This guide covers a workflow that moves from project parameters to generated floor plans, 3D perspective views, exterior design exploration, and site context visualization, using AI tools in place of preliminary CAD and rendering work.

Taking a step toward improving the quality of public space, the city of Barcelona, which will serve as the World Capital of Architecture in 2026, has launched a new International Ideas Competition for Young Architects. The initiative aims to transform 10 permanent blind walls—one in each district—into new facades. Organized by the Barcelona City Council and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, in partnership with UNESCO and the International Union of Architects (UIA), the competition seeks architectural proposals that provide meaning to walls that are currently anonymous and unremarkable, exposed in public spaces in a state of permanent temporariness.

The new edition of the BIAU will be held in early December 2024 in Lima, an exceptional setting for discussions regarding extreme climatic conditions and their impact on the built environment. The submission period for all six categories will close in September, and the jury's decisions will be announced collectively at the end of October 2024. Under the theme CLIMAS: Actions for Good Living, this 13th edition of the Biennial reflects on and invites action toward producing more sustainable, equitable, and pluralistic futures through architecture and urbanism.

The 24th edition of the Pan-American Biennial of Architecture of Quito (BAQ2024) is approaching. As the most important architecture event in the Americas, it will take place from November 18 to 22, 2024, in the Historic Center of Quito. The event will bring together more than 2,000 daily participants, including prominent professionals and academics from around the world, to discuss and exchange knowledge on contemporary architecture.

'Pieles Arquitectónicas, envolventes en madera para edificios existentes' (Architectural Skins: Timber Envelopes for Existing Buildings) is a competition that seeks to explore and research timber architecture as a means of intervening in and recovering existing urban infrastructure within the dense and programmatically diverse context of the city.

The Anthropocene, artificial intelligence, climate change, migration crises... The world as we knew it is being reformulated through algorithms that group, optimize, and rethink our daily lives, from the public sphere to the domestic realm. Windowless houses for maximum privacy in insecure contexts; temples without cults housing skateparks or trendy nightclubs; parks without children featuring areas for pets of all sizes; or architectures without architects visualized from text interpreted by Big Data with unexpected results—these are just a few examples of our new environments, where the priority seems to be the act of reducing to reimagine.

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Concéntrico, in its effort to initiate new formats that respond to urban transformations, presents a call for entries in collaboration with the Logroño City Council and LIF 2002 (Logroño Railway Integration), as part of the city's strategic plan to address heatwaves. The objective of this call is to create a permanent urban climate island, to be located in the vicinity of the Felipe VI Park lake on the unpaved area that forms a hexagonal plaza.

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The Master of Advanced Studies in Collective Housing (MCH) is a full-time international postgraduate program in architecture and design for housing and the city, presented by UPM and ETH Zurich. After 16 editions, it is ranked as one of the best architecture master's programs in the world.

This annual competition, organized since 1986 by World Habitat in partnership with UN-Habitat, recognizes responses to global challenges in the field of housing and habitat.

Brazil's largest private architecture competition selects a design for a nearly 12,000 m² residential building

The School of Architecture at the Universidad Andrés Bello's Campus Creativo is now accepting applications for the third edition of Residencias Remotas. This project aims to foster open, inter/multi/trans-disciplinary experimentation surrounding contemporary and relevant themes, posing questions that challenge the current state of affairs and creating spaces for research and free creation.

Welcome to "Best House in the World," a new competition to discover and reward residential architectural designs currently in the development or bidding phase, prior to construction. These are real projects, with real clients and sites, designed by architects who aim to reach new standards of excellence and quality in the construction of their residential work.

Registration is now open for the 24th edition of the Pan-American Biennial of Architecture of Quito (BAQ 2024), an event organized by the Pichincha Architects' Association since 1978, which will take place from November 18 to 22, 2024.

This competition aims to foster creativity in bamboo construction design and is open to students from academic institutions, universities, and secondary and higher education programs.

Call for Entries: The 19th Buenos Aires International Architecture Biennial Awards, 2024

On Monday, November 18, the Pan-American Biennial of Architecture of Quito (BAQ2024) held its official opening in Quito's Historic Center, marking the start of its 24th edition. During the event, prominent national and international professionals were recognized for their contributions to architecture and the city.

The Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism is a benchmark event for understanding the current state and future prospects of architecture and urbanism in the Ibero-American community. On December 17, the call for entries for the 2019 edition, curated by Arturo Franco and Ana Román, was opened. It will select the best works of architecture and urbanism, publications, research texts, and academic projects from the involved regions.

The call for entries for the XI BIAU will remain open until April 2019, and the results will be presented in Asunción (Paraguay) in October of that same year. The program of activities will include an exhibition of the selected works, a series of keynote lectures, specialized presentations, and panel discussions centered around the theme of the XI BIAU—aĩ paragua y (habit - water)—as well as exhibitions and other parallel activities, including the recognition of the career achievements of several masters.

If you are interested in applying to the XI BIAU, please review the following schedule.

Ideasforward aims to provide young creatives worldwide with an opportunity to express their views on the future of society through innovative and visionary proposals. It is a platform that seeks progressive ideas that reflect on emerging themes.

Ideasforward is an experimental platform that seeks progressive ideas reflecting emerging themes. Ecological design, sustainable architecture, new materials, concepts, and technologies are pressing issues in the societies of the future, and the participation of the entire community is essential. In an era of globalization, where communication is dominated by the technological revolution, there is a need to rethink cities and how humanity relates to a global world, as well as to rethink the economic, social, and cultural patterns of contemporary societies.

• Title

  Convocatoria: Diseño del Centro de Respiro Humanitario en la frontera

• Type

  Anuncio de Concurso o Licitación (Proyectos a construirse y Master Plans)

• Website

  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_qGHnfcoSvYQ32kIHaqwv0YBBnUgzL1QoWfedxN_Y8EyqEQ/viewform?embedded=true

• Organizers

  Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley

• Submission Deadline

  November 09, 2018 12:00 PM

• Venue

  Centro de McAllen, Texas

• Price

  Gratis

Competition: Design of a Humanitarian Respite Center

The shelter serving as a humanitarian respite center in downtown McAllen, Texas, was created to respond to the needs of families in crisis. Through its services and the selfless work of volunteers, the shelter has helped countless people in need regain their dignity, particularly Central American immigrants seeking refuge after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

In the early hours of May 1, 2018, a fire broke out at the Wilton Paes de Almeida building, located in Largo do Paissandú in downtown São Paulo. Less than two hours after the fire began, the building collapsed.

The Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Universities Award competition, part of the program for the 5th edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, invites architecture students to engage in a collective research exercise on constructive rationality.

Urb-i (www.urb-i.com) is launching the fifth edition of its collaborative design challenge, this time in partnership with the Maria da Gente movement. The chosen site is Rua Maria Antônia, in downtown São Paulo, directly in front of Mackenzie.

Ideasforward is an experimental platform that seeks progressive ideas reflecting emerging themes. Ecological design, sustainable architecture, new materials, concepts, and technologies are pressing issues for the societies of the future, and the participation of the entire community is essential. In an era of globalization, where communication has been dominated by the technological revolution, there is a need to rethink cities and how people relate to one another in a global world, as well as to rethink the economic, social, and cultural patterns of contemporary societies.