IE School of Architecture & Design hosts Yasmeen Lari at the IE Creative Campus Segovia as part of its 2025–2026 CRAFT & CARE lecture series. Lari will discuss how her practice redefines architecture as a tool for care, resilience, and social transformation—working directly with communities through low-cost, zero-carbon construction and knowledge-sharing systems.
ICFF returns to the Javits Center from May 17–19, 2026, under the theme Common Ground, uniting the global design community for three days of inspiration and discovery. The fair showcases innovative products, immersive exhibits, and forward-thinking ideas from both emerging and established designers, all within a dynamic environment that fosters connection, creativity, and dialogue. This year introduces new partnerships, including a first-time collaboration with Habitat for Humanity NYC and Westchester, focused on housing equity.
The Administration of the Palanga City Municipality has announced an open architectural design competition for the future "House of Arts" gallery in Palanga, located at Vytauto Street 16.
A contemporary art gallery today is no longer merely a place for exhibiting artworks – it is a dynamic cultural platform open to both the local community and the wider world. Such spaces bring together art and people, fostering dialogue, creativity, and inspiration.
The planned art gallery in Palanga represents a significant step in the city's cultural development. The project aims to enrich the identity of the seaside resort by introducing a contemporary cultural venue that meets international standards.
Competition Objective
The objective of this architectural competition is to identify a design solution that combines contemporary architectural expression with the unique identity of Palanga.
The building should become not only a gallery but also a distinctive architectural landmark – a place that attracts visitors and invites them to return.
The project is expected to create an aesthetically compelling, functional, and visitor-friendly environment that meets the highest standards required for contemporary art spaces.
The competition seeks to select the architectural concept that best meets the architectural, functional, and technical requirements specified in the competition brief and its annexes.
The future Palanga Art Gallery is envisioned as an open platform for both international and local art, encouraging the community and visitors to engage, learn, and experience culture.
The project aims to preserve the unique character of the seaside resort while introducing a new cultural dimension of international quality, strengthening Palanga's role not only as a leisure destination but also as a cultural center by the Baltic Sea.
Arte Laguna Prize opens applications for the 21st edition
Exhibition of 120 finalists in Venice
The European Collective Housing Award shines a light on collective housing projects that genuinely change how people live – not just architecturally, but socially. We celebrate both the building and its impact: new constructions and renovations, public and private, from anywhere across the 46 countries of the Council of Europe. The open call is aimed at all actors involved in collective housing – architects as well as housing cooperatives, developers, construction companies, public administrations, even residents: until April 30, free of charge, anyone can submit their projects in 2 categories: Renovation and New Construction (must be completed in 2024 or 2025; minimum 3 dwellings per development).
Organised by the Basque Architecture Institute (EAI) and arc en rêve centre d'architecture with the support of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda of the Basque Government, the award brings together architects, policymakers, scholars and citizen representatives around a shared conviction – that housing is one of the most important questions of our time.
The Sustainable Buildings and Construction Summit 2026 (20-22 April, SwissTech Convention Center, Lausanne, Switzerland) convenes stakeholders across the buildings and construction value chain: government officials who develop building policies working alongside academics advancing research, private sector and AEC leaders implementing solutions, financiers mobilising investment, and civil society—bridging the gap between policy commitments and on-ground implementation.
Collective housing is a hallmark of Europe. The 2nd edition of the award is looking for collective housing projects to highlight their social impact and the policy frameworks that support them. Submissions are free and open until 30 April.
Post-industrial modernity generated a wide range of collective housing models that left a lasting mark on European cities and architectural history: from the Hofs of Vienna and the Weissenhof Siedlung to Le Corbusier's Unité d'habitation and the works presented at Berlin's Interbau.
The excesses of the modern movement cast a long shadow over social housing – a stigma that post-modernity failed to dispel. Yet since the turn of the millennium, new forms of collective housing have re-emerged, reconnecting with welfare-state ideals amid pressures from urbanization, property market tensions and ecological urgency.
