Upcoming Open House Festivals & Events
HOUSING AND THE PEOPLE
Online, YouTube
9 April, 6am-6pm UTC
As households the world-over change in size, composition, values and dreams, how should the architecture of our homes evolve to match? What lessons can the architects of tomorrow learn from the ingenious and indigenous domestic designs of yesterday?
Created by the Open House Worldwide network, Housing and the People is a daylong live broadcast of tours of housing projects in Melbourne, Taipei, Buenos Aires, Oslo, London, New York, and more. Explore bold housing estates and neighbourhoods, meet residents and architects reshaping dwellings, and join critical debates about the future of housing.
EXPLORE IN PERSON
OPEN NATURE
Melbourne, Australia
17-27 March
Open Nature is Open House Melbourne’s newly created programme of walks, talks, tours and events for Melbourne Design Week 2022. The programme explores a growing movement towards ecologically responsive, ‘more than human’ design practice that recognises the complex interrelations between humans and non-humans. Critical to this movement is the understanding that the health and sustainability of our natural ecosystems are vital to a thriving future for all.
OPEN HOUSE SAN DIEGO
San Diego, United States
18-20 March
Open House San Diego provides a behind-the-scenes look at notable architecture, public spaces, and more with guided and self-guided tours and curated experiences across 7 San Diego-area neighbourhoods: Barrio Logan, City Heights, Coronado, Downtown, La Mesa, National City, and UC San Diego. New for 2022, UC San Diego is recognized as one of the top 15 research universities worldwide. Visitors can hop on the new Blue Line trolley and explore the crown jewel on the Mesa.
DISCOVER ONLINE
Open House Rome recommends
LA MUSICA SI SPAZIO PODCAST
La musica si fa spazio (music makes the space) is a podcast that explores the special relationship between music and architecture. The six-part series includes a discussion with experimental musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto on recording inside Philip Johnson's Glass House; why the revolutionary Cologne airport was a source of inspiration for Brian Eno's "Music for the airport"; how the vibrations of Millennium Bridge in London, designed by Foster and Arup, were used to create a sound installation by artist Bill Fontana; and much more.
Open City recommends
NOTHING IS TOO GOOD FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE
In a new four-part film series, Open City explores the influence of Marxism on architecture across London. Centring around four key buildings, they examine how architecture has the power to embed theory into tangible spaces which have – and continue to – transform communities. The first episode visits Bevin Court, Berthold Lubetkin’s pioneering modernist housing project in Finsbury, to explore what urbanists mean by ‘social condensers’ and how the political landscape in Britain at the time created the perfect conditions to build them.
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