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Bonolo Masango / Sechaba Maape / Kabage Karanja

Tea House Négritude

Insurgent Geologies

Princeton University School of Architecture

Call for fellows: Princeton/Chicago Architecture Center Fellowship

Giulio Galasso / Natalia Voroshilova

Grafting Oases into the Grid

Framing Renovation

Sharjah Architecture Triennial

Theme for third edition (SAT03)

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Editors
Nikolaus Hirsch
Anton Vidokle

Deputy Editor
Nick Axel

Editorial Assistant
Thalia von Moltke

Events Curator
Christina Moushoul

Announcements Curator
Sara Silva

Contact
architecture@e-flux.com

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Essays

Insurgent Geologies

Tea House Négritude

Bonolo Masango, Sechaba Maape, and Kabage Karanja

To curate the British pavilion is to unwittingly entangle oneself with Britain’s imperial and colonial heritage while being served a cup of tea.

Framing Renovation

Grafting Oases into the Grid

Giulio Galasso and Natalia Voroshilova

Twenty-five years after the end of the war, more than 70 percent of Milan’s urban fabric was new.

Framing Renovation

Forced Reuse: Rethinking Building Conventions Through Crises

Leonid Slonimskiy, Artem Kitaev, and Gili Merin

Forced reuse is an opportunity to eliminate the dichotomy between temporary and permanent within architecture by focusing on adaptivity, flexibility, and responsivity.

Announcements

July 1, 2025

Princeton University School of Architecture

Call for fellows: Princeton/Chicago Architecture Center Fellowship

June 30, 2025

Sharjah Architecture Triennial

Theme for third edition (SAT03)

June 30, 2025

Graham Foundation

2025 grants to individuals

Editors
Nikolaus Hirsch
Anton Vidokle

Deputy Editor
Nick Axel

Editorial Assistant
Thalia von Moltke

Events Curator
Christina Moushoul

Announcements Curator
Sara Silva

Contact
architecture@e-flux.com

e-flux Architecture Projects

Insurgent Geologies

A collaboration with “GBR: Geology of Britannic Repair,” the British Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Kathryn Yusoff, Stella Mutegi, Kabage Karanja, and Owen Hopkins, commissioned by the British Council.

With Kathryn Yusoff, Achille Mbembe, e-flux Architecture, Lesley Green, Hannah le Roux, Huda Tayob, Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi, Sarah Nuttall, Nzinga B. Mboup, Owen Hopkinsand more…

Framing Renovation

A collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana within the context of the 2023–24 and 2024–25 LINA Architecture Programs.

With Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, e-flux Architecture, Rocio Calzado, Nicole Kalms, Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag, Arno Brandlhuber, Ludwig Engel, Olaf Grawert, Alina Kolar, Matevž Čelikand more…

New Silk Roads

A project with Aformal Academy in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) (2025), the Critical Media Lab at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW and Noema Magazine (2024), and with the support of Design Trust and Digital Earth (2020).

With Köken Ergun, Orit Halpern, Nav Haq, e-flux Architecture, Timothy Mitchell, Nishat Awan, Zahra Hussain, Tekla Aslanishvili, Danika Cooper, Jeremiah Ikongio, Ştefan Rusuand more…

Phantasma

A collaboration with “Endgültige Form wird von der Architektin am Bau bestimmt” (“The final form will be defined by the architect on site”), the Swiss Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Elena Chiavi, Kathrin Füglister, Amy Perkins, Axelle Stiefel, and Myriam Uzor, commissioned by Pro Helvetia.

