The Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA) officially announced the kickoff of its Global Design Awards (GDA) 2021 through the public call for entries at the Press Conference cum Seminar held earlier. In order to encourage local and overseas designers to participate, the Awards will organize a series of Call for Entries Seminars (Hong Kong / Macau / Guangzhou) where a number of past winners will be invited to share!
Museums face challenges regarding relevance, transparency, and engagement with their communities. Central to the process is a re-examination of its architectural asset. Nationally acclaimed architect Jennifer Luce presents her latest work — the $55M re-imagination of Mingei International Museum, offering solutions to issues facing architects of cultural projects.
Image from “Outspoken: Is The Village Dying”, a 2013 documentary on the ongoing challenges facing Toronto’s Church and Wellesley Village.
From nightclubs to villages, bookstores to community centres, the 2SLGBTQ+ community has found safety, community and belonging in numerous visible and invisible spaces. These queer spaces have been a life saving haven for many, making room for a historically marginalized community.
DISLOCAL_ Experimental University Program 2021-2022: Irreverent structures and sustainability on the peripheral world, led by Venezuelan architects and a network of global cooperation.
Venezuelan architects from different latitudes have surprisingly joined together with their allies in the world, through an educational platform that seeks to "build and not simulate reality with an eye on the peripheral globe." The program is open to students of all levels and from anywhere on the planet, who will have the opportunity to train in local projects, exploring the peripheries as part of a fresh and challenging context where new spaces of architecture open up. The 2021-2022 cycle will jumpstart through a Virtual Community format, which offers academic credits adaptable to different university systems: a trimester, a summer school, an internship experience, a research project, or a work of scientific accreditation for studies of postgraduate. This is followed by an experimental laboratory in Central America where students will come into contact with sensitive projects in fertile communities and territories. And finally, it will culminate in the implementation of a project built in a community of Caracas, Venezuela. The program has the support of the Global Research Program on Inequality, different universities and institutions in Latin America and the world, and high-profile professionals experts in architecture, urban planning, anthropology, sociology, engineering, and sustainability, who will guide the processes of the network, facing complex situations immersed in the fabric of the city, and will certify the knowledge applied by Dislocal. First Stage Virtual Community / August - December 2021 16 weeks >> 5 blocks >> 5 topics on urban regeneration and sustainability >> Block 1. Resilience, urban regeneration, and habitat transformation for emerging landscapes. Block 2. Ecology, resource management, nature, and energy optimization in the tropics. Block 3. Technological implementation, systems, and efficient endogenous structures. Block 4. Local skills, capacity development, and self-sufficiency in popular settlements. Block 5. Experiments in the global periphery. Scalable intelligences for the prototyping of sustainable structures in Caracas.
OPEN 2021 is an online exhibition of projects that reflect the varied design approaches of the University of Westminster's School of Architecture + Cities, its diverse students, and their place at the heart of London.
The Media Architecture Biennale is the world’s premier event on media architecture, urban interaction design, and urban informatics. It brings together architects, artists and designers, leading thinkers on urban design, key industry and government representatives as well as community activists. Together, we explore the design and role of media in the built environment and its implications for urban communities and ecosystems.
The world is in dire need of good design that benefits both people and the planet. High school and university students around the world have spent their semesters creating projects that use art, design, and biology to create a more sustainable and equitable future.
Aarhus School of Architecture is moving into Denmark’s first new-built architecture school. We celebrate the move in October by hosting an architecture festival for the entire industry and other architecture enthusiasts.
d.talks Share Your Story workshop on June 24th, 6:30-8 p.m. is an opportunity for us to celebrate our sense of place as a means to rebuild community. In this workshop, we will extend our ongoing conversation on place and memory and turn our memories about place into mini stories.
National Memorial for Peace and Justice by MASS Design Group. Principal Alan Ricks will speak to The Dallas Architecture Forum on June 2. Photo Courtesy of the Architect.
Leading architect and Dallas native Alan Ricks, Founding Principal and Chief Design Officer of MASS Design Group, will speak IN PERSON to The Dallas Architecture Forum on Wednesday, June 2 at 7 p.m.
From Stonehenge to Greek temples, architecture is the signature of humankind on landscape, the artificial element that has always been connected to the natural environment. Architecture and landscape are linked by a fundamental continuity that is now starting to fade, damaging the quality of the space we inhabit.
The Architecture Film Festival London, in its 2021 edition, addresses a variety of topics related to contemporary architecture. In particular, the role of housing—from the history of housing estates to the current global housing crisis—is a prominent theme.