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Esra Akcan
Architecture and the Right to Heal, Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster
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253 E. Sibley Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850This book explores architecture’s role in healing after conflicts and disasters by discussing buildings and spaces in relation to transitional justice and energy transition. It locates spaces of political and ecological harm, and makes a call to repurpose them as healing places where violence and violations are confronted and accountability and reparations are instituted.
Esra Akcan is a Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Architecture, and a board member at the Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University. She completed her architecture degree at the Middle East Technical University in Turkey, and her Ph.D. and postdoctoral degrees at Columbia University in New York. She taught at UI-Chicago, Humboldt University in Berlin, Columbia University, New School, and Pratt Institute in New York, and METU in Ankara.
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Designing for endless fire
Christopher Hawthorne in discussion with Joseph G. Allen, Dana Cuff, Frank Frievalt, Michael Maltzan, Margot McDonald, and Arthi Varma
Photo © Pacific Palisades, June 2025. Photo Iwan Baan.
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Klára Hosnedlová, To Infinity, 2023. Installation view at Copenhagen Contemporary, 2025 Photo: David StjernholmSoft Robots: the Art of Digital Breathing.
Why do our technologies inspire so much hope and fear? When radical new technologies emerge, they stir up a cloud of utopian dreams and doomsday prophecies. Art is central to that conversation. In recent years, the robot has returned to contemporary art in experimental forms, signalling a shift in technology’s impact on our lives.
In the age of surveillance capitalism, technological utopias are hard to see. We find ourselves in the midst of a new technological revolution. Artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and quantum computers are being introduced into a culture where many already navigate a digital double – the virtual identity we construct on social media, freely handing over our data to giant corporations. The relationship between humans and machines is one of modernity’s defining cultural dramas, and it is intensifying before our eyes.
Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) is Copenhagen’s international art center showing installation art created by world stars and new emerging talents. CC occupies the magnificent former B&W welding hall, remodeled by architect Dorthe Mandrup, offering a total of 7,000 m2 of beautiful industrial halls with plenty of space to show the technical and large formats in which many contemporary artists work: total installations, performance art, and monumental video works. Art that can often be entered and sensed with the whole body.
Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu Curators of the Biennale Architettura 2027
Age of Nature
Danish Architecture Center
How can we make space for both people and nature? Danish Architecture Center presents a major exhibition exploring the relationship between architecture, nature, people, and biodiversity – and asks: How can architecture help us create a future where both nature and humans can thrive?
EXHIBITION, UNTIL MAY 17, 2026
EUmies Awards
2026
The European Commission and Fundació Mies van der Rohe are pleased to announce the nominees and the jury for the 2026 edition of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards (EUmies Awards).
See the 410 nominees!