COPENHAGEN ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL X 2019

This year’s theme is ’Changing Ideals – 1919 – 2019 – 2119’ – where we’re investigating how ideals of housing and urban development have changed radically over the last 100 years and what they will evolve into in the future.

The Future of coexistence - Housing the Human
While exploring the changing ideals, CAFx 2019 is also looking towards the future – what will be the new structures defining home and coexistence - with the international exhibition Housing the Human - an interdisciplinary collaboration of five European institutions and organizations aiming to develop methods for a practical futurology – a paradox that the projects seek to address by producing prototypes that can be experienced and tested. Moreover, 2019 is the year we celebrate the centenary of the Bauhaus School by delving into the paradoxes of one of the 20th century’s most significant schools within architecture and design. Copenhagen Architecture Festival is going to question its heritage’s relevance for the challenges of our times through a series of talks by international experts, panel debates, film screenings, exhibitions, workshops and a Bauhaus ball!

Guided tours and panda houses
This year Copenhagen Architecture Festival offers a thrilling mixture of over a 100 public events within various themes to choose from such as “Future Scenarios”, “Europe between the Berlin Wall and Brexit”, and “The welfare city under construction”. Experience screenings with live music – get a guided tour of the futuristic concert hall Royal Arena – see all of the hidden gems of the new panda house - discuss future housing forms for varied Danish family structures - find an answer to why and how we build prisons - discover how deconstruction might lead to changing contemporary architecture forever – take an in-depth journey into Mario Botta’s work while lying comfortably on the church’s floor – observe the city’s best new architecture with its new city architect - get guided tours through Tingbjerg or Inner Nordhavn with COBE, the architects behind its structure or just have a weekly singalong in Copenhagen’s Community Hall.

Meet Tatiana Bilbao - The Mexican Master Architect
The world famous Mexican architect, Tatiana Bilbao, has curated the film program for CAFx 2019 and will reflect on her own practices and methods when introducing the films. Tatiana Bilbao has curated a film program for CAFx and will reflect on her own practices and methods when introducing the films. Her homeland of Mexico is well represented from Buñuel’s depictions of street kids in Mexico City in the 1950s to several films on modern Mexico. In short: there’ll be plenty of opportunities for you to get acquainted with the sympathetic Mexican architect before her solo exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in the Fall of 2019.

Among CAFx precious guests, you can meet Assemble, Pippo Ciorra, Regina Bittner, Alfredo Brillembourg, Caroline James, James Taylor-Foster, Daniel Perlin and many more.

About CAFx
The festival began in 2014 with the aim of engaging a wide audience in the exploration and presentation of how architecture affects our everyday lives. The program has grown in content and ambition and since 2015, is has been the largest architecture film festival in the world. Film has been a key part of the festival’s DNA ever since the beginning, and continues to be a primary tool in understanding and communicating architecture. In addition to films, the activities take a variety of formats such as guided tours on foot, bike or water, debates, exhibitions, workshops, conferences and much more.