AIA Continental Europe

17/04/2026

27/03/2026

Our Spring 2026 Conference
Berlin, 7 - 10 May
The Phoenix : Upheavals and Rebirths

Optional extension days on 11 May to Potsdam and on 12 May to Dessau Bauhaus. Full details of the conference are available on our website www.aiaeurope.org/berlin-program

18/03/2026

Our Spring 2026 Conference will take place in Berlin, 7 - 10 May. Optional extension days on 11 May to Potsdam and on 12 May to Dessau Bauhaus. Full details of the conference are available on our website www.aiaeurope.org/berlin-program

Places are limited

15/07/2025

https://www.aiaeurope.org/madrid-program

24/05/2025

link for full details - https://www.aiaeurope.org/design-awards-program

20/05/2025

Last weekend AIA Continental Europe Italy section visited Rome. On Friday the theme was 'Lens of Baroque in Todays Rome' and on Saturday the group enjoyed a visit to the Vatican Gardens.

16/04/2025

Cork Conference 2025 People
It was an amazing conference full of great memories and inspiration. Thank you to all of our speakers and of course the organizers :

Conference Speakers
Dr. Jason O’Shaughnessy – Interim Director CCAE
Chinwe Kane – RIAI Southern Region Representative and Director at Scott Tallon Walker Architects
Cathal O’Boyle – City Architect for Cork
Dr. Karen Lysaght – Advisor - Cork City Council
Karen O’Mahony – Senior Executive Planner and Urban Designer for Cork City Council, Cork Docklands Delivery Office
Simon Lyons - Development Manager for Cork Docklands Development Programme
Gareth O’Callaghan – Director Conservation – JCA Architects
Yvonne Farrell – Founder and Director - Grafton Architects -
Gerard Carty – Director - Grafton Architects
Willie Carey – Director - O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects
Henrik Wolterstorff – Associate - O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects
Alex Ianchenko - The 2024 AIA Continental Europe Scholarship Recipient
Merritt Bucholz – Founding Director - Bucholz McEvoy Architects
Karen McEvoy – Founding Director - Bucholz McEvoy Architects
David Flannery – Principal – Scott Tallon Walker Architects
Guilia Valone – Senior Architect - Cork County Council
John Hegarty - Director- Fourem Architects
John MacLaughlin – Founder and Director – John MacLaughlin Architects
Shane de Blacam – Founder and Director – de Blacam and Meagher Architects
Dr. Samuel Vardy - Associate Director/ Head of Department of Architecture (MTU)
Conference Organisers
Helen Giblin
Etain Fitzpatrick
Karen Hasse

16/04/2025

Cork Conference 2025
Visits of work by De Blacam and Meagher Architects, and an important lecture by founding principle Shane de Blacam

Photos Bryan Oknyansky and Helen Kessler

13/04/2025

Cork Conference 2025
-UCC Campus and the Glucksman Art Gallery by O’Donnell + Tuomey (photos Rada Doytcheva and Paul Schwartzman)
- the River Lee (photo Maria Neves)
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30/03/2025

This weekend our Switzerland-Lichtenstein Section visited the Zurich Kinderspital, a new University Children’s Hospital by architects Herzog & de Meuron.

From the architect :
“People in hospitals are often in life-threatening situations. That is an exceptional challenge not only for patients but also for relatives, carers and physicians. Ironically, hospitals all over the world and even in Switzerland are often the ugliest places. For the past 20 years, we have zeroed in on this issue, because we are convinced that architecture can contribute to the healing process; it can make a substantial difference. Here at the Children’s Hospital, people can see for themselves how daylight coming in from outside and variations in proportion can animate and change a room, how plants and vegetation can blur the distinction between inside and outside and how materials are not just beautiful to look at but also pleasing to the touch. We designed all these things with conscious intent so that people can perceive them, sense them and ultimately feel better. Architecture can contribute to healing.”
-Jacques Herzog

30/03/2025

This weekend our Switzerland-Lichtenstein Section visited the Zurich Kinderspital, a new University Children’s Hospital by architects Herzog & de Meuron.

From the architect :
“People in hospitals are often in life-threatening situations. That is an exceptional challenge not only for patients but also for relatives, carers and physicians. Ironically, hospitals all over the world and even in Switzerland are often the ugliest places. For the past 20 years, we have zeroed in on this issue, because we are convinced that architecture can contribute to the healing process; it can make a substantial difference. Here at the Children’s Hospital, people can see for themselves how daylight coming in from outside and variations in proportion can animate and change a room, how plants and vegetation can blur the distinction between inside and outside and how materials are not just beautiful to look at but also pleasing to the touch. We designed all these things with conscious intent so that people can perceive them, sense them and ultimately feel better. Architecture can contribute to healing.”
-Jacques Herzog