A83’s 2026–27 exhibition program explores architecture, design, and print-based practice through exhibitions, new commissions, and international collaborations. Featured projects include Stools, a group exhibition organized with Barkow Leibinger and PIN–UP magazine that brings together forty-three architects, artists, and designers from Berlin and New York; Ascents:Events:Implements, an exhibition of the collaborative project by modem and Smout Allen, prompted by the infrastructure—both social and technical—behind the implements and image-based artifacts from the Apollo 17 space mission; Windows, an exhibition of a series of newly produced screen prints by MOS of windows from canonical twentieth-century buildings, presented as isolated architectural elements; Plans, an exhibition of plans as organizer and generator of projects by Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu (SO–IL); and an exhibition concluding the inaugural year of the A83 Grand Prize, a new hybrid exhibition competition, print studio fellowship, and award presented to the winning entry selected by an external expert jury.

Stools is cocurated by Tim Berge, senior associate and head of communications, and Johanna Karges, architect, as part of a broader curatorial team representing A83, PIN–UP, and Barkow Leibinger. The exhibition is based on the original exhibition Hocker, presented by Barkow Leibinger in Berlin in 2025. PIN–UP is a New York–based magazine focused on pure architectural entertainment—the meeting point of architecture, art, and design. Stools is cocurated by Felix Burrichter, editorial and creative director, and Kassidy Miller, studio and content manager, as part of a broader curatorial team representing A83, PIN–UP, and Barkow Leibinger.

Barkow Leibinger was founded in 1993 by Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger and has grown into a team of more than sixty architects, model builders, and support staff. Working throughout Europe, North America, and Asia, the firm’s practice spans buildings, master planning, and site-specific installations, with roots in industrial architecture that continue to inform its interest in fabrication and craft. Current projects include the Estrel Tower hotel, Berlin’s tallest building; the Kurfürstenstrasse work/live building in Berlin; approximately 800 housing units on Atlanta’s BeltLine; and the new Weissenhof.Forum in Stuttgart, Germany. The firm’s work has been widely published and has received numerous awards, including the Marcus Prize for Architecture and a Holcim Award for Innovation, and is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Heinz Architectural Center, Pittsburgh. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the Marrakech Biennale, and was the subject of a 2020 retrospective, Revolutions of Choice, at Haus am Waldsee in Berlin. Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger have taught widely, including as visiting professors at Cornell, the Architectural Association, Princeton, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Regine Leibinger was professor for building construction and design at the Technische Universität Berlin from 2006 to 2018 and is an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Smout Allen is the design research practice of professors Mark Smout and Laura Allen, who are based at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where they both teach architectural design and codirect its Landscape Architecture Master’s Program. Through Smout Allen, they explore architecture’s relationship with environmental and territorial change. Their teaching supports diverse, speculative agendas that bridge architecture with the humanities, sciences, and arts. Exhibited internationally, including at four Venice Architecture Biennales, their work combines conceptual design with innovative representation and passive systems. Their students (Unit 11) regularly receive major awards, and their collaborations span institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries, the British Council, and Williams F1, to name but a few. Their practice has designed exhibitions for the Wellcome Institute, the V&A, and the Tate. They have won the Architecture Award from the Royal Academy, the Drawing of the Year Prize, and have been presented with Honorary Fellowships from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in recognition of their contribution to teaching and the profession.

modem is the collaborative practice of Kathryn Moll and Nicholas de Monchaux. Using architectural tools, codes, and crafted artifacts, Moll and de Monchaux explore improbable narratives for urban situations and ecologies, combining their experience in software, architecture, urban design, and digital fabrication. Kathryn Moll is a registered architect and California native whose fascination with public processes, education, and systems of engagement motivate her work—both on buildings and the forces that shape them. Nicholas de Monchaux thinks and writes about architecture, territory, technology, and politics, is the William W. Wurster Dean of University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, and was formerly a professor and head of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011) and Local Code: 3,659 Proposals on Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016). His fascination with the intersection of natural and man-made systems traces back to his youth, growing up on Sydney Harbour.

MOS is the architectural practice of Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, cofounded in 2005. Together they were the recipients of the Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Fellows in Architecture (2023); the United States Artists Award in Architecture (2020); the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Museum National Design Award in Architecture (2015); the Global Holcim Award in Sustainable Architecture (2015); the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award; and the New York Architectural League Emerging Voices (2010). Sample and Meredith’s design work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery, and in the special collections of the Harvard University Frances Loeb Library and the Columbia University Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. Publications on MOS’s work include Everything All at Once (Princeton Architectural Press, 2013); MOS: Selected Works (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016); El Croquis 184 (2016); A Situation Constructed . . . (AADR, 2016); 44 Low-Resolution Houses (Princeton University, 2018); An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures Without Architecture (MIT Press, 2019); Houses for Sale (Corraini Edizioni/Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2019); Casa No. 1–17 (Libria, 2020); Vacant Spaces NY (Actar Publishers, 2021); 2G (2021); A Book on Making a Petite École (Actar, 2023); Laboratorio de Vivienda (Actar, 2024); and Public Spaces NY (Park Books, 2025). Meredith and Sample have designed educational and cultural institutions including the Petite École in France; the Laboratorio de Vivienda in Mexico; a campus plan and art studio buildings for the Krabbesholm Højskole in Denmark; the Ruth Arts Foundation and 9W Main Street in the United States; and collective housing across the US, Mexico, Paraguay, and Canada. Meredith is an architect and professor of architecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture. Sample is an architect and professor of architecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu (SO–IL) is an architecture studio with offices in New York and Amsterdam, founded in 2008 by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu. With a global reach, SO–IL brings together experience from the fields of architecture, academia, and the arts. The office works on projects ranging in scale from the world’s largest tent, for Frieze Art Fair in New York City, to a new art museum for the University of California, Davis, to a series of prints for the Guggenheim Museum. The work has received numerous awards, including one from the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, as well as the AIA Young Practices Award. Florian Idenburg is a Dutch architect with more than two decades of experience, having trained in Amsterdam and Tokyo before founding SO–IL with Jing Liu in 2008. He has led the office’s institutional work, including Kukje Gallery, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, and Amant in Brooklyn, with a particular strength in the orchestration of form, material, and light. Jing Liu has practiced for more than fifteen years on projects in the United States and abroad, leading SO–IL’s engagement with the sociopolitical issues of contemporary cities through projects including the Artists Loft North Omaha and the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in Cleveland, as well as public realm and master plan work in Melbourne and Indianapolis. She brings a globally aware and locally sensitive perspective to architecture, combining digital technology with traditional craft to create buildings that invite exchange and reinterpretation.

Owen Nichols is an associate professor at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union. He owns and operates the design studio Chibbernoonie and is a founding member/codirector of A83, a nonprofit architecture gallery, archive, and printmaking studio in downtown Manhattan.

Clara Syme is a designer and educator based in New York where she is an assistant professor adjunct at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union and is a founding member/codirector (volunteer) of A83, a nonprofit architecture gallery, archive, and printmaking studio in downtown Manhattan.

A83 is a nonprofit organization with a mission to exhibit, publish, and promote experimental projects in architecture, art, and design. Building from the previous operation, John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers (1978–94), the organization continues to operate at the original location in SoHo as a printmaking studio, gallery, and growing archive. The 83 Grand Street location is used to produce exhibitions and installations, host educational workshops, and broadcast work to new audiences. A83 was officially incorporated and received nonprofit status in 2022.