Donald Judd’s Architecture Office Reopens
Where: Judd Foundation, Marfa, TX, U.S.
When: Opened in September, 2025
What It Is: Built in 1907 as a boarding house and grocery, the building that became Donald Judd’s Architecture Office was restored in 1990 with characteristic precision and restraint. “The only thing different was that it has unusual furniture inside,” he said, referring to his own designs. After his death in 1994, the building’s condition declined. Restoration began in 2018 and was nearly undone by a 2021 fire, which destroyed much of the interior and roof. The reopening, after years of careful reconstruction, is a meditation on how architectural legacy can be both preserved and adapted. The restored façade and new sustainable additions embody Judd’s belief that architecture is a living discipline, impacted as much by history and memory as by material and function.
Asif Khan’s Tselinny Center Opens
Where: Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, Almaty, Kazakhstan
When: Opened in September, 2025
What It Is: Kazakhstan’s first independent cultural institution opens in a transformed Soviet-era cinema redesigned by British architect Asif Khan. The new cultural hub launches with exhibitions, performances, and lectures, including Barsakelmes, a multidisciplinary program rooted in Kazakh culture, alongside a narrative exhibition of Khan’s renovation and archival explorations of Central Asian art.
“Chiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries”
Where: Japan Society, New York, U.S.
When: Through January 11, 2025
What It Is: Known for her immersive, site-specific installations in which webs of yarn envelop entire spaces, suspending fragments of memory within their threads, Chiharu Shiota creates poignant meditations on war, identity, and the human condition. The artist’s first New York solo museum exhibition commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II by interlacing collective history with the artist’s personal memory.
“Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s-Now”
Where: M+ Museum, Hong Kong,
When: Through Jan. 18, 2026
What It Is: Before “installation art” had a name, there were Environments—immersive works from the 1950s and 1960s that blended art, architecture, and design. “Dream Rooms” features the groundbreaking work of the women artists creating these spaces including Lygia Clark, Judy Chicago, Nanda Vigo, Tania Mouraud, Marta Minujín, Yamazaki Tsuruko, Pinaree Sanpitak, and Kimsooja.
“Vacant Futures”
Where: VI PER, Prague, Czech Republic
When: Through November 15, 2025
What It Is: Through film and visual research, the exhibition examines the uncanny landscapes and unintended habitats that emerge in the wake of stalled developments and unfulfilled promises.
“Four Five Six” by OFFICE KGDVS
Where: A83, SoHo, New York, U.S.
When: Through late November, 2025
What It Is: Coinciding with the release of OFFICE KGDVS’s three-part publication, “Four Five Six” reflects on a decade of the firm’s conceptual, academic, and professional work. Through 96 new limited-edition silkscreen prints produced by A83’s historic print shop, large-scale architectural models by OFFICE, photographs by Bas Princen and Stefano Graziani, and sculptures by artist Rita McBride, the exhibition invites a closer look at how ideas move between page, model, and built form.
“The Living Temple: The World of Moki Cherry“
Where: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, U.S.
When: Through April 12, 2026
What It Is: Moki Cherry dissolved the boundaries between art and life, creating an ever-expanding universe of tapestries, paintings, ceramics, clothing, music, and performance with her musician husband, Don Cherry. Guided by the mantra, “home as stage, stage as home,” she transformed everyday spaces into sites of exchange, whether through vividly patterned textiles, wearable art, or immersive stage environments.
Denilson Baniwa Façade
Where: Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, U.S.
When: Currently on view
What It Is: Storefront for Art and Architecture’s historic façade designed by Steven Holl and Vito Acconci in 1993 is reimagined by Indigenous Amazonian artist Denilson Baniwa. Na floresta à noite (In the Forest of the Night) merges ancestral cosmologies with contemporary imagery to create a shifting forest of light and myth.
“Form by Formula“
Where: Mass Modern Design, Roosendaal, The Netherlands
When: Through December 17, 2025
What It Is: “Form by Formula” is the first exhibition devoted to the history of religious furniture shaped by the Plastic Number, a proportional system devised by monk and architect Dom Hans van der Laan. Long obscured by misattribution, with many pieces credited to Van Der Laan himself, curator Etienne Feijns reveals the true makers and contexts of these objects. Highlights include a newly discovered 1968 furniture set by Van Der Laan, works by his pupil Jan de Jong, Bossche School furniture, and rare architectural drawings and prints.
“MONUMENTS“
Where: The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and the Brick, Los Angeles, U.S.
When: Through May 3, 2026
What It Is: “MONUMENTS” confronts the charged legacy of Confederate statues by relocating decommissioned monuments from public spaces into gallery settings. Organizers Hamza Walker, artist Kara Walker, and MoCA curators have commissioned and paired these objects with work from artists such as Karon Davis, Abigail Deville, Stan Douglas, Torkwase Dyson, Nona Faustine, Martin Puryear, Hank Willis Thomas, and Davóne Tines to provoke critical reflection on how public memory shapes national identity.
