Buildner is pleased to announce the results of its third annual Architect's Chair Competition, which received excellent ideas from around the globe. Buildner has published two books on the topic, highlighting key ideas and outstanding projects from its past editions. With registration now open, we invite you to share your vision of the ideal chair by September 18th—submit your entry here.
Chair design exemplifies the interdisciplinary nature of architecture, showcasing architects' ability to adapt skills and sensibilities across scales and contexts, blurring the lines between architecture, design, and art. This versatility empowers architects to explore new ideas and challenge conventional notions of chair aesthetics, materials, and technology.
Catalonia in Venice_Water Parliaments. Graphic Design: Arauna+Paratext
Water is not just a resource—it is a voice, a right, a system of relationships. Water shapes landscapes, communities, and futures. It nourishes, resists, and demands justice.
To celebrate 25 years of SketchUp, Trimble has announced a global “Design Sprint Challenge” inviting architects, designers, and creative professionals to imagine how small spaces can shape a better future. This time-limited competition challenges participants to design a meaningful space in just 60 minutes using SketchUp, with a grand prize of $5,000 and more.
Junzo Sakakura was born in 1901 in Japan. After graduating from the liberal arts department of the First Higher School in Tokyo, he entered the Art History Department of Tokyo Imperial University, where he became interested in architecture. He resolved to study under Le Corbusier, who was then becoming known as a leader of the modern movement.
Poster for Intelligens Play Lab Happenings — a series of street games by children during the opening days of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025.
Children to launch unofficial street happenings during opening days of Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, exploring global challenges through play. During the opening days of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, the Architectural Thinking School for Children will stage a series of unofficial street happenings across Venice as part of their ongoing project Intelligens Play Lab. At its heart lies a question: How does children's intellect develop mechanisms for solving contemporary global challenges through the universally understood medium of play? In the spirit of reclaiming public space, children will activate Venetian streets with street games they have designed themselves—each one tackling themes such as forced migration, climate change, dictatorship, war, and more. These happenings temporarily transform the city into a public laboratory of ideas, where children's perspectives become both the method and the message. Just decades ago, the streets of Venice—like those in many cities—belonged to children. Through the improvisational logic of play, they rehearsed futures they could not yet name. Intelligens Play Lab revives that logic, now focused on the pressing crises of today. The project is developed by the Architectural Thinking School for Children, a think tank of children and interdisciplinary professionals. Founded in Minsk in 2016 and relocated to Lisbon in 2022, the School works at the intersection of architecture, pedagogy, and social research—empowering children aged 5 to 15, many of them migrants, to become full participants in cultural life.
Don't miss this fast-paced, design-inspired evening with FORT: LA featuring architect Leo Marmol, FAIA, discussing historic houses and their timeless teachings, architectural writer Frances Anderton and a special guest tackling a controversial architecture topic, and sommelier India Mandelkern as she pairs perfect wines with iconic designs.
Festival's poster by Jan Šrámek, courtesy of Open House Praha.
Now in its eleventh year, Open House Praha returns from 12 to 18 May with an extensive programme of guided tours, walks, discussions, lectures, exhibitions, and other events. During the festival's main weekend of 17–18 May, visitors will be invited to join free guided tours in over 125 buildings and spaces, many of which are normally inaccessible. Both public and private buildings will open their doors, including historic palaces, representative villas, industrial landmarks, and contemporary buildings.
The University of Waterloo School of Architecture class of 2025 is proud to reaffirm our long-standing Presence in Rome with an exhibit of our design projects, sketches, photographs and videos. Through it, we seek to convey the lasting impact of our temporary stay in Rome, the most layered of cities, where ancient buildings and urban armatures are inhabited by a modern people. As foreign student designers, we explored a reciprocal approach to these spaces, striving to take in the rich history of the land, while providing our own unique perspective.
Open House Vilnius 2025 poster by graphic designer and animator Liudas Barkauskas, courtesy of Architektūros fondas
On May 10–11, Open House Vilnius, organised by Architektūros fondas, returns for its 11th edition. Once again, the event will invite residents and visitors to explore architecture through free tours of unique buildings that are usually closed to the public. Over 50 sites will open their doors, and popular meetings with the city's creators—a hit from last year— will return. A new addition to the programme will be four guided stories about green urban spaces.
RE_SOLUTION_Steve Adler, Mayor of Austin 2015-2023 at IE School of Architecture and Design
On May 12, 2025, IE School of Architecture and Design will host, as part of its RE_SOLUTION public series, a lecture by Steve Adler, mayor of Austin from 2015 to 2023, followed by a conversation with Marianthi Tatari, Director and Senior Architect at the firm UNS.
Open House Lisboa 2025 poster, courtesy of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Open House Lisboa, now in its 14th edition, returns this year on the weekend of 10 and 11 May with the theme "The Invention of Lisbon". Organised by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and curated by architects Daniela Sá and João Carmo Simões, the event features a list of 72 spaces, 23 of which are making their debuts on the festival's itinerary. The programme also includes four new Urban Tours, which will be presented and accompanied by experts; the Accessible Tours, which will include 21 spaces in 2025; Soundwalks; the Plus and Junior Programme, with various activities.
Scott Johnson, FAIA, discusses his new book, "Inside Architecture: A Design Journal," a personal journey through a life in architecture. Scott is joined by publisher Ann Gray, FAIA. All book sales benefit Architecture for Communities, Los Angeles.
The Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo at the 19th International Venice Architecture Biennale presents Lulebora nuk çel më. Emerging Assemblages, a sensorial exploration of rupture and reconfiguration in Kosovo’s shifting landscapes: the uprooting of ecological relationships and embodied knowledge systems under climate pressure, and the new forms of sense-making that emerge in liminal spaces of uncertainty.
