mitigate risk, it’s value is inseparable from the scaffold that protects progress from catastrophe. For those outside the conventional practice, such as architect-developers, design-builders, and others, risk is currency, the price of control. Each stance reveals a different measure of what risk means and what makes it worth taking. These tensions will enliven the conversations at the heart of this event.
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.
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Join the Livestream: Experience the 10th VELUX Daylight Symposium on 18 September!
The VELUX Daylight Symposium is where knowledge meets practice in a unique forum dedicated to the transformative power of daylight in architecture and design.
This symposium aims to decode and challenge the societal attitudes and design conventions that shape contemporary design and impact bamboo use. Highlighting case studies from bamboo growing regions such as Colombia and Indonesia, it draws on the expertise of three leading voices:
In the face of the global housing crisis, the challenges of affordable and social housing go far beyond construction cost and speed—they encompass spatial quality, social equity, governance mechanisms, and environmental impact. Directly addressing these complexities, this July, the Institute of Smart City and Management - University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH - ISCM), in collaboration with partners from Korea, Singapore, and Thailand, will host the International Conference Dwelling in Transition: Reimagining Affordable and Social Housing across Scales and Systems. The conference will be a multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral platform for professionals to come together, share knowledge, and rethink the meaning of "affordability" through lenses of design, policymaking, finance, and sustainability. With new definitions, models, and theoretical frameworks built upon expert research, this event aims to reshape housing paradigms to better suit today's economic and social realities. Main Topics: 🏠 Margins: Grey Areas and Emergent Practices 🏠 Materials and Methods: Constructing Affordability 🏠 Instruments: Policy, Finance, and Governance The conference also welcomes papers exploring topics related to design, planning, technology, finance, impact measurement, community engagement, sustainability and livability. ☀️Submission Guidelines: Please send a single PDF file including all required information to iscm@ueh.edu.vn, cc to haihln@ueh.edu.vn by 8:00 PM (GMT+7:00) | June 30, 2025. Submission must include: 1. Title (max. 100 characters) 2. Subtitle (max. 150 characters) 3. Author Information (full name, affiliation, email) 4. Short Bio (max. 300 characters) 5. Keywords (max. 3) 6. Abstract (max. 2000 characters, including spaces) 7. Representative Image (1 image, preferably original work by the author) 8. 3 References
Assemble! at Copenhagen Architecture Biennial 2025
The ecological crisis demands a building sector operating within planetary boundaries. But significant structural barriers block the road. Over two action-packed days, you’ll gain the tools, strategies, and narratives to overcome them.
Our shared goal is clear: create a building sector that operates within planetary boundaries and ensures a thriving future for both people and planet. Systemic change can’t happen in silos.
That’s why Assemble! brings together architects, engineers, economists, developers, legal experts, and practitioners to rethink the regulations, ownership models, and design processes that quietly define our cities.
Assemble! is a structural experiment, a policy rehearsal, and a launchpad for bold
The 14th National Architecture Symposium: Weaving Visions brings together 600+ attendees on May 2, 2025, at Marquis Events Place, BGC, featuring global insights from six renowned architects, including Ar. Ken Yeang and Ar. Jia Xin Chum.
The architecture industry ignites once again as the Architecture Network holds the annual celebration of the 14th National Architecture Symposium (NAS): Weaving Visions. An assembly of more than 600 individuals with global influences in the field will be held on May 2, 2025, at the Marquis Events Place in Bonifacio Global City.
The airport terminal is the ultimate ‘architectural promenade’, a typology of high modernism and a megastructure with complex programmatic configurations. Today, the high-tech aesthetic is being replaced with a more holistic approach, where smart tech and new materialities are used to support the transformation. Besides geopolitical uncertainties, concerns for the climate are key drivers for the reinvention of the airport terminal.
"The Heart of LA: Memories, Resilience, and the Road to Recovery" is a free public conversation about the LA fires and recovery for the region, moderated by architecture journalist Frances Anderton. This public forum will offer an opportunity to hear testimonials, mourn the community's losses, and have a constructive dialogue about rebuilding. Topics include short-term needs and long-term plans, the squeeze on housing supply, the role of fire insurance, and how the design community can help Los Angeles build back with wisdom and resilience. Architects, builders, advocates, and other experts will discuss and answer questions. (Additional speakers to be announced.)
The Euregional Sustainability Center invites you to take part of this free online symposium, where professionals of the field will exchange information and discuss the status-quo, regulations and incentives for of sustainable and healthy constructions.
Despite the amount of information, certifications and guidelines available for the development of sustainable and healthy contructions, profissionals in the field still face many barriers to realize such projects.
Sails and Wood, 1974; courtesy of Newport Mansions
50 years after the pioneering exhibition, Monumenta, opened in Newport in 1974, The Preservation Society of Newport County will honor its anniversary with a symposium at Rosecliff. Monumenta was a groundbreaking event that showcased 54 large-scale outdoor sculptures across the Newport landscape by 40 artists, including Willem de Kooning, Robert Indiana, Louise Nevelson, Jules Olitski, Henry Moore, Barnett Newman, Richard Fleischner, David Smith, Christo, Claes Oldenberg, Barbara Hepworth and Alexander Calder.
CITY’SCAPE begins, a two-day event dedicated to LANDSCAPE DESIGN that will showcase the most current themes at the Triennale di Milano. Over 40 speakers from 10 countries, including Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Croatia, Turkey, Denmark, China, Finland, and Italy, will participate in the eighth edition of the International Symposium and award "CITY’SCAPE - Landscape design as a strategy in climate change for urban and social resilience," scheduled for July 11th and 12th in the prestigious setting of the Salone d’Onore of the Triennale di Milano.
AGENCY: The Power of Architects Inside, Beside, and Beyond Practice
AGENCY (noun) is defined as: 1a: the office or function of an agent 1b: the relationship between a principal and that person's agent 2: the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power 3: a person or thing through which power is exerted or an end is achieved 4: an establishment engaged in doing business for another 5: an administrative division (as of a government)
The 13th National Architecture Symposium (NAS) gathers over 500 global architecture leaders on May 4, at the Philippine International Convention Center with the Laureate of the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Riken Yamamoto, as the Principal Speaker.
The 13th National Architecture Symposium (NAS): Leadership in Architecture is a prestigious gathering that brings together over 500 global leaders, professionals, and architecture students. Scheduled for May 4, 2024, at the Philippine International Convention Center - PICC in Pasay City, Philippines with the Laureate of the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Riken Yamamoto, as the event’s Principal Speaker.