“Material Affirmations: Oríkì Acts I-II”
Where: Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, Nigeria
When: November 6, 2025 – January 11, 2026
What It Is: Lagos-based designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello explores locally rooted, community-driven craft traditions, overlooked production networks, and everyday making cultures in Nigeria. “Material Affirmations: Oríkì Acts I-III” marks the first full presentation of the series on African soil, inviting reflection on tradition, innovation, and the politics of craft.
“French Popular Furniture”
Where: Vague Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
When: November 8, 2025 – December 31, 2025
What It Is: Curated by Nicolas Trembley, this exhibition places French folk traditions in conversation with Japanese mingei (short for minzoku teki kōgei, meaning folk crafts), revealing how craftsmanship holds cultural memory, identity, and sustainability in its hands. From rural furniture to woven objects, these countryside works invite us to rethink modernity, not as a break from tradition, but as a continuation of it.
“How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1970“
Where: The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
When: October 16, 2025 – March 15, 2026
What It Is: Organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture in collaboration with M+ Museum in Hong Kong, “How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949–1979” reframes the prevailing view of architecture in Mao’s China as monolithic and creatively stifled.
“Fungi: Anarchist Designers”
Where: Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
When: November 20, 2025 – August 8, 2026
What It Is: Curated by anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and design studio terriStories (Feifei Zhou), “Fungi: Anarchist Designers” presents fungi as ingenious builders and relentless dismantlers operating at the intersection of science, art, and design. Featuring Ivette Perfecto and Filipp Groubnov’s installation mapping the spread of coffee rust benefiting from Latin America’s monoculture industrial coffee plantations to Bettina Stoetzer, Berkveldt, and Åsa Sonjasdotter’s installation on the spread of radioactivity through wild boars’ consumption of radioactive mushrooms.
“Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne”
Where: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, U.S.
When: November 21, 2025 – Spring 2026
What It Is: Cooper Hewitt’s first large-scale photography exhibition, “Made In America,” brings the object, the machine, and the human hand into sharp focus. Christopher Payne has documented the artistry and precision of American manufacturing—from marshmallow Peeps and colored pencils to tractors and jumbo jets—capturing each at the most compelling moment of production.
“Robert Therrien: This Is A Story”
Where: The Broad, Los Angeles, U.S.
When: November 22, 2025 – April 5, 2026
What It Is: “Robert Therrien: This is a Story” unfolds five decades of work by an artist who saw the extraordinary hidden in the ordinary. Therrien’s monumental reimaginings of domestic objects transform tables, chairs, and kitchenware into vast landscapes of memory and perception. By enlarging the everyday to dramatic, almost theatrical proportions, he asks us to consider how scale can challenge and distort space and the stories we tell about it.
Design Miami
Where: Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, U.S.
When: Dec. 3-7, 2025
What It Is: Design Miami celebrates its 20th anniversary with “Make. Believe.,” an exhibition that honors contemporary and historic creators whose ideas have shaped the future. Maison Perrier-Jouët’s special award presentation adds extra sparkle to this landmark event.
“Westwood | Kawakubo”
Where: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
When: December 7, 2025 – April 19, 2026
What It Is: Emerging independently in the 1970s from Britain and Japan, Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo introduced a radical spirit grounded in personal freedom and social critique. The exhibition reveals how these fearless designers questioned fashion’s core assumptions about identity, power, and beauty, inviting viewers to rethink the meaning of style and self-expression in a shifting world.
“Bruce Goff: Material Worlds“
Where: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.
When: December 20, 2025 – March 29, 2026
What It Is: Known for dramatic geometries and an improbable palette—coal, goose feathers, astroturf, cellophane, sequins—Goff resisted any singular style, creating work that cheerfully defied modernism’s minimalist orthodoxies. Dubbed the “Michelangelo of kitsch” by critic Charles Jencks, Goff’s buildings emerged from a conviction that architecture should be felt as much as seen. The Art Institute of Chicago pulls from its dense archive of Goff’s work and belongings, creating a rare opportunity to enter the restless imagination that reshaped the Midwest’s midcentury landscape.
ADFF: STIR Mumbai
Where: National Center for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, India
When: January 9-11, 2026
What It Is: Celebrating the many worlds of architecture and design and their intersections with cinema, ADFF: STIR Mumbai returns with an expanded, multifaceted program building on its 2025 South Asia debut. Its Pavilion Park—curated by Aric Chen, director of the Zaha Hadid Foundation—creates a dynamic space where film, architecture, design, and art converge.
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