Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2026 Announcement
The third edition will take place from 14 November 2026 to 14 April 2027 and is titled Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures

Kush Badhwar, Going in Circles, 2019. Photo: the artist and Anant Jain
The Sharjah Architecture Triennial has announced the dates and full list of participants for its third edition. It will take place from 14 November 2026 to 14 April 2027 and is titled Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures.
The 32 participants are as follows: ABARI; Another Empty House; Aslıhan Demirtaş, Ali Cindoruk, Dilşad Aladağ; Azza Aboualam; Badriyah Alsalem; BARDStudio (Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty); Brent Kokonya & Dennis Muraguri; Cassim Shepard; Chloë Bass & Bill Dietz; Curry J. Hackett; Hiba Bou Akar, Mohamad Hafeda & Nathalie Harb; Karachi LaJamia; Keller Easterling; Kevin Kimwelle / Indalo World; Kishwar Rizvi; Kush Badhwar; Let’s Build Great Things!; LionHeart; Megawra Built Environment Collective in collaboration with RIWAQ; Mohamad Nahleh & Ozayr Saloojee; Nashin Mahtani/Disaster Map Foundation; People’s Architecture Office; POCAA (Platform of Community Action and Architecture); Rajesh Vora and the National Institute of Design; Sa’dia Rehman; Samar Halloum; Social Design Collaborative; Sudarshan Shetty; Tanya Zack, Mark Lewis & Thireshen Govender; Torolab (Raúl Cárdenas); Yaminay Chaudhri & Karachi Beach Radio; and Ziad Jamaleddine, Makram el Kadi, Iheb Guermazi and Beya Othmani.
The Triennial is curated by Vyjayanthi Rao with associate curator Tau Tavengwa.
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