How can design be used to challenge the status quo, to interrupt the jargon, to disrupt and redirect ecological and socio-economic flows? LA+ Journal’s fourth international design ideas competition invited designers to take an established place and design something to productively interrupt both its cultural and spatial context. What does this mean? It means injecting something different into a given context to effect new meanings and new functions. It means questioning what design does, who it’s designed for, what it looks like, and what it means.
The Department of Architecture is proud to invite you for a Book Launch event with Adjunct Faculty Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente / Stereotank. Marcelo and Sara will present several compilations of their Design Studios and Seminars at FIU under the CROP + Macro to Micro format.
Humankind is rapidly becoming an urban species, with projected growth of city dwellers quadrupling from 2.3 billion to 9.3 billion between 1980 and 2080. Despite this growth, governments are slow to respond with urban policies that reflect changing demographics.
Be a part of the design week that attracts thousands of visitors to New York City to celebrate global creative accomplishments, share new ideas, and inspire through design. Major events like ICFF and WantedDesign, LightFair, Design Pavilion, and DIFFA by Design as well as independent shows, open studios, and panel discussions will shine a bright light on key talent within the design capital.
Avani Institute Of Design Conducted ‘The Avani Learning and Teaching Colloquium 2023’. The Avani Learning and Teaching Colloquium (ALTC) is a bi-annual forum for the Avani faculty cohort, Avani Advisors, Governing Council and Students to come together to reflect on academic practices, pedagogies, and scholarship towards strengthening academic pursuits for the overall growth and collective development of the community.
Studies reveal that we spend roughly 90% of our time indoors, and even when we do venture outside, we often remain tethered to technology, with a speaker in our ear, smartphone in our hand, or both. To address this, architects and designers have been pursuing innovative methods for incorporating nature into our living spaces. After already embracing green walls, seamless indoor-outdoor living areas, and strategic natural lighting, it looks like exploring the world of sound is next.
Enter plant music, the latest trend propelled by a device called PlantWave, that’s taking social media by storm. This unique device, developed by Data Garden, invites us to experience nature in a whole new way, with just a single tap.
The American Institute of Architects UK Chapter is pleased to announce its 2023 Design Awards. For over 20 years, these awards, which are not restricted to AIA members, have proven highly valued by architects as they confer international recognition for design excellence.
Madera: Innovation for Social Architecture in Uruguay is an international architecture competition organized by the Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning of Uruguay (Ministerio de Vivienda y Ordenamiento Territorial, MVOT) and MEVIR, with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank. The competition is a call for proposals for new low-rise, single family, housing typologies using innovative wood technology. The winning proposal will be built by MEVIR in a demonstration complex of 20 units in the town of Tranqueras, in the Department of Rivera, in the north of Uruguay. The main objective of the competition is to promote and enhance the use of Uruguayan wood as a construction material for social housing, incorporating design and technological innovation, energy efficiency, and sustainability principles.
The Society of Façade Engineering (SFE) and the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineering (CIBSE) have joined forces with Zak to co-located the SFE Façade Awards and Dinner with the Zak World of Facades London conference for the second year running.
"Communal Space for Social Raise” International Architecture Student of Wiswakharman Expo 2023.
Wiswakharman Expo is an annual architecture event series held by architecture students of Universitas Gadjah Mada. Every year, Wiswakharman Expo brings a fascinating theme. This year we hold an International Architecture Competition with the theme of “Communal Space for Social Raise”
This year's MiG challenge reflects on Moshe Safdie's statement "I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past." This difficult task raises the problematics of the site within the framework of the glocal - a term coined in the 1990s to think about globaliזation dialectically, as an interdependent process of integration and diversification, in which the local is shaped by the global, but also that locality becomes ever more important either as resistance or as a motor of innovation. In light of recent developments such as the worldwide pandemic, climate crisis, and the fracturing of the international political order, it is time to reconsider the agency of the local. The 2023 MIG prize challenge is to rethink how the local is redefined by these worldwide challenges through cooperative and confrontational interaction with other localities and scales of reference. The proposed project should make a clear statement in regards to the status of locality in its different material, environmental, cultural and social aspects as it adapts to inflows and outflows of people, ideas, memories, technologies, resources, natures and capital, and test its architectural implications in the design of a building that is both rooted in the place's past and proposes a vision of a possible future. The project must be detailed to the scale of a building (i.e. 1:100 or 1:200) and include an explanation of the ideology behind the design. The design must address the well-being of the users and respect the surrounding environment of the proposed projects.
The basic legal act concerning the reconstruction of the Saski Palace, the Brühl Palace and tenement houses at ul. Królewska in Warsaw is the Act of August 11, 2021 (Journal of Laws of 2021, item 1551) on the preparation and implementation of investments in the reconstruction of the Saski Palace, Brühl Palace and tenement houses at Królewska Street in Warsaw, adopted to "celebrate the jubilee of the 100th anniversary of the rebirth of the independent Republic of Poland, to restore the historic shape of the representative space of Marshal Józef Piłsudski Square in Warsaw, destroyed during World War II, to satisfy the will of Poles and to strengthen the unity of the civic community, symbolized by the rebuilt Saski and Brühl palaces together with the complex of tenement houses at ul. Królewska, and also to complete the work of rebuilding the capital city, destroyed and demolished by the German occupiers, so that those buildings and structures that proudly expressed the sovereignty of the Polish state a hundred years ago would serve Poles both today and in subsequent generations and be a visible sign of the continuity of our history, and at the same time a testimony to a strong and modern Republic of Poland”. Reconstructed facilities must meet the requirements of the Act.
