ARCHIPRIX NL 2026
the best Dutch graduation projects in architecture, urbanism, interior and landscape architecture
March 20 – April 28 2026
This edition, titled Open Vision, explores the growing distance between architectural education and professional practice. Young architects enter the field with strong ideas, digital skills, and the ambition to rethink the future, while also facing economic pressure, strict systems, and a fast-moving building culture.
From housing and circular building to climate adaptation and inclusive urban development, the selected projects show how a new generation of designers is changing the role of architecture and responding to the challenges of today’s world.
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Photographer: Charlotte Grips
In the early 1980s, most schools did not yet teach CAD, so architects learned through practice, manuals and self-study. Digital drawings still had to become physical, and offices had to define new standards for annotations and dimensions.
Want to discover more about the invention of CAD and the computerization of architectural labor?
Join us this 5th of February at 17:00 in Plaza Vertigo, where one of the curators, Galo Canizares (@itsgalo ), will tell us all about it.
Entrance is free, but registration is required. Link is in the bio!
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CASA Vertigo is pleased to invite you to Managers & Monkeys, an exhibition tracing how CAD reshaped architectural work from the 1960s to the 1990s. From hand drawing to digital iteration, it highlights how software transformed precision, workflow, and creative speed.
📍Exhibition: Plaza Vertigo, TU Eindhoven
🗓️From January 26 to March 6
🗣️On February 5, 2026 at 17:00 (doors open at 16:30) there will be a curator’s talk with Galo Canizares. Free tickets, registration required. Link is the bio.
Curated by Curatorial Research Collective, and supported by TU/Eindhoven, Home Computer Museum and Océ Museum.
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CASA Vertigo is pleased to invite you to the Know Your Worth lecture series in collaboration with Netherlands Angry Architects (NAA!) next week Tuesday from 17:00.
Graduating soon and already worrying about what comes next?
As students of the department of Built Environment, we’re told to follow our passion. But what about contracts, wages, or knowing your rights after graduation? What about negotiating and knowing how to value your skills?
Join us to expore:
-Life after graduation
-Working conditions in the Netherlands
-Where to find support and solidarity
-How to value your skills as an architectural worker
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
17:00 | TU Eindhoven, Vertigo – Trappenzaal
Open to all students from BE (especially Architecture/Urbanism, from all levels) who are curious about their futures.
Graduating soon and already worrying about what comes next?
As students of the department of Built Environment, we’re told to follow our passion. But what about contracts, wages, or knowing your rights after graduation? What about negotiating and knowing how to value your skills?
Join Know Your Worth, first of our lecture series at TU Eindhoven hosted by CASA with Netherlands Angry Architects (NAA!), to explore:
-Life after graduation
-Working conditions in the Netherlands
-Where to find support and solidarity
-How to value your skills as an architectural worker
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
17:00 | TU Eindhoven, Vertigo – Trappenzaal
Open to all students from BE (especially Architecture/Urbanism, from all levels) who are curious about their futures.
CASA Vertigo is pleased to invite you to the announcement of the jury nominations for the national Archiprix on September 25th from 17:00.
How does architecture shape the ways we move, meet, and belong?
Can architecture be understood as choreography? Not only the arrangement of walls and volumes, but the careful staging of encounters, rhythms, and transformations? In this year’s graduation projects, space is alive: it moves with us, guiding our steps, shaping how we meet, how we live and how we imagine together. Like a dance, these works shift between scales and tempos: the slow layering of history onto a Florentine palazzo, the seismic resilience embedded in a Neapolitan knowledge hub, the pulse of daily life reactivated along an Eindhoven canal. If some projects turn high-rises into vertical streets, others stitch city and countryside back together, while others set floating cultural hubs adrift to meet shifting tides. But in each, space becomes an active partner: guiding, inviting, and responding to those who inhabit it.
Effectively, these projects do more than propose new forms, they set spaces in motion. They turn buildings into stages, streets into rhythms, and cities into experiences. As each project invites us to its choreography, we are reminded of how architecture is not static. Instead, it is ever unfolding and, much like dance, it is most powerful when it moves us.