With e-flux Architecture, Emma McCormick Goodhart, Kate Lacey, Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk, Annemarie Bucher, Rike Felka, Rahel Hartmann Schweizer, Myriam Uzor, Axelle Stiefel, Amy Perkins, Kathrin Füglisterand more…

Positions

An initiative by e-flux Architecture

With Elvia Wilk, Tom Holert, Keller Easterling, Benjamin H. Bratton, Andrés Jaque, Sylvia Lavin, Nikolaus Hirsch, Nick Axel, David Adjaye, Stefano Boeri, Giovanna Borasiand more…

Chronograms of Architecture

A collaboration with the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House

With Pier Vittorio Aureli, Francesca Hughes, Mario Carpo, Urtzi Grau, Bryony Roberts, Abriannah Aiken, Marson Korbi, MOULD, Charles L. Davis II, Curry Hackett, Maria Fedorchenkoand more…

Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities

A collaboration with Ruo Jia

With e-flux Architecture, Clair Ryu, Nicholas Risteen, Samuel Hellmann, Chong Gu, Audrey Tseng de Melo Fischer, Ruo Jia, Shayari de Silva

Intensification

A collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

With Patti Smith, John Palmesino, e-flux Architecture, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, John Tresch, Soundwalk Collective, Laura Tripaldi, Michaela Büsse

Off-Earth

A collaboration with the Luxembourg Center for Architecture (LUCA).

With Rory Rowan, e-flux Architecture, Thandi Loewenson, Ana María Gómez López, Bethany Rigby, Megan Eardley, Marija Marić, Fred Scharmen

Treatment

A collaboration with the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zürich

With Adam Jasper, e-flux Architecture, Lydia Xynogala, Annmarie Adams, David Theodore, Magaly Tornay, Fiona L. Kenney, Sally Chivers, Brittany Utting, Reinier de Graaf, Stanislaus von Moosand more…

Reconstruction

A project by e-flux Architecture

With e-flux Architecture, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Ievgeniia Gubkina, Polina Baitsym, Oleksandr Anisimov, Yuliya Yurchuk, Joanna Kusiak, Oleksandr Kravchuk, Simon Johnson, Vladyslav Rashkovan, Denise Ferreira da Silvaand more…

After Comfort: A User’s Guide

A project by e-flux Architecture in collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Liverpool, and Transsolar

With Dehlia Hannah, Florian Idenburg, Roger Boltshauser, Matthias Peterseim, Marc Angélil, Cary Siress, Simone Ferracina, Muoto, Aleksandra Kędziorek, Soha Macktoom, Nausheen H. Anwarand more…

Material Acts

A collaboration with Craft Contemporary.

With e-flux Architecture, Jia Yi Gu, Mae-ling Lokko, Kate Yeh Chiu, Amy Zhang, Jennifer Johung, Elsa Mäki, Zofia Trafas White

Loudreading

A collaboration with WAI Architecture Think Tank and Loudreaders Trade School.

With e-flux Architecture, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, Nadia Huggins, Luis Othoniel Rosa, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Marakianí Olivieri, Post-Novis, Nathalie Frankowski, Cruz Garcia, Dorraine Duncan, Jhordan Channerand more…

Spatial Computing

A collaboration with the M.S. in Computational Design Practices Program (MSCDP) at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University

With Dare Brawley, Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne, Mimi Ọnụọha, Erin McElroy, Lai Yi Ohlsen, Lucia Rebolino, Jennifer Chen

Appropriations

A collaboration with CIVA Brussels

With Johan Lagae, Paoletta Holst, Germane Barnes, Sandrine Colard, I.I.I. Osayimwese, Françoise Vergès, Sammy Baloji, Rolando Vázquez, Debora Silverman

The Gift

A collaboration with Architekturmuseum der TUM in the Pinakothek der Moderne and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan

With Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, GerHub, Łukasz Stanek, Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Jasmina Cibic, Andres Lepik, Leigh House, Anya Sirota, Ye Liu, Ana Ivanovska Deskova, Damjan Kokalevski

Interdependence

A collaboration with OtherNetwork

With Christian Nyampeta, Gabriela Jauregui, Keleketla! Library, Sumayya Vally, Eléonore Hellio, Papa Omotayo, Bhavisha Panchia, Carly Whitaker, Chad Cordeiro, Terra Alta Community, Oris Aigbokhaevboloand more…

Impostor Cities

A collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto

With Simone C Niquille, Matteo Mastrandrea, Randolph Jordan, Janine Marchessault, Craig Buckley, Peter Sealy

