What is the “YEAR EXHIBITION 2026”?
The exhibition of the year is an essential event for architecture schools, demon- strating the relevance of knowledge and approaches, along with the response towards today’s challenges and contexts in student projects. The exhibition brings together students and teachers of all courses to reflect on the year that has passed. For students, the event is an opportunity to review their achievements, while for teachers, it is an occasion to analyse their teaching approaches and practices.
The exhibition of the year represents the School outwardly, offering the professional community the chance to assess the level and quality of the programme and teaching, and the general audience to get curious about architecture and see the var- ious processes behind the process of design.
Concept: “UN→certainty” as a working state
At first glance, architecture may appear stable and reliable, yet it constantly exists in a state of uncertainty. Existing in the present, architects propose solutions for an imagined future. Despite attempts to predict — and at times even design — this future, the world often changes faster than a building can be realized. As a result, seemingly “new” and contemporary projects reveal themselves to already be outdated and irrelevant.
Uncertainty can be perceived as a deficiency — an absence of clarity or answers. This year, however, it is important for us to look at it differently. Not as a lack, but as a condition. A condition in which redefinition takes place. Uncertainty is not a moment, but a duration. A period during which initial assumptions shift, questions become refined, and positions are reconsidered. A period in which there are no ready-made formulations yet, but there is movement toward them. This condition is shared both by the broader context and by the School itself. We live in circumstances where stability cannot be taken for granted, while we ourselves are in a process of change: growth, rethinking, and even spatial movement.
Uncertainty manifests itself not as an absence of themes, but as a way of working with them. It emerges in attempts to speak about identity that has no fixed form (Home Studio). In the question of accessibility, which cannot be reduced to a single metric (Housing Studio). In working with environments that are undergoing transformation and whose futures cannot be clearly defined (City Studio).
What does it mean to design within conditions where the question itself has not yet been fully determined?
How can one work with a context that changes faster than it can be described?
Is it possible to formulate solutions without fixing them definitively?
Can uncertainty itself become the condition for the emergence of something new?
In this state, architecture ceases to be an answer. And what was the question in the first place? Above all, it becomes an instrument of search. Architects work not only with form, but with processes. Not only with results, but with the conditions that make those results possible.
In this context, Un→certainty is not a theme, but a perspective. A way of looking at both the educational process and architectural practice in general. It does not seek to relieve tension, but rather to acknowledge it as a working condition. This exhibition is not a conclusion. It captures a moment in which the search is still ongoing. Not a collection of completed solutions, but a field in which they are only beginning to take shape.
This feels more relevant than ever in the contemporary context. The world is becoming faster and increasingly unpredictable, while crises and wars offer little stability. Yet through this exhibition, we propose to slow down and, if not to arrive at definitions, then at least to move closer to them. That is why the exhibition’s title is not a word, but rather a vector or a limit — a framework within which we strive toward certainty while knowing that achieving it completely is impossible.
