Ammodo Architecture Days 2026

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Ammodo Architecture announces the inaugural edition of the Ammodo Architecture Days, a recurring event of Ammodo Architecture, a programme of the Ammodo Foundation dedicated to advancing socially and ecologically responsible architecture worldwide. Taking place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 9 and 10 November 2026, the invitation-only event brings together internationally renowned architects and leading practitioners with recipients of the Ammodo Architecture Award 2024 and 2025 to share knowledge, experiences, ideas and challenges. The gathering will include architects, landscape architects, urban planners, artists, communities, collectives and multidisciplinary design teams. Through a symposium, exhibition, publication launch and ceremony, the event creates space for dialogue across disciplines and contexts, serving as a platform for exploring new directions in social and ecological architecture.

From 2026 onwards, the Ammodo Architecture Award and the Ammodo Architecture Days will alternate biennially. The Architecture Days complement the Ammodo Architecture Award, a prize that showcases the rich diversity of global architectural practice and sets new standards for social engagement and ecological responsiveness, alongside an international knowledge platform presented in both online and physical formats. Together, the three initiatives foster exchange and recognition across the field.

Ammodo Architecture Days: A Four-Part Programme
The Symposium
The symposium brings together award recipients, members of the Ammodo Architecture Advisory Committee, ambassadors and international experts for a day of lectures, conversations and workshops. The symposium takes place on 10 November 2026 and is by invitation only.

The Exhibition
A curated exhibition designed by Thonik, Studio LMNOP and Fiction Factory brings together projects of Ammodo Architecture Award recipients from 2024 and 2025. Rather than presenting the projects solely as finished works, the exhibition explores the ideas, processes and contexts behind them, offering an introduction to diverse approaches to socially and ecologically responsible architecture across the world. The exhibition will subsequently travel internationally and be presented publicly, with further locations to be announced.

The Publication
A new publication accompanying the Ammodo Architecture Days, published by Hatje Cantz, brings together essays by leading contributors alongside in-depth analysis of the awarded projects. Reflecting on themes emerging from the recipients of the Ammodo Architecture Award across its last two editions, the publication explores how architecture can respond to today’s pressing social and ecological challenges. Order from Hatje Cantz.

The Award Ceremony
The ceremony celebrates the recipients of the 2024 and 2025 Ammodo Architecture Award. Presented across three categories (Social Architecture, Social Engagement and Local Scale), the awards recognise outstanding contributions ranging from locally driven initiatives and collaborative practices to internationally recognised buildings that demonstrate excellence in addressing social and ecological challenges

Shared Challenges, Shared Solutions
Ammodo Architecture Days is designed as a platform where ideas from around the world are tested and new perspectives take shape. By connecting practitioners across diverse cultural and geographic contexts, scales and disciplines, the programme creates space to share best practices, tools, methods and processes, including successes, failures and lessons learned, while exploring how local architectural knowledge can bring relevant solutions and advance new standards for community-focused and environmental architecture. T

Ammodo Architecture Days is centred around six interconnected themes and is exemplified by 49 awarded projects that demonstrate how local knowledge, collective action, resourcefulness and imagination can bring relevant responses to social and ecological challenges, creating resilient futures while strengthening identity, collective wellbeing and agency. The six themes are: Reclaim, Heritage, Urban Acupuncture, Rebalance, Mastering Material and Reuse.