Startup Architecture –
Venture as a new mode of practice

This conference explores the growing phenomenon of architects founding startups—not merely as a commercial extension of practice, but as a radical redefinition of what architecture can be. As traditional modes of practice face economic, technological, and cultural pressures, a new generation of architects is turning to entrepreneurship as a medium for design, impact, and agency. Startups are no longer peripheral to the discipline; they are becoming architecture itself—vehicles for systems thinking, material innovation, platform design, and new forms of spatial production. By framing startups as both a practice and a project, this event invites critical dialogue on venture as a contemporary architectural act and investigates how this shift is reshaping the profession, pedagogy, and its publics.