Sharjah Architecture Triennial

Sharjah Architecture Triennial Platform for architecture and urbanism in a region that extends from West Asia to South Asia and the African continent. linktr.ee/sharjaharchitecturetriennial

Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) is a platform for architecture and urbanism in a region that extends from West Asia to South Asia and the African continent. Physically anchored in Sharjah and the United Arab Emirates, SAT aims to engage diverse audiences and stakeholders in a collective conversation on architecture at the neighbourhood, city, and regional levels. Institutional research and pr

ogramming support on-going critical reflection through exhibitions, publications, and public programmes in tandem with its international editions. SAT is committed to pursuing a multi-disciplinary approach that fosters an understanding of the broader role of architecture, including its relation to social and environmental issues.

يعدّ ترينالي الشارقة للعمارة المنصة الرئيسة والأولى من نوعها للعمارة والتحضّر في المنطقة الممتدة من شرق آسيا وجنوبها إلى قارة أفريقيا. ويتخذ من الشارقة والإمارات العربية المتحدة مقراً ينطلق منه في مهمة استقطاب مختلف الأفراد والمؤسسات لخلق حوارٍ جماعيّ عن العمارة يمتد من نطاق الحي الواحد إلى المدينة وصولاً إلى المنطقة أجمع. كما يسعى التربنالي إلى تقديم مساحة للتأمل النقدي، وذلك من خلال البحث المؤسسي والبرامجالتي تشمل المعارض والبرامج العامة التي ينظمها والمنشورات التي يصدرهابالإضافة إلى دورات الترينالي التي تحمل طابعاً عالمياً من حيث الخطاب والتغيير الذي تقدمه. ويلتزم ترينالي الشارقة للعمارة باتباع منهجية التخصصات المتعددة التي من شأنها بناء مفهوم واضح لدور العمارة الأشمل والأعمق، بما في ذلك علاقتها بالقضايا الاجتماعية والبيئية.

Have you explored A Journey into Architecture Archives: Baghdad, Damascus, Tunis yet?Presented at the Sharjah Architec...
01/06/2026

Have you explored A Journey into Architecture Archives: Baghdad, Damascus, Tunis yet?

Presented at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial’s Collection Room at Al Qasimiyah School, this exhibition, curated by architect and curator George Arbid invites visitors into the architectural histories and archives of three cities across the region.

Following the inaugural 2023 edition focused on Beirut, Cairo, and Rabat, Journeys into Architecture Archives continues to foster knowledge production from within the region’s own communities while contributing to a shared archival database.

On view from May 2 to July 12, 2026, the exhibition brings together reproductions of architectural drawings, documents, and models dating largely from 1930–1980, alongside three documentaries commissioned by SAT and directed by George Arbid, filmed across Baghdad, Damascus, and Tunis.

Visit the Collection Room and experience the exhibition through guided tours available throughout the week.

Plan your visit!
Guided tours: Every Sunday, 2pm
Walk-in access: Saturday – Thursday, 9am–9pm | Friday, 2pm–9pm
Group tours (over 8-10 people): Please email us at least 2 days in advance for bookings (including requests outside these hours).

Location: Al Qasimiyah School (Sharjah Architecture Triennial)

Image: Danko Stjepanovic

Eid Mubarak from the Sharjah Architecture Triennial team!يهنئكم فريق ترينالي الشارقة للعمارة بحلول عيد الأضحى المبارك! ...
26/05/2026

Eid Mubarak from the Sharjah Architecture Triennial team!
يهنئكم فريق ترينالي الشارقة للعمارة بحلول عيد الأضحى المبارك!

Sharjah Architecture Triennial is looking for interns to provide support on the upcoming third edition of the Triennia...
21/05/2026

Sharjah Architecture Triennial is looking for interns to provide support on the upcoming third edition of the Triennial ‘Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures’ opening in November 2026.

We invite graduates in the UAE to apply for the following internship opportunities: Production, Programming, Exhibition Design, Research and Civic Engagement, Communications, and Graphic Design.

Start date: Immediate
Duration: 6 months
Deadline to apply: 14 June 2026

All Sharjah Architecture Triennial interns will receive a stipend.

Fresh graduates are encouraged to apply.

For more details and to apply, see link in bio. You can also apply via LinkedIn.
يقدم ترينالي الشارقة للعمارة فتح باب التقديم لفرص تدريبية لدعم النسخة الثالثة القادمة من ترينالي الشارقة للعمارة «العمارة بشكل مختلف: بناء بنية مدنية لمستقبل جماعي»، والمقرر افتتاحها في نوفمبر 2026.

ندعو الخريجين والخريجات في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة للتقديم على فرص التدريب التالية: الإنتاج، البرامج العامة، تصميم المعارض، البحث والمشاركة المدنية، التواصل، والتصميم الغرافيكي.

تاريخ البدء: فوري
مدة التدريب: 6 أشهر
آخر موعد للتقديم: 14 يونيو 2026

سيحصل جميع المتدربين في ترينالي الشارقة للعمارة على مكافأة شهرية.

