Each month, Friends of Residential Treasures Los Angeles (FORT: LA) curates a new self-guided trail, inviting Angelenos to explore the city's rich architectural heritage. These immersive experiences highlight significant homes, hidden gems, and the designers who have shaped Los Angeles' built environment.
From March 9 to 15, 2026, the city will host Barragán: Legado Tapatío, a cultural week that activates its memory through architecture itself. The program features an exhibition of contemporary Mexican design, guided tours providing historical context, and cultural experiences that invite participants to engage with architecture through a lens of sensitivity. The intention is not only to remember but to project.
Materials 2050: Reuse and Recycle
The Rio de Janeiro Department of the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB RJ) and the State Government, through the Cidade Integrada program, are hosting the International Favelas Meeting on March 17 and 18. This free event, supported by the Cumbre Internacional del Hábitat de América Latina y el Caribe (CIHALC), will feature activities held at the Palácio Guanabara and the IAB RJ headquarters in Flamengo.
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ON INITIAL ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION IN CONTEMPORARY CHILE
The 22nd Brazilian Congress of Architects will take place in Fortaleza in 2026, marking a national reunion for the architecture community in the post-pandemic era.
The event will be held from August 11 to 14 at the Ceará Events Center, in an unprecedented partnership with ExpoConstruir, with an expected attendance of over 5,000 participants.
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A meeting space for architecture, culture, and innovation.
Continuing the international dialogue and cooperation initiated in 2015, we are pleased to announce that the 11th FIPA – International Forum on Architectural Heritage Brazil-Portugal will be held in 2026 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. The capital of Santa Catarina won the bid to host the event, which will take place in partnership with IPHAN, CAU/BR, and UA/PT.
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COSENTINO CITY CDMX CELEBRATES ITS SECOND ANNIVERSARY
We invite you to join us in commemorating two years of collaboration, inspiration, and memorable experiences in this space that has brought together the design and architecture community.
It would be an honor to have you with us for a special evening to toast to everything we have built together.
Please RSVP and join us in celebrating this significant milestone.
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The 15th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial (BIAsp), scheduled to take place in September and October 2027, announced architects Gabriela de Matos and Pedro Rossi as the event's chief curators. Following the previous edition on the theme Extremes: Architectures for a Hot World, the duo is expected to bring critical perspectives on architecture, culture, and the city to bear on the theme Architecture, Culture, and Sovereignty. Their role is to direct the conceptual development of the Biennial, assemble a curatorial team, and run a public call for co-curators.
FORMAL INFORMAL is a new solo exhibition by Francisco Nogueira, a Lisbon-based photographer trained as an architect. The photographs were made over six years across the Cape Verdean islands of São Vicente, Santo Antão and Santiago, and explore the idea of an architecture without architects, vernacular, informal, built in the time between a desire and its realisation. The exhibition opens on 16 July at Arquivo Aires Mateus, Lisbon.
Mataró occupies a significant place in Antoni Gaudí’s professional biography.
A Must-attend event for the building industry
Building Green CPH is the Nordic region's largest and most influential event focused on sustainability in the built environment. This is where the industry comes together to drive the transition towards a more sustainable future and create important dialogue across the entire value chain.
The UIA 2026, the 29th edition of the triennial international event for architectural dialogue organised by the International Union of Architects, has opened its doors on Sunday, June 28th, with an inaugural event held at Three Chimneys, a former power plant in Sant Adrià de Besòs. Each Congress focuses on a pressing topic relevant to the profession, articulated through a central theme. The topic for 2026 is "Becoming. Architectures for a Planet in Transition," calling for a broad and critical overview of the possible futures of architecture. The event runs through July 2, 2026, as a distributed event across multiple venues and urban contexts. With a multidisciplinary approach, Barcelona, the UNESCO World Capital of Architecture 2026, is set to become a global laboratory and hub for debating forthcoming ecological, social, material, and cultural transitions.
Three decades after it first hosted the event, Barcelona once again becomes the host of the global disciplinary debate. The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona aims to bring together 10,000 professionals, students, and institutional representatives from more than 130 countries. Discussions address topics such as the climate emergency, the housing crisis, the circularity and sustainability of materials, and the evolution of public space at large and small scales, as well as more specific topics such as the future role and responsibility of architectural awards or conferences dedicated to the DANA floods in Valencia. The daily program will be marked by two plenary sessions each day, at the start (09:00) and at the end (16:45).
Architects, not Architecture. | Barcelona Edition 2026
Winy Maas + Xu Tiantian + Arno Brandlhuber
On Thursday, July 2, 2026, at 6:30 pm at the Auditorium of La Pedrera – Casa Milà, Barcelona.
9 days of architectural workshops in Vienna: the Vienna Architecture Summer School (VAS²) is an independent learning space for students, graduates and drop-outs in architecture or any other related discipline. Away from established hierarchies of universitary structures, we aim for exchange and negotiation of knowledges beyond dominating institutions and mainstream discourses.
Co-organized with the Fundació Joan Miró and developed by the studio Tomorrow Bureau, Gaudí–Miró–Gomis: Deconstructed explores three key 20th-century Catalan figures, bringing the original works of the three creators into dialogue with unprecedented digital installations.
ICAMT - International Committee for Architecture and Museum Techniques of ICOM annually organises an important international conference bringing together experts from diverse disciplines such as architecture, museography, exhibition design, and museum studies.
Every three years, the International Union of Architects' (UIA) World Congress lands in a different city, under a different theme set years in advance. A quick mapping of these host cities reveals a deliberate pattern: throughout the decades, the UIA has purposefully chosen a wide range of venues across all continents, rendering each edition a snapshot of what mattered in that specific place, at that exact moment. The result of this geographic rotation has been a diverse kaleidoscope of conversations, analyzing the profession from countless angles and adapting it to changing times. But 2026 is different; this time the UIA is repeating a host city for the first time: Barcelona, under the theme "Becoming. Architectures for a planet in transition".
HP and Foster + Partners will host a panel discussion at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 exploring how technology is reshaping collaboration across the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.
