22/5/2025, 6-7.30 Uhr PM, English
Round Table Conversation: ‹What If Maintenance Comes First? Emerging Forms of Preservation›
A Round Table Discussion in collaboration with Oslo Architecture Triennale
Supported by Königlich Norwegischen Botschaft in Bern
As part of Open House Basel
The S AM Swiss Architecture Museum and the Oslo Architecture Triennale invite to a round table conversation set around the theme of maintenance and its significance for circular and nature-centered approaches in architecture. The session is organised in collaboration with the Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation and the Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture (CEA) at ETH Zurich.
Please note - places are limited!
Picture: Drone survey of the façade of the Briefzentrum Mülligen, Zürich, and fabrication of a replacement panel prototype © Matthias Brenner, 2024.
24/ & 25/5/2025, 2-5 PM
Drop-In Workshop: Experimenting with Light and History!
For young and old (as part of Open House Kids)
In the cyanotype drop-in workshop, you can create your own pictures using a historical printing technique - inspired by the preservation of historical monuments and the question of how we preserve and reinterpret what already exists. Come along, become part of the creative process and discover the connection between past, present and future in the exhibition What Was Could Be!
Costs: free of charge
S AM seeks new director
Job announcement: here
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.
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
