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.
Marlon Blackwell, FAIA together with his partner in life and work, Ati Blackwell, AIA, ASID lead the internationally recognized practice Marlon Blackwell Architects. Their work has received recognition with significant publication and more than 200 design awards including the 2016 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture and the 2025 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. Working between the universal language of architecture and the particulars of place, they have cultivated a studio recognized for its formal clarity, contextual depth, and architectural integrity.
David Godshall is principal at TERREMOTO, an award-winning California-based landscape architecture studio he started in 2012 with his late business partner Alain Peauroi. TERREMOTO has offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Example of the Nested Floor System capacities. Courtesy of Offsite Wood and Quebec Wood Export Bureau
The latest release of Offsitewood.org marks a significant step forward in making offsite wood construction more approachable for architects. Version 2.0 introduces a set of digital resources aimed at helping designers model, plan, and collaborate more efficiently.
Free downloadable libraries are a central and expanding feature of the site. Additionally, new applications and services are now available that include wood material e-sample viewers, an advanced panelization and framing toolbar for Revit, and a collaborative workspace for project optimization.
This year marks 20 years since the first VELUX Daylight Symposium—two decades of shared insights, ideas, and exploration into the role of daylight in our built environment. Since its humble beginnings in 2005, the symposium has grown into a leading international forum for cross-disciplinary dialogue on daylight.
The 10th edition, taking place in the heart of Copenhagen, will once again bring together researchers, architects, engineers, and policymakers to examine the evolving role of daylight in architecture and design. It's a space where science and practice meet to reflect on past learnings and look ahead to the future of daylight in our cities and spaces. Join the livestream on September 18th, 2025, from 09:00 to 17:30 (CEST).
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2025 Research Prize, the 2025 European Research Prize, and the 2025 Robert L. Wesley Award.
The Capital City of Podgorica has launched an international, open, single-stage, anonymous design competition for the conceptual urban and architectural design of a residential and mixed-use complex within the "Gradski Stan" (City Housing) project.
2025 Call for Nominations: PAVE Global Educator of the Year
The PAVE Global Educator of the Year Award honors and celebrates a full-time educator for their outstanding accomplishments and commitment to design education.
This international competition challenges students to design a Store-within-a-Store snacking destination for Hershey inside a grocery store. Three winners each receive $4,000, Gala travel, and $1,000 educator stipends.
The Chungbuk Art Center Construction Project aims to expand key infrastructure to lead the future of performing arts in Chungcheongbuk-do (Chungbuk). This initiative aims to strengthen its position and improve its functions as a leading provincial performing arts facility. Beyond merelyproviding a performance space, theproject aims to serve as a cultural hubthat links and enhances the region's artistic potential.
Norwich University High School Architecture Competition: Pocket Place
Architecture is about solving problems for people through the composition of light, space, and material. It is about embracing the way space can be sculpted to improve how we live.
Manchar Lake Art Residency is offering an opportunity for four emerging artists working in any medium; and one for mid-career practitioner or collective of upto three people, for a site specific installation. If you are a visual practitioner interested in indigenous communities, climate activism, and heritage, this is your chance to participate in this funded opportunity. Heritage Cell-Department of Architecture and Planning NED University (HC-DAPNED) started the documentation of the Mohanna houseboats through Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme funding in 2022. The project further grew with the support from Cultural Protection Fund–UK for restoration of 44 galiyo (houseboats), and also respond to wider concerns of ecology, environment, culture, and heritage. The art residency builds on this work, offering artists a platform to engage with these interconnected themes.
ADAM | Mediterranean Archive of Architectural Drawings seeks to investigate the practice of the architect through drawing as the privileged medium for translating ideas into projects.
Enter the Re:Form – New Life for Old Spaces #2 Architecture Competition now! 10,000 € in prize money! Closing date for registration: February 4, 2026
Choose a site–used, abandoned, or forgotten–anywhere in the world, and give it a new purpose!
