Architecture: Research Guide

This house is a story about healing the bond with a family home and reclaiming the stabilizing effects that come from having an attachment to a place.

The project proposes a single-family home for a family with children, conceived as an extension of the relationship with the neighboring house, which belongs to a relative of the owners.

The lecture "Architecture Shaped by Place: Espacio Común on Practice, People, and Context," led by ArchDaily Editor-in-Chief Christele Harrouk, will take place on Wednesday, October 14, at 3:30 p. m. in the main auditorium of Obra Blanca Expo, featuring Paula Villa Pastor, co-founder of Espacio Común, a Peruvian association co-directed with Daniel Canchán. Starting with the Main Floating Stage of Muyunafest 2025 designed by Espacio Común—winner of first place in ArchDaily's 2026 Building of the Year awards—this conversation explores how architecture can emerge from existing conditions, knowledge, and ways of life.

The CCCB invites you to the presentation of the finalists for the 2026 European Prize for Urban Public Space, taking place on Wednesday, October 14, at 10:00 a.m. in the CCCB Auditorium. During the event, which is open to the public, the authors of the finalist proposals will explain how their interventions directly contribute to improving the quality of life in European cities and combating the climate crisis, as well as the strategies used to foster ecological restoration and social cohesion. They will also address questions and inquiries raised by this year's jury. The international jury, chaired by

Open House Valencia is an international architecture and urbanism festival that opens the doors to some of València’s most iconic buildings, offering free guided tours for everyone. It is part of the Open House Worldwide network, present in more than 60 cities around the world, as well as the European Open House Europe project. Every year, you can discover unique spaces, take part in urban tours, attend talks and conferences, and enjoy a unique cultural experience in your city. The 8th edition of the festival will take place from 23 to 25 October 2026, alongside four Guest Municipalities (Xàtiva, Cocentaina, Llíria and

We are excited to announce the AIA Southeast Asia Symposium, “Designing for Resilience: Regenerative Thinking in an Automated Age ”. When: Friday 23 October 2026 @ 03:30 (Eastern US time)/ 15.30 (Malaysia time)Where: ONLINE/ Haworth Showroom, Kuala LumpurCES: Estimated 2.5 LU/ HSW for AIA MembersAs climate vulnerabilities escalate and rapid automation reshapes architectural practice, the AIA Southeast Asia Fall Symposium 2026 examines how ecological regeneration, social inclusivity, and advanced technological systems intersect to transform built environments beyond standard sustainability metrics.Hosted in a hybrid format at the Haworth Showroom in Kuala Lumpur and broadcast regionally, ..

A different social order is easier to imagine when it sits far from the one that already exists. In Latin America, that distance has often been territorial. Parts of the region have repeatedly been treated as places where another world could begin. These places were never empty.

A grand ceremony marking the reopening of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum was held on Monday, 5 October. Now, a dramatic new addition named the Agravitas hovers like a bridge, spanning 55 metres over the original buildings, leaving them untouched except for restoration. It creates a new enclosed plaza, the social heart of the museum and a vital part of the freely accessible, ground-level public spaces. For the first time in many decades, the original 1940s entrance fronting the city square is reopened. The uppermost level houses a vast new column-free gallery.

Wasl Tower is a 302-metre mixed-use high-rise in downtown Dubai, designed by UNS in collaboration with lead engineering consultant Werner Sobek for Wasl Group. Located off Sheikh Zayed Road near Burj Khalifa, the tower brings together hotel, residential, office, and public amenity spaces within a single vertical community, contributing a distinctive presence to Dubai's city centre.

Obra Blanca, the exhibition of finishes and design products for architecture, will celebrate its seventh edition from October 13 to 15, 2026, at Expo Santa Fe in Mexico City. Conceived for the architecture and interior design community, this initiative combines an innovation showcase with an international lecture program to shape the Obra Blanca Experience: three days of connection, knowledge, and immersion in the architectural finishes and design products sector.

