Architecture Speaks - Lecture series 12.11.2025 - 28.1.2026
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Every construction deconstructs elsewhere; materials are territories carried into form. The task of architecture is to create a positive balance where structures give back more than they take. Architecture, once born of shelter and survival, must again learn from nature’s cycles of efficiency and renewal. Architecture stands at the intersection of structure and resources, where every act of construction echoes far beyond its site.
In the eleventh season of the Architecture Speaks lecture series Professor and Head of department of Architecture Jenni Reuter invites six architects to share insights into their design processes and their roles in the world of architecture. The theme of this season is Structures and Resources.
Lecture recordings will be available for viewing two weeks after the lecture. The link to the recording will be published on Architecture & Design museum's page after the lecture.
Series is organized together with the Architecture & Design Museum and Aalto University.
Gloria Cabral
On Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 1.15–2.30 pm
Gloria Cabral is a Brazilian-Paraguayan architect, a former partner of the Paraguayan firm Gabinete de Arquitectura. She now runs her own studio in Laguna, in southern Brazil.
Her work reflects a sensitivity to space and a commitment to resource efficiency, minimising waste and using the knowledge deriving from craftsmanship. This approach focuses on the creative use of local materials, finding value in waste material and demonstrating how design can generate architectural, historical and social structures for a reinvented future, even in the absence of adequate resources.
Max Núñez
On Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 1.15–2.30 pm
Max Núñez graduated as an architect from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 2004. In 2010, he earned his MA from Columbia University in New York. Since then, he has led Max Núñez Arquitectos.
His practice recognized with the Design Vanguard Award from Architectural Record (2017), the Design Award from Wallpaper Magazine several times and the Building of the Year Award from ArchDaily in 2023. He has won several public competitions, including the Atacama Regional Museum in Copiapó and the Library, Archive, and Regional Repository of Los Ríos in Valdivia. His projects have been featured internationally and are the subject of two monographic books.
Søren Pihlmann
On Wednesday, November 26, 2025, at 1.15–2.30 pm
Søren Pihlmann founded Pihlmann architects in 2021, previously he had a joint studio with Kim Lenschow. Pihlmann architects is a Copenhagen-based studio at the forefront of a new architectural paradigm grounded in the already existing. As the studio behind some of the most defining projects in recent Danish architecture, it has set a new standard for working with transformation, material reuse, and the latent potential of what’s at hand.
Gabriela Carrillo
On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, at 1.15–2.30 pm
Gabriela Carrillo started her Studio in 2019, as a collaborative and interdisciplinary space for architectural work. She is a co-founder of Colectivo C733, dedicated to developing public projects in Mexico. Previously, she was a partner at Taller Rocha Carrillo for over nine years.
Takaharu Tezuka
On Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 1.15–2.30 pm
Tezuka Architects was established in 1994 by Takaharu and Yui Tezuka. They set out on a pursuit not just in designing architecture, but in changing the world for the better through the means of architecture; a value they have hold true to this day.
They believe that children are born with the ability to grow, and a well-designed environment can widely enhance their possibilities to grow stronger and smarter. They aim to create schools where children would like to come back and visit, even when they are grown up.
Michael Pawlyn
On Wednesday, January 28, 2026, at 1.15–2.30 pm
Michael Pawlyn is a British architect, writer and public speaker. He has been described as an expert in regenerative design and biomimicry. He established his firm Exploration Architecture in 2007 to focus on high performance buildings and solutions for the circular economy.
Prior to setting up Exploration, Michael Pawlyn worked with Grimshaw for ten years and was central to the team that designed the Eden Project.