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One of America’s finest art museums challenges designers to create ‘a museum for all’

From 4 to 5 October, the Biennale svizzera del territorio returns for its fifth edition ready to address an ever wider and more diverse audience.
"Back to the Future" is the theme of this year's edition, calling for bold visions of tomorrow and encouraging collective efforts to shape concrete alternatives to today's rapidly changing world. In a time marked by continuous crises, this edition places future visions at its core, aiming to promote shared aspirations over individual solutions. An invitation, especially to young people, to express their ideas to reclaim the future.

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This year's edition of Open House Stockholm will take place from October 4 to 6, 2024, and expand its scope to showcase a wider variety of architectural sites across Greater Stockholm, offering a unique opportunity to explore both contemporary and historic buildings. The festival offers access to diverse spaces that are typically closed to the public, bridging the gap between modern architectural developments and historical landmarks.
"Open House Stockholm creates a unique forum where experts, decision-makers, and an interested public can meet and discuss the city's history, present, and future. It is a democratic piece of the puzzle in the development of our city," says Executive Officer Joanna Messmer.
The festival's program is thoughtfully curated to include a variety of building types — from newly constructed sites that highlight modern architecture to well-preserved historical landmarks that reflect Stockholm's past. It features functional spaces such as residential buildings, hospitals, and churches, alongside cultural venues like art galleries and theaters. Recognizing the importance of engaging diverse communities, the festival has extended into the Greater Stockholm area, allowing for broader audience participation.
As part of the Open House Europe 2024 programme, which focuses on accessibility and inclusion, a key component of this year's festival is its focus on inclusivity and providing a platform for diverse perspectives. For example, parks have been included in this year's program to create spaces where architecture, play, and learning intersect, particularly for our younger audiences. Additionally, an audio tour will be available during the festival weekend, offering insights into architecture and urban planning from an LGBTQ+ perspective, exploring how different groups experience and interact with the city.
Explore the full programme of the festival at openhousestockholm.com.
Open House Stockholm is part of the Open House Europe cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union. The project seeks to embrace a more inclusive debate about architecture and strengthen the role of architecture as a positive change-maker, addressing relevant social and environmental challenges. For more information about the project, visit openhouseeurope.org.

From October 1 to 6, Open House Bilbao returns with an exciting programme that invites the public to explore the city's rich architectural landscape through fresh and innovative lenses. This year, the festival embraces an open, inclusive approach, showcasing architecture in all its forms—from traditional spaces to new, unconventional practices that reflect the changing face of the profession.
The 8th edition of Open House Bilbao seeks to expand the public's understanding of architecture by highlighting its diversity. The festival will explore how the profession has evolved since the 2008 economic crisis, offering visitors the chance to engage with hybrid, sustainable, and participatory approaches to design. By featuring architectural practices that focus on community, ecology, and creative innovation, the festival aims to expand the public's view of architecture, showcasing not only iconic buildings but also lesser-known projects that challenge and diversify the traditional narrative of the field.
This year, Open House Bilbao introduces a range of activities designed to engage participants of all ages and backgrounds. The festival's programme is structured around six key actions: WALK, TALK, DESIGN, PLAY, SEE, and VISIT. Visitors can embark on thematic urban walks that explore the relationship between neighbourhood design and community life or join family-friendly tours that use play to explore Bilbao's architectural heritage. Creative workshops and exhibitions will offer additional ways to engage with the city's built environment.
As part of the Open House Europe 2024 programme, which focuses on accessibility and inclusion, Open House Bilbao places a strong emphasis on these issues. From guided walks led by experts in social design to creative workshops on inclusive urbanism, the programme is designed to engage participants from all walks of life. The interactive workshop 'Rethinking School Playgrounds' will explore the importance of inclusive and healthy educational spaces, while the discussion 'Ladies Make the City' will focus on the vital role women play in architecture, urban planning, and design.
As always, visitors will have the opportunity to explore over 70 architectural spaces throughout the city, including new additions to the festival's catalogue. Guided tours, many of which require no prior registration, will provide a unique chance to learn more about the city's architectural treasures, from contemporary buildings to historically significant sites. Special visits to peripheral areas and emerging local studios will also offer a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges and opportunities faced by today's architects.
Open House Bilbao 2024 celebrates architecture's diversity, innovation, and potential to transform communities. With a wide variety of events, tours, and activities, there's something for everyone to enjoy. Don't miss your chance to explore Bilbao's architectural heritage and discover new ways of thinking about the spaces we live and work in. Explore the full festival programme at openhousebilbao.org.
Open House Bilbao, organised by Asociación Open Urbanity, is part of the Open House Europe cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union. The project seeks to embrace a more inclusive debate about architecture and strengthen the role of architecture as a positive change-maker, addressing relevant social and environmental challenges. For more information about the project, visit openhouseeurope.org.

