FAD Graduate Among Finalists of the Latvian Architecture Award 2025
We are delighted to share that RISEBA FAD graduate Marta Ventere has been nominated as a finalist for the Latvian Architecture Award 2025, under the Process category.
Slice of Architecture: Power to Renovation
Join us at RISEBA FAD, Sep. 25th, for an insightful event exploring the critical importance of renovation over demolition & decay in the face of today's environmental and housing challenges. The event will begin with an introductory lecture by the HouseEurope! Latvia team, followed by a short documentary film, offering real-world examples of successful renovation projects that breathe new life into existing structures.
Slice of Architecture: GROUNDED
This November 18th, we will have Bilge Kalfa, one of the curators of the Turkish pavillion in the Venice Architecture Biennale, giving her lecture: “GROUNDED.” So we invite all our students, and anyone interested in architecture and design, to join us at our Durbes iela 4 campus, starting from 13:00.
Baltic Bioregional Workshop
Sharing a few pictures from the Baltic Bioregional Workshop, that was hosted at FAD, earlier this May!
Slice of Architecture: Design, Activism, Research
This May 15th, Pēteris Bajārs from @outofbox.lv will be at FAD presenting his Slice of Architecture with the theme: Design, Activism, Research: In the Footsteps of the Forgotten Talent of Ansis Kalniņš.
Call for Participants
Discover the future of AI and architectural design!
Join our ERASMUS+ Workshop in Valencia, Spain (Oct 13–17, 2025) and explore how AI can transform interior spaces.
Call for Participants
There are still spots available for our dear BA and MA students to apply and participate on the traditional trip to Civita!
Aizpute 2025
Aizpute 2025 workshop was a success, and our students gifted the town a new, handmade, public space!
International Architecture Student Competition in Lyon
We are once again proud of our trio of students, who got the experience of travelling to Lyon, France, representing Latvia in the global stage of the Saint-Gobain International Architecture Student Contest!
Preparatory Drawing Courses 2025
RISEBA offers drawing courses to help you enter the architecture bachelor’s program at FAD! Learn basic skills and composition principles with Mg.Art. Laura Potaša-Strode. Join us, courses start on April 2nd!
HydroCity: Wirral Waters - Book
FAD publishes a book about the HydroCity: Wirral Waters project, which took place in Birkenhead, UK. The teams engaged in zoning, masterplan creation, and pilot building design, shedding light on the "Blind spots in architecture," which was that year's academic theme.
Studio Spotlight - AW24 2nd Year
The group composed of Reinijs Acht, Beata Valdmane and Ingus Martinsons excelled in their 2024 AW 2nd Year Assignment, and delivered to the jury the outstanding project: "ZVIRGZDU KLINTS" A Mixed-Use Building as a Contemporary Sandstone Formation