Brutalist Italy is the first photographic book of its kind with a selection of more than 100 Italian brutalist buildings shown through 146 images taken by the Italian architectural photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego.
Over the past 5 years, the two Italian photographers, authors of Soviet Asia (FUEL, 2019), have traveled more than 20,000 km crossing all the regions of the peninsula to document the great variety of buildings built in this style, the majority between the 1960s and the 1980s.

US Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy, and Defense is a new large format, photo-driven book featuring the fourteen most significant midcentury modern American Embassies built during the Cold War. The 171-page book by David B. Peterson features a wealth of over 200 previously-unpublished archival images. Written for a general audience, this book is the first of its kind published on midcentury modern diplomatic architecture.

When: 2 October 2023
Where: City of Baky, the Republic of Azerbaijan

Every year, the International Committee for Architecture and Museum Techniques (ICAMT) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) organises an important international conference that brings together experts from different fields, namely museum studies, architecture and exhibition design.
This year, the University of Porto will host the 49th ICAMT International Conference from 25 to 27 October 2023. Together with the ICAMT, the Portuguese entities responsible for organising this event are the Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória (CITCEM/UPorto) and the Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (CEAU/UPorto).
The Conference's central theme will be "Undoing conflict in museums: materiality and meaning of museum architecture and exhibition design". Conference participants will focus their reflections on the power of conflict. Debating how opposing ideas can enhance, change and develop in museums and exhibitions, and the role of architecture and exhibition design in managing conflict in museums.In addition to the presentations organised, the program will include a variety of case studies, providing visits to museums (such as Galeria da Biodiversidade - Centro Ciência Viva, Casa Comum da Reitoria Universidade do Porto, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Museu do Porto - Ateliê António Carneiro, Museu de Serralves, Bienal de Design (main exhibition), Casa da Arquitectura and Museu da Memória de Matosinhos) to consider how museum practices have addressed various conflicts in terms of architectural choices and exhibition design practices.

In this workshop we will explore together the urbanist concept of the ‘15-Minute City’ alongside London-based architectural group Archigram’s ‘Instant Cities’. You will be invited to explore the surrounding hidden gems of modernist architecture in Notting Hill. Participants will record, document, and represent their surroundings through a range of techniques and materials, such as: collage, photography, rubbings and drawing.

The Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) presents the highly-anticipated annual Singapore Archifest for its 17th iteration starting late September this year. Directed by Calvin Chua, Archifest 2023 warmly welcomes you to “Interim: Acts of Adaptation”– an invitation to rethink our built environment as continually being in a state of transition. Presenting itself as a lab, this edition of Archifest investigates the potential of adaptive architecture as the mode of action in response to pressing environmental, cultural, and technological change.

Assembled from the private collection of Singapore-based RT+Q Architects, this exhibition showcasing the buildings of Le Corbusier (1887-1965) features dozens of scaled models of the iconic Swiss-French architect’s work. Through the years, it has been a tradition at RT+Q for interns to spend their first week studying and building a model of a Le Corbusier project, the aim being to acquaint them with his diverse design legacy. This exhibition will run in the LWR Gallery until November 17.

Join architect Nzinga Biegueng Mboup, principal of the Dakar-based practice WOROFILA, for a lecture on designing and building in the Senegalese context, with references to its climate, culture, traditions and unique “concrete modernity.” Mboup will address working with biomaterials, passive design strategies, her various cultural projects, and her research and collaborations. A Q&A session will follow.

By re-contextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, David Gissen’s 2023 book The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access challenges current modes of architectural practice, theory and education by proposing architecture that fully integrates disabled persons into its production. Both the author and book look beyond traditional notions of accessibility and show how certain incapacities can help to positively reimagine the roots of architecture. A Q&A session will follow Gissen’s presentation.

A celebration of sea swimming – looking at the architecture, history and social significance of sea pools around the world.

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The A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 2023 are open from the 13 September 2023

Nominations are open for the 2024 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize!

We aim to translate our research findings into applications through design studies and artworks. The goal of the residency is to explore new ways in which to apply our research results for creative expression. Specifically, we aim to collaboratively create an art piece or design prototype that will be exhibited and publicized in appropriate venues. The residency at GCM can last for up to three months starting in March 2024 at the earliest.

Maeve Brennan and Sophie Jung
opening 31 August, 6pm at A plus A Gallery, Venice
curated by School for Curatorial Studies Venice

The factory from the famous movie Schindler’s list by Steven Spielberg will be resurrected. A global architectural student competition INSPIRELI AWARDS introduces the new topic for 2024 Inspireli Competition -The Schindler’s Ark - creating the Museum of Holocaust Survivors and Sustainable living area in the Schindler’s factory.