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London-based architect David Adjaye, founder of Adjaye Associates, picks his top art and design events across the world for the autumn months

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1 World Architecture Festival
Singapore 4 - 6 November
Urban architecture is at a crisis point; with unprecedented urban growth across the world, architecture's use of density and volume must be equally intentional and experimental, willing to test new typologies that can prepare the city for this population explosion.

World Architecture Festival. Photo: Hiroshi Nakamura and nap co.ltd

Appropriately hosted in Singapore, given its leadership in sustainable and intelligent planning, this year's WAF features a series of thoughtful lectures that will explore visions of the future through verticality, big data-led planning and climate responsiveness. worldarchitecturefestival.com

2 Africa: Architecture, Culture and identity Louisiana Museum of Modern art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Until 25 October
Our ideas about a civilised world are manifested through our architecture, with embedded ideas about identity and access and bound by the geography of place, but the global design community is only beginning to acknowledge Africa's contribution.

Courtesy Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

This exhibition sheds light on its diversity and complexity, and works to dismantle the stereotypes obscuring a nuanced view of modernity on the continent and the future possibilities. en.louisiana.dk/exhibition/africa

3 Chris Ofili: Night and Day Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA
Until November 1
Chris Ofili's touring exhibition is a long overdue return to the American art scene for an artist whose work is equally breathtaking and controversial. With works such as no Woman no Cry and the Virgin Madonna, Ofili has positioned himself as an artist capable of redefining art practice and reaffirming the relevance of painting for the 21st century.

Moonbeams Courtesy The Artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner New York/London

He questions our time through intoxicating visual compositions that examine peripheral modernities and enable us to make sense of our world. aspenartmuseum.org/exhibitions/65-chris-ofili-night-and-day

4 Endless house: Intersections of Art and Architecture
MOMA, New York, US
Until 6 March architecture should never be discrete from art - it has much to learn from art's capacity to unearth and shift frameworks with immediacy. Working across creative platforms is an essential tool for innovation in the act of making.

Haus-Rucker-Co. Stück Natur (Piece of Nature). 1973. © 2015 Haus-Rucker-Co

Houses offer an excellent platform for this kind of collaboration; the endless House exhibition highlights the way the family home, when embracing opportunities for the joining of art and architecture, has been the site of crucial examinations of the meaning of the contemporary. moma.org

5 Fata Morgana
Mad. Sq. art, New York, USA
Until 10 January
An artist with a profound understanding of the specificities of place, Teresita Fernández's installation exploits the active and architectural qualities of light to create a 3d urban square. referencing the phenomenon of a superior hovering mirage, perforated metal forms hang above the visitors and create a series of cinematic dissolves.

Courtesy the artist, Lehmann Maupin and Anthony Meier Fine Arts. Photo by Yasunori Matsu/Madison Square Park Conservancy © Teresita Fernández

The active flickering works as a mirror for the ritualistic character of movement through the city and trace connections between the mundane and the celestial. madisonsquarepark.org/things-to-do/calendar

6 All the World's Futures
Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy
Until 22 November Okwui enwezor's curatorial vision for this year's event exploits contradiction to examine how the ruptures of the present have effected a reappraisal of our relationship to art. In response, my temporary museum offers multiple conditions for experiencing art, drawing visitors through the exhibition with distinct immersive experiences.

Photo by Alessandra Chemollo Courtesy. La Biennale Di Venezia

The centrepiece is arena - an active space dedicated to continuous live programming across disciplines that circulate around Enwezor's central demand for dialogue and a questioning of the existing order. labiennale.org