OUR COMPETITIONS | Architecture Competitions, Projects, Events

GERMAN ARCHITECT HELMUT JAHN DIES IN BICYCLE CRASH AGED 81
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ARCHITECTURE NEWS | Helmut Jahn, the acclaimed German architect, has died in a fatal bicycle crash. The tragic incident occurred on saturday afternoon, May 8th, 2021, when he was reportedly hit by two vehicles while cycling in the village of Campton Hills, a western suburb of Chicago. Jahn was pronounced dead at the scene aged 81.
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EXHIBIT COLUMBUS 2021, AUGUST 21 - NOVEMBER 28, 2021, COLUMBUS, INDIANA, US
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | On the third Exhibit Columbus will be feature thirteen outdoor installations, in dialogue with iconic buildings, streetscapes, and landscapes around Columbus. The installations are the works of various architects, artists, and designers.
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SOU FUJIMOTO: BETWEEN NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE, (ONLINE: THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2021, 7 PM)
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | А lecture by the acclaimed Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, who supervised the exhibition design of "When Practice Becomes Form: Carpentry Tools from Japan", discusses his work and connections between contemporary architectural practice and traditional craftsmanship.
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OSLO ARCHITECTURE TRIENNALE 2022, NORWAY, OPENING 21-25 SEPTEMBER, 2022
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | Theme is "Mission Neighborhood – (Re)Forming Communities". "In a time when the world is facing major social and environmental challenges, Oslo Architecture Triennale 2022 will spotlight neighbourhood as a place and horizon for rethinking our cities," said the organizers of the Triennale.
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15TH ALVAR AALTO SYMPOSIUM - FUTURE OF INDUSTRY, AUGUST 12-13, 2021, JYVÄSKYLÄ, FINLAND
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | The key themes of the symposium are: Reliable partner – industrial buildings in urban environments; Responsible action – industrial construction for sustainable development; and Building identity – the role of industrial architecture in regional planning.
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16TH BELGRADE INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE WEEK (BINA), APRIL 22 - MAY 20, 2021, SERBIA
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | Belgrade School of Housing, Exhibitions, Seminar & Workshops, Walks, EU Project / Future Architecture, Platform / Visegrad Fund
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100+ TECHNOBUILD, EKATERINBURG, RUSSIA, OCTOBER 5-7, 2021
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | 100+ TechnoBuild is an international congress and a professionally oriented exhibition of the newest achievements and technologies in construction. The largest Russian and foreign companies present their innovative materials and technologies as well as unique construction methods.
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ARCHITECTURE AND ENDURANCE, CONFERENCE IN ANKARA, TURKEY, SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 2, 2021
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | In recent years, there is a tendency in architectural historiography to go deep into the specific histories of single buildings and sites; to produce biographies of buildings and sites in longue durée, often bridging successive cultural contexts that might have been conventionally perceived as unrelated.
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VENICE DESIGN BIENNIAL MAY 20 - JUNE 27, 2021
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | The theme for the 2021's edition is Design As Self Portrait. Both the Main Group Exhibition and the Collateral Projects focus on this topic. This year the Venice Design Biennial will present a Main Group Exhibition, spread in two different locations, and a selected series of Collateral Projects in monumental and iconic venues across the city.
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THE 60TH EDITION OF THE SALONE DEL MOBILE.MILANO
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | Will be held September 5-10, 2021 at Fiera Milano, Rho with the theme of "Beauty" - a powerful driver of the trade fair’s modus operandi and the companies, brands and designers. In 2019, 386,236 people from 181 different nationalities visited the event, which hosted 2,418 exhibitors, 34 percent of them from foreign countries.
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WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL WILL BE HELD 1-3 DECEMBER 2021 IN LISBON
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | Awards entries will remain open until Friday 7 May 2021. Submit your completed buildings, future projects, landscape and interior projects into the awards to be in with a chance of presenting and winning at WAF Lisbon!
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UIA 2021 RIO, BRAZIL - THE WORLD'S LARGEST ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING EVENT
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | Organised by the International Union of Architects (UIA) since 1948, the World Congress of Architects will be held for the first time in Brazil. This is a unique meeting place for professionals and future leaders in Architecture and related fields: an event discussing the future of cities and the city of the future.
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BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE 2021, VENICE, ITALY - ONLINE PRESENTATION
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | The 17th International Architecture Exhibition will run 22 May to 21 November 2021, curated by architect and scholar Hashim Sarkis, Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The presentation will be live-streamed on the website and on social media on 12 April 2021 at 2 pm.
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ARCHITECTURE FILM FESTIVAL, SAO JORGE, PORTUGAL - INVITED COUNTRY ANGOLA
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | The confluence of times and regimes is visible in colonial architecture, from slave houses to tropical modernism, from soft Portuguese to neoliberalism, through the Asian skyscrapers of the new centralities. Any Angolan would make an unmissable biographical film. A country with little cinematographic production that is a hotbed of wonderful stories waiting for a camera to reveal them.
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BARQ - INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE FILM FESTIVAL BARCELONA, SPAIN
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | The BARQ Festival celebrates its first edition from May 11th to May 16th 2021, which will take place onsite in the city of Barcelona and online during the Barcelona Architecture Week. The BARQ Festival is the only film festival dedicated to architecture and interior design in Spain.
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MEDIA ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2020 (MAB20)
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ARCHITECTURE EVENT | The Media Architecture Biennale 20 (MAB20), originally planned for the fall of 2020, will take place on June 28th – July 2nd, 2021 in an online format. All of the major events such as workshops, keynotes, awards and paper sessions will be accessible online from locations throughout the world. We still hope to be able to accompany these with some smaller scale, on-site meet-ups in Amsterdam and Utrecht, depending on Covid regulations at that time.
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