The first edition of the Copenhagen Architecture Biennial will open on September 18 and operated until October 19 and the city transformed into a platform for the architectural dialogue and the exchange. Under the direction of Josephine Michau, CEO and founder of CAFX and curator of the Danish pavilion of the Biennale of the Venice Architecture 2023, the two -year start of “slow down”. The program will contain over 200 events, including City Walks, Film Screenings, Lectures, Exhibitions, Performances and Harvest meetings that explore the approaches to sustainable future through architecture. At the center of the topic is the idea of priorizing the transformation before demolition, building up for several types and promoting new communities and at the same time emphasizing the maintenance of the built environment.
After an open call at the beginning of this year, two projects for the opening edition of the Biennale of the Copenhagen architecture were selected. Once again barn By Tom Svilans X Thiss Studio and Inside out, night Slaatto Morsbøl are planned for Copenhagen's cultural district in Søren Kierkegaards Plads and Gammel Strand. The projects designed as modular pavilions reinterpret the reuse of the materials and examine how the slowdown of the construction industry can be expressed by architectural and aesthetic experimentation. With recycled, regenerative and reusable materials in cooperation with Revalu, Dreyers Foundation and Buro Happold, the pavilions are developing and aiming to act as hubs for the public program of the Biennale, while they reflect their focus on circular design, zero waste and long -term ecological effects. Their opening is planned for September 18 and begins with a guided tour Inside out, night The Søren Kierkegaards Plads, followed by Once again barn This old beach.
In addition to the pavilions, the Biennale also presents a group exhibition entitled “Slow Down”, which includes two venues and bridges geography between Denmark and Sweden: Halmtorvet 27 in Copenhagen and the form/design center in Malmö. The exhibition conveys transdisciplinary contributions at the intersection of art and architecture and examines alternatives to the fast -moving status quo and examines how cultural stories can change, more sustainable future futures. Visitors are selected from several hundred international applicants and are invited by Dark Matter Labs, Studio Tideland with Emma Rishøj and Centrala. Through installations, spatial experiments and conceptual works, the exhibition tries to give alternative imagination physical form, to deal with topics such as shock and increase, friction and frenzy, tiredness and vertebrae and at the same time offer new perspectives for the role of architecture in the design of the cultural pace.
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In addition to these installations and exhibitions, the program will have the open house and offers free access to locations in the whole city, which are usually closed to the public. The participants have the opportunity to explore contemporary Danish architecture, historically significant buildings, private residences and climate -oriented landscapes, including the doctor museum in Copenhagen. The event offers the opportunity to visit hidden and less well -known rooms and to reveal both iconic and secret corners of the city's architectural and cultural landscape.
Gather as part of the Biennial program! Architects, engineers, developers, poets, economists and activists will bring together to examine how the systemic change in the construction area can be shaped by new regulations, owner models and design processes. The two -day event will take place on September 18 to 19 in the Danish architecture center and is designed as a structural experiment and the sample of politics and converted ambitious ideas into implementable strategies. The first day, Barriers through legal disputesOpen with Katherine Richardson and contains suggestions from Kate Orff for climate adaptation, Indy Johar for a global break in construction and different lendagers for circular owner models, followed by panels and case studies with practitioners in the entire sector. The second day, From guidelines to practicesShifts focus on implementation by panels, presentations and a participatory workshop with the Green Youth movement. The speakers include Frederik J. Preisler, Hy William Chan, Esther Kjeldahl, Liv Sejrbo Lidegaard, Christele Harroouk and Christian survey with meetings by Kristoffer Lindhart Weiss and Christine Roj.
On September 19 in CAFX, Halmtorvet 27, Archdaily will announce his fifth edition of Next Practices 2025. Since 2020, the initiative, which was previously known as Best New Practices, has highlighted emerging architectural teams that challenge conventional approaches and expand the limits of the field. In the first four editions, the next practices recognized 85 teams from 32 countries who present innovative work in sustainability, heir and commitment of the community. The fifth edition continues this focus, increasingly underrepresented voices and researches the potential of architecture, global challenges, including climate change, inequality and urbanization, brave ideas and locally grounded strategies.
Other impending events are the 18th Istanbul Biennale, which is curated by Christine Tohmé and takes place in three phases from 2025 to 2027. The sixth Biennale of the Chicago architecture will be its tenth anniversary, which from 12th, 2025 to 2025 to February 28, 2026, in Seoul, Thomas Heatherwick, as General Director, and Curatory, 2026, as General Director and Curatory, 2025, as General and Curatory -Direction, and the Seoul, Thomas Heathedreisshorts Assurtos Anterage Assurten and Assurts Assurts Assurts Assurts and Assurthers, Miden Misig. Asia's largest architectural biennale, planned for September 1 to October 31, 2025.