13 January
A series of events focused around the question 'What is 'good' design? How can it be delivered?' will take place at the Building Centre, coinciding with the current exhibition on Housing Standardisation.
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6 February
Kristiaan Borret, City Architect of Brussels (2015–2024), looks back at a decade when the city gained international recognition for the exceptional quality of its new architecture and urban planning.
film
Structured as a conversation with a young architect, Mark Pimlott's new book reflects on the act of looking, interpreting and perceiving at the beginning of a project.
27 February
Explore the work of Hugh Strange, whose buildings are rooted in the precise and economic use of low-carbon materials and a sensitivity to the particularities of their sites.
Catch up with online broadcasts including videos of lectures and Scaffold, the Architecture Foundation podcast
podcasts
The co-founder of the Lisbon and Aarhus-based Studio Sotnas on the freighted role of images in contemporary architectural practice.
The art critic and culture writer on his recent polemic "The Painted Protest: how politics destroyed contemporary art"
The celebrated architect discusses the genesis and evolution of his seminal guide to London architecture.
A newly formed Swiss architectural collective on the optimism that drives their work in the context of global precarity.
A panel of architects and artists on their experiments in reuse and new forms of public space at Horst, the groundbreaking festival of music, art and architecture in Belgium.
writing
Contemporary re-use projects reflect the harmony, order, symmetry and improvisational flare found in flamenco dancing.
Lessons on waste and circularity from Charles Dickens' book 'Our Mutual Friend'.
A panel of workers, activists and union members gather to discuss labour rights in architectural practice.
The Leipzig-based co-curators of the 2023 Venice Biennale German Pavilion reflect on communal housing, craft work and the 'sanitary revolution' in architectural practice.
The curator and former Deputy Director of the Architecture Foundation reflects on the current state of architectural criticism.
The author reflects on radical performance and the spaces that sustain it in her recently published book Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant
The student group, MASS, based out of London Metropolitan University curated a series of talks questioning what it means to design and build architecture today.
Ken Worpole, Gillian Darley and David Knight discuss a new publication reflecting on the life and work of Colin Ward.
Catch up with commissioned essays including the weekly column written by supporters of the Architecture Foundation
