From Earth to Space and Back
Washington, D.C.
March 28–April 13, 2025
On view as part of EARTH TO SPACE: Breaking the Sky, a three-week festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, is the U.S. premiere of From Earth to Space and Back by Norman Foster and Foster + Partners. The exhibition will showcase groundbreaking projects—including 3D-printed lunar habitats and Spaceport America—and explore how designs for Mars and the Moon inspire sustainable solutions on Earth. Featuring scale models, 3D-printed structures, and immersive films, the exhibition reveals how reaching for the stars can help build a better future on Earth. See kennedy-center.org.

New Practices New York 2025: Voice
New York 
May 8–September 2, 2025
The Center for Architecture presents an exhibition showcasing winners of the biennial New Practices New York competition, which celebrates innovative architecture and design firms established in New York City within the past 12 years. The competition, organized by the AIANY New Practices Committee since 2006, features a distinguished jury including Alice Grandoit-Šutka, Kim Yao, Chris Leong, Jaffer Kolb, and Beatrice Galilee. See centerforarchitecture.org.  

Ongoing Exhibitions

The Persistence of Hand Drawing: Interior Rendering Today
New York 
Through April 3, 2025
The New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) presents an exhibition examining the enduring practice of hand-drawn architectural renderings in an era dominated by digital imagery. Curated by design historians Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins, it showcases work from 12 leading New York–based architects and designers, including Mita Corsini Bland and Marshall Brown, paired with historical drawings from the NYSID Archive. See nysid.edu.

Marcel Broodthaers: The Architect is Absent
Brussels
Through June 29, 2025
CIVA presents an exhibition examining Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers’s complex relationship with architecture and urban space during the pivotal decade of 1957–1967. Centered on his first exhibited artwork, Monument Public nº4 (1963), the show reveals how the built environment of postwar Brussels shaped the architect’s artistic practice. On display are archival materials—including newspapers, photographs, and publications—that document his work, life, and collaborations with prominent figures of Modernism like architect Constantin Brodzki, artist-designer Corneille Hannoset, and poet-architect Pierre Puttemans. See civa.brussels.

Restless Architecture: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Milan
Through March 16, 2025
MAXXI presents an exhibition, designed and curated by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, examining architecture from the 1930s to the present that adapts, reconfigures, and responds to changing conditions. Organized around four key principles—mobility, adaptability, operability, and ecodynamism—the show explores projects that challenge architecture’s traditional static nature, including works by Hans Hollein, Kisho Kurokawa, Rem Koolhaas, and Archigram, in addition to the Zaha Hadid–designed museum itself. Conventional architectural models, drawings and photographs are supplemented with newly commissioned kinetic models, full-scale mock-ups, experimental prototypes, and video installations. See maxxi.art.

Do Not Try to Remember
San Francisco
Through August 8, 2025
The Center for Architecture + Design presents an exhibition exploring the radical legacy of architects trained at the University of Oklahoma. Rejecting European, Modernist conventions, American School practitioners like Violeta Autumn, Mickey Muennig, and Donald MacDonald established practices in the San Francisco Bay Area, which made an ideal laboratory for their organic, individualistic approach to design. Through archival materials and documentation, the exhibition traces how these architects translated Bruce Goff’s revolutionary pedagogy into built works that continue to inform contemporary architectural discourse. See cadsf.org.

Nakagin and Kiyotomo: Architectural Icons from Tokyo, 1970s–1980s
Hong Kong
Through February 28, 2026

M+ Museum presents an exhibition examining two landmark works of Tokyo architecture. Kurokawa Kisho's Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972) and Kuramata Shiro's Kiyotomo sushi bar (1988) encapsulated the refined lifestyle of Japan's urban professionals during an era of economic optimism. Featuring M+'s meticulously restored Nakagin Unit A806, the exhibition explores how Kurokawa's Metabolist vision of replaceable living capsules and Kuramata's sensual interior spaces responded to evolving urban and social context. Through architectural models, photographs, and immersive installations, visitors can experience these influential works—the former now demolished, the latter among the few preserved commercial interiors of its era. See mplus.org.hk.  

Events

Salone del Mobile
Milan
April 8–13, 2025
The largest international design fair and trade show convenes for its 63rd edition at Fiera Milano. The 2025 event, which will showcase products over 2,000 exhibitors, will include the biennial Euroluce lighting exhibition. See salonemilano.it.   

Competitions

2025 RAMSA Fellowship
Deadline: March 26, 2025
The RAMSA Fellowship is a $15,000 prize awarded annually to graduate students for travel and research. Robert A.M. Stern Architects announces its 13th annual fellowship supporting architectural research through travel. The award, open to penultimate-year graduate students at NAAB-accredited programs, enables deep exploration of how tradition informs architectural innovation. Past fellows have investigated diverse topics from Egyptian mudbrick construction to Sicilian industrial heritage, with the option of a funded two-week residency at RAMSA’s New York office to develop their research. Selected fellows present their findings to the firm the following spring. See ramsa.com/fellowship.

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