Between October 18-24, 2020, the Centre for Conscious Design (CCD) presents Conscious Cities Festival 2020: To Shape and be Shaped. Hosted at venues and online platforms around the world, this year's festival will feature 15+ event series to discuss how Conscious Design can empower and meet the needs of local communities and individuals. Conscious Design is a continually evolving process that incorporates systems and structures, science, storytelling, and participatory-design.
What is the future of education, and what role will online learning play? This panel discussion will begin with a short presentation by Sanjay Sarma, Head of Open Learning at MIT and author of 'Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn,’ and Nader Tehrani (Cooper Union), Sarita Vijayan (For Young India), and Areti Markopoulou (IaaC Barcelona) will discuss the future of education in the age of Covid-19.
The international conference Grand Projects - Urban Legacies of the late 20th Century will take place in Lisbon, between the 17th and 19th February 2021. The event aims to debate the transformations that have taken place in urban territories over the last two decades by considering the impacts of late 20th century policies and policy conjunctures.
IE School of Architecture and Design and ArchDaily would like to invite you to join this outstanding online masterclass by Caterina De La Portilla, Architect and Mentor.
In many regions of the world, the number of architects’ present is much higher than the number of architects needed if we attend to the current practicing model they offer to society. As a result, many architects struggle to get by in a highly competitive market. This traditional profile of the architect, a very general one with a range of action very limited to the development of building projects, has become outdated for the vast majority.
AIA New Orleans in partnership with AIA Austin and Women in Architecture, are hosting the second annual Design and Practice Exchange, entitled Design to Change, a virtual symposium focusing on equity in educational design, the environment, and offering professional networking and development opportunities.
The NYC Architecture Biennial recognizes and exhibits the work and ideas of talented professionals in architecture and urban design. We are committed to innovative sustainable design and will help generate and ensure gender and racial equality around the world.
Comunicar Arquitectura (COMA) is an annual event that brings together specialists from Latin America and Spain in order to address essential questions for those who communicate architecture while mapping the media architecture landscape in the region.
On September 18, 2020, AZURE will host the 2020 AZ Awards Gala – an unmissable online soirée where we will fête all the finalists and announce the winners of our 10th annual AZ Awards along with special guests from around the world. We’ll also share the results of our ever-popular People’s Choice voting.
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York is pleased to announce its new SCIAME Global Spotlight Lecture series, “Far South” curated by Associate Professor Fabian Llonch.
Now being used as a common word after been used as a slogan for environmental and human rights issues, the word “Symbiosis” was originally used in the field of Biology. This word “Symbiosis” became widely known has a lot to due from architect, Kisho Kurokawa, who has been putting forward the “The Philosophy of Symbiosis” since the 1970s. Being trained by Fumihiko Maki who was part of a project that originated in Japan called “Metabolism” with Kurokawa, Norihiko Dan who is active in both Japan and abroad will curate this exhibition.
This summer La Biennale di Venezia, architectural exhibitions and events were postponed or cancelled. Three young architectural firms have seen the pause as a chance to create something new.
Neri&Hu is an award-winning interdisciplinary practice based in Shanghai. Founded by Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu in 2004, the practice has since built up their own distinct approach to architecture that pushes beyond traditional boundaries to incorporate interior, product and graphic design.
Founded in Denmark in 1986, 3XN are known for projects grounded in the application of ongoing research into how human behaviour both reflects and influences buildings and the wider environment. In 2007 3XN founded a sister company GXN dedicated to innovative research into circular design, behaviour design and digital design. In this lecture we will be joined by behavioural specialist and Head of Operations Susan Carruth and Architect and Senior Partner Audun Opdal, who will show us how GXN’s research is directly fed into the work of 3XN to create some of the most innovative buildings in the world.
Architect and 2019 TIME100 Honoree Jeanne Gang leads international architecture and urban design practice Studio Gang. Her award-winning practice emphasises research, experimentation and collaboration resulting in a diverse body of work. Projects range from cultural centres, to high rise towers and installations, as described in a new comprehensive monograph, published by Phaidon.
Renowned Architects & Designers are here to generate an inquiry and an architectural/urban expression of the “Open City”, the participative and inclusive city, the life-affirming city. In doing this, the proposal is to create an alternative narrative, a creative challenge to the notions of 'city' that remain purely organizational, narrowly symbolic, exclusionary, and controlling.
Are you interested in learning more about novel tools for participatory urban design processes? On 28-30 September 2020, PPS will be having its third Creative and Capacity Building Workshop in Barcelona titled ‘Co-Design for Co-Habitation Workshop’, developed by IAAC in collaboration with its partners of BUAS and CLAC.
The first major exhibition on holiday architecture of the Soviet period opens in the Estonian Museum of Architecture. The exhibition gives the first overview of Estonia’s rich Soviet-era holiday and summer cottage architecture heritage – buildings that made holidays accessible for a majority of people in the 20th century. It provides insight into a little-researched topic that explores the system related to holidays and the architectural context governed by regulations and codes, and also introduces outstanding buildings. It allows an important facet of Soviet life to be investigated – the expressive meeting point between institutionalized and individualized worlds.
The current COVID-19 pandemic and its response have raised critical questions about how we live and work. It has also led to a lot of us asking, ‘How can we improve our own neighbourhood?’