Book launch & talk, London
Collected Works: Volume 3, 2010-2020
Adam Caruso, Peter St John & Owen Hatherley
ICA, London (sold out)
18:30 26th March 2026
Adam Caruso and Peter St John will be in conversation with Owen Hatherley at the ICA in London, to celebrate the release of the book Collected Works: Volume 3 2010–2020, published by MACK Books. Tickets for the event are now sold out.
Image: Photograph of the exhibition 33 Competitions, 6 Projects in House of Art Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic, which is discussed in the second chapter of the book, Exhibitions.
Photography: Florian Summa
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Book launch & talk, Berlin
Collected Works: Volume 3, 2010-2020
Thomas Demand & Adam Caruso
Buchhandlung Walther König, Berlin
19:00 CET 10th April 2026
Adam Caruso will be in conversation with artist Thomas Demand at the Buchhandlung Walther König an der Museumsinsel in Berlin, to celebrate the release of Collected Works: Volume 3 2010–2020. Free to attend.
Volume 3 of Caruso St John’s Collected Works is out now.
Between 2010 and 2020, Caruso St John expanded its reputation for sensitive and characterful architecture through a remarkable range of projects. Major buildings in the heart of Swiss, German, and Belgian cities explored the role urban landmarks can play in the present day, while smaller domestic projects provided the opportunity for experiments in restoration, materials, and colour. Transforming buildings for reuse – from beloved public institutions to long-abandoned industrial sites – became a focal point for the practice as it sought to emphasise its work with the existing rather than contribute to the escalating production of new construction. Their designs for memorials, exhibitions, and museums further developed this engagement with memory and an aliveness to the past.
Book launch & talk, Zurich
Collected Works: Volume 3, 2010-2020
Adam Caruso & Salim Umar
Hochparterre Bücher, Zurich
19:00 CET 20th March 2026
Adam Caruso will be in conversation with Salim Umar to celebrate the release of Collected Works: Volume 3 2010–2020. Free to attend.
This second volume in Caruso St John’s Collected Works is published this month by MACK. The publication traces an interlacing set of themes through the practice’s work over the first twelve years of the twenty-first century. Its unique approach to history is revealed as a rejection of the myth of relentless novelty in favour of an understanding of the past as present and an interest in working with the existing. The influences of Milan, Chicago, and Rome on understandings of the city are explored, as well as the use of ornament and the place of Switzerland in shaping the practice’s evolving trajectory. Throughout these contexts, collaborations with contemporary artists including Thomas Demand and Damien Hirst continue to shape the practice's relations to the materiality and drama of space.
The first volume of Caruso St John's Collected Works is published this month by Mack Books. The publication covers the first fifteen years of Adam Caruso and Peter St John's partnership, following a thematic course shaped around key phases and aspects of their thinking, and offering a detailed reflection on the practice’s activities between 1990 and 2005. Through a chorus of voices including critics, clients, and artists, it narrates Caruso St John's early emergence and development through to the international recognition which came with projects such as Nottingham Contemporary, the New Art Gallery Walsall, and the Brick House.
Hospitalfield is awarded the 34th International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens, 2025-2026, a prize awarded to a place with the capacity to transmit natural, historical and cultural values, devised and organised by the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, and named in honour of Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978), the architect and creator of gardens. There will be a public ceremony in Treviso to celebrate the prize.
Book launch & talk, London
Collected Works: Volume 3, 2010-2020
Adam Caruso & Valerie Verhack
WIELS, Brussels
18:30 Thursday 23 April 2026
Adam Caruso will be in conversation with curator Valerie Verhack, at WIELS in Brussels, to celebrate the release of the book Collected Works: Volume 3 2010–2020, published by MACK Books.
Phase 2 of our Masterplan for Hospitafields Arts, the Studios, have been shortlisted for the RIAS Awards in Scotland. This phase focuses on the more private areas of the site, creating studios and workshops with excellent access. Centred on the Rear Yard, this phase includes the renovation of the 1901 studios, conservation of the 1845 Patrick Allan-Fraser Studio, refurbishment of the Drawing School, and construction of a new studio building.
Royal Belge has been shortlisted for the RIBA International Awards. Selecting projects from five continents, the award recognizes a broad range of designs addressing global challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity, social equity, and rapid urbanization.
Our Royal Belge project is praised for its adaptive reuse strategies, extending the life of a modernist icon. The jury will visit the projects in the coming month.
Exhibition and event
Tendenzen at 50
Panel Discussion at ETH Zurich
gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
25.03.2026
Fifty years after the landmark 1975 Tendenzen exhibition at ETH Zurich - which first brought the Ticino architectural movement to international attention - Tendenzen at 50 revisits the original event through archival research, unpublished materials, and new photography to examine how it shaped architectural discourse and why it remains relevant today.
As part of the exhibition's public events programme, a panel discussion will take place on Wednesday 25 March at ETH Zurich. Adam Caruso will join Linda Schädler, Adam Szymczyk, and Roland Züger for a conversation moderated by Irina Davidovici and Frida Grahn.
Royale Belge has won the Contemporary Heritage Award at the third edition of the Brussels Architecture Prizes. The prizes celebrate contributions to the spatial quality of Brussels.
Opia is celebrating the opening of a second store in Zurich. Caruso St John designed the fit-out of the new store at Sihlstrasse 20. The design centers on a spatial element that integrates lighting and display systems, while also helping to organize the space and bringing colour and texture.