Accumulation

A collaboration with Daniel A. Barber

With Anton Vidokle, McKenzie Wark, Bruno Latour, Nikolaus Hirsch, Nick Axel, Kathryn Yusoff, Orit Halpern, Emily Apter, Robin Kelsey, T. J. Demos, Jennifer Gabrysand more…

Hydroreflexivity

A collaboration with “Fertile Futures,” the Portuguese Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

With Ifor Duncan, Álvaro Domingues, Ameneh Solati, Eglantina Monteiro, Ana Salgueiro, Emanuele Coccia

In Common

A collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, University of Illinois Chicago, and arc en rêve

With Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Mawena Yehouessi, Jesko Fezer, Elisa Iturbe, Stanley Cho, Huda Tayob, Dele Adeyemo, Anna Nnenna Abengowe, Meriem Chabani

Tomorrow's Myths

A collaboration with “2086: Together How?,” the Korean Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

With Federico Campagna, Eman Abdelhadi, M. E. O'Brien, Alice Bucknell, Serang Chung, Hyewon Lee, Yunjeong Han

Where is Here?

A collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut

With Leonoor Zuiderveen Borgesius, Arturo Escobar, Claudia Rot, Miguel Heilbron, Malique Mohamud

On Models

A collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto

With Sylvia Lavin, Orit Halpern, Thea Brejzek, David Theodore, Albena Yaneva, Lawrence Wallen, K. Jake Chakasim, Matthew Mindrup

Half-Life

A collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago

With Sabu Kohso, Samia Henni, Raqs Media Collective, Talei Luscia Mangioni, Kate Brown, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Radiowaves Collective, Livia Krohn Miller

Horizons

A collaboration with the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam

With Tim Ingold, Rahel Aima, Stephanie Wakefield, Gökçe Günel, Glenn Dyer, Paul Bouet, Joost Vervoort

Digestion

A collaboration with the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale

With Mark Wigley, Meredith TenHoor, Mae-ling Lokko, Feifei Zhou, Lindsey Wikstrom, Rachel Armstrong, Rolf Hughes, Zahirah Suhaimi, Jefree Salim, Aude-Line Dulière, Juliet Haysomand more…

Sick Architecture

A collaboration with Beatriz Colomina, e-flux Architecture, CIVA Brussels, and the Princeton University Ph.D. Program in the History and Theory of Architecture.

With Beatriz Colomina, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Brooke Holmes, Mark Wigley, Emily Apter, Iván López Munuera, David Gissen, Meredith TenHoor, An Tairan, Carrie Bly, Shivani Sheddeand more…

Solicited: Proposals

A project initiated with ArkDes

With Maria Lind, Vasıf Kortun, Prem Krishnamurthy, Mpho Matsipa, Esther Choi, Space Popular, Jia Yi Gu, Shirley Surya, Federico Martelli, Gilly Karjevsky, Rosario Taleviand more…

Workplace

A collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

With Nick Srnicek, Helen Hester, Andreas Petrossiants, Golnar Abbasi, Dank Lloyd Wright, Denisse Vega de Santiago, Kelly Pendergrast, Samiha Meem, Kim Gurney, FICTILIS, Alberte Lauridsenand more…

Coloniality of Infrastructure

A collaboration with Critical Urbanisms at the University of Basel and the African Centre for Cities of the University of Cape Town.

With Achille Mbembe, Samia Henni, Huda Tayob, Sophie Toupin, Irene Peano, Zandi Sherman, Emilio Distretti, Megan Eardley, Kenny Cupers, Sarah Nuttall

Survivance

A collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

With Lesley Lokko, Kathryn Yusoff, Caroline A. Jones, Joar Nango, Axel Wieder, Lesley Green, Jenna Sutela, Lindsay Bremner, Loren S. Cahill, Michelle Westerlaken, Kaya Barryand more…

