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International architectural exhibitions + lectures + awards + debates + seminars + shows in 2026.

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Architecture Events 2026

Architecture Events in 2026, chronological – latest added on e-architect:

Desert Architecture Forum 2026

30 – 31 March 2026

Building on the resounding success of the 1st Desert Architecture Forum in Dubai, February 2025 which brought together world-renowned architects, sustainability leaders, and urban innovators, the forum returns in 2026 with a stronger vision and expanded scope to underscore the vital role of desert architecture in shaping climate-smart cities, resilient infrastructures, and self-sufficient communities across the Middle East and beyond.

As the only dedicated platform in the region, the forum will feature powerful discussions, groundbreaking case studies, and actionable strategies that not only continue the dialogue but also deliver tangible roadmaps and partnerships to accelerate the transition toward climate-resilient, environmentally harmonious built environments. The Forum provides a unique marketplace of ideas and opportunities providing direct access to project owners, architects, and consultants, along with exclusive networking, one-to-one meetings, and a showcase platform to highlight innovations and build partnerships between project owners, regulators, architects, contractors, consultants, and technology providers.

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China Prefab House, Modular Building, Mobile House & Space Fair

The 16th China Prefab House, Modular Building, Mobile House & Space Fair

8 – 10 May 2026

Venue: Poly World Trade Center Expo in Guangzhou China

The 16th China Prefab House, Modular Building, Mobile House & Space Fair will be held grandly at Poly World Trade Center Expo in Guangzhou China from May 8 to 10, 2026. It is expected to cover an exhibition area of 50,000+ square meter with over 800 exhibitors and 100,000 visitors from more than 100 countries and regions. It is an essential platform for both domestic and foreign brands to expand into the Chinese market and for global buyers to do one-stop purchasing.

China Rooftile & Technology Exhibition 2026

8 – 10 May 2026

Venue: Poly world trade center expo, China

China Rooftile & Technology Exhibition (ROOFTILE CHINA) is one of the leading expos in the global rooftile industry. As a professional exhibition with the most concentrated gathering of global tile merchants, this exhibition emerges under the background of “customized development” in the construction industry, and is a “professional + comprehensive” tile industry event with global radiation. The exhibition is organized by Guangdong Grandeur International Exhibition Group.

STEEL BUILD Expo 2026

8 – 10 May 2026

China (Guangzhou) International Exhibition for Steel Construction & Metal Building Materials (STEEL BUILD) is a world-leading industry expo. Covering 50,000 sqm with 800+ exhibitors and 100,000 global buyers, it is a key one-stop sourcing platform. The fair will be held May 8–10, 2026 at Poly World Trade Center Expo, Guangzhou, China! Welcome to join us~ (http://www.steelbuildexpo-cn.com/index.php?lang=en)

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CIHIE 2026

8 – 10 May 2026

The 18th China Int’l Integrated Housing Industry & Building Industrialization Expo

CIHIE, a top prefabricated construction expo, integrates high-tech with the residential industry, advances green development and industrial upgrading, and has served 4,000+ clients with diverse docking services and stable industry partnerships, which will be held in Guangzhou, China from May 8th to 10th, 2026. Welcome to join us! Website: http://www.cihie.net/index.php?lang=en

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Building Leisure Buildings Events 2026

11 – 15 May 2026

Venue: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

‘From vision to reality: Inspiration from Riyadh’

Exclusive site visits, strategic insights and international networking in KSA.

Masterminds & Masterpieces

Riyadh is transforming at an unprecedented pace.

From iconic megaprojects to new cultural and leisure districts, the Saudi capital is becoming a global reference for large-scale urban development.

During Masterminds & Masterpieces, you will step inside this transformation – gaining exclusive access to the projects, strategies and decision-makers shaping one of the most ambitious city-building programs in the world.

This is an immersive study tour for professionals, policymakers, designers, developers, investors and urban innovation experts who want to understand how vision, capital and design come together in real life.

What makes this journey unique?

During Masterminds & Masterpieces, you will:

o Gain strategic insight in Riyadh’s Vision 2030, including governance models, infrastructure planning, cultural investment and market dynamics.
o Visit mega and giga projects such as Qiddiya and Diriyah, with in-depth conversations with the senior teams shaping these destinations.
o Experience integrated urban development, where sport, education and lifestyle merge in projects such as King Salman Park and Misk City.
o Connect with international peers and exchange ideas with leaders from across the global built environment.