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SPHERES OF DWELLING
Spheres of dwelling comes forth from a personal sense of wonder about the world we live in, and the way it is shaped through our everyday interactions. By reflecting on the connections we value, it seeks to capture meaningful moments and relationships, posing the question of what it means to dwell on earth.
The outcome, a collection of everyday stories mapping spheres of dwelling in and around our home, emphasizes that space is not fixed but encompasses spatial relationships between the individual and the collective; the built and the natural; and the real and the imaginative, where each sphere has its own qualities and modes of inhabiting.
In the transformation of a former industrial site into a cluster of homes, spheres of dwelling take shape within the remnants of the old brick shells. The spheres, which are open to interpretation and personal rhythms of use invite each person to find their own patterns of dwelling.
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WOVEN LIVING: STRUCTURALISM REINTERPRETED FOR CONTEMPORARY DWELLING
Structuralism is undoubtedly an important heritage of Dutch architecture. This graduation project takes structuralism as its main research target, attempts to respond to the most pressing housing issues in today's Netherlands, and interprets its fundamental principles 'structure & in-fills' in a contemporary way:
One open-minded, context-sensitive, and capable of mediating between rule and improvisation, different identities , permanence and change. It is not a return to the past, but a forward-looking approach to weaving architecture into the complexities of urban life.
The storytelling has 2 parallel narratives, throughout the three parts of this project - Concept, design exploration and final design.
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LEARNING THROUGH SPACE: APPLYING MONTESSORI METHOD TO EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN SAUDI ARABIA
The project envisions education as a cornerstone of democracy, embedding key virtues into the spatial language of the building to support the development of independent individuals with a sense of moral responsibility.
Moral values in architecture emerge through the balance of durability, functionality, and beauty, resulting in a built environment that responds to both user needs and socio-cultural context. Democratic moral values such as accountability, equality, inclusivity, education and transparency are expressed metaphorically and symbolically through spatial layout and atmosphere in architecture.
The traditional segregation of male and female students is addressed by designing two separate yet equivalent ensembles, each with equal quality of space and access to nature and natural light, united by a central Greeting Hall that promotes inclusivity and social interaction.
The Montessori Method influences the spatial layout, exemplifying freedom of movement, individual autonomy, and self-directed learning through articulated thresholds and clearly defined yet interconnected learning spaces. Its emphasis on sensory experience and prepared environments aligns with the ethical and aesthetic intentions, transcending mere shelter to become a subtle moral compass for society, gently guiding perceptions, values and behavior.
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SACRED SPHERES
Sacred spheres are constructed spatial communities, shaped by the meanings of the relationships they contain. A sphere is demarcated by symbolic and spiritual boundaries we draw around what we long to maintain. By setting apart and treating these relationships as sacred, their values and rituals are lived, guiding us in the slow work of attuning to our surroundings.
Though we are not the authors of our starting point, we must take responsibility for how we live from it. These spheres offer orientation and guidance in a world stripped of existential bearings, mediating how the personal relates to the collective, and world at large.
This project gathers everyday stories and their meanings and transforms a derelict industrial complex into a habitat of twelve spheres. By attending to the significance already surrounding us, it suggests that the smallest, most ordinary rituals can bring us nearer—to one another, and to life itself.
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SPACE FOR DIALOGUE
The greatest challenge of contemporary society seems to be everyday recognition within our cities and the way we dwell. Our cities are rooted in a strong binary condition between the large scale anonymity of the metropolitan and the protected small scale of the dwelling. Both ends of the spectrum serve a functional purpose in day to day life, but with modernisation and scaling of cities over time, a third element essential for civic city life has moved to the background. A sphere for dialogue where protected ideas meet and where the fast movement of the city slows down for moments of resonance.
The aim of this thesis is to critically evaluate the relation between these three spheres and to answer how the use of this third sphere can blur the boundaries between the anonymous and the protected. The architectural result of these interpretations are implemented on the transformation of the forgotten Belgische Boerenbond site in Antwerp, seeking to revitalize the social ties in the neighbourhood Amandus-Atheneum by the introduction of a community centre and an inner-block dwelling community.
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