Water is not just a resource—it is a voice, a right, a system of relationships. Water shapes landscapes, communities, and futures. It nourishes, resists, and demands justice.

The decay of lying

Children to launch unofficial street happenings during opening days of Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, exploring global challenges through play.
During the opening days of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, the Architectural Thinking School for Children will stage a series of unofficial street happenings across Venice as part of their ongoing project Intelligens Play Lab.
At its heart lies a question: How does children's intellect develop mechanisms for solving contemporary global challenges through the universally understood medium of play?
In the spirit of reclaiming public space, children will activate Venetian streets with street games they have designed themselves—each one tackling themes such as forced migration, climate change, dictatorship, war, and more. These happenings temporarily transform the city into a public laboratory of ideas, where children's perspectives become both the method and the message.
Just decades ago, the streets of Venice—like those in many cities—belonged to children. Through the improvisational logic of play, they rehearsed futures they could not yet name. Intelligens Play Lab revives that logic, now focused on the pressing crises of today.
The project is developed by the Architectural Thinking School for Children, a think tank of children and interdisciplinary professionals. Founded in Minsk in 2016 and relocated to Lisbon in 2022, the School works at the intersection of architecture, pedagogy, and social research—empowering children aged 5 to 15, many of them migrants, to become full participants in cultural life.

Don't miss this fast-paced, design-inspired evening with FORT: LA featuring architect Leo Marmol, FAIA, discussing historic houses and their timeless teachings, architectural writer Frances Anderton and a special guest tackling a controversial architecture topic, and sommelier India Mandelkern as she pairs perfect wines with iconic designs.

Now in its eleventh year, Open House Praha returns from 12 to 18 May with an extensive programme of guided tours, walks, discussions, lectures, exhibitions, and other events. During the festival's main weekend of 17–18 May, visitors will be invited to join free guided tours in over 125 buildings and spaces, many of which are normally inaccessible. Both public and private buildings will open their doors, including historic palaces, representative villas, industrial landmarks, and contemporary buildings.

The University of Waterloo School of Architecture class of 2025 is proud to reaffirm our long-standing Presence in Rome with an exhibit of our design projects, sketches, photographs and videos. Through it, we seek to convey the lasting impact of our temporary stay in Rome, the most layered of cities, where ancient buildings and urban armatures are inhabited by a modern people. As foreign student designers, we explored a reciprocal approach to these spaces, striving to take in the rich history of the land, while providing our own unique perspective.

On May 10–11, Open House Vilnius, organised by Architektūros fondas, returns for its 11th edition. Once again, the event will invite residents and visitors to explore architecture through free tours of unique buildings that are usually closed to the public. Over 50 sites will open their doors, and popular meetings with the city's creators—a hit from last year— will return. A new addition to the programme will be four guided stories about green urban spaces.

On May 12, 2025, IE School of Architecture and Design will host, as part of its RE_SOLUTION public series, a lecture by Steve Adler, mayor of Austin from 2015 to 2023, followed by a conversation with Marianthi Tatari, Director and Senior Architect at the firm UNS.

Open House Lisboa, now in its 14th edition, returns this year on the weekend of 10 and 11 May with the theme "The Invention of Lisbon". Organised by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and curated by architects Daniela Sá and João Carmo Simões, the event features a list of 72 spaces, 23 of which are making their debuts on the festival's itinerary. The programme also includes four new Urban Tours, which will be presented and accompanied by experts; the Accessible Tours, which will include 21 spaces in 2025; Soundwalks; the Plus and Junior Programme, with various activities.

Scott Johnson, FAIA, discusses his new book, "Inside Architecture: A Design Journal," a personal journey through a life in architecture. Scott is joined by publisher Ann Gray, FAIA. All book sales benefit Architecture for Communities, Los Angeles.

