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OUT OF CONTEXT
Projects from Armenia, Bangladesh, China, Finland, Poland, Switzerland, and Vietnam

The Paul L. Cejas Lecture Series.
Fall 2025
Weaving the Narrative
A Conversation Between Thomas Coldefy & Adrien Gardère
Thursday, November 13, 2025 · 2:00 PM · PCA 135

What is risk worth? Architecture is inseparable from uncertainty—sometimes embraced, sometimes resisted, but always present. We invent bold forms that may fail. We propose brighter futures that may falter. To practice architecture is to take on risk—with capital, with reputation, with the city, with the lives shaped inside it. For the innovator, risk is agency, progress, recognition, and the chance to improve lives. For those who mitigate risk, it’s value is inseparable from the scaffold that protects progress from catastrophe. For those outside the conventional practice, such as architect-developers, design-builders, and others, risk is currency, the price of control. Each stance reveals a different measure of what risk means and what makes it worth taking. These tensions will enliven the conversations at the heart of this event.

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

This year’s Industrial Design Trophy invites students to design futuristic, sustainable products or spaces that merge art, technology, and ecology. Centered on the theme Catalyse, the competition challenges participants to imagine how design can shape life in 2035 and beyond where culture, technology, and sustainability coexist. It’s a call to create innovative, human centered solutions that inspire change and redefine the future of design.

The 68th Year Writing Architecture Trophy invites you to explore, express, and expand your architectural imagination by rethinking what it means to be an architect today.
Supported by The Architect’s Diary, this platform is for every thinker, observer, and storyteller of architecture. It’s time to Catalyse Conversations through Words!

Each month, Friends of Residential Treasures Los Angeles (FORT: LA) curates a new self-guided trail, inviting Angelenos to explore the city’s rich architectural heritage. These immersive experiences highlight significant homes, hidden gems, and the designers who have shaped Los Angeles' built environment.

Beit Beirut Urban Observatory invites you to the opening of Beirut al-Marfa'.

Back in the City After Eight Years

Event on Friday, 7th November 2025, 12:00 Noon (UTC+0)

Artificial Kreativity presents Kreative Talks with Peter Murray OBE
Kreative Talks are the stories behind the creatives and how they are shaping the world.

Deconstruct a Landmark
Open Call for Students and Young Professionals

A dialogue between Eugenio Fuselli's architectural vision and the artist who stands as a key witness of Italy's war memory.

The region's leading design festival, Dubai Design Week, brings together designers and creative practitioners to exchange ideas, collaborate and explore the evolving role of design in shaping a better collective future. Over the past decade, it has grown into a global platform with a strong emphasis on cross-cultural exchange and amplifying voices from West and South Asia, as well as the wider Global South.

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Cairo Design Week stands as a cornerstone of Egypt's design landscape, bringing together creativity, culture and innovation. It provides a meeting ground for designers, artists and industry leaders to shape and elevate the design ecosystem in Egypt. Through a thoughtfully curated mix of events, exhibitions and experience, CDW invites participants to discover the rich and evolving tapestry of Egyptian and global design.

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.

Downtown Design is the anchor event of Dubai Design Week, the region's most important creative festival reflecting Dubai's position as the design capital of the Middle East; an extensive programme of events, bringing together the global design stage and attracting more than 100,000 visitors to the Dubai Design District (d3) across the week. In its latest edition, Downtown Design showcased the latest collections, innovative products and design solutions from over 300 prominent brands from across the globe, and rising talent of the region, complemented by a programme of talks, creative pop-ups and engaging experiences.

From 26th to 28th November 2025, the Salone will light up the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh in red. In a strategic partnership with the Architecture and Design Commission at the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Culture, the event will feature an installation curated by the Giò Forma architecture studio, a packed cultural programme and a B2B platform, a meeting point for the Salone and the Saudi design ecosystem – a taster of the first ever edition of the event to be held in the Kingdom in 2026.