

Fri, 29 Aug
|Johannesburg
AZA Meets 2025
The AZA2025 urban festival returns to unite international and local architects, cultural producers, thought leaders, academics and students in the built environment to exchange and discover innovative, alternative and future approaches to design and development.
Time & Location
29 Aug 2025, 08:00 SAST – 31 Aug 2025, 16:00 SAST
Johannesburg, University Rd, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2092, South Africa
About the event
Presented since 2010, the AZA2025 urban festival returns to unite international and local architects, cultural producers, thought leaders, academics and students in the built environment to exchange and discover innovative, alternative and future approaches to design and development.
Hosted by SAIA in collaboration with the Gauteng Institute for Architecture and the University of Johannesburg, the AZA returns for its fifth edition as the premier event for the South African architectural and built environment.
Taking place in Johannesburg from 29 – 31 August 2025, Architecture.ZA (AZA) is presented under the themes “Where Architecture Meets Us/Planet/Future”, as an intersection of architecture, humanity, and future sustainability. The festival offers interactive presentations, debates, master classes, a film festival, architectural and other exhibitions, tours, and fringe performance events.
Opening Night Exhibition:
📅 28 August 2025 – 18:00H
📍 Keyes Art Mile21 Keyes Avenue, Rosebank
Tickets
AZA 2025
The AZA2025 urban festival returns to unite international and local architects, cultural producers, thought leaders, academics and students in the built environment to exchange and discover innovative, alternative and future approaches to design and development.
R 2 500,00
AZA 2025 (SAIA Members)
The AZA2025 urban festival returns to unite international and local architects, cultural producers, thought leaders, academics and students in the built environment to exchange and discover innovative, alternative and future approaches to design and development.
R 1 800,00
AZA 2025 (GIfA Members)
The AZA2025 urban festival returns to unite international and local architects, cultural producers, thought leaders, academics and students in the built environment to exchange and discover innovative, alternative and future approaches to design and development.
R 1 800,00
AZA 2025 (Students)
The AZA2025 urban festival returns to unite international and local architects, cultural producers, thought leaders, academics and students in the built environment to exchange and discover innovative, alternative and future approaches to design and development.
R 500,00
Total
R 0,00