OODA is a Portuguese architecture collective, now celebrating 10 years of practice. Based in Porto with experience gained internationally in notable offices, such as OMA-Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid Architects, the collective aims to expand internationally, namely New York, São Paulo and Shanghai.
With a wide range of work (whether idea or built, new or rehabilitation) and participation in international competitions in Africa, America, Asia, Middle East and Europe, their work includes partnerships with Kengo Kuma and the Pritzker prize Souto de Moura.

The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam needs your contribution to reimagine the way we conceive and build our world. The 10th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), titled IT’S ABOUT TIME, will reflect on the notion of time and design. Time, we claim, is an essential yet neglected parameter in designing sustainable futures. It is therefore only antidote to the short-term interests that seem to be ruling the world.

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The International Union of Architects (UIA) has launched the Great Green Wall single stage student ideas competition open to all students in architecture of the world.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation announced today its Camp Taliesin West program will return this summer with an expanded lineup of architecture, science, engineering, art and photography camps, available for K-12 students both in-person at Taliesin West, the World Heritage Site in Scottsdale, as well as virtually through Zoom.

Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. opens its sixth Vectorworks Design Scholarship. This global competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students in major disciplines related to architecture, landscape architecture, landscape design, entertainment and interior design who can now submit either new or past projects for a chance to win up to $10,000 USD.

After the Damages International Academy is announcing an international call: an initiative aimed at disseminating projects, strategies and achievements in the field of architecture, engineering, public management and application in the field, which were able to interpret the complex topic of emergency, prevention, management and risk mitigation.
The award will be held annually. This edition consists of 3 categories:
- completed and uncompleted projects and architectural works, which have improved their locations, promoting the areas and local communities (at territorial, urban and architectural scale);
- solutions for new tools and technologies for dissemination of knowledge and risk management, in the preventive and monitoring phase;
- research at universities or start-ups that have innovative value for prevention, during the emergency and after the event.

Volume Zero Architecture Competitions invites each one of you to participate in our 18th edition of architecture competitions, THE EXTREME HABITAT 2022 ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION. The competition invites both students and individuals across various professional streams who believe in the mission of creating a self-sustainable off-the-grid dwelling amongst nature. We encourage you to come up with a ground breaking proposal and create your mark in the field of architecture.

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Tamayouz Excellence Award invites architects and designers to submit their ideas for a Rehabilitation Centre for Terrorism Victims in Iraq. The rehabilitation centre should offer a safe and comfortable space for the patients, supporting their health, psychological and physical needs.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Monday, May 9th at 11:59PM (PST)

The idea of the contest is to work on objects that create tension in spaces, generating future projections that bring new visions and strategies to implement a place through an open and dynamic process. The object in question is a “catalyst”, that intervenes with its strength in an urban space and changes it. In this scenario in which the city is protagonist, what generate interaction? The reflection focuses on Architecture, its function, transience and the relationship with the outside. It may disappear one day, but the void left around it is only apparent since what it creates remains over time. An object symbol that somehow establishes a new spatial, social and cultural dimension. Questioning the urban space means meditating around the “emptiness” of the city, understood as a “place” of social events, forms, meanings, in which its own identity is reflected. Spaces live through change.

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EXTENDED SUBSCRIPTIONS OF THE TWELFTH EDITION OF DEDALO MINOSSE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR COMMISSIONING A BUILDING

Non Architecture Competitions aims to find unconventional and unexplored design solutions in the field of architecture. The second phase of competitions is structured in 9+1 themes: a Research Ecosystem with the purpose of exploring each theme from different perspectives. All competitions have their focus on tackling the big issues of tomorrow, by seeking nontraditional approaches in the architect’s work.

The “Daylight Awareness Week” is organised in the context of the UNESCO International Day of Light. In addition to its core mission of connecting daylight experts and encouraging creativity and innovation, the Daylight Academy seeks to disseminate knowledge and create awareness of the impact daylight can have on human and nature. This series of online talks is part of this ongoing effort and is intended for non-specialists, citizens, students, and stakeholders interested in daylight research.

Join us for a look at the fascinating life and public service of Dwight H. Perkins, the designer responsible for over 40 Chicago Public Schools. Along with his son, Lawrence, they were leaders in progressive school design best exemplified by the revolutionary Crow Island School building in Winnetka.

April marks the 200th anniversary of Frederick Law Olmsted’s birth. To celebrate, we're exploring the deeper legacy of this pioneering figure—designer, planner, educator, reformer, advocate, activist, inventor, innovator and enduring influencer.

ECO Solidarity 2022 brings together a diverse group of design practitioners from nine European Union countries, represented by EUNIC NY, who explore radical sustainability in architecture, urban planning, product design and development, energy and waste, standing in solidarity in the face of global humanitarian, public health, and ecological crises. The third edition of ECO Solidarity includes an exhibition and two talks featuring participating studios: EOOS NEXT (Austria), Herrmann & Coufal (Czech Republic), Livable Platform (Flanders, Belgium), MOYA Birch Bark (Germany), AHA Objects (Malta), NASDRA Conscious Design (Poland), SUSDESIGN (Portugal), Atelier Ad Hoc (Romania), crafting plastics! studio (Slovakia), and a diversity of experts.

Porto Academy is the result of an enormous passion for architecture as a discipline. Porto Academy started in 2013 as a manifesto of pluralism and opportunity based on close tuition from a diverse range of architects, artists and curators. It is an alternative educational experience, unburdened by established rules or dogmas, where students learn first hand from the singular visions of practice exemplified by invited tutors.

BIG is an internationally operating creative group of architects, designers, urban and landscape planners, interior and product designers, researchers and inventors. The architecture of BIG is created on the basis of an observation of the environment and is suitable for a contemporary form of living. The secret of their architecture lies in the combination of utopia and pragmatism. This monograph shows how this can work. From small projects to a gigantic housing block, from urban space to museum – everything that makes urban architecture fascinating is included. This monograph presents 20 exciting projects from BIG’s creative workshop. It invites to a new experience of architecture.