2025 Taiwan Youth Architecture & Art Exhibition: Architectural Advancement

Oct 18–26 | Opening in Xinyi District, Taipei. From the exploration of our inaugural show to the deeper inquiries of this year, we translate urban renewal into a youth architectural language—not mere replacement or reconstruction, but cultural continuity and public value as the true engine of urban progress.

From First Step to Second: Turning Youth Energy into a Road That Extends

Founded in early 2024, the Taiwan Youth Architecture & Art Team staged its first exhibition at Fuhsing Gallery and Yiyaju later that year, sketching a future blueprint for Taiwanese architecture and art through a youth perspective. Models, drawings, and manuscripts that lit up the walls affirmed a conviction: youth are not a generation waiting to be defined—they are co-creators who propose methods and answers.Building on that experience, and under the leadership of founder and general chair Andrew Yang (楊可煌), the team reorganized and expanded. This year, beyond working with our original partners, we invited first-edition awardees and emerging talents back into the curatorial arena to refine the exhibition framework together with the jury—placing youthful positions and professional deliberation on the same stage.

In 2025, we established a Southern Taiwan Service Office in Tainan, extending curation, open calls, and exchange networks nationwide. To improve efficiency and regional representation, this edition sets independent quotas and a dedicated submission mechanism for Southern Taiwan, broadening participation and bringing diverse regional perspectives into a shared forum.

2025 Theme: “Eras Renewed, Cities Advanced!”

The relationship between cities and people is never an instant facelift; it is an ongoing dialogue. Centered on urban renewal, this edition asks: between demolition and preservation, how do we keep memory, repair structure, and introduce publicness? The exhibition re-reads existing urban fabric through structure, materiality, light and shadow, site management, and social interaction, responding to the tension between “renewal” and “progress.”We believe progress is not only a changed skyline—it is the simultaneous elevation of quality of life, social inclusion, and cultural continuity.

Rather than reducing renewal to façade work, the curatorial path addresses both time scales and social dimensions. Visitors move through four chapters—Memory → Suture → Coexistence → Regeneration:in Memory, projects return to site narratives; in Suture, they confront structure, regulation, and social negotiation; in Coexistence, they explore everyday interactions between users and community; in Regeneration, they present governance models for long-term operation. Audiences will traverse models, drawings, films, material samples, and spatial simulations, witnessing how ideals become actionable spatial strategies.

The main visual adopts an upward “urban courtyard” composition: four masses converge toward a central axis of intentional void, symbolizing the “suture line” of renewal—a doorway between past and future that opens movement for public life. Deep-blue streaks across the upper half read like stretched streets and rails—layers of memory and flow—while the youthful mist-violet below carries the brand’s tone, placing rational structure beside warmth. Diagonal cuts and speed lines create the tension of transition, and the gradient from dark to light guides the gaze to a central glow—echoing the theme “Eras Renewed, Cities Advanced!” Renewal is not just rewriting a skyline; it is carving a walkable light-corridor for culture and everyday life within the city.

Jury & Finalists: Professional Lenses × Youth Propositions

This year’s jury brings together domestic and international expertise— Domestic architects: Wen-Sheng Li (李文勝), Hsiu-Fen Lin (林秀芬), Yu-Che Su (蘇喻哲), Hui-Mei Huang (黃惠美). International architects: Po-Fu Yang (楊博輔), Poyao Shih (施博堯/POYAO SHIH).

Nearly 80 submissions were received in the preliminary review; 10 projects were shortlisted from National Taipei University of Technology, Feng Chia University, Ming Chuan University, and National Cheng Kung University. From siting strategy, structural systems, and materials to narrative and representation, the jury emphasized feasibility in real-world conditions while encouraging both artistic expression and research depth.

Why We Keep Doing This: Binding Youth, Profession, and Society

Youth are not only witnesses of the city—they are its future builders. From the first to the second edition, we have shaped the exhibition as a long-term professional arena where students and alumni, design and engineering, academia and society dismantle big questions into proposals that can be reviewed, revised, and disseminated. In every critique and tour, we place “why it is designed so” alongside “how the city could adopt it,” so discussion moves beyond applause toward tangible progress.

Every shortlisted work is a component ready to be embedded in the city’s fabric; the exhibition is the place where these components are assembled. On Oct 18 in Xinyi, we invite you to witness the opening of the second edition—and to ask the crucial question with us: as eras renew, what kind of progress should we build?

第一屆活動照片

Exhibition Information

• Dates: Oct 18 (Sat) – Oct 24 (Fri), 2025

• Venue: No. 2, Lane 621, Sec. 5, Zhongxiao East Rd., Xinyi District, Taipei 

• Theme: Eras Renewed, Cities Advanced! (Urban Renewal)

• Organizers: Taiwan Youth Exhibition, Puyong Archiland

• Executive Unit: Taiwan Youth Exhibition – Architecture & Art Team

• Sponsors:Friends of National Culture and Arts Foundation, Yiyaju, K-Tech Engineering Consultants Co., Ltd.