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As the closing act of the first pan-European architecture platform Future Architecture, we are pleased to announce the Future Architecture Book. Edited by Milan Dinevski and Damjan Kokalevski, the book documents the 6 years of the platform that was dedicated to creating a network of cultural institutions and young practitioners. Its main aim was to present and discuss architectural concerns ...
The Future Architecture platform, coordinated by the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) in Ljubljana, Slovenia has provided talented conceptual practitioners and thinkers in architecture with the opportunity to speak up – and be seen and heard. It has connected emerging talents to high profile institutions, museums, galleries, publishing houses, biennials, and festivals which organized the European Architecture Program of exhibitions ...
Their work aims at investigating the built environment through research, design and artistic experimentation, across multiple scales and in its social, economical and structural entanglements.They are collecting protocols and collective approaches, exploring alternative living and city making models and new paradigms of urban development to engage with communities and local agents. They strive to create inclusive and accessible spaces ...
Mapping the Margins is a series of maps and documentations, identifying, for the first time, all the women associations, local agriculture cooperatives as well as abandoned buildings in Thesprotia province, in order to create an active platform where many cooperatives can find a space to grow. Through these rural commons, we aim to merge formal, non-formal and informal learning ...
One of the main guests at the 2021 Creative Exchange: Landscapes of Care event was Amica Dall, who holds a degree in English literature and anthropology and is one of the fifteen founders of the non-hierarchical multidisciplinary London collective Assemble, which produces architecture, art, urban design, and research—and in doing so focuses on the social and material processes of ...
With the 2021 Creative Exchange: Landscapes of Care, one of the key European events for networking and presentation of architectural ideas, Future Architecture Platform will introduce a new season of its European Architecture Program via a live webcast for the first time via Future Architecture Rooms.
During the year 2020, millions of people around the world had to quarantine, self-isolate, and apply physical and social distancing. Our lives, our family and work have drastically shifted into what many are increasingly calling the “new normal”. People work, study, shop and even get health advice remotely. Yet, not everyone enjoys suitable spaces for conducting virtual lives. While much ...
We are pleased to announce that we have counted all the votes and are now presenting you with the final list of 27 selected ideas that will be invited to the 2021 Creative Exchange: Landscapes of Care taking place online in February and March 2021.
This year we have received 457 ideas from 63 countries, and have ...
Designers, architects and urban planners are increasingly taking on the task of managing social and political issues of relationships, neighborhoods, energy flows, mobility, cultural heritage, identity and urban change, rather than just spatial and formal aspects. The theme ‘Landscapes of care’ focuses on a change of direction in the values, interests and priorities that drive architecture and urban planning. The ...
Archifutures Volume 6: Agency, A field guide to reclaiming the future of architecture is a call to action for architects, urbanists and designers. With essays, interviews, projects and original works by young practitioners and more established figures alike, this sixth volume in the Archifutures series for the Future Architecture platform is the most activist to ...
In an effort to find alternatives to the current development project in Yerevan’s District 33 (Firdusi), the Committee for the Protection of Yerevan’s Heritage has launched an international open competition of ideas for the urban revitalization of the district.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: September 10, 2020
Open Call announcement of the Future Architecture Member Tbilisi Common Architecture Biennial 2020. The main topic of the biennial which is scheduled to take place on October 17 – November 8 2020 is What Do We Have in Common.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: July 31, 2020 by 23:59 CET.
Future Architecture Platform media partner ARTS THREAD has partnered with i-D Magazine to launch the online Global Design Graduate Show 2020.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: July 31, 2020 by 23.59 GMT.
During the successful 2020 Creative Exchange, Marina Otero Verzier, architect and director of research at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, reflected on the applications from the Future Architecture 2020 Call for Ideas and shared her view on the future of architecture. We are delighted to announce the Annual Reflection Summary by Otero Verzier. Be inspired by her fresh and thought-provoking ...
