Film Screening: Living in a Piece of Furniture – Gerrit Rietveld’s Houses

A hundred years ago, the iconic Rietveld Schröder House - built on the outskirts of Utrecht - marked the beginning of Gerrit Rietveld’s career as an architect. It turned the ideas behind his Red-Blue Chair into architecture and acted as a testament to his artistic and romantic relationship with the owner of the house, Truus Schröder.

Inclusion Talks: What’s AI Got To Do With It

Join us for the second event in the “Inclusion Talks - A Universal Design Perspective” series. This time on AI and inclusion.

Imperfect Assemblies: Towards New Civic Infrastructures

We’re excited to present “Imperfect Assemblies: Towards New Civic Infrastructures” by Cultures of Assembly. The new exhibition at Copenhagen Architecture Forum.

Film Screening: Living in a Piece of Furniture – Gerrit Rietveld’s Houses

June 10, 2026

Inclusion Talks: What’s AI Got To Do With It

May 28, 2026

Imperfect Assemblies: Towards New Civic Infrastructures

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Film Screening: Living in a Piece of Furniture – Gerrit Rietveld’s Houses

The film explores Rietveld’s work from the perspective of Truus’s love for the man and his work, documented in an audio interview from 1982, and in interviews with her loved ones.

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Conversation

28 May

Inclusion Talks - A Universal Design Perspective: What’s AI got to do with it?

In this second edition of Inclusion Talks - A Universal Design Perspective, we take a closer look at how the growing use of AI in architecture and design processes risks reinforcing historical assumptions about what is deemed ‘normal’

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27 May

Legitimising the Commons Beyond Policy and Law: With Janet Sanz and Finn Williams

Join us for an exciting evening on commoning and how legitimacy is produced through political struggle, cultural narratives, care practices, and long-term municipal engagement. Guests include major international capacities like Finn Williams and Janet Sanz

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Legitimising the Commons Beyond Policy and Law: With Janet Sanz and Finn Williams

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28 May

Inclusion Talks - A Universal Design Perspective: What’s AI got to do with it?

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10 Jun

Film Screening: Living in a Piece of Furniture – Gerrit Rietveld’s Houses

The film explores Rietveld’s work from the perspective of Truus’s love for the man and his work, documented in an audio interview from 1982, and in interviews with her loved ones.

Gloria

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From The Podcast Archive: 'The City is a Garden' with Anna Aslaug, Skye Jin and Studio Coquille

Urban infrastructure does merely mean roads, pipes, and buildings. Soil, water flows, trees, and fungi are infrastructure too.

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From The Podcast Archive: Should We Make Cities for Insects?

The episode asks how designing with (and for) insects challenges aesthetic norms, maintenance culture, and anthropocentric planning.

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From the Podcast Archive: Material Responsibility From Cradle to Cradle with Anders Lendager

If material producers took responsibility for the full lifecycle of their products, it could pave the way for a more sustainable building sector.

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Exhibitions at the intersection of art and architecture, events creating new conversations, podcasts making knowledge accessible, literary publications creating new urban imaginaries, a film club screening the best new films about architecture — and more!

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Inviting kids into the world of architecture, creating even playing fields across social inequalities and turning the broader public into experts.

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Helping create a sustainable building sector and world through challenging root causes and working towards implementing new laws and policies.

Copenhagen Architecture Biennial 2025 Reveals 'Slow Pavilion' Designs Built from Reused Materials

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Copenhagen unveils its first Architecture Biennial: a call to 'Slow Down'

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Architecture as opposition to haste? Polish studio at the 1st Copenhagen Architecture Biennale

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Copenhague, en elogio de la lentitud

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Copenhagen Architecture Biennial: the urgency of slowing down

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Premiere: Kopenhagener Architekturbiennale 2025

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First Copenhagen Architecture Biennial Opens With the Theme "Slow Down"

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"It's time for activism" says Copenhagen Architecture Biennial director

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Slow Pavilions, Chapel Retold, and More: 6 Key Highlights From the First Copenhagen Architecture Biennial

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Den nye tids stjerne er ikke længere den fantasifulde formgiver Bjarke Ingels

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Copenhagen Architecture Biennial wants the world to slow down

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Det skal nok blive skægt! Her er det, du ikke må gå glip af under Københavns første arkitekturbiennale

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About CAFx

We are Copenhagen Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of how architecture shapes lives and worlds.Slow Down, the theme of Copenhagen Architecture Biennial 2025, investigates architecture as matters of time and means of slowing down overheated sites, cities, and societies.