What is the role of wood in contemporary architecture?

Imaflora launches an event to discuss the needs, perspectives, and opportunities that sustainability can bring to architecture and business.

The Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP) will host the 1st Symposium on Architecture and Urbanism from October 4 to 7. Over the course of four days, professionals and students will discuss the relevance and contemporary significance of the book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, written 60 years ago by American journalist Jane Jacobs.

This Friday, February 26, we will host the discussion "Public Works as Urban Infrastructure," where we will explore the importance of quality architecture within the public investment value chain and the role of public urban projects in structuring cities.

E-Workshop: Architecture in the City
Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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Re-Attitude, Creative Minds, and Possible Futures are the themes of the 2nd edition of the Connectarch Summit.
The free event will feature lectures by Alejandro Aravena, Fernando Forte, Sarkis Semerdjian, Dror, and other prominent national and international figures.

How can we create, reinvent, and occupy city spaces? This is the mission of the Instituto A Cidade Precisa de Você, which seeks to redefine the relationship between the urban environment and the population through actions that broaden perspectives on the city, public spaces, and their cultural manifestations. The non-profit institute brings together individuals interested in promoting the coordination and activation of public spaces.

In 2021, the Casa Brasileira (Brazilian House) is the theme guiding the initiatives of the Museu do Ipiranga in partnership with Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB). The program includes Wikipedia editing marathons, which this year begin with meetings featuring researchers in the field. These experts will discuss their ongoing research at the Museum, followed by training and technical assistance on the platform. The second meeting in this series will take place on Friday, April 23, starting at 2:00 PM, under the theme "Decoration and Feminine and Masculine Identities."

Course - Portuguese Houses, Certainly.

From the vernacular to the contemporary.

This online course on outdoor lighting explores light as a design tool capable of revitalizing public spaces through aesthetic design. The course evaluates current methods of illuminating city nights and proposes urban nighttime lighting applications through a practical design exercise.

ICONNO, an interior design and brand studio, pays tribute to the elements and accessories designed by architects that connect with their architectural works through the exhibition "Architects' Things: Design in Construction." The exhibition is on view starting today through April 30 at their space at Jorge Juan 38—a showroom for Poltrona Frau and SieMatic—in collaboration with Nerinea.

Organized by the research platform Justicia Espacial, Juan Carlos Vargas and Sulhee Yoon of Geoadaptive share their expertise in territorial intelligence to analyze geographies and specific forms of spatial inequality, showcasing tools and work developed in Central America.

Organized by the research platform Justicia Espacial, this talk by Argentine architect and urban planner Jorge Mario Jáuregui will present his experience with binding processes of spatial justice. His projects in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro drive spatial and social transformations.

Organized by the research platform Justicia Espacial, this upcoming discussion features the team from AGA Estudio, Caracas, and their experience in programming for social impact projects.

In this lecture, Fábio Witt, founder of Vobi, will cover:

The 3rd Symposium on Sustainable Environmental Rehabilitation is hosted by the Laboratory of Sustainability Applied to Architecture and Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Brasília (FAU-UnB). This scientific event will feature academic presentations organized into three main tracks: rehabilitation and sustainability; cities and indicators; and
environment and energy efficiency.

1ST CYCLE | LATIN AMERICAN CONVERSATIONS: DESIGN PROCESSES

On Tuesday, March 23, at 6:30 PM, the launch of ARQDocs: Teodoro Fernández will be held via the UC School of Architecture's Facebook Live. The event will feature Valentina Rozas Krause, researcher and PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and Rafael Zamora, architect and founding partner of the Llonazamora studio in Lima, Peru. Additionally, the event will include commentary from architects and researchers Daniel Talesnik and Marés Sandor.

Focusing on a post-pandemic context, 'Emergency' is the theme of the 2021 CASA – Coimbra Architecture Summer Atelier. CASA explores a (re)emergence of the synchrony between creating and inhabiting, drawing on operative design strategies within Coimbra's urban territory and its various occupations.