As concerns increase for COVID-19, many cities, institutions, and events have been taking precautions in an effort to mitigate the risk of spreading the disease. The architecture industry has seen its share of impact, with the cancellations and postponements of many prominent events across the globe. 

Below you'll find a list of all of the current happenings with events in the architecture and design space so far:

Big Events Still on Schedule

There are no significant architecture events originally scheduled for the upcoming months that have not been canceled or postponed. We will continue to update this page if events scheduled further in the future announced changes. 

Postponed Events

• AIA Conference on Architecture 2020, initially scheduled for May 14-16th 2020 has been postponed, announced the AIA March 13th. AIA is currently exploring options to reschedule the event and will update members with details when available
• According to Architectural Digest, the Architectural Digest Design Show will postpone its March 19-22 edition to June 25-28, 2020. The New York-based trade show typically receives around 40,000 visitors along with a diverse range of "design exhibitors" who display their work across a number of design disciplines.
• Archinect reported on the postponement of the 108th ACSA Annual Meeting. The organization is currently exploring a virtual means of facilitating the conference.
• The 2020 Biennale in Venice has been postponed until August in an effort to preserve the quality of the exhibition. The Biennale will now occur from Saturday, August 29th through Sunday, November 29th.
• The annual Salone del Mobile Milan, which drew over 434,500 visitors from 188 countries in 2018, has pushed back the event to June 16th, Archinect reported. 
• Coachella has been postponed and will now be held October 9-11 and 16-18 as opposed to the initial April 10-12 and 17-19. The annual music and arts festival is known for its wide array of architectural spectacles made by festival participants.
• The Australian Institute of Architects has postponed the 2020 National Architecture Conference from May to an undisclosed date "later this year"
• The Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has postponed its 2020 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference. Professionals from 36 countries were scheduled to attend the conference to present their winning projects. Instead the CTBUH Awards program will now be incorporated into the CTBUH 2020 Singapore & Kuala Lumpur Conference, which will take place October 19th to 23rd.
• Announced March 12th, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will temporarily close all three locations—The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters—starting tomorrow, March 13, to support New York City’s effort to contain the spread of COVID-19
• On March 13th, Archinect reported on the statement released by National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) National President Kimberly Dowdell announcing that the organization will cancel or postpone events with more than 20 people. Dowdell writes, "We are levaraging technology to replace many of our in-person events with virtual meetings, when practical."
• The 2020 Building Innovation Conference will now take place starting August 16th through August 19th instead of the previously planned April 6th through April 9th.
• Originally scheduled for April 25-28, 2020 the National Planning Conference have announced their cancelation "We are disappointed to announce that the 2020 National Planning Conference, originally scheduled for April 25–28 in Houston, is canceled in line with recommendations by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Registered attendees have the option of receiving a full refund or maintaining a credit with APA that can be applied to other programs, services, or membership renewal through September 30, 2021."

Cancellations

• On March 6th, Archinect reported the cancellation of SXSW following announcements from the City of Austin and Austin Public Health. "We are devastated to share this news with you. 'The show must go on' is in our DNA, and this is the first time in 34 years that the March event will not take place. We are now working through the ramifications of this unprecedented situation," SXSW said in a statement.
• The Society of Architectural Historians has cancelled its 2020 Seattle Conference. In an announcement March 10th, the organization stated, "It is with deep regret that we inform you that the SAH Board of Directors has decided to cancel the SAH 73rd Annual International Conference in Seattle, Washington, April 29–May 3, 2020."
• The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) meeting in Louisville, KY from March 18-21 has been cancelled.
• WESTWEEK 2020 keynote programs at the Pacific Design Center have been cancelled, the organization announced March 10th. It will turn its full attention to the PDC showrooms and other scheduled programming. See the design center's resource page for more detail.
• According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, The 2020 Digital Design Expo, which was scheduled to begin March 31st through April 3rd at the Las Vegas Convention Center has been postponed until late summer/early fall. SEGD Branded Environments 2020 will be held in partnership to the 2020 Digital Design Expo.
• The National Building Museum announced on Twitter that it will remain closed through April 30th.
• Announced in a Twitter post March 13th, the 2020 Architecture and Design Film Festival in Washington DC has been cancelled and will return in 2021.

