A discussion featuring faculty from the School of Architecture, Urbanism, and Design at the Universidad del Norte (Colombia) and Colombian architects Giancarlo Mazzanti and Daniel Bonilla.

Pensarq_ invites you to join a live session with Arista Cero on the architecture of Yucatán, a space to discuss the characteristics that define it and why it is so important as an architectural legacy.

The "Communication and Media 6" course at the Universidad Católica de Colombia’s Faculty of Design Architecture Program is hosting an online exhibition/presentation of academic portfolios created by students in the architecture program.

Design House, a collective intervention project by architecture, landscape, design, and interior design professionals, is partnering with Público Coworking to create a series of creative rooms within its newest location in Lomas de Chapultepec. The event will feature more than 40 spaces where architects, designers, landscape architects, and design and interior brands will offer their work for sale, aiming to support commerce and the local economy within our creative industries, which have been significantly impacted by the reality of COVID-19.

Conversations on Interior Design with architect Germán Velasco, leader of Germán Velasco Arquitectos, a firm dedicated to the architecture and interior design of hotels, restaurants, and residences. His keen sensitivity to space—both interior and exterior—earned him a seat on the jury for PRISMA, the Mexican Interior Design Award.

In A Scientific Autobiography, originally published in 1981 by Aldo Rossi—who would go on to win the Pritzker Prize nine years later—we find a reflection, or rather a compendium of reflections, on his professional thought process, shaped by the experiences and events of his youth.

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, better known as COVID-19, has fundamentally altered our reality as a society—both in our daily lives and in the future we will build as we adapt to the current situation. Our public spaces are the first to prompt us to question how interaction and community will function within our cities and living environments. For this eighth edition of the Abierto, we seek to understand how the pandemic will transform our public spaces, how our social, economic, and political relationships will be redefined in light of the current global situation, and how creators, managers, authorities, and citizens perceive these spaces and this relationship.

This is a space where architecture emerges from the defense of our individual bodies, blending the caution and precision of preventive medicine with the boundlessness of art. The goal is to spark creative acts that yield solutions—using materials at hand—to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 while outside our homes: building an anti-body.

Attend the webinar The Future of Collective Housing, which explores the post-COVID-19 housing landscape, hosted by the Colegio de Arquitectos del Perú Regional Lima.

Attend the webinar 'Opportunities for Improvement in Technical Commissions', which explores various perspectives from legal, design, and technical standpoints, hosted by the Colegio de Arquitectos del Perú Regional Lima.

Videos

Architecture Lessons from a Distance: Virtual Lecture by Ricardo Daza

The Leopoldo Rother Architecture Museum invites you to the virtual lecture "Bodies (Rooms), Doors, and Corridors (in Times of Lockdown)" and "A Brief Tribute to Robin Evans and the Relevance of Raphael Sanzio."

Camping is a tourism model based on humanity's most primal way of inhabiting nature: itinerancy. Nomads settle on the land without physically altering it, yet they imbue it with meanings that forge connections to the occupied sites, both while traveling and at rest. This mobile habitat originates from the need to find shelter and food, but also from the desire to discover new cultures or places. Thus, vacation life—free and carefree—intensifies interpersonal relationships and allows for experimentation with new ways of communal living.

The work of Jesús de la Sota, known primarily for his furniture designs—which often complemented the buildings of renowned architects, such as his older brother Alejandro de la Sota—represents a unique case within 20th-century Spanish design. He was consistently distinguished by his elegant sobriety, brilliant refinement, and clean, powerful lines. He experimented across many diverse creative fields: as a painter, muralist, illustrator, draftsman, and graphic designer, he created chairs, armchairs, tables, and lamps, as well as books, fabrics, and tapestries, all in an attempt to unite utility and beauty in every sphere of daily life. He launched the firm Cores y Sota, a comprehensive interior design project capable of generating architecture from a small scale, in a constant search for the essential and the minimal.

The collection of texts gathered in this book spans from 1997 to the present, aiming to challenge the canonical narratives developed around significant events in the history of modern Spanish architecture.

This book is the result of a workshop, a collaboration between the Interior Architecture department at HEAD and the Geneva Museum of Art and History. It invites students to explore the architectural vision for the Museum’s transformation and expansion, which will be the subject of an architectural competition next year. The work will help define the competition program and provide a space to reflect on the invention of a new museum model for the 21st century.

This book continues the line of research into our country's vernacular architecture conducted by the authors in various remote locations across the nation, focusing this time on the isolated settlements of the archipelagos along the Aysén region's coastline (1). Through this book, the urban ingenuity employed to inhabit this extreme landscape is identified and highlighted, the sense of rootedness achieved within the archipelagic territory is explored, and the qualities behind the places created by the men and women of the fishing tradition who live here are recognized.

This book is a unique and iconic project that captures—in a format that enhances both written and graphic information—the essence of contemporary Chilean architecture. It serves as a comprehensive and detailed record that, beyond acting as a form of creative memoir of our heritage, allows us to understand the past, present, and future of architecture, our cities, and our country.

Situaciones summarizes part of the work developed by the architecture and design office República Portátil between 2003 and 2018. The seven projects featured in this book are defined as "weak," temporary bodies—installations of varying scales positioned in the public realm to interact with and intervene in daily urban life.