نشجّع الخريجين والخريجات الجدد على التقديم.

للمزيد من التفاصيل والتقديم، يرجى زيارة الرابط في النبذة. كما يمكنكم التقديم عبر لينكدإن.

Mark your calendars! Six months to go until the opening of the third edition of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SA...
16/05/2026

Mark your calendars! Six months to go until the opening of the third edition of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT03), curated by Vyjayanthi Rao and Tau Tavengwa.

, titled ‘Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures’, examines the urgent question of how architecture can help shape collective life in a world marked by rapid urban transformation.

In the lead-up to the Triennial, a series of public programmes and gatherings have been shaping conversations around the edition’s curatorial direction. These include Meet the Curators (May 2025), where Curator Vyjayanthi Rao and Associate Curator Tau Tavengwa shared their early curatorial vision for ; Mumbai Offsite: ‘Architecture Otherwise’ (November 2025), co-hosted with the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA), which brought together architects, social thinkers, activists, and artists to explore architecture as a social, ecological, and epistemological practice; and ‘Another City is Possible: Mediating Architecture’ (January 2026), an in-conversation examining how urban space is produced not only through buildings and infrastructure, but also through social relations, narratives, and cultural practice.

Materials and recordings from these programmes are available on our website, sharjaharchitecture.org, as well as on our YouTube and Vimeo channels.

As we move closer to , these encounters continue to build momentum toward a Triennial rooted in dialogue, research, and shared futures.

Continuing these conversations, join us online TODAY at 5pm GST for Staying with the Trouble: Conversations around Architecture Otherwise, a new series convened by the SAT03 curators. Opening under the theme “Anticipation,” the first session brings together Hiba Bou Akar and Mohamad Nahleh to reflect on architecture, conflict, and conditions of prolonged uncertainty through the context of Lebanon.

Register now via the link in bio.

Have you explored A Journey into Architecture Archives: Baghdad, Damascus, Tunis yet? Presented at the Sharjah Archite...
15/05/2026

Have you explored A Journey into Architecture Archives: Baghdad, Damascus, Tunis yet?

Presented at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial’s Collection Room at Al Qasimiyah School, this exhibition, curated by architect and curator George Arbid invites visitors into the architectural histories and archives of three cities across the region.

Following the inaugural 2023 edition focused on Beirut, Cairo, and Rabat, Journeys into Architecture Archives continues to foster knowledge production from within the region’s own communities while contributing to a shared archival database.

On view from May 2 to July 12, 2026, the exhibition brings together reproductions of architectural drawings, documents, and models dating largely from 1930–1980, alongside three documentaries commissioned by SAT and directed by George Arbid, filmed across Baghdad, Damascus, and Tunis.

Visit the Collection Room and experience the exhibition through guided tours available throughout the week.

Plan your visit!
Guided tours: Every Sunday, 2pm
Walk-in access: Saturday – Thursday, 9am–9pm | Friday, 2pm–9pm
Group tours (over 8-10 people): Please email us at least 2 days in advance for bookings (including requests outside these hours).

Location: Al Qasimiyah School (Sharjah Architecture Triennial)

Book your guided tour via the link in bio.

Image: Ahmed Osama

14/05/2026

Have you registered for our upcoming public programme yet?

Join us online this Saturday for Staying with the Trouble: Conversations around Architecture Otherwise, a series of conversations convened by curator Vyjayanthi Rao that brings together practitioners, artists and thinkers to ask how architecture responds to a world shaped by conflict, crisis and ongoing change.

Planned in the shadow of ongoing war, Staying with the Trouble: Conversations around Architecture Otherwise looks to urban contexts where architecture has long had to grapple directly with destruction and instability. Rather than offering solutions, this series of conversations ask how architecture can support everyday forms of coexistence, care and interdependence, and how it might help foster collective futures across different places and geographies.

The first conversation, themed ‘Anticipation’, opens this inquiry through the lens of : a country shaped by decades of conflict where peace remains deferred and futures are continuously renegotiated. Speakers Hiba Bou Akar (Associate Professor in the Urban Planning program at Columbia GSAPP) and Mohamad Nahleh (Assistant Professor of Architecture at Ohio State University), both trained in Lebanon and now based in the US, draw on their research and lived experience to reflect on the multiple conditions of the “post-war”, and what it means to practice architecture within prolonged uncertainty.

🗓 Saturday, May 16
🕘 5:00pm - 6:15pm GST
📍 Online

The event is free and open to the public.
Register now via the link in bio.

Have you explored A Journey into Architecture Archives: Baghdad, Damascus, Tunis yet? Presented at the Sharjah Archite...
14/05/2026

Have you explored A Journey into Architecture Archives: Baghdad, Damascus, Tunis yet?

Presented at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial’s Collection Room at Al Qasimiyah School, this exhibition, curated by architect and curator George Arbid invites visitors into the architectural histories and archives of three cities across the region.

Following the inaugural 2023 edition focused on Beirut, Cairo, and Rabat, Journeys into Architecture Archives continues to foster knowledge production from within the region’s own communities while contributing to a shared archival database.

