The World Architecture Festival is unique, the only independent, global festival that combines awards, conferences and networking, providing architectural knowledge and inspiration. Under one roof, over three days you will be immersed in extraordinary architecture from around the world. The annual World Architecture Festival (WAF) is taking place this year at the Berlin Arena, between 16-18 November, and World Architecture Community is an official media partner for the event.

Be inspired, gain knowledge and make contacts with your global peers, high-end manufacturers and the press. WAF is where the world architecture community meets to celebrate, learn, exchange and be inspired.

This year’s theme is prompted by a variety of influences, not least the situation of displaced communities (war refugees, natural and man-made disasters); the growing understanding of how demographics and global urbanization are forcing change; and the imperatives to create shelter at one end of the spectrum, and sufficiency for occupation and investment at the other.

-2,500 architects, designers and allied professionals

-346 sqm of project galleries

-411 shortlisted projects presented in live crits

-100 international judges giving live critique on shortlisted schemes

-58 countries represented

-50 inspirational lectures and seminars

-11 exclusively curated architecture and design tours

From left to right: Ole Scheeren, Patrik Schumacher, Coop Coop Himmelb(l)au and Sir Peter Cook.

This year's programme theme is 'Housing For Everyone'. This year’s theme is prompted by a variety of influences, not least the situation of displaced communities (war refugees, natural and man-made disasters); the growing understanding of how demographics and global urbanization are forcing change; and the imperatives to create shelter at one end of the spectrum, and sufficiency for occupation and investment at the other.

In WAF's seminar programme, world-renowned architects and leaders will talk about Housing issues including Ole Scheeren, Principal, Buro Ole Scheeren, Patrik Schumacher, Director Zaha Hadid Architects, Wolf Prix, Principal, Coop Coop Himmelb(l)au, Sir Peter Cook, Principal, CRAB Studio and many more...

From left to right: Furuichi and Associates, Miyahata Jomon Museum, Fukushima, Japan and Patterson Associates, Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth Taranaki, New Zealand; are in the WAF's shortlist. 

On Thursday, November 17, 2016

Housing and density -14:20-15:00

Ole Scheeren, Principal, Buro Ole Scheeren/ How can greater urban density improve housing situations for all sections of society? Creating mass-density housing solutions that appeal to european sensibilities?

On Thursday, November 17, 2016

What’s changed? How we live now, how will we live tomorrow? -17:20-18:00

Wolf Prix, Principal, Coop Coop Himmelb(l)au, Sir Peter Cook, Principal, CRAB Studio / How have population movements, demographic shifts and lifestyle trends informed how we live collectively and as individuals? 

On Thursday, November 17, 2016

Housing as architecture 18.15 – 19.15 

Keynote: Patrik Schumacher / Discussion of housing is currently based on politics, migration, urbanisation, new cities and numbers. What has happened to consideration of this building type as architecture, and what lessons could we draw from the work of Zaha Hadid Architects in Berlin and across the world?

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