Lecture  01


Image Credits: Giorgi Kolbaia, TAB 2024



Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Time: 19:00
Venue: LAVA SPACE, Ippokratous 9, 2nd floor
(doorbell: Isola Studio)

This lecture traces the Biennial’s development from 2017 to today, exploring how it shapes architectural discourse and engages with the city’s urban spaces and pressing social and spatial challenges. Through evolving themes and site-specific projects, it shows how architecture can foster dialogue and critically examine existing conditions.

The event will be held in English.

*RSVP required*





Tinatin Gurgenidze
Tinatin Gurgenidze is an architect, curator, and researcher based in Berlin. She is the co-founder and curator of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial. Her research focuses on post-socialist mass housing and everyday urban practices. Tinatin has co-curated the Georgian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale and has served as a jury member for the EUmies Awards. Currently, she teaches architectural theory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and publishes internationally on architecture, with a special emphasis on the post-socialist urban context.

LAVA

Ippokratous 9, 10679
Athens, Greece