
Living With… Comes to SCI-Arc
Dominique Jakob, Brendan MacFarlane

SCI-Arc Gallery
333 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Daily, 10am–6pm
Admission
Free Admission
About
_LIVING WITH_ is an international architectural exhibition addressing climate change, conflict, displacement, and the wider challenges of global instability. Its aim is to demonstrate architecture's capacity to ensure the continuity of life between disasters, to involve not just experts but everyone in addressing urgent global issues, and to amplify the voices of the next generation of architects. The exhibition repositions architecture as a political and ecological act that embraces interdependencies between nature, social structures, and technology while nurturing a poetic relationship with our environment. First created for the French Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale (2025), the exhibition featured 50 designs selected from over 300 submissions to an open call, alongside student projects from eight architecture schools from different continents. The exhibition is organized around six major themes: _Living with What's Already There; Living with the Immediate, Living with the Broken, Living with Vulnerabilities, Living with Nature,_ and _Living with Combined Intelligences_. It presents context-specific solutions for different places facing common global challenges, creating a shared source of intelligence. The exhibition design is based on circular principles, and is fully adaptable to different exhibition spaces, with detailed information on each project accessible via individual QR codes. The exhibition also includes a bilingual catalogue sold worldwide. After the Venice biennale, _LIVING WITH_ was exhibited in Brazil, at COP30 in Belem and the International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo; then traveled to the Chicago Architecture Biennial. In 2026, it featured at the International Conference on Sustainabilityin Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, followed by the FRAC Centre in Orléans – one of the world's leading museums of radical architecture – and Le Pavillon, the museum of architecture, urbanism, and landscape in Caen, France. In New Zealand, it was shown at the _in:situ_ international conference in Auckland, then at the School of Architecture, Victoria University in Wellington. Next stop: SCI-Arc, Los Angeles.