In 2022, 50 years after Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour declared in their influential book Learning from Las Vegas that the desert town was to the Strip what Rome is to the Piazza, the American Academy of Rome debuted the exhibition From Las Vegas to Rome, exploring dialogues between these two cities through images taken by Dutch photographer Iwan Baan. This traveling exhibition is opening for the first time in the US in a new iteration on view at the Princeton University School of Architecture from August 6 through September 10, 2025.
India's largest smart tech event for residential and commercial spaces
This three-day event brings together 450+ leading brands showcasing the latest in smart home technology, home automation, lighting technologies, audio video solutions, smart security systems, smart building solutions, and consumer electronics.
India's only exhibition covering the entire value chain of the lighting industry
The event serves as a dynamic platform for architects, interior designers, lighting consultants, project developers and industry leaders to explore new products, trends and smart lighting solutions. It continues to drive the conversation around sustainability, smart design and energy-efficient technologies. This year marks the 30th edition of the LED Expo, India's premier exhibition dedicated to the latest advancements and innovations in LED lighting and technologies.
Join HELM and New Frameworks for a timely and powerful virtual event for those in the AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) industry and others interested in learning more about this current moment and how to respond to increased attacks on workers.
Making a house is no easy matter: you need to start at the beginning, stay the course and make it to the end. It takes determination and a certain amount of optimism. Initially, the goal seems so easy to achieve, so close that you can already see yourself walking around inside the house. However, it's never easy, nothing ever goes according to plan and, in the end, it takes much longer than you expect. That's the period that this book covers, the time spent thinking about a project, meditating on it, designing, discussing, building and supervising; all done as a team, bringing client, architect, site manager and builder together in a common goal. Telling this story is both documenting a journey and reflecting on it, a moment in time that in many ways is identical to so many other projects and so many other people. It's a shared experience that is worth passing on to others and remembering. In this particular case, how the journey progressed and how certain ideas were arrived at is the most interesting thing to relate. Through this description, which combines various materials and contents, we can understand the project in its various dimensions, both in its more practical and technical aspects, as well as in its social and human components. Not everything is immediately visible; we need to understand how we got there, study the process. Understanding this opens up a great opportunity for us, as architecture lovers, so that it becomes legible and capable of surprising us.
Launched in 2022, the annual student design competition is Resin’s tool to engage with students in the industry and capture forward thinking ideas from emerging professionals. Participants are encouraged to explore creative solutions through 3D visualization and present a concept that would bring a real-world benefit to the community surrounding the project location. The competition is open to current architecture, urban planning, and interior design students and recent graduates that currently live in the United States
The 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia features a notable presence from the SCI-Arc community, including students, alumni, and faculty. Their work appears across a range of contexts—from national pavilions to independent installations and research projects—engaging critically with this year's theme, Intelligens. The exhibition offers a compelling platform for exploring questions central to SCI-Arc's pedagogy: the future of design, the role of technology, and the possibilities of architectural experimentation.
Utopian Hours is the festival that tells the story of "making cities": the ideas, projects, and places that are improving urban life around the world.
Each year, 30+ international speakers, 350+ Italian urban practitioners and city-makers, and 100+ city officials from across Europe come together in Turin for three days of talks, inspiration, and exchange.
The Museum of Emotions is an annual international design competition that tasks participants with exploring the extent to which architecture can be used as a tool to evoke emotion. The brief calls for the design of a conceptual museum with two exhibition halls: one designed to induce negative emotions; the other designed to induce positive emotions. Participants are free to choose any site of their liking, real or imaginary, as well as choose the scale of the project. The meaning of 'positive' and 'negative' is up for interpretation: What two emotions might a designer consider contrasting? How might an architect conceive spaces which elicit fear, anger, anxiety, love or happiness?
The Museum of Emotions is a 'silent' competition: that is, participants must communicate ideas without text, and must use imagery alone. No form of text, whether design descriptions, annotations or even diagrammatic labels, is permitted.
