Architecture

From October 8 to 12, the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam celebrates its anniversary with more than 80 films, debates, a new immersive program, and a 25-hour marathon that turns the city into an open screen.

Five Latin American pavilions turn the Biennale into a space of architectural experimentation that bridges legacy, territory, and the future.

The final chapter of the Groundwork series follows Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in collaboration with the collective Flor de Café—a gesture of territorial solidarity in the face of extractivism, urbanization, and climate change.

Until November 23, 2025, the Brazil Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale will present (RE)INVENTION, a project curated by Luciana Saboia, Matheus Seco, and Eder Alencar, members of the Plano Coletivo collective.

The 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., will be an immersive exploration of how architecture can adapt to a rapidly changing world. Curated by Carlo Ratti, the exhibition will run from May 10 to November 23, 2025, across the Giardini, Arsenale, and Forte Marghera.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is showcasing two exhibitions that explore the evolving relationship between architecture and its social, environmental, and technological contexts. These shows, Down to Earth and The City May Now Scatter, highlight innovative approaches to design and planning.

The Met’s bold new vision for the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing –to be opened at 2030, presenting Modern and Contemporary art– is designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, the first woman to design a new wing in the Museum’s 154-year history.

Liberty & Security is the exhibition at Jumex by Débora Delmar (Mexico 1986) in which she delves into the effects of globalization on everyday life, based on a critique of privatization and the homogenization of public space. The artist investigates the physical and symbolic impacts of architecture present in gentrification, consumism and surveillance in the urban environment.

Fundación Texo presents the return of its most important and ambitious program, #Seleccion5. This initiative highlights the value of contemporary Paraguayan architecture, presenting an exhibition project of outstanding local studios and professionals.

Ch'ixifuturismo is the exhibition at Fundación Larivière that presents photographs by Florencia Blanco on Freddy Mamani Silvestri's architecture, in dialogue with works by Narda Alvarado, Tin Ayala, Iván Cáceres, Cristina Collazos, Miguel Hilari and Claudia Joskowicz, and curated by Santiago García Navarro. The exhibition includes 40 photos, a series of drawings, three videos and a film.

A Lot with Little, a touring multi-channel film installation by Noemí Blager and Tapio Snellman at Centre for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning (CAMP), showcases architects worldwide who are innovating sustainable solutions in housing, education, building transformation, and disaster relief, emphasizing social impact alongside environmental consciousness.

Through video, sound and mapping works, the exhibition Intangible Proof at MAGAZIN (Exhibition Space for Contemporary Architecture) explores how the territorialities of the Tagaeri Taromenane can be understood and visualized without violating their right to isolation and how spatial mapping techniques can be rethought to capture ways of living with the forest.

The Museum of Modern Art announced Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism, an exhibition dedicated to both realized and unrealized projects that address ecological and environmental concerns by architects who practiced in the United States from the 1930s through the 1990s.

From September 1 to October 29, the city of Seoul is holding the 4^th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, a globally recognized event organized by Seoul Metropolitan Government. The fair serves as an international network platform for exchanging ideas with cities worldwide and has already attracted accumulated 1.83 million visitors since its inception in 2017.

Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinatti, United States (CAC) celebrates the 20th anniversary of its Zaha Hadid-designed building with the exhibition A Permanent Nostalgia for Departure: A Rehearsal on Legacy with Zaha Hadid.

The Argentine architecture Amancio Williams was chosen for the iteration of Canadian Centre for Architecture’s Out of the Box exhibition series.

MoMA presents the topic of Architecture in the age of industry from the Collection 1880s–1940s in room 511. The exhibition explores how industrial structures in the United States sparked an architectural revolution in Europe.

Under the title Nature of Hope, the eleventh edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) examines nature, culture and hope from the perspective of architectural thought and action, as a driving force for social change.

Four years after de donation of Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s entire archive to Casa da Architectura, the Portuguese Center for Architecture presented two simultaneous exhibtions, a book and a ten-month parallel program of activities around the artist’s principles, aesthetics and ethics.

Everlasting Plastics is the United States Pavilion’s proposal at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

The Luxembourg Pavilion presented Down to Earth, a project by Francelle Cane and Marija Marić at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. Down to Earth critically unpacks the project of space mining through the perspective of resources. 

For its participation at the 18th International Venice Architecture Biennale through its national pavilion, France chose to be represented by the project Ball Theater.

2086: Together now? asks why there is so much isolation at an era where humans are supposed to be hyper-connected through globalization of information, finance, and event culture.

Ghost Stories: The Carrier Bag Theory of Architecture will be presented at the Türkiye Pavilion as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale between May 20 and November 26, 2023. 

The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, titled The Laboratory of the Future, will be open to the public from Saturday May 20 to Sunday November 26, 2023 at the Giardini and the Arsenale, and at Forte Marghera; it will be curated by Lesley Lokko and organised by La Biennale di Venezia.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents a new exhibition series Architecture Now: New York, New Publics to highlight emerging talent and foreground groundbreaking projects in contemporary architecture.

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO) presents the exhibition Helen Escobedo: Ambientes totales (Total Environments), which offers a contemporary look at one of the pioneers of installation art in Mexico.

Within the framework of the XXIII Pan American Biennial of Architecture of Quito (BAQ), +ARTE gallery will participate with works from the exhibition Parajes escondidos: dentro de lo visible. 

The 10^th edition of the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam showcases the work of 50 spatial designers, architects and researchers who are addressing the future of our planet in an inspiring way.

The Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022 explores how new paradigms are changing our ways of place-making in a globalized Planet and proposes a future based in intersecting and exchanging knowledge to make a more sustainable world.