May 2025: Dates and Events

RECORD’s monthly list of upcoming and ongoing exhibitions, events, and competitions. 

Susumu Shingu: Elated!New YorkJune 20-August 10, 2025Japan Society Gallery relaunches its summer exhibition series with a solo show dedicated to acclaimed sculptor Susumu Shingu (b. 1937). Shingu’s kinetic sculptures employ biomimicry principles, with abstract organic forms evoking insects, birds, and plants, all powered by environmental forces—wind, heat, light, water, and gravity. The exhibition showcases diverse sculptures of varying scales, including his site-specific installations for New York. See japansociety.org.

Ongoing Exhibitions

Sergei Tchoban: Sections of the MindNew YorkThrough June 7, 2025The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture presents Sergei Tchoban’s first New York exhibition, featuring 30 drawings that explore the architectural section as both technical device and expressive medium. The charcoal, ink, watercolor, and pastel works on view reveal the hidden complexities of structures by cutting through buildings, colonnades, and entire urban landscapes. See paulrudolph.institute.

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Dream of Rebuilding the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) (1994), ink, watercolor, pencil, paper (1); Lenin-Sphinx (2020), pastels, black paper (2). Images © Sergei Tchoban Foundation

Capital ReformMadridThrough June 20, 2025An exhibition highlighting the residential work of 10 young, local architecture firms is on view at the Madrid Institute of Architecture. Focused on architects who established their practices after the 2008 financial crisis, the projects on display showcase how small-scale residential interventions have become significant opportunities to address pressing housing issues. Capital Reform explores how these practitioners have ”transformed necessity into virtue” through the optimization of limited space, reimagining of conventional typologies, and material experimentation. See coam.org.

Marcel Broodthaers – The Architect is AbsentBrussels Through June 29, 2025CIVA presents an exhibition examining Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers’s complex relationship with architecture and urban space during the pivotal decade of 1957–1967. Centered on his first exhibited artwork, Monument Public nº4 (1963), the show reveals how the built environment of postwar Brussels shaped the architect’s artistic practice. On display are archival materials—including newspapers, photographs, and publications—that document his work, life, and collaborations with prominent figures of Modernism like architect Constantin Brodzki, artist-designer Corneille Hannoset, and poet-architect Pierre Puttemans. See civa.brussels.

Re‑Framing 95Greenwich, ConnecticutThrough June 30, 2025The Greenwich Historical Society presents an interactive exhibition created in collaboration with Untapped New York’s artist-in-residence Aaron Asis. Five large-scale gold frames installed throughout the Society’s campus highlight historic views altered by Interstate 95’s construction, encouraging viewers to reconsider development’s impact on local landscapes. Inside the gallery, the exhibition pairs Impressionist paintings from the original Cos Cob art colony—featuring works by Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, and Elmer MacRae—with contemporary companion pieces by Asis that reimagine these scenes with I-95 in the background. See greenwichhistory.org.

LIVING Modernity: Experiments in the Exceptional and Everyday 1920s–1970sTokyoThrough June 30, 2025An exhibition at the National Art Center reveals how architects in the Modernist era pioneered residential design by reexamining the fundamentals of living. The show centers on 14 experimental dwellings, built between 1923 and 1978, with a focus on specific concerns of 20th century architecture, including hygiene, materiality, comfort, and landscape. Photographs, drawings, artifacts, and architectural models explore how innovations like expansive glass facades, efficient kitchens, and integrated landscapes revolutionized domestic architecture while responding to specific regional and social contexts. See nact.jp.

New Practices New York 2025: VoiceNew York Through September 2, 2025The Center for Architecture presents an exhibition showcasing winners of the biennial New Practices New York competition, which celebrates innovative architecture and design firms established in the city within the past 12 years. This year’s honorees include: A+A+A, Aanda, AUR, BAAB, IGG, and Mattaforma. The jury, organized by the AIANY New Practices Committee since 2006, included Alice Grandoit-Šutka, Kim Yao, Chris Leong, Jaffer Kolb, and Beatrice Galilee. See centerforarchitecture.org.

Trees, Time, Architecture!Munich Through September 14, 2025An exhibition at the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich explores the complex relationship between trees and architecture. Showcasing projects from diverse cultural contexts and climatic zones, Trees, Time, Architecture! advocates for a fundamental paradigm shift from designing finished objects toward designing sustainable processes that foster symbiotic relationships between trees and buildings. Featured works include the groundbreaking “Baubotanik” research, which combines scientific approaches, artistic practices, indigenous knowledge, and new technologies to address urban heat islands and climate challenges. See architekturemuseum.de.

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Groupe Scolaire (2014), Cornebarrieu,
France (1); Close-up of a Baubotanik fusion (2). Photos © Duncan Lewis Space Architecture (1); Cira Moro, 2010

Events

Concéntrico 11
Logroño, SpainJune 19–24, 2025
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the annual festival focuses on how architecture and design can revitalize communities and expand the potential of public spaces through installations, exhibitions, tours and performances. See concentrico.es.