New Schools on the Block presents a decade of school building practice by AFF Architekten, a collective of architects, craftspeople and researchers in Berlin and Lausanne.
For AFF, schools are not just places for learning, but also formative spaces for personal identities. As such, AFF aspires to create buildings that, through the interplay of their design and ways of use, provide settings for experiences that foster a sense of identity. The designs in this book range from the transformation of conventional corridor schools to the creation of new learning clusters. Numerous floor plan studies invite the reader to imagine diverse learning environments, and photos of the built projects show that even handrails or sanitary facilities can constitute engaging elements of design. Essays by Barbara Pampe and Gregor Harbusch, an interview with the architects by Josepha Landes, and cartoons by Peter Auge Lorenz contribute further perspectives that add depth over and above that of a lesson on school design.

The Museum of Architecture, the Great Exhibition Road Festival and Dr Neal Shasore have launched an open international design competition to rethink the Crystal Palace for contemporary society, considering what it might look like, how it would function and who it should serve.

Submissions are open to the Drawing of the Year Awards 2026! The seventh annual, global Awards are free to enter and celebrate excellence in creative imagery, drawings and visual representations.

On May 20, join MAP (Metropolitan Architecture Practice) co-founders Katherine Lambert, AIA, and Christiane Robbins in conversation at Rizzoli Bookstore to mark the release of the firm's new monograph. Created between 2022 and 2024, Architecture x Architecture: A Dialectic captures a pivotal moment when architecture began to grapple with its own synthetic reflection and traces how machine vision and generative AI are shaping multidisciplinary design practice in the 21st century. Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda (ORO Publishers) with project direction by Christiane Robbins, the volume includes a foreword by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, essays by Bill Seaman, Katherine Lambert, Christiane Robbins, Kyle Steinfeld, and Amanda Wasielewski, and an afterword by Aaron Betsky.

CAMPOSAZ 51:51 | Costruire Centrale - Wooden Self-Build Workshop
The workshop will take place in Ex Centrale del Latte, Vicenza, Italy
From 22-05-2026 to 31-05-2026
Applications must be submitted by midnight on 6 Maggio 2026

Open call for built projects.

The annual celebration of architectural excellence returns once again with the 15th National Architecture Symposium: Echoing Brilliance, organized by the Architecture Network (ARCHINET) as a celebration of its 20 years of legacy and distinction. This convergence of insight, knowledge, and discussions of more than 600 forward-thinkers will be held on May 2, 2026 at the Buenaventura Garcia Paredes O.P. Building in the campus of the University of Santo Tomas, Manila.

Across Europe, craft is expanding beyond the workshop and into public health and community care. Co-hosted by Artex, this year's European Crafts Alliance (ECA) Annual Conference explores the critical intersection of making, social participation, and wellbeing.

The object of this guide is to provide architecture learners with concise and accessible information about contextualized styles and movements. Think of the style or movement as a bright star in the sky. This book takes us beyond its shine, exploring it from every angle and uncovering its every detail. after explaining the historical context, we provide details for each style about the architectural concepts, landmarks, notable architects and architectural elements, so whether the reader was a student, enthusiast or professional in the field, this book aims to serve as a valuable resource to deepen your understanding of architecture.

Samoa's Iconic Fale: How Culture Informs Architecture (ISBN: 978 4 9910659 0 3) is a new, brilliant book that brings decades of research together to document the traditional construction of Sāmoa's iconic meeting houses. Drawing on rare knowledge from master builders, early travellers, and recent scholarship, it highlights why the fale remains central to Sāmoan identity, community, and cultural life.

The subject of this competition arises from the need for the Zabjelo neighborhood in Podgorica to obtain a Local Community Center that will, through its program, contribute to improving the social quality of life of its residents. More precisely, its content will support the long-term development of the Capital City through principles of spatial planning, along with social and economic development and environmental protection.

London, UK — Galerie de Nuage hosts a cross-disciplinary talk about inclusive urban environments as part of the London Festival of Architecture programme.

IE School of Architecture & Design will host, as part of its RE_SOLUTION public series, a lecture by Lord Marvin Rees OBE, Mayor of Bristol from 2016 to 2024, followed by a conversation with Santiago Íñiguez de Onzoño, Executive President of IE University.

Buildner has launched the Unbuilt Award 2026, the third edition of its annual competition, offering a €100,000 prize fund. At the same time, the results of the Unbuilt Award 2025 have been announced, marking the second competition in a series that celebrates architectural designs that have yet to be realized. The initiative provides a global platform for architects and designers to showcase their most compelling unbuilt projects—whether conceptual, published, unpublished, or fully developed.

In the city, aesthetics are not measured by the height of towers or the width of roads, but by their ability to evoke meaning within space. From this perspective, the Mujassam Watan initiative emerges as more than a mere artistic endeavor. It involves a deliberate attempt to redefine the relationship between people and place, between material memory and imagined identity. In the city of Khobar, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia—where urban modernity intersects with rapid social transformation—this initiative raises the question: How can a sculpture become an open text, one that is both visually read and experientially felt?

The global offsite construction market—encompassing modular, precast concrete, and hybrid prefabricated systems—was valued at USD 172 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach USD 225.7 billion by 2030 (CAGR 4.9–8%). In the UAE, government targets call for 25–30% offsite content in public projects by 2030; the UK currently leads globally, with 15–20% of housing using offsite solutions. Offsite manufacturing is increasingly promoted as the sustainable future of construction, with benefits including reduced waste, accelerated delivery, and improved quality control. Sustainability is not defined by how quickly a building is assembled. It is defined by how long it performs.

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.