In November 2019, London-based Carmody Groarke and Ghent firm TRANS architectuur | stedenbouw, now known as ATAMA, won the Baumeister international competition to design an extension for Design Museum Gent, Belgium's largest design museum, located in Ghent's historic center. At the time, the museum comprised three buildings: the eighteenth-century Hotel de Coninck, the Leten House, with a sixteenth-century core, and a 1992 wing. After four years of renovation and expansion, the museum reopened on October 3, 2026, within the UNESCO World Heritage city center. The project combines the restoration of these historic buildings with a new wing designed by Carmody Groarke and ATAMA, alongside the r..

"Take your dream suppressants." The opening line in Wanuri Kahiū's Pumzi, directed at our protagonist Asha, enforces the order of severing ties with hopeful futures and ancestral memories in pasts shared to compel her focus on the perpetual present in the Maitu Community's heterotopia of an enclave. The bird's-eye view shot of the Maitu reveals a sterile, drone-like structure with a panoptic sphere at its center where normal human behavior is medicalized. The layout is built around closed-loop recycling systems as apt as a self-sufficient organism, designed to escape the toxic environment of a sickly Earth, where every pipe and corridor is engineered to harvest human excretion for water gen..

Bare Brick House responds to a steep rural site in Koppam through a restrained architecture that preserves the terrain while balancing privacy, openness, and climatic comfort. Located on a 30-cent plot surrounded by paddy fields and dense vegetation, the 3,560-square-foot residence occupies land that rises nearly 10 feet from the main road. Instead of leveling the site, Yuuga Design Collective retained its natural contours and used them to guide the planning of the house.

Small-scale factories in semi-industrial districts often have minimal setbacks from the street, resulting in urban environments that can feel somewhat monotonous and utilitarian. In response, we explored a factory that could engage more closely with the surrounding city by incorporating greenery into the building's frontage.

dongqi Design has renovated three different buildings into a multi-functional complex that integrates retail, exhibition, F&B and office spaces in downtown Shanghai. The project consists of a three-story brick-concrete building facing the street on the south side, an 8-meter-high factory building, and a single story brick-concrete building on the north side. The ground floor of the three-story building serves as a leisure area, while the second and third floors are office areas. The factory building accommodates a retail area and an independent VIP room. The single-story building on the north side contains a catering area.

Casa Nova is built on a 1,732 m² lot, featuring a unique condition of a beachfront measuring only twelve meters wide—a particular constraint that we used as the design premise.

Ammodo Architecture will launch the first edition of Ammodo Architecture Days in Amsterdam on November 9 and 10, 2026. Organized by Ammodo Architecture, a programme of the Ammodo Foundation, the event will bring together architects, landscape architects, urban planners, artists, communities, collectives and multidisciplinary design teams, alongside recipients of the 2024 and 2025 Ammodo Architecture Award. Taking place at Westergas, a former industrial complex now used as a cultural and public venue, the two-day programme will combine a symposium, exhibition, publication launch and award ceremony, creating a setting for exchange between practices working across different geographic, cultural..

On Friday, October 9, 2026, Ricardo Palma University will host the 1st URP Design + AI Hackathon 2026, an intensive one-day event where students and alumni will work in multidisciplinary teams to propose multifunctional and transformable furniture that addresses a real-world need. The activity is organized by the Research Unit of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism and the Central Office for Alumni Tracking and Employability (OCSEE) at Ricardo Palma University. The event is sponsored by the College of Architects of Peru - Lima Region.

Ausma Hotel reuses more than 200 years old building in the historic center of Kuldīga into a contemporary boutique hotel, continuing the story of the existing building through restoration, local crafts and a new layer of design.

RURAL FUTURES | FUTURE RURALSInternational SymposiumOctober 15–16, 2026Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture The rural is increasingly being declared as a ‘new common ground for humans and all nonhuman living and non-living entities,’ and highlighted as a ‘new’ space for living alongside the city—a shift that calls for reconsidering rural geographies from within their own contexts, challenging conventional views from the city to the countryside, and rethinking rural futures through new perspectives, lines of inquiry, and unconventional models and projects. In response, the international and transdisciplinary symposium Rural Futures | Future Rurals aims..