On view from May 2 to July 12, 2026, the exhibition brings together reproductions of architectural drawings, documents, and models dating largely from 1930–1980, alongside three documentaries commissioned by SAT and directed by George Arbid, filmed across Baghdad, Damascus, and Tunis.

Visit the Collection Room and experience the exhibition through guided tours available throughout the week.

Plan your visit!
Guided tours: Every Sunday, 2pm
Walk-in access: Saturday – Thursday, 9am–9pm | Friday, 2pm–9pm
Group tours (over 8-10 people): Please email us at least 2 days in advance for bookings (including requests outside these hours).

Location: Al Qasimiyah School (Sharjah Architecture Triennial)

Book your guided tour via the link in bio.

Images: Ahmed Osama

Join us online this Saturday for the first conversation in Staying with the Trouble: Conversations around Architecture...
11/05/2026

Join us online this Saturday for the first conversation in Staying with the Trouble: Conversations around Architecture Otherwise, a series of conversations convened by curator Vyjayanthi Rao that brings together practitioners, artists and thinkers to ask how architecture responds to a world shaped by conflict, crisis and ongoing change.

The first conversation, themed ‘Anticipation’, opens this inquiry through the lens of : a country shaped by decades of conflict where peace remains deferred and futures are continuously renegotiated.

Speakers Hiba Bou Akar (Associate Professor in the Urban Planning program at Columbia GSAPP) and Mohamad Nahleh (Assistant Professor of Architecture at Ohio State University), both trained in Lebanon and now based in the US, draw on their research and lived experience to reflect on the multiple conditions of the “post-war”, and what it means to practice architecture within prolonged uncertainty.

Planned in the shadow of ongoing war, Staying with the Trouble: Conversations around Architecture Otherwise looks to urban contexts where architecture has long had to grapple directly with destruction and instability. Rather than offering solutions, this series of conversations ask how architecture can support everyday forms of coexistence, care and interdependence, and how it might help foster collective futures across different places and geographies.

🗓 Saturday, May 16
🕘 5:00pm GST
📍 Online

The event is free and open to the public.
Register now via the link in bio.

08/05/2026

As part of the final public programme event ahead of the third edition of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial , we are pleased to invite you to Staying with the Trouble: Conversations around Architecture Otherwise, a series of conversations convened by curator Vyjayanthi Rao that brings together practitioners, artists and thinkers to ask how architecture responds to a world shaped by conflict, crisis and ongoing change.

Planned in the shadow of ongoing war, Staying with the Trouble: Conversations around Architecture Otherwise looks to urban contexts where architecture has long had to grapple directly with destruction and instability. Rather than offering solutions, this series of conversations ask how architecture can support everyday forms of coexistence, care and interdependence, and how it might help foster collective futures across different places and geographies.

Taking place online on Saturday, 16 May at 5pm GST, the first conversation, themed ‘Anticipation’, opens this inquiry through the lens of : a country shaped by decades of conflict where peace remains deferred and futures are continuously renegotiated. Speakers Hiba Bou Akar (Associate Professor in the Urban Planning program at Columbia GSAPP) and Mohamad Nahleh (Assistant Professor of Architecture at Ohio State University), both trained in Lebanon and now based in the US, draw on their research and lived experience to reflect on the multiple conditions of the “post-war”, and what it means to practice architecture within prolonged uncertainty.

🗓 Saturday, May 16
🕘 5:00pm GST
📍 Online

The event is free and open to the public.
Register now via the link in bio.

As part of the final public programme event ahead of the third edition of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial , we are...
08/05/2026

As part of the final public programme event ahead of the third edition of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial , we are pleased to invite you to Staying with the Trouble: Conversations around Architecture Otherwise, a series of conversations convened by curator Vyjayanthi Rao that brings together practitioners, artists and thinkers to ask how architecture responds to a world shaped by conflict, crisis and ongoing change.

Planned in the shadow of ongoing war, Staying with the Trouble: Conversations around Architecture Otherwise looks to urban contexts where architecture has long had to grapple directly with destruction and instability. Rather than offering solutions, this series of conversations ask how architecture can support everyday forms of coexistence, care and interdependence, and how it might help foster collective futures across different places and geographies.

Taking place online on Saturday, 16 May at 5pm GST, the first conversation, themed ‘Anticipation’, opens this inquiry through the lens of : a country shaped by decades of conflict where peace remains deferred and futures are continuously renegotiated. Speakers Hiba Bou Akar (Associate Professor in the Urban Planning program at Columbia GSAPP) and Mohamad Nahleh (Assistant Professor of Architecture at Ohio State University), both trained in Lebanon and now based in the US, draw on their research and lived experience to reflect on the multiple conditions of the “post-war”, and what it means to practice architecture within prolonged uncertainty.

🗓 Saturday, May 16
🕘 5:00pm (GMT+4)
📍 Online

The event is free and open to the public.
Register now via the link in bio.

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Al Qasimiyah Primary School, Sheikh Saqr Bin Khalid Al Qasimi Street, Al Manakh Area, UAE
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Monday 09:00 - 05:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00

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