Cascades

A collaboration with MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology

With Ingo Niermann, Rahel Aima, Bahar Noorizadeh, Richard Cottrell, Xenia Chiaramonte, Case Miller, Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi, Feifei Zhou, Jimenez Lai

Exhausted

A collaboration with SALT

With Elizabeth Hoover, Rami Zurayk, Rickie Solinger, Onur İnal, Sharmila Rudrappa, Calvin Po

Confinement

A collaboration with gta exhibitions

With Eyal Weizman, Jack Self, David Adjaye, Philippe Rahm, Catherine Malabou, Samia Henni, Alessandro Bava, Aristide Antonas, Andres L. Hernandez, Lydia Ourahmane, Sumayya Vallyand more…

Critical Cooking Show

A collaboration with the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial

With Mariana Sanchez Salvador, Rain Wu, Dirty Furniture, Asako Iwama, Iris Lacoudre, Camille Sineau, MOLD, Yardy World, Linda Schilling Cuellar, Ayşenaz Toker, Merve Tunaand more…

Monument

A collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut

With Mabel O. Wilson, Sumayya Vally, Valentina Rozas-Krause, Robert Jan van Pelt, Dima Srouji, Manuel Correa, The Black Archives, Quinsy Gario, Milica Tomić, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Sarmen Beglarianand more…

At The Border

A collaboration with A/D/O

With Andrew Herscher, Justin McGuirk, Lydia Kallipoliti, MAP Office, Teddy Cruz, Kyong Park, Lorenzo Pezzani, Theo Deutinger, Jason Waite, Andrea Bagnato, Daniel Fernández Pascualand more…

Are Friends Electric?

A collaboration with Moderna Museet

With Lars Bang Larsen, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Laura Kurgan, Koo Jeong A, Kim West, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Adam Greenfield, Florian Idenburg, LeeAnn Suen, Dare Brawley, Brian Houseand more…

The Settler Colonial Present

A collaboration with the Settler Colonial City Project

With Andrew Herscher, Ana María León, Paulo Tavares, Anita Bakshi, K. Wayne Yang, Rozalinda Borcilă, Andrea Carlson, Eliseo Huencho

Oceans in Transformation

A collaboration with TBA21–Academy and Ocean Archive

With John Palmesino, Jeremy B.C. Jackson, Margarida Mendes, Alvin Li, Emma McCormick Goodhart, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Nabil Ahmed, Laleh Khalili, Anne McClintock, João Martins, Astrida Neimanisand more…

Software as Infrastructure

A collaboration with "Eyes of the City" at the 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen)

With Amelyn Ng, Helen Runting, Mary Ann O'Donnell, David A. Banks, Andrew Witt, Space Popular

Housing

A collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Chair for Theory of Architecture

With Dieter Roelstraete, Ingo Niermann, Anna Puigjaner, Frei Otto, Jo Guldi, Adrian Daub, Miranda Hall, Renato Cymbalista (FICA), George Kafka, Daniel Loick, David Maddenand more…

Architectures of Education

A collaboration with Nottingham Contemporary and Kingston University

With Tom Holert, Irit Rogoff, Lesley Lokko, Joaquim Moreno, Mark Jarzombek, Ramon Amaro, Santhosh S., Elain Harwood, Aoife Donnelly and Kristin Trommler, Sol Perez-Martinez, Gudskul

Intelligence

A collaboration with BIO 26| Common Knowledge, the 26th Biennial of Design Ljubljana, Slovenia

With Simone C Niquille, Alessandro Bava, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Ian Besler, Erin Besler

Collectivity

A collaboration with the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2019 Thematic Exhibition

With Keller Easterling, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Andrés Jaque, Martino Tattara, Ana Džokić, Marc Neelen, Jere Kuzmanić, Predrag Milić, Alick M. McLean, Mariapaola Michelotto, Tuomas Toivonenand more…

Liquid Utility

A collaboration with the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University

With Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Daniel Fernández Pascual, Alon Schwabe, Nikhil Anand, Andrea Ballestero, Maia Brown, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Adriana Garriga-López, Andrea Muehlebach, Marcela Olivera, Malini Ranganathanand more…

