The world's heritage places, from iconic archaeological sites and historic buildings to vibrant urban neighborhoods and cultural landscapes, excite and enthrall us all. Yet, these awe-inspiring symbols of human ingenuity and identity require intentional protection and preservation. The impacts of climate change, the ravages of conflict, the pressures of new development, and the inertia of neglect all require thoughtful, science-based strategies to safeguard our world's most treasured places.
In the face of the global housing crisis, the challenges of affordable and social housing go far beyond construction cost and speed—they encompass spatial quality, social equity, governance mechanisms, and environmental impact. Directly addressing these complexities, this July, the Institute of Smart City and Management - University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH - ISCM), in collaboration with partners from Korea, Singapore, and Thailand, will host the International Conference Dwelling in Transition: Reimagining Affordable and Social Housing across Scales and Systems.
The conference will be a multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral platform for professionals to come together, share knowledge, and rethink the meaning of "affordability" through lenses of design, policymaking, finance, and sustainability. With new definitions, models, and theoretical frameworks built upon expert research, this event aims to reshape housing paradigms to better suit today's economic and social realities.
Main Topics:
🏠 Margins: Grey Areas and Emergent Practices
🏠 Materials and Methods: Constructing Affordability
🏠 Instruments: Policy, Finance, and Governance
The conference also welcomes papers exploring topics related to design, planning, technology, finance, impact measurement, community engagement, sustainability and livability.
☀️Submission Guidelines: Please send a single PDF file including all required information to iscm@ueh.edu.vn, cc to haihln@ueh.edu.vn by 8:00 PM (GMT+7:00) | June 30, 2025.
Submission must include:
1. Title (max. 100 characters)
2. Subtitle (max. 150 characters)
3. Author Information (full name, affiliation, email)
4. Short Bio (max. 300 characters)
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8. 3 References
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 seventeenth edition of the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU) will take place in December 2025. The event consists of an exhibition hosted in a former thermal power station repurposed as a cultural center in Ponferrada, in northeastern Spain. This edition will be curated by architects Ander Bados Sesma, from Atelier Ander Bados, and Miguel Ramón López, a Ponferrada native and architect at Estudio Lamela, under the curatorial proposal titled flujos comun.es ("common flows"). Their curatorial proposal responds to the theme of the open call: Architecture as a Policy for Change, an invitation to reflect on the role of the discipline in processes of social, economic, and environmental transformation. Within this framework, flujos comun.es presents a critical perspective on the challenges associated with hyperconnectivity. The call for proposals and project submissions is currently open, and will be until the end of July, depending on the category.
Where Global Recognition Meets Design Rigour: Introducing the 2025 Scape Awards of Excellence. Now for International Firms.
The prize is only the beginning. MCHAP's goal is to lay groundwork for these conversations to continue growing on their own, contributing to a greater understanding of how architecture impacts the vibrant, complex world around us.
Join us June 27-29 for the first session of BUILT / UNBUILT, the public program of the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia.
9th iNTA Conference 2025- Housing Futures in the Tropics: Resilience, Sustainability, and Action
EDGE Architecture Festival Budapest (EDGE Fest) is Hungary's first international architecture festival, organized by Építészfórum, Hungary's leading architectural online magazine. Taking place on 3–4 July 2025 at Dürer Kert, the festival highlights progressive, forward-thinking architectural topics within a global context.
We’d love for you to join us for a conversation exploring the significance of the MoMA exhibition of Latin American Design "Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980" and its contemporary relevance, featuring ArchDaily founder David Basulto in conversation with leading Latin American designers: Matteo Fogale, Rodrigo Bravo, Alexandra Arias.
Camposaz, in collaboration with Bivio980, is organizing a self-build workshop in Monastero, a small hamlet in the municipality of Cessapalombo (MC). The project aims to design and construct a few wooden installations that enhance the surrounding landscape and create shared spaces for community gathering.
"Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival 2025: Build Fest 2 – Peace Rises" will bring together faculty and student teams from universities across the United States to construct interactive wooden art installations on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock festival. Over the course of five days, participants will live and work on-site—where legendary performances by Jimi Hendrix and Joan Baez once took place—spending their days fabricating, assembling, and installing large-scale works, and their evenings immersed in cultural programming, including concerts, exhibitions, and pop-up events.
The first edition of the Copenhagen Architecture Biennial will take place from 18 September to 19 October 2025. Organized by CAFx (Copenhagen Architecture Forum), the event marks a transition from the previous annual Copenhagen Architecture Festival to a more expansive platform for architectural exploration. The theme of the inaugural edition, "Slow Down," invites participants to reflect on how the rapid pace of modern life affects the built environment. According to the organizers, this thematic shift encourages the envisioning of spaces that promote sustainability, longevity, and mindful engagement with our surroundings. In line with this vision, the organization launched an open call earlier this year for pavilion proposals that embody principles of circular design while serving as hubs for public programming during the event. Two winning proposals, modular structures by Slaatto Morsbøl and Tom Svilans x THISS Studio, were selected, each offering an approach to architectural deceleration.
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The Vienna Architecture Summer School (VAS²) aims to provide an open learning space and prototypical infrastructure for the exchange and negotiation of knowledges in architecture, reaching beyond dominating institutions and mainstream discourses. VAS² invites local and international participants to exchange with young architects and established experts all practicing in Vienna and beyond.
Join us in Madrid for the Healthy Cities Public Debates, hosted by the Norman Foster Foundation and supported by Sanitas.
The Los Angeles Design Festival (LADF) returns June 26-29, 2025 with a citywide celebration of community, creativity, and inspiring design. This year's theme, "Design Futurism," is a solution-oriented exploration of human potential. When envisioning the future, design is inherently a part of our collective imagination: a tool for reimagining how we connect, create, and challenge existing narratives. This concept expands beyond the exploration of technological spectacle. This year, LADF invites all to explore Design Futurism through various lenses of our collective human experiences.
ZBIZ 2025 Returns June 12 with an Installation Showdown Featuring Women in Tile and a Mini Trade Show
Invited by Carlo Ratti, PILLS is participating in the main exhibit’s Special Project with the research, writing, and design of the Circularity Handbook and its Spatial Installation.
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.
Timeless Voices - Architectural Photography Exhibition
High Street House, 83 Askew Road, W12 9AH, London, UK
5th June: Exhibition Opening 18:00–Late
6th–14th June: 12:00–18:00 (Closed on 9th & 10th)
10th June: Public discussion with the artist, local priests, and an architecture critic 18:30 - Late
How can we drive a progressive transformation of architectural culture to create a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient future? This panel discussion brings together curators and emerging architects from the UK and across Europe to share their perspectives on evolving professional landscapes and alternative models of practice that challenge the status quo.
The question whether distinctive features marked the drawings and creative process of architects and planners in the GDR may seem obvious, but looking at individual pictures alone is unlikely to lead to new insights. During the decades of specific GDR architecture, up to the mid-1980s, East German planning offices worked with the standard tools used all over the world. As everywhere, talents were unevenly distributed, each design collective having its own particularly gifted “drawing ace” to provide the decisive visualisations of a building idea for important project presentations or competition submissions. So it would be quite possible to illustrate a stylistic history of four decades of GDR architecture with the help of selected drawings from various years and regions.
On June 12, 2025 at 1 Spadina Cres, Toronto, Wedge Curatorial Projects and The Luminato Festival are co-presenting "The Wedge Lecture" an annual lecture program with a focus on connecting the local and the global. This year's lecture will feature award-winning designer Stephen Burks in conversation with acclaimed architects Shane Laptiste and Tura Cousins Wilson of SOCA (Studio of Contemporary Architecture) as they explore how art, architecture, and design can challenge dominant narratives, reclaim identity, and imagine new futures. Tickets are available at luminatofestival.com/wedgelecture.
