For this issue of Dearq, "Tectonic Matter," we are seeking contributions that treat tectonics not as a style or a fetish of detail, but as a rigorous field in which architecture's material realities, its sourcing, craft, labor, structural systems, fabrication protocols, and performance criteria become inseparable from how space is perceived, inhabited, and understood.
Who can submit: We welcome submissions from architects, historians, theorists, engineers, educators, and researchers. Interdisciplinary and context-specific approaches are encouraged, provided they remain anchored in tectonics as a conceptual and practical field of architectural invention.
The editors invite submissions of research articles, case studies, visual essays, and projects will be accepted, provided they are original and unpublished and comply with the journal's editorial policy.
Guest editors:
Nader Tehrani
(The Cooper Union, USA)
Julián Palacio
(The Cooper Union, USA)
Rafael Villazón
(Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)

Inventing Sauna: Playing with Fire, Smoke and Water

Participation is free of charge. The winners of the call will be announced by August 2026. The selected Pecha Kucha presentations will be included in the programme of the 6th biennale svizzera del territorio. Selected contributors will be entitled to free accommodation and full access to all three days of the biennale.

The Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture invites abstract submissions for the upcoming EKA Arh Conference 2026: To Be Continued…, a biennial international peer-reviewed conference held as a satellite event of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale.

Taiwan will open the first Taiwanese publicly funded center for architecture in December 2026. The opening will be celebrated with an exhibition titled Democratic Architecture—Architectural Democracy.

The second edition of EDGE Architecture Festival Budapest (EDGE Fest), organised by Építészfórum, will take place on 18-19 June 2026 in Budapest at Dürer Kert and the industrial venues of Hengermalom.

As part of the CONTEMPORANEA programme, the House of Architecture of Rome promotes the Call for Proposal 2026, addressed to architects, planners, landscape architects and/or conservation specialists, and aimed at selecting a research project to be developed through the use of the space known as "Monitor P" at the Casa dell'Architettura of Rome for a three-month period, between April and June 2026.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House (Buffalo, New York) is pleased to announce a call for applications to its Creative Residency Program. The residency provides individuals from multiple disciplines a thought-provoking environment in which to produce new works of the imagination inspired by one of the great examples of 20th century architecture.
Applications to the 2027 season will open on March 30, 2026 and close on April 24, 2026. They will be accepted in two distinct categories. The Artist Program supports the development and presentation of creative works as they relate to Martin House. The Researcher Program provides opportunities to conduct research that will lead to published texts or projects in various fields, again as they relate to Frank Lloyd Wright and Martin House.
Creative makers who are selected to participate will generally spend 2-4 weeks onsite either consecutively or incrementally within the residency term: June - October, 2027. Residents are also expected to deliver a free public program, performance, exhibition, or other creative presentation in order to share their Martin House-inspired work with the larger public.
Residents will receive a stipend of $5,000. Travel expenses of up to $1,000 will also be provided to residents who are from outside the Buffalo-Niagara region.
The Creative Residency Program is an opportunity for the Martin House to respond to and engage with our community. We anticipate that it will lead to more robust interpretations of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Martin House, and the people who once lived and worked here so as to expand the dialogue as to what great architecture is and why it matters.

Our Call for Ideas for Forecast's 2026-27 Edition Is Open!

There’s a housing crisis. Construction projects are facing delays. There’s concern about the declining role of the architect. Despite this, remarkable architecture is still being created.

The School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is now accepting applications for the “2026–27 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship. Named for the architect and educator Doug Garofalo (1958–2011), the nine-month visiting faculty teaching and research fellowship provides emerging designers the opportunity to teach design studio and seminar courses and conduct independent research, culminating in a public lecture at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and an exhibition or public conversation at the school.

The Master in Collective Housing (MCH), in collaboration with TC Cuadernos, a renowned architecture magazine, has announced the second annual call for research grants. This grant, aimed at supporting architecture thesis or research projects, offers up to €6,000 to help transform the work into a published book.

When I recently found myself flooded, during the ever-expanding shopping frenzy of the so-called Black Friday season, with offers branded as Singles' Day deals, it struck me: singles have become a remarkably powerful force in our societies. The prominence and intensity of Singles' Day—a celebration that began among students at a Chinese university in the early 1990s and has since grown into one of the largest global shopping festivals—underscores that singles are no longer just a demographic statistic, but a transformative presence reshaping cities and economies worldwide. That is why we aim to investigate, with this new issue of MONU entitled "Singles Urbanism", how singles transform cities and to understand the spatial consequences of life lived alone, and the growing prevalence of living outside the traditional structures of coupledom and family, and its urban influence.

The 6TH biennale svizzera del territorio, organised by the Istituto Internazionale d’Architettura in Lugano, is launching a call for action on the theme “handle with care”. The call is open to professionals of all ages and from all over the world.
Building, demolishing, building again... that is easy. But caring for things, making them last, keeping them alive, repairing them. That is a difficult task. You have to observe, listen, pay attention. Study, understand. Recognise what exists, even if it’s fragile, even if it’s not perfect. You need allies. It’s a task for those who know from experience the consequences of destruction, who know the price of maintenance, who know a thing of beauty is a joy forever. If you can handle it, caring is power.
Proposals can be of many kinds, ranging from installations, constructed or transformative interventions, to performances, artistic works, or architectural visions.

The Institute for Public Architecture (IPA) welcomes applications for the 2026 Independent Project Residency based at the historic Block House on Governors Island.

The GAD Academy is a post-graduate certificate program where young architects can get hands-on experience in a professional architecture office while learning computer skills, theory and history.

CALL FOR FILMS 2026
▶︎ 18th Budapest Architecture Film Festival (2026)
▶︎ organised by KÉK – Contemporary Architecture Centre

Winter Stations is an international design competition held annually in Toronto, Canada. We're calling artists, designers, and architects from around the world to submit public art proposals for the 2026 exhibition 'Mirage', exploring the boundary of what is seen and what is real in the age of AI.

Epistle announces the second edition of the Epistle Writing Prize, following its launch in 2024. The prize is an annual competition dedicated to recognising outstanding writing on design, architecture and environment. Celebrating the power of the written word, participants are invited to inform, intrigue or persuade readers by presenting novel arguments or interesting narratives on the built environment. Stemming from Epistle's mission to democratise architectural discourse, the prize seeks to highlight compelling voices and stories from the Global South, bringing attention to previously unheard perspectives.

Join the next “modern conversation”: we examine the relationship between time, modernity, and architecture, searching for traces of time. We aim to reflect on the connection between the built environment and the regulation of time, whether through obvious examples like clock towers or less obvious ones such as religious and industrial buildings. What is the relationship between the regulation of time and modernity? How has the introduction of certain structures and typologies shifted our understanding of time and the way we quantify it? What constitutes architecture that is strongly connected to time, and what is truly timeless? What ruptures occur that challenge such architecture?

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.