Built From Dust
Earth, Soil and the Modern Afropolis

No Doubt About It
Projects from Armenia, China, Georgia, Germany, Latvia, and Poland

The Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo at the 19th International Venice Architecture Biennale presents Lulebora nuk çel më. Emerging Assemblages, a sensorial exploration of rupture and reconfiguration in Kosovo’s shifting landscapes: the uprooting of ecological relationships and embodied knowledge systems under climate pressure, and the new forms of sense-making that emerge in liminal spaces of uncertainty.

TOGO PAVILION at BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2025

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.

'Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler' presents the extraordinary personal history and work of the leading modern architect Harry Seidler (1923, Vienna–2006, Sydney), with a particular focus on the artists he worked with and commissioned. The exhibition will feature artists who collaborated on projects with Seidler such as Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Lin Utzon and Sol LeWitt, as well as the famed Italian structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi.

The Festival des Architectures Vives 2025 will take place from June 10-15, 2025, in Montpellier, France, with free admission from 9am to 7pm (2pm to 7pm on June 10th).

"Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury" is the third volume in the Dongola Architecture Series, and it takes a bold look at the work of one of Lebanon's most provocative architects. This book launch will be accompanied by a panel discussion that dives into Khoury's trajectory—from early experiments to his reinvention in his fifties—unpacking how his architecture embodies the contradictions of Beirut and the broader region.

The International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) returns to the Javits Center in New York City on May 18-20 with a renewed focus on human-centered, multi-sensory, and multicultural design under the theme "Designing in Harmony." The guiding concept reflects the global industry's evolving priorities, emphasizing craftsmanship, sustainability, and the human connection that defines thoughtful, forward-thinking design.

Future nostalgia refers to a compelling architectural design concept that draws inspiration from the past and seamlessly blends it with modern innovations and technologies. The objective transcends creating merely aesthetically pleasing spaces; it aims to infuse them with profound meaning—interweaving culture, society, and nature across both present and future contexts. This approach aspires to preserve and evolve historical knowledge and values that enrich our way of life, all while accommodating the shifting needs of future generations. In today's architectural landscape, there's a pronounced emphasis on looking ahead—designing cutting-edge, comfortable buildings that heavily rely on the latest technologies and contemporary insights. While this forward-thinking stance offers undeniable benefits, it often overlooks the wisdom and heritage of the past. The consequence can be designs that lack a meaningful connection to their original roots. Therefore, the international design competition "Futurism: Future Nostalgia in Architecture" serves as an invitation for architects to use the concept's definition to explore creative approaches and develop designs that link the past—in facets ranging from society, culture, and people to nature, place, and time—through the prism of modern knowledge, tools, and technologies. Participants are encouraged to venture without limitations on location or scale, using Thailand as a case study. The aim is to forge new forms of futurist architecture that honor and reflect upon the past through today's lens, guiding us toward a shared architectural future. The international architects and jurors include Kulthida Songkittipakdee, Adul Kaewdee, Christo Meyer, Kulapat Yantrasast, and Jenchieh Hung of HAS design and research.

Inside Eugenio Fuselli's iconic architectural work, a reflection on pacifism and absence — through sculpture.

The architecture industry ignites once again as the Architecture Network holds the annual celebration of the 14th National Architecture Symposium (NAS): Weaving Visions. An assembly of more than 600 individuals with global influences in the field will be held on May 2, 2025, at the Marquis Events Place in Bonifacio Global City.

Everyone is talking about AI these days. But what exactly is AI? How did it evolve? And what potential does it have to influence the future? This lecture takes you on a rollercoaster ride looking at the extraordinary - but often somewhat terrifying - potential of what is arguably the most significant invention of humankind. The lecture concludes that we are about to face radically different form of intelligence-and alien intelligence-that will far exceed human intelligence, and completely transform the discipline of architecture.

In its fourth year, ShowLTU CoAD 2025 is a Michigan exhibition showcasing more than 250 original works by both students and alumni from Lawrence Technological University’s College of Architecture and Design(CoAD). Returning May 8-9 to Building 3, at 21000 W. 10 Mile Road in Southfield, the event demonstrates how LTU’s CoAD prepares future leaders in architecture and design through the university’s foundation of theory and practice. The show is free and open to the public to attend.