Tbilisi Architecture Biennale is an associate member of the Future Architecture platform. The first edition of the biennale in 2018 titled Buildings are not enough hosted the project Xuxula: Informality as a method located in the Gldani area, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2020 Creative Exchange, 12. - 13. February @ MAO Ljubljana
Focus Talks address some of the most pressing issues in the profession and engages with various aspects of the current state of architecture in Europe and beyond. As part of the 2020 Creative Exchange, the topic of this year's Focus Talks is Curatorial in Architecture presented from the perspective of different ...
2020 Creative Exchange, 12. - 13. February @ MAO Ljubljana
We are delighted to announce 15 selected participants from all over Europe and beyond to take part in the Future Architecture Fair 2020. Running in parallel to the Creative Exchange 2020, this year on the Fair we will have the opportunity to explore various interesting projects and engage in discussions with a ...
They see membership as an opportunity to further enhance the ability to generate new transformational ideas that influence future practice by engaging emerging creatives and facilitating collaboration with other Future Architecture member institutions.
We are pleased to announce that we have counted the member votes, alumni votes and public votes and now have the final list of ideas that will be invited to the 2020 Creative Exchange, 12. - 13. February 2020 in MAO Ljubljana. This year we received 433 ideas from 53 countries, and we have recorded over ...
12. - 13. February 2020
Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) Ljubljana
Architectuul is an associate member and media partner of the Future Architecture Platform. This year, for the first time, we created Digital Research Fellowship program through which one of Future Architecture creatives would join our editorial team for four months, one of which they would spend in our Berlin office. Our first fellow is Sonja Dragović – here we bring you ...
Curated by Lucie Kohoutová, Future Architecture platform alumna
2. - 6. December 2019, Prague
Prague's CAMP explores the Synergies of Food and Urbanism. A dedicated FoodCAMP event offers free talks, debates, and screenings.
Excerpt from the chapter ‘Ceci n’est pas une Bauakademie’ Inspired in the project ‘Neue Bauakademie Berlin. A club for the former & future architecture’ by Hendrik Brinkmann. The text is featured in the forthcoming book ‘Fables and Constructions’ by Lucie Kohoutová & Martina Freitagová. This is the title of the winning entry for the FINAL_FINAL writing grant launched ...
Excerpt from the chapter ‘Unsunk Heroes’ Inspired in the project ‘Hope on Water’ by Sevince Bayrak, Oral Göktaş. The text is featured in the forthcoming book ‘Fables and Constructions’ by Lucie Kohoutová & Martina Freitagová. This is the title of the winning entry for the FINAL_FINAL writing grant launched by dpr-barcelona within the Future Architecture 2019 Call ...
We invite some of the most prominent thinkers of the present to dive in the Future Architecture ideas repository and reflect on the work of an emerging generation of creatives striving for positive change. The valuable document was publicly presented by Giovanna Borasi on the 2019 Creative Exchange in MAO Ljubljana.
The Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) entered the summer season with the renovated courtyard of the renaissance Fužine Castle, where MAO is located. The author of this intervention is Julio Gotor Valcarcel, his proposal is understood as the addition of new layers of time.
Within the 2019/20 program, CANactions School travels to 4 metropoles in western, northern and central Europe and explores their innovative approaches for creating more livable neighborhoods. Based on the findings, we develop new strategies for locally specific and globally relevant questions, considering spatial, economic, social and political measures.
Artists and practitioners working in all creative fields anywhere in the world are encouraged to apply with projects that tackle issues concerning the future, and what can we do to actively shape it.
The open forum, part of Creative Exchange 2019 taking place from 13 to 15 February at MAO Ljubljana, will provide cultural operators and emerging creatives in architecture an opportunity to present their work to the Future Architecture audience, meet partners and examine opportunities, while the audiences will have the chance to explore the latest in the field of architecture and ...
Communities everywhere are facing the “apocalypse” on a day-to-day basis. The reality of surviving it is not about building bunkers, it is about building resilience – everywhere and in all kinds of ways.
Architektūros fondas, a non-governmental public institution from Vilnius has been selected to become a full member of the Future Architecture platform and receive a platform grant in 2020 for its annual programme Building Narratives.
In the four years of its existence, the FA programme has created a collaborative network with over one hundred alumni. The wide scope of generated ideas reflects the breadth of places and fields they come from, here two alumni reflect on their journey.
