3/7/–28/8/2025
Long summer evenings at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum and the Kunsthalle Basel!
Summer opening hours July 3 – August 28, 2025:
Mon: closed
Tue-Sun: 4 PM – 10 PMThe summer opening hours offer visitors the opportunity to enjoy art and architecture in a relaxed atmosphere, whether after work, on a stroll through the city or as an end to a hot day on the Rhine. After last year's great success, the concept will be continued in 2025.
3/7/2025, 6–10 PM
Denk Mal Bar: Dry Martini with Reto Nussbaumer (Cantonal Conservator Aargau)
The 'denk mal bar' invites you to discuss the heritage conservation of tomorrow over a cool drink - because heritage conservation is and always has been a matter of negotiation.On selected Thursday evenings, experts from the fields of architecture and heritage conservation invite you to their signature drinks and informal discussions on the future of heritage conservation.
The picture was taken at the Winter Palace Hotel in Luxor. Historic hotels successfully market their history as a USP - why doesn't this work for all protected properties?
Reto Nussbaumer has headed the team of 15 employees at the Aargau Cantonal Monument Preservation Office for 14 years. He studied art and architectural history at the University of Zurich and completed an MAS in monument conservation at ETH Zurich. In addition to practical monument preservation, his field of activity includes passing on his specialist knowledge through lectures, guided tours, specialist articles and teaching assignments at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, the Bern University of Applied Sciences and the University of Bern.
The denk mal bar was developed and operated by the Architekturkollektiv squadra for the exhibition 'What Was Could Be'.
10/7/2025, 8 PM, German with after-work drink
Guided Tour through the exhibition 'What Was Could Be: Experiments Between Preservation and Architecture'
Preservation is progressive: In current efforts to shift towards more sustainable building practices (known in German as the Bauwende, or ‘building turnaround’), preservation and maintenance of the existing building stock play a central role. In this context, the theory and practice of historic preservation also gain a new urgency.
Admission: CHF 12.–, red. CHF 8.–
10/7/2025, 6–10 PM
Denk Mal Bar: Pangalaktischer Donnergurgler with Team Professur Langenberg (Construction Heritage and Monument Preservation ETH Zurich)
The 'denk mal bar' invites you to discuss the heritage conservation of tomorrow over a cool drink - because heritage conservation is and always has been a matter of negotiation.
On selected Thursday evenings, experts from the fields of architecture and heritage conservation invite you to their signature drinks and informal discussions on the future of heritage conservation.The denk mal bar was developed and operated by the architecture collective squadra for the exhibition 'What Was Could Be. '
5.4. – 14.9.2025
'What Was Could Be: Experiments Between Preservation and Architecture''
An Exhibition by the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Cooperation with the Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation (Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg), ETH Zurich.
Preservation is progressive: In current efforts to shift towards more sustainable building practices (known in German as the Bauwende, or ‘building turnaround’), preservation and maintenance of the existing building stock play a central role. The alteration or conversion of an existing building is considerably more resource-efficient than a comparable new build.
S AM seeks new director
Job announcement: here
10/4/ – 5/10/2025
S AM Travelling Exhibition – Make Do With Now: New Directions in Japanese Architecture
The Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio of the Università della Svizzera italiana is pleased to present, from April 11, 2025 until October 5, 2025, the S AM exhibition ‘Make Do With Now: New Directions in Japanese Architecture’. Curated by Yuma Shinohara
The exhibition explores the ideas and projects of a new generation of Japanese architects and urban practitioners who began their careers following the 2011 earthquake and the Fukushima disaster. Turning their marginal position into a strength, these young architects have developed critical, ecological, and social engaged practices, demonstrating that it is possible to “make do” creatively by working with limited resources, existing buildings, and using found materials. Moving away from the traditional image of the architect-author, they are redefining the profession through a socially and critically engaged approach.
Ahead of the exhibition, the Academy of Architecture hosted a series of five public lectures from February 20 to April 10, 2025, featuring five architectural studios active in Japan today, whose projects will be presented in the exhibition.
Venue Teatro dell'architettura, Via Alfonso Turconi 25, 6850 Mendrisio
Photo: dot architects Chidori Bunka, Osaka, 2024-19 © Yoshiro MatsudaLINA platform
LINA, the European architecture platform, is a network connecting prominent cultural players with emerging practitioners and thinkers in architecture. Its goal is to steer the architectural sector towards sustainable, circular and clean practices, to link the existing efforts into a united LINA Architecture Programme, and highlight new and emerging voices, giving them an international platform.
Members
Architectuul*, Atelier LUMA Arles, Architekturos Fondas Vilnius*, Barleti University Tirana, BETA Timișoara Architecture Biennial*, BINA Društvo arhitekata Beograda*, Copenhagen Architecture Festival*, Dani arhitekture Sarajevo*, Design Academy Eindhoven, dpr-barcelona*, Društvo arhitekata Istre*, Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum Tallinn*, ETSAM UPM Madrid, Fakulteta za arhitekturo Univerze v Ljubljani, FAAD Notre Dame University-Louaize, Fondazione MAXXI Roma*, Forecast Berlin*, Fundacio Mies van den Rohe Barcelona, HDA Haus der Architektur Graz*, Irish Architecture Foundation, Kosovo Architecture Foundation*, Oslo Architecture Triennale*, S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum*, Tbilisi Architecture Biennale*, TU Wien Gebäudelehre und Entwerfen, Theatrum Mundi Paris*, Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa*, VI PER Gallery Praha*
*Previously members of the Future Architecture platform
