Interested in learning how to build with earth? Don't miss this excellent workshop hosted by the Ecuadorian firm RAMA Estudio—learn by doing! The workshop will consist of two Saturdays of theoretical and practical sessions on March 10 and 17.

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The 2025 ARQUITECTURA Awards are underway. The competition enters its fourth edition with new features designed to enhance the recognition of planning projects and other urban schemes. The goal is to broaden participation opportunities, continuing to showcase and share with society at large the values of architecture, urban planning, and other professional practices that contribute to human well-being and planetary sustainability. Organized by the Spanish Council of Architects (CSCAE) and officially sponsored by COMPAC®, the ARQUITECTURA Awards include six distinctions based on universal, social, and cultural values, along with three special recognitions.

The General Secretariat of Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, in collaboration with the Arquia Foundation, has launched this ideas competition, open from February 19 to April 10 (inclusive), aimed at young architects up to 45 years of age.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda announces the inaugural edition of the La Casa de la Arquitectura Awards to recognize quality architecture, in accordance with the principles of the Law on the Quality of Architecture, and to highlight its commitment to collective well-being by demonstrating architecture's capacity to address present and future challenges.

The call for applications is now open for the Hatching Festival workshops, which will take place from July 5 to 8 in Tenerife and from July 10 to 14 in Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands. Directed by architect Fernando Menis, the festival focuses on the possibility of creating life in desert or semi-desert areas through a symbiosis of tradition and new technologies, natural energy, and the manipulation of form.

The architecture festival celebrates its 10th anniversary, having become an essential event on the capital's cultural calendar. The festival is designed to make architecture accessible to visitors in a clear and educational way. Open House Madrid is a non-profit organization that offers the opportunity to visit over a hundred iconic spaces that are usually inaccessible or have recently opened. It is part of the global Open House Worldwide network, which takes place in more than 50 cities around the world with a common goal: to bring architecture closer to society and raise awareness about its influence on our way of life.

The 2023 National Thesis Project Competition (CNPT) by Arquitectura Caliente – Graphisoft Archicad is an open competition that seeks to recognize and reward the best thesis projects in Chile. It is aimed at recent graduates with projects developed between June 1, 2021, and July 31, 2023, at any of the country's architecture schools.

The 2023 National Undergraduate Project Competition (CNPP), organized by Arquitectura Caliente and Graphisoft Archicad, is an open competition that seeks to recognize and reward the best undergraduate projects in Chile. It is open to students in their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th/5th years, featuring projects developed between June 1, 2021, and July 31, 2023, at any architecture school in the country.

Nearly 5 million pesos in prize money will be awarded in the 31st edition of the “Arte en Vivo” competition, established by Librería Nacional. The initiative aims to promote visual arts in Chile, support emerging artists, and advance their careers by opening up creative processes, revealing working methodologies, and creating a kind of open studio where the public can observe the creation of the selected works in real time.

The Chilean Chamber of Construction (CChC), within the framework of Construir Innovando and in partnership with Déficit Cero and the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism (MINVU), invites you to participate in an open innovation competition. The goal is to demonstrate that industrialized solutions are viable for addressing the housing deficit in Chile through micro-settlement strategies.

The National Reflection and Research Competition, Arquitectura Escrita 2022, organized by the Grupo Arquitectura Caliente, seeks to highlight and disseminate readings on the discipline through an open competition that awards the best texts from architecture students, professional architects, or representatives of other disciplines who, through their research and reflections, contribute to the knowledge and debate of architecture in Chile.

The competition aims to select and award the best projects that propose urban solutions or new activities with social and economic benefits for areas that have been or are currently being mined.

The first competition for architecture and urbanism students and recent graduates, organized by MINIMUM, aims to foster participants' ideas and creativity. Consequently, the challenge is to design a space in front of the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre. The central theme is open, provided that teams adhere to the fundamental premise of creating movement, animation, and activities to reconsolidate the Foundation and its immediate surroundings within the city throughout the week.
The five highest-scoring projects will be presented by their teams on September 1st of this year at the Foundation's headquarters.
Confirmed jurors include the general director of the Iberê Camargo Foundation, Emilio Kalil.
Registration is now open and can be completed until August 9th on the official Minimum website (www.minimumpoa.com.br), where the full competition brief is also available.

The Institute of Architects of Brazil - São Paulo Department (IABsp) is pleased to invite students to the TROPHY DESIGN COMPETITION for the "IABsp 2018 Awards - 75th Anniversary Special."

Participation is open to all undergraduate students of architecture, interior design, graphic design, and industrial design across the country.

Applications opened yesterday, Thursday, September 29, for the competition of ideas for the exhibition to be presented at the XXII Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism of Chile, co-organized by the Association of Architects of Chile and the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage. The call for entries will remain open from September 29 through October 24, 2022, with the event scheduled to take place between December 2022 and January 2023.

The Presidente Riesco Construction and Real Estate Company and the Villa San Luis Evictees Foundation, with the sponsorship of the Chilean Institute of Architects (CA) and the Association of Architectural Offices (AOA), and with the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage acting as guarantor, have announced a national architectural design competition for the adaptive reuse of the existing Block 14 of the former Villa San Luis as a Memorial Museum. The site, along with its protected perimeter, has been a National Monument in the Historic Monument category since 2017.

In keeping with a tradition dating back to 1969, the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile is calling for nominations for the 2024 National Architecture Award. This is the highest honor an architect or architectural team can receive in our country. According to the Regulations for Awards and Distinctions, the award recognizes individuals "whose career and ethical and professional performance have set an example for all architects, in any manifestation of professional practice, whether in the field of architectural design, academic work, professional association involvement, public service, or management."

More than half of the global population currently lives in cities, presenting a challenge for urban planners and professionals in urban management and design. One of the most significant elements of this landscape is public space—including parks, plazas, esplanades, boulevards, and streets—where everyone has the right to be and move freely. These spaces function as meeting points where cultural, social, economic, and informational exchanges converge.