UIA world congress of architects

the international union of architects (UIA) organizes every three years a world congress of architects. the nordic section of the UIA (denmark, finland, the faroe islands, iceland, norway and sweden) won the 2023 bid, hosting the event in a nordic country for the first time. the world congress in 2023 is held in copenhagen, denmark, from july 2 – july 6. the congress program is from 8:30 am to 4 or 4:30 pm monday to wednesday and from 9 am to 14:30 pm thursday, while more activities take place outside congress hours, in and around copenhagen. previous destinations count rio (2021), seoul (2017) durban (2014) and tokyo (2011) amongst others.