To bring urban development, citizen initiatives, and city planning to the forefront of the public agenda, the citizen observatory Lima Cómo Vamos is launching the City Awards for Urban Leadership. This inaugural edition will recognize the results and impacts of projects, best practices, and urban leadership, promoting their continuity and helping to maximize their impact.
The 2nd edition of the Alentejo Architecture Award has been launched by the Alentejo Regional Section of the Order of Architects (OASRALT).
The Arquia Foundation has announced the curator and theme for the 10th edition of arquia/próxima (2024–2025), a program dedicated to fostering, promoting, and showcasing emerging architecture in Spain and Portugal. This open call, which runs until February 5, 2026, is curated by architect José María Sánchez García. His proposal, "Territory," invites participants to rethink this concept beyond its geographical dimension, incorporating cultural, ecological, social, and virtual aspects.
Lima Cómo Vamos, an institution with over a decade of experience, is calling for submissions of progress reports and results from research and projects focused on our cities and their development. Selected research will be presented at the II Foro Ciudades Cómo Vamos, a platform for sharing approaches, evidence, and proposals with public authorities, private institutions, and the general public dedicated to improving the country's cities and the quality of life of their inhabitants.
The rapid processes of informal urbanization in Metropolitan Lima have hindered the comprehensive planning of many neighborhoods and settlements in our city. Within this context, unequal access to quality public space has emerged as an urgent urban issue that must be addressed and resolved.
The country's development, driven by the construction industry, relies on the initiative of private companies. Consequently, it is essential to implement ways to promote the recognition of solutions that incorporate best practices in construction project execution, as these serve as catalysts for a better city.
AGENDA OF THE CITIES, TABASCO: Call for submissions from architects in Tabasco for a compilation of ideas, proposals, and/or studies in the fields of architecture, public space, urban development, and territorial planning.
LA ESCUELA___ invites the student community in Paraguay to participate in an architecture competition that will give rise to our AULA "Aprendizaje al borde" (Learning at the Edge), led by the architecture firm Al Borde and developed in partnership with the Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Alto Paraná Campus.
The Provincial Municipality of Chanchamayo, through its Urban and Rural Development Management (GDUR) and the Sub-Management of Planning and Urban Control, in an inter-institutional cooperation agreement with the College of Architects of Peru – Junín Regional Chapter, is organizing the National Architectural Design Competition for the Plaza de Armas, the Civic Center, and the Integration Park in the city of La Merced, Chanchamayo.
Mexico Interior Lab is a specialized interior design and architecture competition in Mexico, focused on video content production. With the high demand for content flooding digital media and social networks, video has gained significant importance, enabling a deeper and more immediate connection to a message or concept.
Mexico is home to 68 indigenous languages; 31 of these are at very high risk of disappearing.
The "Encuentro de Construcción con Tierra" (Earth Construction Meeting) is an event organized by faculty members from the Eastern Regional University Center (CURE) and the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism at the University of the Republic (FADU). It is funded by the University of the Republic's Sectoral Commission for Scientific Research (CSIC) and supported by the Ibero-American PROTERRA Network. The event is open to the general public, with a focus on Uruguayan students, self-builders, construction professionals, and architects, who may participate as attendees or as presenters by submitting their work.
Trenzando, an itinerant cultural center that travels along railway lines to visit isolated communities, invites architects, students, and interdisciplinary teams to participate in the "Railway Station Rehabilitation / Red Trenzando" architecture ideas competition. The initiative seeks to promote the rehabilitation of railway architectural heritage in four Chilean locations: Rungue (RM), Ocoa (Valparaíso Region), Yumbel, and San Rosendo (Biobío Region).
On November 16, the call for entries opened for the 6th edition of the Citizen Festival of Urban Interventions, which invites the residents of Santiago to carry out various initiatives, including music, performance, theater, installations, dance, workshops, and games in public spaces.
Proyectar a Conciencia is a competition that emphasizes the modernization of existing buildings through non-intrusive passive solutions, such as EIFS continuous exterior insulation technologies.
The Illustrious Municipality of Las Condes, in collaboration with the University of Chile and the Cerros Isla Foundation, announces the launch of a national public competition for the design of the "Cerro Calán Observatory Park." The competition aims to select the best proposal and an interdisciplinary team for the architecture, landscape, and specialty design.
The EARQ-UC Architecture Initiation Cluster (Chile) invites participants to the first national meeting on architecture initiation, to be held on Thursday, August 27, and Friday, August 28, 2020. The event aims to share diverse perspectives on teaching during the first year of university architecture studies in Chile, as reflected in the content and methodologies proposed by each school within the national academic landscape.
Metropolitan life implies an accelerated pace that excludes moments of contemplation and introspection. The ideal of the primitive hut, meanwhile, represents a primordial moment for architecture, where material and symbolic needs converge, the relationships between form and use intensify, and the distinctions between furniture and building blur.