Frank Gehry & Robert Tannen: Art, Architecture & Ideas This unique book presents a richly illustrated and deeply personal account of the lifelong friendship, artistic exploration, and professional dialogue between two seminal figures in contemporary architecture and design: Frank Gehry and Robert Tannen.
A sweeping history of humanity's most fundamental creation—the home—and its effects on the land, cities, and people themselves.
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 Mohamed Makiya Prize is part of Tamayouz Excellence Award's programme that champions and celebrates the best of architecture in the Middle East and North Africa. Every cycle, the prize is presented to the 'Architectural Personality of the Year', or the individual/organisation that has made the greatest contribution towards the advancement of architecture in a specific period. The winner will be celebrated during the biennial Tamayouz Excellence Award Ceremony.
La Chambre and the European House of Architecture - Upper Rhine are launching the 8th edition of Archifoto - European architectural photography competition.
Since 2010, Archifoto has brought together documentary and artistic views on current architectural issues. By favouring a free and subjective viewpoint, it rewards photographers whose vision helps us to understand the urban and natural landscape, the ways of living and living together, and the new ways of building the world and society.
Tile of Spain returns to Fuorisalone with "Spanish Design As A Souvenir"
Tile of Spain, the international promotion programme of the Spanish ceramic tile industry led by ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones and ASCER (Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers' Association), will present Spanish Design As A Souvenir at Fuorisalone 2026. The installation, conceived by Madrid-based practice Codoo Studio, will be on show at the Università degli Studi di Milano — Ca' Granda (Via Festa del Perdono, 7) as part of MATERIAE, the major exhibition event organised by Interni Magazine during Milan Design Week, from 20 to 30 April 2026.
Spanish Design As A Souvenir is a contemporary still life at architectural scale: eleven oversized sculptural objects, each one a reinterpretation of an iconic element of Spanish material culture — from the flamenco trivet to the Dalí-inspired lips sofa — entirely clad in ceramic tile. The project brings together 15 Spanish ceramic manufacturers, each brand assigned to one or more of the eleven pieces: Cristacer (El Salvamanteles), Vives (Las Castañuelas), Arcana (El Plato), Dune Cerámica and Harmony (El Aceite), Decocer and ECerámico (El Cenicero), Colorker (La Camiseta), Cevica (La Milán 430 and La Pajarita), Argenta and Tau Cerámica (La Bota), Apavisa, Gayafores and El Barco (El Imán), and Vidrepur (El Beso).
The installation follows Tile of Spain's participation at Fuorisalone 2025 with The Light in the Darkness, designed by Viruta Lab, which attracted over 270,000 visitors at the same venue.
Dates: Thursday 26 March - Saturday 28 March 2026
Cost: FREE (for AIA members and Non-members)
Total CES: Estimated 20 LUs for AIA Members (TBC)
From 19–21 March, Architektūros fondas is organising an international three-day symposium on circular design, featuring a conference and an accompanying art programme. By linking critical discourse in urbanism and architecture with artistic practices, the symposium 'What Goes Around Comes Around' approaches circular design not only as a strategy for the reuse of spaces and materials, but also as a way to rethink value, labour, energy and continuity over time.
Under the theme "The Art of Movement" and curated by Marisa Yiu, Co-Founder, Lead Curator and Executive Director of the Design Trust Hong Kong, the Exhibition delves into the architecture, art and natural landscapes of Hong Kong from the 1980s to today, through 30+ donated works.
TAB 2026 Installation Programme Competition invites architects to rethink luxury through the lens of limited resources
The 8th edition of Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB 2026) (www.tab.ee) will question cost, value, and sustainability in architecture with the theme “How Much?”. Curated by Kertu Johanna Jõeste, Ra Martin Puhkan and Siim Tanel Tõnisson from Stuudio TÄNA (www.stuudiotäna.ee) (Estonia) together with Mark Aleksander Fischer (Estonia) and Mira Samonig (Austria), TAB 2026 will run from September 9th – November 30th, 2026.