Why Riyadh?

Riyadh is a living laboratory for large-scale urban transformation, where projects are delivered in years rather than decades. It offers a truly unique source of inspiration for professionals working on complex spatial developments, anywhere in the world.

The city’s momentum is further accelerated by major global milestones such as World Expo Riyadh 2030 and the FIFA World Cup 2034, which are driving investment across leisure, culture, mobility, public space and mixed-use development.

Core themes of the programme:

o Government-led development at scale
o Strategic use of culture, sport and leisure
o Phasing and financing of megaprojects
o Building entire districts from the ground up

The insights gained translate into practical perspectives on public-private collaboration, placemaking, financing and programming, directly applicable to projects in Europe and beyond. It is all about inspiration, strategy and future-proof development.

Who should join?

This journey is designed for professionals in urban development, real estate and the built environment who:

o Think about the future of cities and leisure destinations
o Seek international references of exceptional scale and ambition
o Value in-depth insight and high-level networks

What will you gain from this journey?

Key takeaways:

o New development strategies
o Fresh placemaking ideas and experience concepts
o Practical insight into acceleration & governance
o Global perspectives that strengthen your own projects

Riyadh is rapidly becoming one of the world’s most influential development cities and you can experience it from the inside.

Visit the Building Leisure Buildings website

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Design + Build Workshop, Italy 2026

20 May to 3 June 2026

This May, Building Trust International will host an exciting Design + Build workshop in Italy in partnership with Semplicemente, an Italian volunteer organization formed by people with disabilities who promote inclusion, autonomy and respect for the environment through collective and creative activities.

What will workshop participants learn?

Semplicemente has launched the project “Voglio una Casa” (I Want a Home) and is collaborating with Building Trust International to research and develop a sustainable, environmentally and economically accessible housing solution.

The workshop will focus on the design and construction of a small, replicable residential prototype, built using sustainable materials and participatory processes. For two weeks, volunteers from around the world will work side by side with local professionals and people with disabilities in a deeply inclusive, community-based experience.

When:

Build Workshop: Wednesday 20th May to Wednesday 3rd June 2026

The project aims to:
• Offer non-profit, affordable housing solutions for people with disabilities
• Develop a sustainable, low-cost, replicable bio-architecture model
• Support independent living through active participation in space management
• Regenerate abandoned public green areas and return them to the community

Please note spaces are limited, so hopeful participants should email info(at)buildingtrustinternational.org to receive their application form and register for this exciting workshop.

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World Stadiums & Arenas Summit – Riyadh 2026

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Sir John Soane’s Museum Events in 2026

2026 at Sir John Soane’s Museum will see a celebration of an English Baroque architect, adventurer, playwright and spy 300 years after his death, and an exploration of the enduring influence of ancient Egypt on British architecture and design, plus a showcase of contemporary architectural drawing practices.

Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture

4 March – 28 June 2026

Soane office, Royal Academy Lecture Drawings of the work of Sir John Vanbrugh, Blenheim Palace (Oxon), elevation, SM 74/4/8:

photo courtesy of Sir John Soane’s Museum

Sir Godfrey Kneller, Portrait of Sir John Vanbrugh, c. 1705, oil on canvas:

photo © National Portrait Gallery

300 years after his death, a major new exhibition exploring one of the UK’s greatest architects – Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) – will open in the spring.

Some of the UK’s most admired and loved country houses like Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard were the result of Vanbrugh’s genius, becoming cornerstones of English Baroque. Soane cited him as one of his great influences, saying Vanbrugh had “all the fire and power of Michelangelo and Bernini”.

Curated by Sir Charles Saumarez Smith CBE and architect Roz Barr, the exhibition will feature never-before-exhibited drawings from the collections of the V&A, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the National Portrait Gallery and Sir John Soane’s Museum, including many in Vanbrugh’s own hand.

