The Shakers: A World in the Making
Weil am Rhein, Germany
Through September 28, 2025
Debuting at the Vitra Design Museum, the Formafantasma-designed The Shakers: World in the Making examines how the beliefs of a religious group formed in the 18th century yielded meticulously crafted furniture and vernacular architecture that continue to resonate centuries later. Bringing together a wide range of Shaker furniture, architectural elements, tools, and commercial goods paired with newly commissioned works by contemporary artists and designers, the exhibition reveals the complex social, material, and spiritual context that created the “Shaker style” and what possibilities its values offer today. The traveling show will appear next year at partnering museums ICA Philadel­phia, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, and the Shaker Museum in Chatham, New York. See design-museum.de.

The Prize is the Beginning
Chicago
Through October 26, 2025
Presented in partnership by the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) and the Chicago Architecture Center (CAC), this exhibition brings to life the compelling work recognized by MCHAP’s Americas Prize and Emerge Prize and invites the public to reflect on the transformative power of architecture across the Americas. Housed in CAC’s Usher Lambe Gallery, The Prize Is the Beginning highlights a selection of built works that demonstrate a deep commitment to craft, community, and context. Rather than positioning the prize as an end, the exhibition frames recognition as a point of departure and as a catalyst for dialogue, reflection, and continuing impact. See architecture.org.

Prague Tomorrow? Connected City
Prague
Through October 26, 2025
The Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning (CAMP) presents an exhibition examining Prague's expanding rail infrastructure and its impact on urban development. Interactive displays, archival footage, and technical documentation explore planned additions to the city's transportation network—including new tunnels beneath the city center, airport connections, and metro-line extensions—contextualizing developments within global trends toward sustainable transit. A large animated diagram illustrates Prague's transit vision for 2050, while an interactive 3D model allows visitors to explore future routes and stations. See praha.camp.

Frank Lloyd Wright & the College of Tomorrow
Lakeland, Florida
Through November 16, 2025
This large-scale museum exhibition at the Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art, developed in collaboration with MCWB Architects and Florida Southern College, offers a comprehensive and previously unseen look at architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s 20-year visionary effort to design a campus in Lakeland, Florida. Featuring original renderings, architectural plans, correspondence, furnishings, and archival materials—including loans from the Art Bridges Foundation and Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University—the show also includes a centerpiece 3D-printed scale model, designed and fabricated by the team at MCWB, showcasing Wright’s full plan, with both completed and unbuilt structures, taking visitors behind the scenes and into the archives. See agbmuseum.org.

Garden Futures: Designing with Nature
Dundee, Scotland
Through January 26, 2025
V&A Dundee hosts an exhibition designed by Milan-based design studio Formafantasma on the history and future of the modern garden. Originally shown at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, the show argues for horticulture as a potentially radical means of ecological and imaginative experimentation and incubation. With a broad scope of inquiry that encompasses contemporary community gardens, green facades, and vertical urban farms, works on display include contributions by landscape architects Roberto Burle Marx and Mien Ruys, and artist Derek Jarman. For more, see vam.ac.uk.

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Duvall Decker’s Mississippi Library Commission in Jackson, Mississippi (2005) (1), and de Leon & Primmer Architectural Worksop’s Mason Lane Farm Operations Facility in Goshen, Kentucky, are featured projects of South Forty, now on view at the National Building Museum. Photos © Duvall Decker Architects, de Leon & Primmer Architectural Workshop 

A South Forty: Contemporary Architecture and Design in the American South
Washington, D.C.
Through winter, 2026
The National Building Museum presents a landmark exhibition examining the evolution of contemporary architecture across the Amer­ican Southeast. Curated by Peter MacKeith and designed by Jonathan Boelkins, the show features work from more than 40 architectural practices, from North Carolina to Oklahoma, revealing how regional designers are responding to rapid growth, climate challenges, and shifting cultural identities. See nbm.org.

Events

Yes And: The 2025 Exhibit Columbus Exhibition
Columbus, Indiana
August 15—November 30, 2025
The exhibition of the fifth edition of Exhibit Columbus kicks off over its opening weekend with parties, presentations, and the activation of 13 outdoor installations spread throughout the small but architecturally famous Indiana city’s downtown. Sites include the historic Crump Theatre, I.M. Pei’s Cleo Rogers Memorial Library Plaza, and the courtyard of the First Christian Church, designed by Eliel Saarinen. Each of these works is inspired by partnerships across the diverse communities of Columbus and connected to the improv-riffing theme of the 2024–25 cycle, Yes And. Among those participating are the latest J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize awardees—Adaptive Operations, AD–WO, Studio Barnes, and Studio Cooke John—joined by the six recipients of the University Design Research Fellowship, a pair of Design Education Teams, and Communication Design winner Sing-Sing. See exhibitcolumbus.org.