Architecture has been a subject of photography since the camera was first invented. Thanks to the medium's ease of use and precision, photography has long served as a tool for documenting architectural and urban works. Yet, as with any subject matter, architectural photography also offers an opportunity for artistic expression. In this session, visual artist and photographer Paul Clemence joins architect and designer Rodrigo Ohtake to explore the nuances and expressive, artistic possibilities of architectural photography as art—broadening our perspective and deepening our understanding of both photography and architectural space. Paul Clemence shares a long history with architects Rodr..

The Fondation Beyeler is expanding its ensemble – both physically and conceptually – further strengthening the unique interplay between art, architecture and nature for which it is internationally renowned. During the preview phase (26 September 2026 to 14 January 2027), first visitors are able to experience Peter Zumthorʼs new buildings, the expanded and restored Beyeler Park and the redesigned historic buildings alongside the existing museum building by Renzo Piano.

Practically every history book records 1961 as the year man first reached space, an achievement that placed the Soviet Union at the center of the space race. What not everyone knows is that Yuri Gagarin's journey began in a seemingly unlikely place, more precisely in Kazakhstan. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Gagarin set off beyond Earth, inaugurating not only a new era of space exploration but also a history of technology and ambition that would transform this landscape.

Located along a highway in Kannur, House Beyond the Mango Trees, designed by inLe architects, is shaped around two mature mango trees that stand near the centre of the site. Rather than removing them, the design allows them to become the organizing element of the house, informing movement, orientation, light, and privacy.

Surrounded by neighboring buildings and city roads, the site offers few external views. Rather than seeking scenery outward, the design turns inward, creating a sheltered space of security, calm, and comfort, and bringing in a man-made nature, a "second nature" belonging to its residents.

Four decades of architecture, gathered in an exhibition that invites a look at the processes behind the projects and the various ways in which architecture influences the city. This is the premise of “Biselli Katchborian – 40 Years of Trajectory,” an exhibition celebrating the firm's 40th anniversary, which will open on September 29 at 7:00 PM at the Centro Universitário Senac – Santo Amaro. Founded in 1986 by architects Mario Biselli and Artur Katchborian, Biselli Katchborian has built a trajectory over four decades marked by work across different scales and programs of the

Are you a second or third year student enrolled in a RIBA-accredited Part 1 course? The Student Charrette is for you! Hosted at Gensler, it's a one-day design competition that brings together teams of Part 1 students from around the country for an entirely analogue event. Please note: this event is open to students aged 18 and over only. When: Saturday 7 November 2025, 9am-6pm Where: Gensler, Thomas More Square, Thomas More St, London E1W 1YW Cost: £5, entry fee refundable for students that attend Description There's no computer to fall back on, so you'll be sketching and thinking on your feet, testing your drawing and

In 1948, Robert Moses established the Fresh Kills Landfill on the western shore of Staten Island. The site, chosen for its remote marshland and cheap land value, was meant to be temporary, but by 1955 it was the largest landfill in the world, receiving up to 29,000 tons of refuse per day at its 1991 peak. By 2001, after more than fifty years of continuous operation, Fresh Kills covered 2,200 acres, roughly three times the area of Central Park, and was, unspectacularly, visible from space. When it started, Moses didn't expect to design a dump but, without calling it that, a new landform with four artificial hills rising up to sixty meters above sea level built entirely from the accumulated re..

Ambherst College has long been recognized for its commitment to academic excellence and the holistic development of its students. The new Student Center & Dining Commons is designed to enhance the student experience by fostering a sense of community and maximizing opportunities to improve well- being. Strategically located at the intersection of the elevated historic quad and lower new greenway, the building will become the heart of Amherst - a place where students can take a short break while commuting between classes, as well as a destination for gathering and developing the social bonds crucial for an individual's development. All spaces in the new building are connected by a crossroa..

Art Omi and Limbo Museum have presented Limbo Engawa, a two-part site-specific installation by TAELON7, led by architect Juergen Benson-Strohmayer. First presented at Limbo Museum in Accra, Ghana, on March 12, 2026, the project was reconfigured for Art Omi's Sculpture & Architecture Park in Ghent, New York, where it opened on September 19, 2026. Developed as a joint commission between the two institutions, the project uses a modular architectural system to explore how spaces for gathering and exchange can respond to different landscapes, climates, and cultural contexts.