13 March
Leading Colombian architects and educators share their joy and commitment to Global South approaches, thinking, and socio-environmental practices. They will discuss their mutual concern in the cultivation of low-impact construction techniques, alternative technologies, ecological restoration, and the significance of intercultural knowledge sharing scenarios.
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9 March
In a lecture entitled 'Taking Time', the Stirling-Prize winning architect will explore the role that buildings play in giving form to extended time.
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.
podcasts
A young practice seeks aesthetic exuberance and new forms of collectivity while contending with the limitations of the present.
Catch up with online broadcasts including videos of lectures and Scaffold, the Architecture Foundation podcast
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"
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
film
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.
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.
Catch up with commissioned essays including the weekly column written by supporters of the Architecture Foundation