Future Architecture members and 2018 alumni selected 21 ideas from the 357 received at Call for Ideas 2019. The authors will be invited to the Matchmaking Conference as part of Creative Exchange 2019 taking place from 13-15 February 2019 at Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana, where they will present their ideas on Future Architecture and get the chance ...
Followers of the Future Architecture website and social media have selected their favourite idea for 2019, while we received a record breaking number of votes!
The forth Call for Ideas received record breaking 357 applications by 704 creatives from 60 countries.
Tirana is a city that responds to particular needs both architecturally and in its urban form, giving rise to rapid spatial developments that reflect the new conditions and needs. We take a walk with Saimir Kristo, a Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design at POLIS University and curator of Tirana Architecture/ Design Week.
Future Architecture Fair provides a forum for architects or architecture offices, institutions, curators and other professionals to present their projects, meet partners and stay abreast of the latest developments in architecture. Do not miss the opportunity to connect with Future Architecture audience!
In 2017, the Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic’s performance, installation and film project Spielraum was one of the selected projects for the Future Architecture platform Open Call. What is particularly fascinating about her work is how she makes architecture an integral part of it: as ideas in concrete form, as an instrument of power structures, and as a spatial ...
The next Future Architecture call will start on 15 November 2018 and end on 7 January 2019! The 4th Call for Ideas will again invite multi-disciplinary emerging creatives who work on transformative projects and ideas for the future of architecture to apply for participation in the European Architecture Program.
Carlijn Kingma studied architecture but calls herself a researcher and cartographer. She graduated from the TU Delft in 2016 with a master project entitled: “The Institute of Utopianism”.
The open call invites individuals and multi-disciplinary teams to propose exhibitive, performative and physical submissions that explore the architecture of degrowth in the context of the new library’s collections and facilities. Dealine for applications is 19 November 2018!
The Conference "Cherishing Heritage", organised by the European Commission in cooperation with International Council of Monuments and Sites, held on 22 and 23 November 2018 in Venice, Italy, aims at promoting the public debate on quality principles in EU funded interventions on cultural heritage.
In 2016 at the Venice Architecture Biennale entitled “Reporting from the Front”, the Polish pavilion hosted one of the most powerful installations of the whole show. For “Fair Building” Dominika Janicka, in cooperation with Martyna Janicka and Michał Gdak, created a set of five powerful short documentary films, which are now made available to the FA platform here.
The future of architecture is very much about embracing complexity and looking at strategic intervention strategies beyond the discipline itself. Maybe it’s time to stop talking about the “urban” and the “rural” and consider ourselves as part of a delicate and intricate bioregional balance. This essay by environmentalist Freya Yost may be about open access and agriculture but it ...
In this, the first of our Archi-walks series, we tour the architectural styles of Prishtina’s diverse neighbourhoods with our guide Bekim Ranku, a Prishtina native and head of the Kosovo Architecture Foundation and Festival.
Sometimesit can take the smallest of interventions to make one realise how precious anarchitect’s contribution to the community can be. This beautifully shot film documents the results of one of the 2017 selected Call for Ideas projects by a young collective of creatives from Warsaw calling themselves “Terytoria Kultury” (“CultureTerritories”).
We spoke to Corales about his interest in the potential of agricultural typologies to act as active agents in the conflict between original communities and the state of Chile.
We invite some of the most prominent thinkers of the present to dive in the Future Architecture ideas repository and reflect on the work of an emerging generation of creatives striving for positive change. The valuable document was publicly presented by Stojan Pelko on the 2018 Creative Exchange in MAO Ljubljana.
How can you navigate towards something when there are no fixed points, when you cannot determine your position? How do you know where to go, or even know when you have got there?
Denmark’s first and world’s largest architecture festival opens its fifth edition.
In recent decades the figure of a reluctant architect has emerged: instead of strictly controlling the process of building from the drawing board to the end of construction, architects started to voluntarily retreat from it.
A variety of different applicants responded to the Call for Members 2019 - the call has received 27 high quality applications from 17 countries, which deal with diverse activities from the field of architecture that range from cultural and creative production, to festival organisation, publishing, showcasing of artists, research, policy analysis and evaluation.