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May – June 2027

"Home is where one starts from." T.S. Eliot

For the Birds brings together architects and artists from around the world to answer a single question. What does home mean?

The birdhouse is the common language. What each maker says with it is entirely their own.

From Amsterdam to Los Angeles, they arrive with their materials, their philosophies, their instincts. UNStudio, our collaborating partner from Amsterdam, reimagines the form through the lens of architecture. Artists respond through sculpture, found material, memory. Some build something you could measure. Others build something you could only feel.

The results range from the rigorously architectural to the deeply personal. From the functional to the frankly impossible. Each one becomes a meditation on shelter, on care, on what it means to prepare a place for another.

The birdhouse is an old form. A roof, a wall, a way in. Every culture has made one. Every child knows what it is.

And yet the moment you hand that form to a serious maker, the questions begin to rise. What does it mean to offer shelter. What changes when we design not for ourselves but for something smaller, something wilder. What is a home without a hand that made it.

Together these works form a conversation no single object could carry alone. It is both universal and deeply local. It belongs to everyone who has ever made a home, traditional or not.