Perhaps overshadowed by contemporaries Nicholas Hawksmoor and Sir Christopher Wren, the emotional impact and imagination of Vanbrugh has continued to be admired, particularly by architects, in the centuries since. The exhibition will highlight Vanbrugh’s enduring architectural ideas and influence, including on two of the most influential architects of the 20^th century, Robert Venturi (1925-2018) and Denise Scott Brown (b.1931). A new short film by filmmaker Jim Venturi, their son, will explore this connection and will be shown on loop in the Museum’s Foyle Space.

Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture will introduce new audiences to the work of an architect, dramatist and radical, whose plays, drawings, and buildings continue to inspire, 300 years on.

There will be a Morning Press Preview & Photocall for this exhibition on 3 March 2026.

Soane Medal Lecture

Autumn 2026

Continuing Sir John Soane’s encouragement to better understand the central importance of architecture in people’s lives, the Soane Medal has become an integral part in the art calendar.

Recognising architects, educators and critics, the recipient of next year’s award, selected by a panel of distinguished judges, will receive a replica of the original gold medal presented to Sir John Soane by the ‘Architects of England’ in 1835, as well as deliver a lecture that is open to all.

More details will be announced in Autumn 2026.

About Sir John Soane’s Museum

Sir John Soane’s house and collection at No. 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields has been a national museum since the early nineteenth century. Designed by renowned architect Sir John Soane and filled with his world-class collection of paintings, sculptures, artefacts and models, the Museum retains the same fabric and design as at the time of Soane’s death in 1837.

Today, the Museum encourages access to Soane’s legacy in its broadest sense: architecture and design, creative originality, a commitment to learning and enquiry, and the connections between past and present that the Museum and its collections reveal. The Museum is open Wednesdays to Sundays, 10am to 5pm. Entry is free. There is no need to pre-book – you can walk in on the day. Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3BP.
More at www.soane.org | #SoaneMuseum | (at)soanemuseum

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Heroines and Heroes of the Arts and Crafts Movement

The Victorian Society’s Hybrid Spring Lecture Series 2026

28 January – 18 March 2026

Venue: 265 Strand, London, England, UK.

Join us from the 28 January for our next lecture series, excitingly our first in-person series for a number of years. The lectures will take place at NYU London, 265 Strand, London and will be live-streamed and also available as recordings. The subject for Spring 2026 is the Arts and Crafts Movement. Our speakers will be drawing on a large amount of new research, much of which is highlighting the often-neglected role played by women in a Movement that remains of direct relevance and a source of inspiration to architects, artists and designers today.

Subjects include Philip Webb, Gertrude Jekyll, Edwin Lutyens, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Charles Rennie Mackintosh & Margaret Macdonald, May Morris and Christopher Whall.

Tickets can be purchased for single lectures or for the entire series.

Special Offer: Get all 7 lectures for the price of 6!

Members of the Young Victorians get 50% off tickets for this series.

Book to attend In-person or Online:

Heroines and Heroes of the Arts & Crafts Movement | Eventbrite

Phoebe Anna Traquair by Dr Elizabeth Cumming

Wed 25 February, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

‘A woman the size of a fly’: Louis Davis’s 1902 comment to his friend Robert Lorimer gives no idea of the sheer ambition and many achievements of Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852–1936). Born and educated in Ireland, she settled with her Scottish husband to Edinburgh, where she became involved in the city’s social art movement, painting murals in tiny and vast buildings and teaching design from the 1880s. She produced some of Britain’s most remarkable embroideries and illuminated manuscripts, packed with colour and imagination. Our speaker, Dr Elizabeth Cumming, has documented Traquair’s life and art for nearly half a century, including most recently Phoebe Anna Traquair for the National Galleries of Scotland in 2022.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald by Robyne Calvert

Wed 4 March, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

For all his fame, more myths cling to Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) and his significance as a designer than to almost any other architect of the Arts and Crafts movement. Many centre on his marriage in 1900 to the artist Margaret Macdonald (1864–1933), with whom he was then collaborating on the design of the Ladies Luncheon Room at Miss Cranston’s Tearooms at Ingram Street, Glasgow. ‘You are half if not three quarters in all my architectural work’, wrote Mackintosh to his wife, but how true was that? Their partnership will be analysed by Robyne Calvert, the author of The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art, published by Yale University Press in 2024.