New Exhibition at Danish Architecture Center Water is Coming

The Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) returns to Toronto, delivering three days of the very best global contemporary cinema celebrating architecture and design. With panel discussions, parties and big-screen experiences, ADFF: Toronto 2024 promises to be the best year yet. ADFF: TORONTO is presented by Eventscape and runs at the TIFF Lightbox, October 23-26.

Come join us for the SMC NOMAS Fall Lecture by Ronald Rael on Wednesday, October 2nd at 6:30pm Santa Monica College 1900 Pico Blvd (Orientation Hall) Santa Monica, CA 90405. This event is free and Free Visitor Parking is available on the top level of Parking Structure 3 (entrance on Pico Blvd.).

Ferda Kolatan is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design and Founding Director of su11. In this event, Kolatan presents new book "Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City." Contemporary cities are shaped, Kolatan observes, by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructure, and other urban components that over time accumulate into mismatched configurations. However, despite the ubiquity of these oddities and their impact on the city, we rarely give them much consideration. In Misfits & Hybrids, Kolatan explores the untapped potential in these unexpected conditions for a new kind of architecture. A diverse array of projects, developed in Kolatan’s design studios at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, illustrates how hybrid artifacts can reveal the often overlooked cultural, socio-political, and material histories of a site, fostering design tactics invested in reinventing the existing. Set within the cosmopolitan megacities of Istanbul, Cairo, and New York, the projects are conceived as real fictions, conjuring novel narrative, aesthetic, and representational forms to reflect the pluralistic postindustrial city

2024 Robert Z. Shuman Lecture: Masafumi Yukimoto
ARCH 104, Tyler School of Art and Architecture and virtual on Zoom

The Water as Leverage Multilevel Climate Action Programme (WaL) proudly presents the City Champion Challenge - an initiative designed to drive innovative solutions for the most pressing water-related climate challenges in urban environments, such as flooding, drought and pollution. Urban stakeholders and cities who have developed initiatives that promote just, and sustainable water and climate resilience are invited to submit their initiative. The Challenge offers a unique opportunity of collaboration between leading cities and stakeholders, gaining international visibility and contributing to addressing critical water-related challenges through inclusive and integrated solutions.

Alfredo Thiermann, architect and Assistant Professor for History and Theory of Architecture at the École polytechnique fédéralein Lausanne, presents new book Radio-Activities at UCLA AUD.

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The Chamber of Architects Kayseri Branch has been organizing the Kayseri Architecture Festival since 2022, and the third edition will take place in Kayseri, Türkiye, on October 3-5, 2024, with the theme "Retell the Story". This year, the festival is curated by Sevince Bayrak from SO? Architecture and Ideas, who co-curated the Turkish Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennial, where they presented their project, The Carrier Bag Theory of Architecture: Ghost Stories. The festival's theme, 'Retell the Story,' which she proposed, builds on their recent research, broadening the focus from adaptive reuse to retelling architectural narratives from diverse perspectives. The event will feature both local and international speakers, including Christele Harrouk, Editor-in-Chief of ArchDaily. Other notable speakers include Ahmet Sezgin, Cem Sorguç, Chen-Yu Chiu, Elif Çelik, Hayriye Sözen, Kadir Uyanık, Kim Seunghoy, Melis Cankara, Melis Varkal, Merve Gedik, Mucip Ürger, Nevzat Sayın, Zeynep Eres, and Zeynep Hagur, who will share their insights on retelling the stories of built and unbuilt environments.

We are thrilled to announce the “AI in Practice Competition,” a prestigious event sponsored by Studio Tim Fu, where architects and designers from across the globe will explore the intersection of AI and architectural design🚀

BambooU(niversity) was an idea originally conceived to help teach professionals about the potential of bamboo as a green building material. In its current form it is a design and bamboo build workshop in Bali hosted by Bamboo U at the Green School; facilitated in collaboration with the bamboo design firm, IBUKU.

Polish Job 2.0 exhibition at Dutch Design Week

Signal Festival takes over Prague Castle:
Video mapping and installations turn the Prague Castle District into an art zone

ORGATEC is reinventing itself. The leading international trade fair for the future of work will return in 2024 with a new event concept that is designed to meet the evolving requirements of the world of work and is positioned even closer to the cutting edge. With a shorter duration, a new hall layout, focus areas with target group-relevant content, digital innovations and much more besides – experience a topic-centred, trendsetting and highly efficient event!