The "Pedestrian Networks" competition seeks to promote a connected Antofagasta. The initiative invites participants to connect the city and develop pedestrian solutions to bring neighborhoods closer together, strengthening the hill-to-sea connection and promoting accessibility to the coastline.
The Spanish company Beltá & Frajumar, a manufacturer of home and hospitality furniture and upholstery, invites professionals, architects, and interior designers specializing in habitat environments to participate in the InterCIDEC'19 International Contract Design Competition.
What are the challenges for design in our time? What visions for more sustainable lifestyles are being developed by architects, product, service, and fashion designers, technology developers, and others?
One hundred years after the founding of the visionary Bauhaus design school in Germany, we invite designers from around the world to participate in an international competition. We are seeking innovative design concepts that offer creative responses to the social, ecological, and global challenges of our time. The competition will award the best ideas for a better future and aims to disseminate them and increase their visibility.
Following the success of our inaugural challenge last year, SkyCity is pleased to invite architects, designers, artists, engineers, scientists, restaurateurs, digital nomads, craftspeople, and anyone with big ideas from around the world to participate in the SkyCity Challenge 2019: The Future of Housing. Current construction methods are impacting the environment by relying on limited resources and outdated techniques. We believe that with current technology, we can create far more sophisticated homes that will revolutionize the future.
WorkSpaces for Tomorrow is an open competition for students and professionals in architecture, design, engineering, or any other related field.
The fourth edition of the International Forum of Urban Interventions (FIIU) will take place this year in Lima from August 5 to 11. The event has launched an open call for collectives, students, activists, organized citizens, and private or public institutions to participate by sharing their initiatives and projects on one of the region's most important stages for urban interventions and public space.
How can we intervene in existing structures to improve environmental, urban, social, and economic conditions?
The third edition of the 'Proyectar a Conciencia' 3.0 competition, scheduled for the second half of 2019, addresses this question by inviting teams of 2 to 4 students, guided by an architect, to explore how to modernize existing buildings to reduce energy consumption and meet contemporary environmental goals—particularly in light of the upcoming COP25.
The issue of diasporas, observed in the displacement of populations across the globe, is a pressing topic. Everyone is in search of a dream: the city as a welcoming shelter for those whom life's adversities have expelled from their lands. To conceive of this CITY that people can call home, in times of diaspora, we need UTOPIA. The city that does not yet exist is a possible city, or even more: it is the construction of an ideal of urban experiences grounded in hospitality and solidarity.
The 5th Latin American Meeting on the Introduction to Architectural Education, hosted in the city of Concepción, Chile, is an invitation to all faculty members of architecture schools across Latin America. This edition will feature professors from as far north as Mexico and as far south as Argentina. The congress aims to strengthen and expand the network between Latin American architecture schools to train the architects of the new millennium, while creating a space for reflection on successful teaching strategies with a renewed focus on achieving meaningful learning.
Archstorming is collaborating on this new competition with His Hands On Africa ("HHOA"), a non-profit organization founded in 2016 that aims to address the lack of dental services in developing countries. The chosen location is Rwanda, a small country in the heart of Africa.
The Contemporary Architecture Foundation announces the third edition of the #Entreplanos urban audiovisual competition, using this highly participatory activity to prepare for the celebration of World Town Planning Day, which will take place in November.
The Biennial of Latin American Architecture (BAL) began in 2008 with the goal of identifying the most recent and notable examples of new architecture in Latin America, creating a forum to strengthen ties on both sides of the ocean, bridge distances, and establish a firm, solid counterpoint to the Anglo-Saxon world.
Under the theme "All the worlds. Just one world. Architecture 21," the 27th World Congress of Architects (July 19–23, 2020) will transform Rio de Janeiro into the epicenter of the debate on the future of cities for master's and doctoral students in architecture and urbanism.
The lot (property) making up the site is contained and supported by an external structure that provides common services (facilities) and connection routes (infrastructure); the combination of these three elements forms the housing complex.
The "Straw Bale Ecological House" competition is a contribution to natural, sustainable, and efficient construction.
Ideasforward aims to provide young creatives worldwide with the opportunity to express new ideas for future societies through innovative and visionary proposals. We are an experimental platform seeking progressive ideas that reflect on emerging issues. We want to break down mental boundaries and put all visions on the table. Here, you can test an experiment; everything is possible!
The competition seeks to conceptualize a coliving housing project as a replicable design tool for Mexico City, serving as a model for other cities facing challenges related to overpopulation and the high demand for quality housing.
The objective of this competition for architecture students and young architects, Rural Tourism Accommodation (RuTA) Vietnam, is to propose an accommodation space for tourists arriving in this region of the country in search of its scenic beauty. It should be a place of rest where nature—enhanced by rice terraces—and the rural world play a leading role.
The Contemporary Architecture Foundation, with the support of the Department of Culture of the Provincial Council of Córdoba (Spain), is offering four training and research scholarships for recent graduates or students of Architecture, Sociology, Geography, Anthropology, or Cultural Management.
7.2% of Europeans have no contact with friends or loved ones even once a year. This percentage is even higher in France, at 12%. Humans are meant to interact with one another, which is why there are so many examples of communities throughout our various societies and across history.
Architects are invited to submit their work for the 27th edition of the World Congress of Architects, UIA2020RIO, which will take place from July 19 to 23, 2020.
Ideasforward is an experimental platform that seeks progressive ideas reflecting emerging themes. Ecological design, sustainable architecture, new materials, concepts, and technologies are urgent 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.
We invite you to participate in this year's new edition of the INVItro column call. The topics addressed in the columns must relate to residential habitat issues and fall within the following categories:
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, the German school that revolutionized education and production in architecture and design.