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The international Architecture and Design festival of Logroño, Concéntrico, is establishing a new collaboration for this edition with the Métropole de Rouen Normandie (France) and its monumental art biennial, La Forêt Monumentale.

In this competition, we will help Assa, a Mozambican teacher, build a center for children with disabilities and those affected by social exclusion, with the support of the Estamos Juntos Initiative and the NGO Somos del Mundo. ·

Archstorming has launched the Tulum Plastic School, a competition seeking designs for a school built from recycled plastic in Tulum. The winning proposal will be constructed, and a cash prize of up to €20,000 will be awarded to the winners.

The Calli Competition is now open. The theme addresses a social issue common to major cities worldwide, where we frequently observe that urban polarization leads to a decline in quality of life, resulting in saturated transportation systems, high rental costs, and long commutes to work.

Ideasforward aims to provide young creatives worldwide with the opportunity to express their perspectives on the future of society through innovative and visionary proposals. We are an experimental platform seeking progressive ideas that reflect on emerging issues.

The Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) Conference Series, founded and organized by the international organizations iiSBE, CIB, UN Environment, and FIDIC, is one of the world's most significant international conference programs concerning sustainability, the environment, and construction.

New design competition on Desall.com: MetaFin and Desall invite you to propose a new concept for a green recreational area to be built in the near future, conceived as a gathering space for families, a playground for children, and an area dedicated to sports, culture, activities, and community events.

New industrial design competition on Desall.com: IRSAP and Desall invite you to design a family of electric radiators with a modern, minimalist aesthetic that can be perceived as decorative elements within their environments.

This edition of the Pan-American Biennial of Architecture of Quito (BAQ) proposes a discussion on architecture centered on the notion of transformation. Through a critical analysis of projects that achieve such interventions, the focus will be on studying the transformative capacity of architecture—from the discipline itself toward the environment and the city—questioning existing systems of relationships and exploring new approaches that bridge the gap between the ideal and the real.

The Association of Architects of Ecuador (Colegio de Arquitectos del Ecuador) invites submissions for the competition "Plural and Diverse Perspectives: Modern Architecture in Ecuador." Individuals or groups from around the world are invited to submit work regarding:

We climb endless stairs to mountains made of piles of stone. There, the stairs end and paths traced between the rocks begin, until they disappear and every route becomes invisible. We are climbing the hills of San Juan de Lurigancho.

Designated a National Monument in 2010, the National Headquarters of the Chilean Association of Architects (Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile) is a 1920 masterpiece by the prominent architect Luciano Kulczewski García. This Art Nouveau icon originally comprised two residences, each featuring a grand double-height hall illuminated by large windows, with five commercial spaces on the first floor.

Choosing high-performance BIM software is key to developing efficient projects by automating tasks that traditionally consumed time in conventional design workflows—such as documentation, calculations, analyses, and other repetitive processes.

This book presents a meticulous investigation into the architecture of the Ferias del Campo (Country Fairs), which developed between the 1950s and 1970s, creating what can now be understood as a true exhibition landscape. The complex holds immense value, both for its careful landscape design—perfectly integrated into the Casa de Campo—and for its unique buildings, which served as a true experimental laboratory for modern architecture. Architects such as Cabrero and Ruiz, along with Sota, Fisac, Aburto, Romaní, and many others, brilliantly managed to combine the bold stylistic and constructive renewal that the country required at the time with a desire to maintain a degree of continuity with vernacular architecture.

This essay examines the role of the architect in contemporary society, aiming to be critical and, even more so, combative. Grounded in a deep understanding of the profession's history, the author seeks lessons from the past to illuminate paths for the architect of the future. It addresses not only the individual but also the collective, operating on the belief that opportunities for professional corporatism still remain.

Since the turn of the century, the discipline of architecture has focused its attention intently on documenting the contemporary urban condition. Each city has been examined as a repository of architectural concepts, interrogated as an urban manifesto, and recorded as a series of found objects.

In defense of Modernity and against all robotic classicism and buffoonish romanticism, Miranda has always been an uncomfortable presence—a resistor who understands the value of the sedimentation of structured thought and knows that one must preach constantly. A committed intellectual during cloying times when the most pedestrian discipline took over the classrooms, his voice has been beloved by students and scorned by many of his colleagues in an Academy he has always questioned. This doubt has become an instrument for transforming his thinking; we know that doubting is dangerous, as those in power have always fed us certainties that allow for unceasing adoration, yet never for progress or change.

El Lissitzky (1890–1941) was undoubtedly one of the most significant and multifaceted artists of the Russian avant-garde era, and perhaps the one who exerted the greatest influence on the subsequent evolution of various fields of artistic language and audiovisual communication. At the same time, however, he remains a relatively unknown and mysterious figure.