UPCOMING EVENTS
For School's Out! on the last Friday of April, we have invited Architect and writer Reinier de Graaf to talk about his latest book Architecture Against Architecture - A fourteen-point manifesto to bring architecture into the twenty-first century in which he explores the tough choices ahead and the course of action that must follow.
How do we end the feudal veneration of starchitects? When will architects finally recognise that it is in their own best interest to unionise? Why aren’t more practices collectively owned? Why do so many architects over sixty-seven refuse to retire? How do we stop buildings from being copyrighted? What will remain of architecture after AI? What can prevent iconic structures from being embroiled in money laundering? And the vital question: What projects architects should refuse on moral grounds? Tickets sold out.
The Albanian Calls is a feature-length video essay, thatcaptures the discourse surrounding what it means to be an international architect in contemporary Albania, exploring both opportunities and challenges. It examines the agency of architects, the shifting relationship between public and private space, and the intersection of architecture and politics. The Albanian Calls investigates how architecture shapes Albania’s emerging identity, while at the same time how the country’s unique architectural environment prompts a reflection on the state of the practice as a whole, as well as on the role of an individual architect working in a foreign country.
The Independent School for the City and Het Nieuwe Instituut have teamed up to invite Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular for a talk on Wednesday 20 May, titled 'The Global Home'. They will talk about their work that explores the relationships between media and the built environment through research, design and artworks. The studio has realised buildings, exhibitions, public artworks, furniture collections, and interiors in Asia and Europe, as well as virtual architecture for the immersive internet.
For School's Out! in May, we've invited stylist and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek to talk about her work together with Photographer Ari Versluis on the Exactitudes project. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities of Rotterdam’s heterogeneous, multicultural street scene. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity.
Aditya Prakash (1924), the father of Vikram, was one of the Indian architects who collaborated with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret to turn Chandigarh - the famous modernist new capital for the state of East Punjab (India) - into a reality. Although unknown to most, he and other Indian architects such as MN Sharma, BP Mathur and JK Choudhury, have played an important part of modern and contemporary Indian architecture. Vikram Prakash will speak about his father's architecture in Chandigarh under the rubric of Non-Aligned Modernism, understanding modernism not as a Western idea but as an ongoing global project. New date: Saturday 13 June 2026