LAS26 Revive and Destroy

As societal restructurings embrace the cultural, environmental, and economical values of existing buildings, architects face new challenges in balancing between revival and destruction.

Revival expands the architectural design sensibility into a creative, forward-looking act, where political and economic forces shape how we understand value, develop our processes, and operate within the built environment. Yet, its avatar destruction remains deeply entangled with the social and tectonic boundaries of revival, reconceptualizing environments that lack structural or spatial capacity, providing opportunity for intervention when restoration becomes inadequate, wasteful, even reactionary. The 2026 edition of the Lund Architecture Symposium (LAS) explores the emergent role within architectural discipline and practice of mediating the urgency of revival with the necessity of removal.

Questions include: When is restoration unproductive? How do we decide what’s worth saving or not? Can we design ideas and mind-sets in revival to overcome financial prejudices?

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