Nine speculative student projects from the Academy of Architecture Amsterdam investigate urban voids from Amsterdam to Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin and beyond.

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Jolene Lee

What's On ARCAM


Vernissage
10 April 2026 5:30 – 9:30 pm
Guided tour begins at 6pm
Drinks and discussion all evening

(more events coming soon)

ARCAM Opening Hours
Tuesday – Sunday, 1 – 5 pm

Sponsored by ARCAM
Architecture Centre Amsterdam

10 April – 5 May 2026

Travelling Exhibition #1

Brochure

ARCAM Architecture Centre Amsterdam

Press

The travelling exhibition aims to address the recurring question of whether Berlin’s housing challenges should be solved by building on Tempelhofer Feld, while placing this debate in a broader spatial, social, and political context. Starting from Amsterdam, where land scarcity, housing pressure, and competing claims on open space shape similar discussions, the projects connect local concerns to wider urban conditions and examine how urban voids continue to carry cultural and ecological value.

Through maps, models, legal fictions, and spatial propositions, the projects present different perspectives and approaches. Together, they show urban voids not as empty reserves, but as active spatial conditions shaped by conflict, negotiation, and collective imagination. The exhibition invites architecture students and planners in Amsterdam, Berlin, and beyond to engage with these critical perspectives and to reconsider the value of open public space in relation to contemporary urban futures.

Project Descriptions

Minnari Lee

Travelling Exhibition #2

Credits

Student Participants
(alphabetical order):

Azado Abdien
Evaline Vink
Jan Olde Loohuis
Jordi Doomen
Juliet Manrho
Laas Sharaf
Lloyd van Pelt
Michael Kleszczewski
Sini Huttunen
Tessa Paulus
/ Academy of Architecture Amsterdam

Ari Rohde
Lara Göbel
Odysseas Tsompanoglou
/ Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague

Exhibition Curators:
Minnari Lee / Jolene Lee

Exhibition Production Team:
Minnari Lee
Martijn Troost
Azado Abdien
Evaline Vink
Lloyd van Pelt

Graphic Design:
Jolene Lee

Course Tutors and 
Project Supervision:
Jolene Lee / Minnari Lee

Course Title:
Void is Not Empty
(Fall Semester 2025)

* The title is inspired by the book « Deserts Are Not Empty » by Samia Henni.

Supported by Academy of Architecture Amsterdam

Supported by Academy of Architecture Amsterdam

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