May Morris and the Art of Embroidery by Dr Lynn Hulse

By Lynn Hulse

Wed 11 March, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

May Morris described design as ‘the very soul and essence of beautiful embroidery’ and ranked it chief among the four elements that make a piece of needlework truly ‘artistic’. Drawing on her substantial corpus of designs in the Ashmolean Museum, Lynn Hulse will explore May’s approach to translating a sketched idea into a finished piece of embroidery, contextualising her work within the artistic developments of needle-art that were taking place in the years leading up to and during her lifetime. Dr Lynn Hulse is a textile scholar and practitioner, specialising in embroidered furnishings of the Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts movements. She is the author of several publications on decorative needlework and editor of May Morris: Art & Life (2017). Her most recent book May Morris Designs was published by the Ashmolean Museum in August 2025.

Christopher Whall by Peter Cormack

Wed 18 March, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

When windows designed by Christopher Whall (1849–1924) were shown at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in London in 1888 they were immediately recognised as a break-through. Whall changed for ever the direction of the finest stained glass in Britain, thanks to his mastery of not only design but also every stage of its manufacture to create windows in which sumptuous colours were combined with thickly textured ‘slab’ glasses and bold leading patterns. Whall’s achievement will be discussed by Peter Cormack, a noted scholar of post-medieval British and American stained glass, William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement, whose classic study Arts & Crafts Stained Glass, published by Yale University Press in 2015 was the first book to do Whall and his legacy full justice.

Listings information:

NYU London, 265 Strand, London WC2R 1BH.

Time: Doors open at 6:15 pm and the lecture starts at 6:30 pm.

Refreshments will be available after the lecture (not included in the ticket prices).

<Tube: Charing Cross, Waterloo or Temple.

Prices:

In-person tickets per lecture: £11 for members/ £15 for non-members. Online tickets per lecture : £6 for members/ £8 for non-members. The complete series of 7 lectures for 6: in-person tickets: £66 for members/£90 for non-members or Online tickets: £36 for members/ £48 for non-members.

Book to attend In-person or Online:

Heroines and Heroes of the Arts & Crafts Movement | Eventbrite

Or email: events(at)victoriansociety.org.uk

Or phone: 020 3978 8429

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China Dialogues Book

Together with the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, China, we posted details of the presentation of a book by Vladimir Belogolovsky, that took place on 4 September 2022.

This online event was recorded and available for viewing at a later time.

The announcement link can be viewed here (in Chinese with an English translation feature): https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/VdRsNels3hcwQM8eenlQBA

Blurb excerpts about the book by Vladimir Belogolovsky:

Li Xiangning: “With a refreshing query, engaging themes, and deep insights, Vladimir Belogolovsky’s dialogues with China’s cutting-edge architects investigate and illustrate a vivid scene of contemporary Chinese architecture.”

Kenneth Frampton: “…Each conversation is an extraordinary testimony to the energy of an undeniable renaissance, in which these talented and highly cultivated architects are engaged in the common project of creating a civic culture for a new society…”

Steven Holl: “…China Dialogues tirelessly presents the Chinese architects who have embodied new freedom and promise…”

Jean-Louis Cohen: “…Belogolovsky lifts the veil on a prolific new generation of designers, who have in common a highly intellectualized and conceptual understanding of architecture…”

Juhani Pallasmaa: “…Belogolovsky shares his deep personal knowledge of current Chinese architecture and the leading individual designers, as well as their thinking and intentions…”

Aaron Betsky: “…This book assembles some of the very best practices not just in Asia, but in the world, displaying their work with photographs of great depth while letting the designers tell us about their sources, dreams, and aspirations…”

Luis Fernández-Galiano: “In China Dialogues Vladimir Belogolovsky charts a panorama of Chinese architecture through the words of its main players. He draws his ‘landscape with figures’ with excellent prose, deep understanding, and outspoken wit…”

Cui Kai: “Belogolovsky’s book gathers an inquisitive collection of thoughts from outstanding Chinese architects; it is a critical documentation of the author’s in-depth conversations about the past, the future, and the current moment of our architecture.”

Vladimir Belogolovsky
Curatorial Project

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photograph by John Horner
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photo courtesy of UCL
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