The sixth edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, IABR–2014– URBAN BY NATURE– calls for best practices from all over the world to support and substantiate the Biennale’s main exhibition’s narrative as conceived by IABR–2014–’s curator, landscape architect Dirk Sijmons. Prospective participants who have designed or are designing concrete projects that deal with the relationship between man, nature, and city, are invited to respond to the IABR–2014–Call for Projects–, and submit their applications by 9 June 2013.

IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE– claims that we can only resolve the world’s environmental problems if we resolve the problems of the city.

Looking through the lens of landscape architecture, IABR–2014– redefines the way we deal with urban challenges by analyzing the relationship between urban society and nature, and between city and landscape. This edition of the biennale argues that, perhaps now more than ever, the city is an integral part of one huge urban landscape, a complex system that has become our natural environment. This point of departure has many implications for the way we plan and design this urban environment.