Mongolia, the world's second-largest landlocked country, spans 1.5 million square kilometers. Yet, over 50% of its population—approximately 1.7 million people—reside in Ulaanbaatar, a city that occupies just 0.3% of the nation's total land area. This disproportionate population concentration has led to significant regional development imbalances and mounting urban challenges in the capital.
In response to these issues, Ulaanbaatar has undergone a series of comprehensive urban development initiatives. Since the first master plan was introduced in 1954, six such plans have been created. The latest, the Ulaanbaatar 2040 Master Plan, includes a strategic vision to decentralize urban growth through the development of two new satellite cities—one of which is the Hunnu City project.
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The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona (UIA2026BCN) announces the UIA International Student Competition, an invitation for students from around the world to engage with the Congress's core theme Becoming. Architectures for a planet in transition. Participants are challenged to design spatial interventions that enable resistance and adaptation to predictable threats related to political shifts, social transformations and climate change, among other concerns. This competition asks students to think beyond conventional design methods, using time as a design strategy to catalyse resilient future. This single-stage student ideas competition is organised and conducted in accordance with the UNESCO Standard Regulations for International Competitions in Architecture and Town planning and the UIA best practice recommendations. The competition brief has been developed by the UIA2026BCN Curatorial Team and organised by the Higher Council of the Orders of Architects of Spain (CSCAE) and the Architect's Association of Catalonia (COAC).
The event is proudly supported by several international universities and cultural institutions, reflecting a shared commitment to heritage, innovation, and collaboration across borders.
A two-day event bringing together architects, researchers, students, and creatives from around the world to explore architecture through conferences, workshops, and exhibitions. Held in the Yucatán region, the festival celebrates vernacular knowledge, contemporary practice, and cultural exchange in a vibrant, community-centered setting.
It all begins with an idea! Active since 2021, the Inspire Future Generations Awards (IFGA) celebrate exceptional initiatives within the built environment that centre the voices of children and young people. This annual competition welcomes entries from architects, planners, local authorities, developers, and other built environment professionals who are committed to advancing participatory design with children and young people. The IFGA recognises projects that demonstrate excellence, creativity, care, and a genuine commitment to engaging young people in shaping the spaces around them. Over the past four years, the Awards have played a key role in growing TET’s community of practice: connecting people, sharing knowledge, and fostering collaboration around inclusive and youth-centred design. Our principal aim of running this awards programme is to open up space for young people to be heard, participate in and empowered in decisions about the environments they live, learn, and play in. By highlighting the value of participation, the IFGA helps ensure that the design of our cities and communities reflects the needs, ideas, and aspirations of younger generations. Each year the winning award entries are added to the TET Resource Bank, sharing knowledge, examples and speakers for TET Dialogues. The entries are featured in our Empowering Environment Report and winners will have space to present and reflect on their work. This year the IFGA present 16 categories spread across three sections, don’t loose your opportunity: enter for the IFGA25!
Straight Talk About Building Back -CEQA Gone: Right or Wrong- Via Zoom - July 23
Join us for Hearing the Heart of LA: Straight Talk About Building Back, a timely and provocative Zoom conversation exploring the potential repeal or reform of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Taking place on July 23 from 5–6 PM, this session—titled CEQA Gone: Right or Wrong?—brings together diverse perspectives on how environmental review laws shape Los Angeles' ability to build housing, infrastructure, and more. Don't miss this essential conversation on the future of development in LA.
Sometimes, one drawing is enough to spark a revolution — not through detail or precision, but through imagination. A single image can challenge what architecture is, question what it serves, and propose what it could become.
Architecture Uncorked - August 9 - Barnsdall Gallery Theater
FORT: LA Presents Architecture Uncorked! Historic Homes, Hot Topics and Worldly Wine Don’t miss this fast-paced, design-inspired evening with FORT: LA featuring a sneak preview of Rebel Architects, episode 2 —Art and Rebellion in the ‘70s and ‘80s —before its official release! Join rebel architects Frederick Fisher and Thom Mayne in conversation with artist Chuck Arnoldi, moderated by Frances Anderton. More speakers to be announced! Sommelier India Mandelkern pairs perfect wines to match the rebel architect spirit.
