RECORD’s month-to-month checklist of upcoming and ongoing exhibitions, occasions, and competitions.
Ongoing Exhibitions
Marc Brousse: Architekto(s)cene(s)
Brussels
By means of March 1, 2025
Husk Gallery presents architect Marc Brousse’s first solo exhibition; it explores the idea of an “Architektocene” period outlined by humanity’s world architectural footprint. By means of detailed drawings on paper and objects, Brousse examines the intersection of constructed environments and pure landscapes, layering architectural strata to bridge scientific inquiry and inventive creativeness. See huskgallery.com.
Distillation of Structure: 家具
London
By means of March 7, 2025
An exhibition on the Architectural Affiliation Faculty of Structure reconsiders the connection between furnishings and structure, pairing 4 Japanese architects with craftspeople to rework a bit of furnishings or home construction. The ensuing works exhibit how architectural considering and craftsmanship can create adaptive, compact options that problem mass-production norms and promote sustainable residing. See aschool.ac.uk.
Stressed Structure: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Milan
By means of March 16, 2025
MAXXI presents an exhibition, designed and curated by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, inspecting structure from the Thirties to the current that adapts, reconfigures, and responds to altering situations. Organized round 4 key ideas—mobility, adaptability, operability, and ecodynamism—the present explores initiatives that problem structure’s conventional static nature, together with works by Hans Hollein, Kisho Kurokawa, Rem Koolhaas, and Archigram, along with the Zaha Hadid–designed museum itself. Typical architectural fashions, drawings and pictures are supplemented with newly commissioned kinetic fashions, full-scale mock-ups, experimental prototypes, and video installations. See maxxi.artwork.
Set up view, Stressed Structure: Diller Scofidio + Renfro at MAXXI. Picture © Musacchio, Pasqualini ¬ Fucilla / MUSA, courtesy Fondazione MAXXI
Celebrating 100 Years of John S. Chase
Austin
By means of March 21, 2025
The College of Texas at Austin’s Faculty of Structure presents an exhibition honoring the centennial of pioneering architect John S. Chase, the varsity’s first African American graduate and Texas’s first Black licensed architect. Curated by Assistant Professor Tara A. Dudley, the exhibition chronicles Chase’s groundbreaking profession and lasting affect on American structure. See soa.utexas.edu.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Initiatives for New York Metropolis
New York
By means of March 23, 2025
The Shed commemorates the Twentieth anniversary of The Gates with an immersive exhibition exploring Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s monumental public art work in Central Park and their unrealized visions for New York Metropolis. By means of authentic drawings, scale fashions, set up elements, and an augmented actuality expertise, the present chronicles the 25-year journey to understand The Gates’ 7,503 saffron-colored portals. Curated by Pascal Roulin, the exhibition additionally presents the primary U.S. displaying of the artists’ unbuilt proposals for his or her adopted metropolis. See theshed.org.
A Story of Immediately: Materialities
Chicago
By means of April 27, 2025
The Driehaus Museum presents an exhibition exploring the cultural and ecological histories embedded within the supplies of its web site: the Gilded Age-era Samuel Nickerson Mansion. The museum invited up to date artists—together with Richard Hunt, Luftwerk, and Barbara Cooper—to interact in dialogue with particular supplies from the constructing, uncovering hidden networks of commerce, craft, and beliefs that join the constructing to world histories. Curated by Giovanni Aloi, the present examines how architectural supplies actively form cultural boundaries. See driehausmuseum.org.
Capital Brutalism
Washington, D.C.
Prolonged by way of June 30, 2025
Within the mid-Twentieth century, urban-renewal efforts ushered in a Brutalist phenomenon that remodeled the nation’s capital. The Nationwide Constructing Museum explores the historical past, present state, and way forward for seven polarizing buildings (and the Washington Metro system) from this period. Along with archival materials, the exhibition contains reimaginings of chosen buildings by structure companies together with Studio Gang, Brooks + Scarpa, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Gensler, and 2023 Design Vanguard BLDUS. See nbm.org.
The Craft of Carpentry: Drawing Life from Japan’s Forests
London
By means of July 6, 2025
Japan Home London presents an immersive exhibition celebrating the traditions of Japanese carpentry, from historic temple building to up to date follow. Centered round a full-scale reconstruction of Kyoto’s historic Sa-an teahouse, the exhibition illuminates the subtle instruments, strategies, and supplies that outline the architectural craft. Interactive shows enable guests to discover conventional joinery strategies and expertise native wooden varieties, revealing how grasp carpenters create constructions which can be each lovely and resilient. See japanhouselondon.uk.
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Staff at a Japanese lumber mill within the Forties (1); a set of Japanese hand planes (2); and a full-scale reconstruction of Kyoto’s historic Sa-an teahouse (3) are all on view at The Craft of Carpentry exhibition. Photographs courtesy the Japan Home
A South Forty: Up to date Structure and Design within the American South
Washington, D.C.
By means of winter, 2026
he Nationwide Constructing Museum presents a landmark exhibition inspecting the evolution of up to date structure throughout the American Southeast. Curated by Peter MacKeith and designed by Jonathan Boelkins, the present options work from greater than forty architectural practices, from North Carolina to Oklahoma, revealing how regional designers are responding to speedy development, local weather challenges, and shifting cultural identities. By means of a variety of initiatives—from non-public residences to civic buildings—the exhibition demonstrates how Southern structure balances custom with innovation whereas creating resilient, community-centered areas. See nbm.org.
Occasions
Worldwide Mass Timber Convention 2025
Portland, Oregon
March 25–27, 2025
Convening for its ninth version, the annual occasion brings collectively attendees from a variety of industries and disciplines, together with structure, city planning, building, improvement, engineering, forestry, and manufacturing. A collection of talks will probably be supplemented by excursions, stay demonstrations, and exhibitions. See masstimberconference.com.
Coverings
Orlando
April 29–Could 2, 2025
The Orange County Conference Heart hosts North America’s premier exhibition of ceramic tile and pure stone, gathering 1,100 exhibitors from 40 nations. The annual commerce present brings collectively business professionals—from distributors and fabricators to architects and designers—to discover rising developments and applied sciences within the sector. See coverings.com.
Competitions
2025 RAMSA Fellowship
Deadline: March 26, 2025
The RAMSA Fellowship is a $15,000 prize awarded yearly to graduate college students for journey and analysis. Robert A.M. Stern Architects pronounces its thirteenth annual fellowship supporting architectural analysis by way of journey. The award, open to penultimate-year graduate college students at NAAB-accredited packages, allows deep exploration of how custom informs architectural innovation. Previous fellows have investigated various subjects from Egyptian mudbrick building to Sicilian industrial heritage, with the choice of a funded two-week residency at RAMSA’s New York workplace to develop their analysis. Chosen fellows current their findings to the agency the next spring. See ramsa.com/fellowship.
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