2026 Speakers

WAF 2026 Speakers

Hear from an inspiring line-up of architects, designers and thought leaders from around the world as they take to the WAF stage to explore this year's theme, Water, and the ideas shaping the future of the built environment.

2026 Speakers

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Chairman
Grimshaw
Principal
EMBT Architects
Director and Founder
Cazú Zegers Architecture
Founder
d.esk
Partner
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Founder & CMD, Della Townships
Design Futurist · Masterplanner · Creator of Future-Fit Cities
Distinguished University Professor of Architecture
Florida International University
Chief Artistic Officer
Form4 Architecture
Partner
Grimshaw
Team Manager - Solution Engineers
Chaos
Founding Partner
Gustafson Porter + Bowman
Executive Director
Climate Resilience Insitute - University of Miami
Founder, Architect
+MURAT TABANLIOGLU Architectural and Design Studio
Programme Director
World Architecture Festival
Principal; Director
CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati; MIT Senseable City Lab
Architect
Architect Rajendra Kumar
Principal Architect
Sanjay Puri Architects
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Senior Design Principal
10 Design
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Co-Founder and Partner
LAVA, Laboratory for Visionary Architecture
Curator
Curatorial Project

'Water'

WAF 2026 Programme theme: ‘Water’

'Water’ will be the theme for the 2026 edition of World Architecture Festival. It will be held, appropriately, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida – which has 165 miles of inland waterways, and is know as the ‘Venice of North America’. Speakers will address how water plays a key part in the creation and management of our built environment: from energy generation to food production; the different forms water can take (steam, ice); the challenges of glut (flood) and dearth (desert); health and hygiene; and the way that architecture and infrastructure both influence and respond to the world of water, of which we ourselves are an integral and inevitable part.

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