The Denver Affordable Housing Challenge is an international architecture competition organized by AIA Colorado, the City and County of Denver, and Buildner. As the 19th installment in Buildner's Affordable Housing Challenge series, the competition explores how affordability and design excellence can be harmonized to create innovative, high-quality housing solutions tailored to Denver's specific context.
The 10th edition of MICROHOME marks a special milestone in Buildner's ongoing effort to explore the future of compact, sustainable living. This edition is presented in collaboration with Kingspan, a global leader in high-performance building solutions, and Hapi Homes, a company transforming the way homes are designed and built through technology, sustainability, and prefabrication. Together, they invite architects and designers from around the world to take on the challenge of shaping the next generation of micro-living.
The Architect's Chair Competition offers architects and designers an exciting opportunity to showcase their creativity by designing a signature chair that embodies their unique architectural vision. Inspired by the tradition of renowned architects creating custom furniture as an extension of their work, this competition challenges participants to distill their design philosophy into a single, iconic piece.
This exhibition presents an ongoing, cross-cultural design collaboration between Finnish interior architect and designer Esa Vesmanen and the Japanese brand minä perhonen. Within the interior of Maison Louis Carré, Vesmanen and Akira Minagawa—artist, designer, and founder of minä perhonen—integrate the influence of Alvar Aalto into their shared creative dialogue. Minagawa, inspired by Nordic design culture, shares with Esa Vesmanen a deep interest in tactile materials and craft-based techniques. Their design discussions inspired a special edition of Vesmanen's Finom lighting line, which explores the possibilities of paper-thin plywood, continuing Aalto's legacy of experimenting with wood's formal potential.
View of the City: Vedute and Panoramas from the Albertina
Continuing Professional Development
Lecture Series for Professionals
Following the success of its previous three seasons, the CAA is pleased to announce the launch of Season 4 of its Continuing Professional Development Lecture series for professionals.
The 48h Open House Barcelona architecture festival returns on the weekend of 26 and 27 October for its 15th edition and asks the public, "How do you want to live?"
Mycelium Muse: discover Reishi™ from MycoWorks and Paragone Agency
HouseEurope! will present its campaign and legal proposal at the HouseEurope! Assembly at Tempelhofer Feld. The event will include an introduction to the initiative, an overview of its goals, and a spotlight on international partners. Attendees will also watch The Demolition Drama, followed by a discussion with selected contributors from the film, including Lacaton & Vassal, Ruth Schagemann, Barbara Metz, and others.
The fourth annual World Monuments Summit brings together World Monuments Fund's (WMF) global team of experts, partners, thought leaders, and guests for a series of discussions on heritage preservation at Rockefeller Center in New York City, home to WMF's headquarters.
Open House Dublin returns with a nine-day programme, taking place from October 12 to 20! With over 200 free events, including guided tours, workshops, exhibitions, and more, the festival offers a unique opportunity to discover Dublin city and county as a place of belonging for all.
Utopian Hours 2024: Europe's Leading Festival on City-Making and Innovation
The eighth edition of Utopian Hours, Europe's premier festival dedicated to city-making and urban innovation, will take place from October 18-20 at Centrale Lavazza in Turin.
The European Prize for Urban Public Space is now in its final phase which includes two days in which the teams representing the five finalist works in the general category will present their projects in public at the CCCB and the Jury will announce the winning projects.
On the weekend of October 12th and 13th, Open House Tallinn returns with more than 40 buildings opening their doors for free guided tours. The programme offers fascinating locations across Põhja-Tallinn, the city centre, Mustamäe, Tondi, Nõmme, and Kadriorg.
AFFR is the place to be again this year for the best documentaries, thrilling feature films and fascinating shorts about architecture, landscape and the city! In 2024, the festival has a new programme organized around thematic sections, and with more feature films than ever before, among them the Oscar-winner The Zone of Interest - including an introductory lecture by the film's production designer, Chris Oddy, the classic film NO by Pablo Larrain, and the pre-premiere of the latest film by Andrea Arnold, Bird.
10th month of the "12 Months” project will be curated by Meganom architectural studio and untitled architecture at Library for Architecture in Yerevan.
“Ordinary Architecture” is a curated program exploring the essence and quality of everyday spaces where people live and interact daily.
The main idea is to speak about the utopian city of Yerevan and make noticeable the layer of Ordinary architecture.
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At LFA we are focusing on the research of texts supporting the theory and its link to professional practices. In Italian tradition theory is explicitly implemented into the practice of architects and designers.
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Meganom bureau and untitled architecture invited Italian studios to LFA, who will present in both formats: offline and online.
1. @fosburyarchitecture, 2. @cinozucchiArchitetti, 3. @jacopolaveratto, 4. @formafantasma, 5. @alessandr.o.rocca.
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Many thanks to our sponsors and partners!
General sponsors: Green construction & Glasswork
Partner: Casa Ricca
Supporter: d’Arvestanots
Special thanks to: Ibis Hotel Yerevan
'Like the trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, so over the years an architect leaves behind a body of work, generated by the attitudes he gradually accumulates towards the agenda he deals with: climate, building materials, structural systems, functional requirements, and so forth.'
- Charles Correa in his essay 'Snail Trail', 2013
Black Creative Builders (BCB) is hosting a must-attend event on Sunday, October 13th at 2.00 pm at the inspiring EOTO Headquarters in Berlin!