Overgrowth

A collaboration with the Oslo Architecture Triennale

With Sandi Hilal, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Daniel A. Barber, Anna Puigjaner, Mark Jarzombek, Amica Dall, Edgar Pieterse, Catharina Gabrielsson, Helena Mattsson, Ingerid Helsing Almaas, Ateya Khorakiwalaand more…

Conditions

A collaboration with the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Africa Is a Country, Ajam Media Collective, ArtReview, Jadaliyya, and Mada Masr

With Pier Vittorio Aureli, Vyjayanthi V. Rao, Adam Jasper, Mohamed Elshahed, Farida Makar, Martino Tattara, Informal Collective, Sumayya Vally

Becoming Digital

A collaboration with Ellie Abrons, McLain Clutter, and Adam Fure

With Eyal Weizman, James Bridle, Mark Jarzombek, Laida Aguirre, Ramon Amaro, Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Molly Sauter, Urtzi Grau, Zeina Koreitem, Luke Caspar Pearson, Curtis Rothand more…

Digital ×

A collaboration with the Norman Foster Foundation

With Ben Vickers, Nicholas Negroponte, Amber Case, Danny Hillis, Mary Lou Jepsen, Hasier Larrea, David Moinina Sengeh

Theory's Curriculum

A collaboration with Joseph Bedford

With Ginger Nolan, Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, Jeremy Lecomte, Jake Matatyaou, Joseph Bedford, Gabriel Fuentes, Joseph Godlewski, Elisa Dainese, Matthew Allen, Bryan E. Norwood, Antonio Furgiueleand more…

History/Theory

A collaboration with the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zürich

With Philip Ursprung, Spyros Papapetros, Stephan Trüby, Peter Eisenman, Reinhold Martin, Maristella Casciato, Joan Ockman, Kurt W. Forster, Jacques Herzog, Richard Wittman, Bernd Nicolaiand more…

Dimensions of Citizenship

A collaboration with the United States Pavilion of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia

With Ingrid Burrington, Mabel O. Wilson, Adrienne Brown, Imre Szeman, Dan Handel, Nicholas de Monchaux, Jennifer Scappettone, Ana María León, Kian Goh, Enrique Ramirez, Rod Barnett

Structural Instability

A collaboration with PennDesign

With Mark Wasiuta, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Peg Rawes, Ginger Nolan, Susanne Schindler, Whitney Moon, Farzin Lotfi-Jam

Urban Village

A collaboration with the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB)

With Nikolaus Hirsch, Nick Axel, Hou Hanru, Saskia Sassen, M. Christine Boyer, AbdouMaliq Simone, Stephan Petermann, Liu Qingyuan, Nikos Papastergiadis, Feng Yuan, Juan Duand more…

Superhumanity

A collaboration with the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial

With Boris Groys, Brian Kuan Wood, Hu Fang, Anton Vidokle, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Arseny Zhilyaev, Andrew Herscher, Shumon Basar, Keller Easterling, Eyal Weizman, Felicity D. Scottand more…

Architecture and Representation

A collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut and The Berlage

With Pier Vittorio Aureli, Peggy Deamer, Samuel Stewart-Halevy, Jess Bier, Sam Jacob

Artificial Labor

A collaboration with MAK Wien

With Bruce Sterling, Patricia Reed, Bruce Wexler, Mario Carpo, Harald Gruendl, Axel Kilian, Julia Powles, Andreas Rumpfhuber, Helen Hester, åyr, Simone C Niquille

Future Public

A collaboration with the New Museum's IdeasCity initiative

With Rahel Aima, Anna Puigjaner, Interboro Partners, Michael Stone-Richards

Post-Internet Cities

A collaboration with MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology

With Marisa Olson, Hani Rashid, Nashin Mahtani, Morten Søndergaard, Fabrizio Ballabio, Tommaso Franzolini, Salvatore Iaconesi, Oriana Persico

Refugee Heritage

A collaboration with DAAR

With Alessandro Petti