Irish and UK architects compare experiences from the start of their careers in a conversation asking if now is a good time to be ‘young’ in architecture.
17 June
The power of simple narratives in shaping perceptions, politics and the city is formidable. This debate investigates the role of storytelling as an architectural tool led by a panel of architects and journalists working at the coalface of narrative weaving.
A group of students and young professionals interrogating the built environment and campaigning for a better-designed city
projects
The AF is only able to run events, produce films, publish books, throw parties and make structures thanks to our wide network of amazing volunteers
competitions
The Architecture Foundation is seeking applications for inclusion in a major publication surveying the best British architectural practices established in the past ten years.
14 July
An exploration of China through the lens of filmmaker and anthropologist J.P. Sniadecki, whose experimental and engrossing work reveals the construction of places, people and film itself. A double bill of mesmeric cinema, charting the labour, life and economy of a nation on the move.
23 June
A pair of films, spanning almost 50 years, exploring the mechanised Smart Home, the internet of things and living in the Information Age. Space Caviar’s critique of the 21C smart home present meets a 1960s adaptation of EM Foerster’s prescient 1909 sci-fi. Followed by Space Caviar’s Joseph Grima and Simone Niquille in conversation with Bruce Sterling.
12 May
An exploration of Chernobyl’s ‘zone of alienation’ through a portrait of the ghost town of Pripyat – abandoned since the 1986 nuclear disaster – and the people who live and work there.
31 March
Two leading auteur filmmakers, Jean-Luc Godard and Guy Maddin, respond with idiosyncratic brilliance to commissions to create filmic portraits of towns they have called home. Plus a short from Maddin-collaborator and Winnipeg-resident Evan Johnson, responding to Maddin’s Winnipeg, through a vision of his own.