We want to make architectural theory more tangible by exhibiting it, discussing and presenting it in Karlsruhe's urban space! To this end, we are once again inviting you to the Architekturschaufenster for "AT goes A SF": an evening in which we want to discuss insights, questions and ideas from our courses with students and guests. We move through diverse scales, categories and contexts: we will work on key terms of architectural theory, read critical theory, examine the different scales of architectural objects, examine the culture of bathing facilities, analyse architectures of political decision-making and visit the Federal Court of Justice, and, while "annotating" another study trip live in Italy, we will look into Florentine archives. In doing so, we understand architectural theory as a unifying critical practice – and look forward to a lively exchange!

17.07.26. 18:00-20:00
Architekturschaufenster Karlsruhe, Waldstraße 8, 76131 Karlsruhe
[in person]

Four times per semester we offer our "theory clinic": stop by without an appointment to discuss your design process and where it hurts. We offer references, comments and feedback for the  neuralgic points in open table critiques - completely unbiased. Just show up, walk-ins are welcome (there might even be popcorn!).

This is not a colloquium. Instead, we discuss work in progress over coffee, across status groups and degrees of elaboration, we will present ideas and projects in a constructive and cooperative atmosphere. In short, we nourish body and mind.

The CAA Annual Conference is the largest gathering of art historians, artists, designers, curators and professionals in the field of the visual arts. Each year, the programme features a range of events reflecting a broad spectrum of topics proposed by CAA members, committees and affiliated societies. The 114th Annual Conference, held from 18 to 21 February 2026 at the Hilton Chicago, comprised over 275 events and programme items. Most of these took place exclusively on-site, whilst part of the programme was designed as a hybrid event. The book and trade fair will take place both on-site and online.

Dr Virginia Marano is organising a series of papers and presentations for the conference on the theme of ‘Uncertain Access: Art, Design, and Technology’. 

What kind of practice is exhibiting architecture? Since 1970s, architecture has increasingly moved into galleries: with models, sketches and plans, architecture began to populate exhibits and biennials, museums and shows. Some of the biggest shifts in architecture discourse have started in and through an exhibition: where people meet, show and talk about architecture, things can be transformed on all scales. But in a discipline where you rarely exhibit the “real thing” - a building or space in 1:1 scale - what is it really that we get to see, show, or experience? Is a model able to represent a space? What about the space that surrounds the exhibits? How are architecture narratives constructed, and what material is used? Whether or not architecture has become “art” (an old discussion), questions of scale, media, and translation are the core of architecture’s exhibitionism. We have invited makers and thinkers - curators, exhibition architects, historians of exhibitions or institution makers - to tell us about their architecture practice through and with exhibitions.

The workshop was the second in a series of academic conversations that emerged from the First Lahore Design Summit in 2023. Building on the first workshop’s focus on time and simultaneity, it shifted attention to land as both a material foundation and an imagined space shaped by memory, trauma, projection, and belonging. Titled “Land(t)räume,” the workshop brought together architectural, historical, and design perspectives to examine land between reality and fiction, dream and trauma, myth and history. Against the backdrop of contemporary geopolitical and climatic crises, participants explored themes of borders, political imaginaries, and transnational narratives, while also experimenting with alternative formats of exchange beyond conventional conference settings. The outcomes are being developed into an e-flux editorial, a larger publication, and a future exhibition project.