The Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival returns to the historic site of Woodstock in 2026 to inaugurate a three-year curatorial initiative titled Acts of Construction. The first installment, Act One: Staging, focuses on the construction of large-scale architectural prototypes that prioritize adaptivity: the capacity of architecture to operate as both infrastructure and catalyst for future uses, performances, and occupations. The subsequent editions in 2027 and 2028 will concentrate on the reuse, transformation, and activation of the structures produced in 2026.
On 18 September, Aarhus School of Architecture presents the sixth edition of the international architecture festival OPEN, this year under the title Mies Didn't Come Home That Night.
OPEN Bilbao 2025 poster, courtesy of Asociación Open Urbanity.
The Open House festival in Bilbao, OPEN Bilbao, returns for its ninth edition with an extensive programme of visits and activities that invite the public to discover the city’s architectural heritage while highlighting new ways of understanding and practising architecture. Taking place from September 29 to October 5, the festival not only explores some of Bilbao’s most emblematic buildings but also highlights alternative approaches to the profession, offering a broader perspective on what architecture can mean today.
The Case Study House program was founded in 1945 with the goal of adapting wartime era technologies and materials into future forward, mass produced, middle class homes for a peacetime economy.
RCR Arquitectes | Building Landscapes | Lisbon and Porto Lecture Series
“Construyendo Paisajes” is the title of the lecture series organized by Espaço de Arquitetura, taking place on September 23 and 24 at 9:00 PM in Lisbon and Porto, featuring the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners, RCR Arquitectes, as the guest studio.
From June 28 to July 2, 2026, Barcelona will host the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026, becoming a true international open laboratory for architecture that will attract more than 10,000 professionals, representatives of the academic community, and students from around the world to discuss the future of the planet and the role of architecture in the most urgent and necessary upcoming transitions.
The Ibero-American Biennial of Creation and Territory is a cultural event that centers on critical reflection regarding creation within regionalist contexts in Ibero-America.
Manchar Lake Art Residency is offering an opportunity for four emerging artists working in any medium; and one for mid-career practitioner or collective of upto three people, for a site specific installation. If you are a visual practitioner interested in indigenous communities, climate activism, and heritage, this is your chance to participate in this funded opportunity. Heritage Cell-Department of Architecture and Planning NED University (HC-DAPNED) started the documentation of the Mohanna houseboats through Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme funding in 2022. The project further grew with the support from Cultural Protection Fund–UK for restoration of 44 galiyo (houseboats), and also respond to wider concerns of ecology, environment, culture, and heritage. The art residency builds on this work, offering artists a platform to engage with these interconnected themes.
Waste or resources? Arquitectura en Corto invites you to the screening of Gypsum Concrete, taking place on Wednesday, September 24, at 7:00 PM at Espacio Arquia in Madrid (C/ Tutor, 16). Directed by Simon Pénochet, the short film documents the research conducted by the French architecture firm Ciguë to transform demolition waste from a construction site on the outskirts of Paris into material for a new building being constructed on the same plot. The project proposes manufacturing concrete for floor slabs using recycled aggregates and gypsum as a binder—a material recyclable through urban mining processes that is available in large quantities throughout the Paris region. The film explains how testing validates the material for this application and concludes that using gypsum instead of cement reduces CO2 emissions by up to four times. In Spain, several projects have already been completed where materials found in situ were repurposed as resources for new construction. Following the screening, Héctor Fernández Elorza (hfe arquitectos) and Josep Ricart (HARQUITECTES) will discuss the topic and present examples of their small- and large-scale interventions—ranging from single-family homes to urban public spaces—where material reuse has been a core project strategy.
Join the conversation. Image Courtesy of VELUX A/S
Join the Livestream: Experience the 10th VELUX Daylight Symposium on 18 September!
The VELUX Daylight Symposium is where knowledge meets practice in a unique forum dedicated to the transformative power of daylight in architecture and design.
As the world grows in complexity, multiplying both its challenges and opportunities for innovation, so does the architecture profession. Positioned as mediators in a complex system, architects increasingly step out of the traditional office and into laboratories, town halls, and communities. They are developing new materials, reassessing urban policies, and responding directly to society's most pressing needs.