Schools Affected

Several colleges have closed due to the virus as well, moving to remote means of continuing scheduled coursework, lectures, and seminars. Those campuses include:

• Columbia University suspended classes from Monday, March 9th to Tuesday, March 10th in preparation to transition to remote classes for the remainder of the week. According to the university's COVID-19 page, the campus remains open, which includes libraries, fitness centers, dining facilities, and coffee shops. Columbia GSAPP announced March 11th that it has suspended its Spring 2020 public programming and events.
• Following spring break, Princeton University will require all lectures and seminars to be virtual.
• Harvard University has cancelled all remaining events in its spring 2020 public program. Many courses will continue remotely via Zoom video, the school states on its COVID-19 resource webpage.
• Ohio State University has suspended "face-to-face instruction in lectures, discussion sections, seminars and other similar classroom settings and is moving to virtual instruction." This change will occur "at least through March 30th," the school stated in an announcement.
• In a letter from Hernán Díaz Alonso, director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, it was announced March 10th that the school will be postponing a number of lectures and exhibitions as part of its spring semester program. The college's Open Season event has also been cancelled.
• UC Berkeley announced March 9th that it will be suspending most of its in-person classes beginning March 10th and will be offering all of its lecture courses, seminar instruction, and examinations through alternative methods.
• Kent State announced March 10th that it will cancel face-to-face classes, and will use remote instruction until April 13
• UCLA sent out an email to their community on March 10th informing of postponements of two lectures, Ignacio G. Galan on March 30th & Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot on April 6th. Additionally, Chancellor Gene D. Block announced in a statement that, effective March 11th, in-person classes will be suspended and transition to online platforms through April 10th.
• Rice University posted an update to their Instagram account announcing the cancelation of all public events through April 30, 2020. Also, the scheduled Spring Lecture Series, and their annual Architecture Tour and Civic Forum are postponed until further notice.
• Cornell University published a statement March 10th announcing it will move to virtual instruction, asking faculty to begin the transition before spring break. After the break all instruction will remain online for the remainder of the semester, Cornell states.
• On March 10th MIT President L. Rafael Reif sent a letter to the MIT community stating that all classes will be cancelled the week of Monday, March 16th through Friday, March 20th. The faculty and instructors will use the time to make a full transition to online instruction, which will begin on March 30th and continue to the end of the semester.
• Yale School of Architecture has suspended all events and programming through at least April 5th. In a statement, the school said it will continue to asses the situation and follow up with any pertinent information.
• All Pennsylvania State University classes will move to remote instruction starting March 16th through April 3rd, the college announced March 11th. The college plans to resume in-person classes on Monday, April 6th.
• Washington University in St. Louis released a statement on Twitter stating that undergraduate students will complete the spring semester remotely from home and that all classes will move to online instruction.
• Carnegie Mellon University announced March 11th that all CMU graduate and undergraduate programs on the Pittsburgh campus will move to remote, virtual, or alternative teaching and assessment. The Silicon Valley and Qatar campuses have since already moved to online instruction.
• Morgan State University announced March 11th, that it has cancelled all regularly scheduled classes for the remainder of the week. After spring break, starting March 23rd, and for a period of at least two weeks, the college will move all classes to online instruction.
• As of March 11th, the University of Maryland has cancelled all on campus classes and have instructed students not to return to campus after spring break. Starting March 30th until at least April 10th, the university will move to online instruction.
• In a message from the President, Tulane University announced March 11th that beginning Monday, March 23rd through the end of the semester all classes will be conducted online. March 13th will be the last day of in-person classes.
• East Los Angeles College announced March 11th that "as many classes as possible" will be moved to online instruction beginning Wednesday March 18th. Orhan Ayyüce, an architecture instructor at the school told Archinect, "nobody knows what to do with studio classes."
• According to the StarTribune, the University of Minnesota announced March 11th it’s canceling in-person classes at all five of its campuses, moving to online learning starting next week.
• The Woodbury University School of Architecture has postponed all public lectures and events through April 6th. In a letter from the college's president on March 12th it was announced that the campus will temporarily shift to online instruction starting March 23rd.
• Roger Williams University announced March 11th that it will transition to online instruction beginning March 23rd.
• Boston Architectural College (BAC) announced March 11th that Friday, March 13th will be the last day of in-person classes. BAC classes will begin online beginning March 30th for the remainder of the semester.
• Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced March 11th that all SUNY and CUNY schools, including Syracuse University, across New York will begin online instruction starting March 19th.
• Faye Jones School of Architecture + Design at the University of Arkansas, announced March 12th that all classes will move to online instruction beginning March 16th.
• On March 14th, the Rhode Island School of Design announced it will cancel in-person classes effective Tuesday, March 17th. Online instruction will begin Monday, March 30th.
• Archinect was informed March 14th that Cal Poly Pomona has canceled the remainder of its Spring lecture series.

If you learn about any other architectural/design events that are getting affected by the coronavirus, please reach out to us at connect@archinect.com with details, so we can continue keeping this list as up-to-date as possible. We are focusing on large architecture events in the USA, and announcements from architecture schools/programs. If you have an update that you would like to immediately share with the community, please post them to the comments section below.