🌿Do you want to learn about what it takes to bring a new green space to life? Have you heard of Sponge Cities and how rainwater helps them become greener and more resilient environments?💧 Join us on the 22nd of September at 7pm CET to listen to Anna Yukelson, an architect at the Urban Planning Office Stadt Frankfurt am Main, tell us about a project transforming an unused underpass in Frankfurt's Gallus district into a vital green square.
This year, the Maison&Objet interior design trade fair and the city-wide celebration Paris Design Week joined forces to highlight emerging designers, bring renewed value to French métiers d'art, and temporarily transform heritage landmarks with contemporary design visions. Both events began on September 4, turning Paris into a city-wide design festival. Galleries, showrooms, and concept stores opened their doors, while renowned landmarks became venues for designers from more than 30 countries. The abundance and diversity of the program have drawn comparisons to Milan Design Week, while giving Paris a distinct platform on the global design calendar. This article presents a selection of installations and exhibitions of architectural interest that emerge from the synergy between the two initiatives.
Sunyoung Park's solo exhibition Lost & Found: Interstice, Sensibility, Transplantation restores the unseen "interstice" as a point of sensory departure amid the city's growing genericness. Gathering structures and rhythms from peripheral elements—rooftop decks, exterior stairs, covered streams, underpasses, public easements—the work transplants them into new contexts to re-order flows and hierarchies.
Open House Essen returns this September, once again opening doors to buildings that are normally closed to the public. On the festival weekend, everyone is invited to come along, step inside, and gather impressions—whether with a special interest in architecture or simply with the desire to explore their own neighbourhood. What matters most is curiosity about how a city grows and changes.
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.
The Design Show (TDS Expo) is the leading business exhibition in Egypt & Middle East dedicated to showcasing the latest innovations in interior & exterior design, furniture manufacturing, design solutions, and finishing materials. This exhibition serves as a dynamic platform for industry professionals to connect, discover cutting-edge products and services, and exchange valuable insights to drive growth and innovation in the MENA region's thriving design sector.
UDL Thesis Publication 2025 – Global Thesis Seminar
FRAME is instituted as an independent, biennial professional conclave on contemporary architecture in India curated by Matter and organised in partnership with Takshila Educational Society.
Days of Architecture are the biggest architectural festival in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and one of the biggest in the region of South Eastern Europe. This year's festival will be held from 26 to 28 September 2025 at the Bosnian Cultural Center Sarajevo (BKC).
This September Kingston Society will be encouraging residents to shape where they live and work as they explore the week-long What If? installation in central Kingston. Organised as part of both the London Design Festival's annual series of city-wide events and Kingston 2025 celebrations, What If? invites those most affected by change to join the creative conversation and feel empowered to influence their community.
CP Kukreja Foundation for Design Excellence presents The Masterplan Exhibition, celebrating 50 years of the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus designed by architect C.P. Kukreja. Conceived in the early 1970s, JNU stands as a symbol of India’s democratic spirit and its aspirations for inclusive education.
BIM World Copenhagen – Fueling the Future of the Building Industry with Data and Digitalization
Applications are now open for the upcoming AURA Istanbul Certificate Program, organized by the Istanbul Architecture and Urbanism Research Academy.
Building on the success of its 2023 debut, Creative Dialogues returns to Beirut on September 12–14, 2025, bringing a fresh format, new perspectives, and an expanded program of talks, workshops, and creative experiences.
Is architecture complicit in withdrawal, or merely reflecting it?
Intersect is a collective of artist-designers from the design academy Eindhoven, united by the belief that visual arts should be accessible, inclusive and transdisciplinary. We advocate for a form of creation that is grounded in materials and gestures, that acknowledges the value of craft, and create space for plural narratives. Presque Demain was born from a desire to explore our near future through the materiality of the present. By playing with the ambiguity suggested by "almost", the exhibition embraces uncertainty as fertile ground for new imaginaries. Rather than grouping works by discipline or typology, it favor their overlap and challenges established formats. Thought its composition, the exhibition creates spaces where the various elements come together to speak and weave share narratives. Between dreamscape and fragments of reality, these dialogues open the door to new forms of collective practices.
Beauty is Resistance: art as antidote at browngrotta arts (October 11 - 19) explores how aesthetic creation—especially within textile, fiber, and material-based practices—serves as a form of radical defiance, cultural preservation, and political voice. In an age of political polarization, ecological crisis, and commodification, beauty might seem like a luxury—or a distraction. But for the artists in this exhibition, beauty is not a retreat from reality. It is a strategy of survival, remembrance, and resistance. Beauty is Resistance will feature more than two dozen international artists who harness the power of beauty not as escape but as agency: to mourn, to protest, to remember, to heal, and to imagine.
Design Democracy 2025, India's leading stage for design, craft, and future thinking, will take place from 5–7 September at the HITEX Exhibition Centre, Hyderabad, bringing together over 120 leading brands, 80+ influential speakers, and an estimated 15,000+ visitors across three days of exhibitions, talks, installations, and curated experiences.
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts has announced $573,300 in grants to 39 organizations worldwide. Chosen from more than 200 submissions, the 2025 awards support a broad range of initiatives, including exhibitions, installations, publications, podcasts, student-led journals, international architecture events, and public programs that contribute to advancing architectural discourse and design experimentation. Over nearly seven decades, the Graham Foundation has provided more than $45 million in direct support to over 5,200 projects. With the addition of the 2025 grantees, the Foundation aims to continue to strengthen its international network of individuals and organizations advancing architectural ideas and public engagement around the world.
Exhibitions at Rice Presents
This symposium aims to decode and challenge the societal attitudes and design conventions that shape contemporary design and impact bamboo use. Highlighting case studies from bamboo growing regions such as Colombia and Indonesia, it draws on the expertise of three leading voices:
The 2nd Forum of Architects and Designers of Central Asia will be held in September in Kazakhstan.
The event is open to all and free to attend.
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.
