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The UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen from July 2-6 aims to make architecture a central tool in achieving the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Expect great partners, and inspiring keynotes - and learn from the latest groundbreaking scientific research, enjoy cross-sector networking and discover future methods and materials. Together with more than 10.000 of your peers, embark on a journey towards a more sustainable built environment, for the sake of our planet.
The UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen 2023 is the world’s largest event on Sustainable Architecture. The World Congress is held every three years in different countries. It will be hosted in 2023 for the first time in Copenhagen, Denmark by the UIA Nordic section: Denmark, Finland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The International Union of Architects UIA was founded in 1948 and united national architect associations in more than 100 countries.
Read more about the event and the program on uia2023cph.org.
15 SDG PAVILIONS
Explore The SDG Pavilions around the city center of Copenhagen as a part of UIA World Congress of Arhitects.
The SDG Pavilions are 1:1 experimental projects for the World Capital of Architecture and the UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen. The explorative constructions greet visitors on selected locations in Copenhagen, including the city’s iconic harbor area.
Each pavilion is the result of a collaboration between architects, engineers, material producers, science institutions, associations, and foundations, all working to towards asking the right questions when it comes to building for the future, relating to one or more of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs).
Just as the SDGs contain a complex mix of goals and sub-goals on social, economic, and environmental sustainability, the SGD Pavilions try to provide answers to a palette of different challenges.
In accordance with the theme of the UIA World Congress “Sustainable Futures – Leave No One Behind“, all SGD Pavilions are designed to be accessible to everyone and are built with emphasis on responsible consumption of materials with plans for recycling, reassembly or reuse after the exhibition = their afterlife.
The project is presented by the Danish Association of Architects and the UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen in collaboration with the City of Copenhagen and CPH City and Port Development. The pavilions are created in relation to the World Congress, and present activities to congress guests and visitors throughout the summer to celebrate Copenhagen as the World Capital of Architecture in 2023.