2018 International Conference and Summer School: Sustainable Design of Open Spaces in Lisbon
"When architecture and urban design project their desire onto a (…) a terrain vague, they seem incapable of doing anything other than introducing violent transformations, changing estrangement into citizenship, and striving at all costs to dissolve the uncontaminated magic of the obsolete into the realism of efficacy. (…) Today, intervention in the existing city, in its residual spaces, in its folded interstices can no longer be either comfortable or efficacious in the manner postulated by the modern movement's efficient model of the enlightened tradition. How can architecture act in the terrain vague without becoming an aggressive instrument of power and abstract reason? Undoubtedly, through attention to continuity: not the continuity of the planned, efficient, and legitimized city, but of the flows, the energies, the rhythms established by the passing of time and the loss of limits... we should treat the residual city with a contradictory complicity that will not shatter the elements that maintain its continuity in time and space." Terrain Vague, Sola Morales, 1995
The goal of this first conference is to create a collective space for the exchange of ideas and knowledge among students, faculty, and researchers interested in reflecting on design, criticism, and the history of architecture.
Drawing on the provocative question posed by Raymond Carver in his 1987 book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, the UTEM School of Architecture Week 2018 celebrates its 21st anniversary. The event seeks to critically examine what we understand by an architectural project and the many ways it can be approached from both academic and professional perspectives, framing a cross-disciplinary discussion throughout the week around the question: "What do we talk about when we talk about projects?"
Central Galeria, in partnership with Escola da Cidade, is hosting a wall auction to benefit IABsp (the Institute of Architects of Brazil - São Paulo) for the realization of the 12th International Architecture Biennial of São Paulo.
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Submit your project to the 18th Architecture and Reconciliation Biennial – Rethinking the Territory. (CAP-RLL)
The 18th edition of the Peruvian Architecture Biennial, co-organized by the College of Architects of Peru – La Libertad Region and the College of Architects of Peru, will be hosted in the warm city of Trujillo from September 5 to 8.
Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. They conduct advanced architectural and media investigations on behalf of international human rights organizations, as well as political and environmental justice groups. Forensic architecture is also an emerging academic field developed at Goldsmiths that concerns the production and presentation of architectural evidence, such as buildings, urban environments, and their media representations.
On March 16 at 10:00 AM, Belas Artes will host the inaugural lecture for its Professional Master’s Program in Architecture, Urbanism, and Design. In addition to welcoming new students, the event will initiate discussions relevant to the program's research lines and its concentration area in Architecture, Urbanism, and Design. Centered on the theme "From Taller Total to Participatory Design," the lecture will feature contributions from Professor Sylvia Adriana Dobry Pronsato, PhD, of FIAMFAAM, and Professor Wilson Caracol Ribeiro dos Santos Jr., PhD, of PUC-Campinas.
PK arquitectos invites the professional and student community of the Guadalajara architectural scene to the course "Complements for Developing Architectural Projects | Practical Lessons for Working Less and Achieving More," taught by architect Patricia Coracides.
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CIELO FALSO is a transdisciplinary series organized by the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Construction at UDLA. It serves as a content platform centered around various guests from diverse disciplinary fields, including sound, graphic design, architecture, visual arts, poetry, and digital animation. This forum for debate, discussion, and conversation promotes and fosters future interdisciplinary intersections incubated within our academic space.
On Saturday, July 7, 2018, at 12:00 PM, a site visit will be held as part of the Architecture and Landscape Ideas Competition for the San Borja Walkways and Surroundings. The meeting point is at Plaza del Pedregal, next to the Unimarc supermarket located at the San Borja Walkways (Universidad Católica Metro station). The site visit is not mandatory for competition entry and is intended for teams that need to visit the site to develop their proposals.
Documentation and Restoration Workshop in Morocco - March 2018
The workshop is designed as an immersion into the culture of the Mhamid Oasis. It involves the restoration of a significant architectural element of its heritage, in collaboration with the local community, utilizing traditional techniques under the guidance of local master builders who introduce participants to methods such as adobe, rammed earth, earthen plasters, and tadelakt. Concurrently, the tangible and intangible heritage that has shaped the landscape over centuries will be studied and documented.
Theo Sarantoglou Lalis, Dora Sweijd. Spaces for Knowledge Exchange: New Worlds of Leisure, Diploma Unit 17, Architectural Association, 2017.
Digital Constructivism, a two-week workshop by the Architectural Association Visiting School (AAVS) taking place at the Torcuato Di Tella University School of Architecture and Urban Studies this coming July, explores the generation of material environments from conceptualization to production. Structured as a series and based on an intensive version of the creative process developed by Diploma Unit 17 of the Architectural Association in London, "Spaces for Knowledge Exchange: New Worlds of Leisure," each instance of the workshop informs the next, advancing its conceptual construction cumulatively. The series is based on the conviction that radical architecture does not require appealing to parallel or fictional worlds, but rather operating through technically precise and spatially creative decisions based on connections with a world that, while increasingly homogeneous, is replete with exceptions, specific conditions, and extraordinary situations. From these, the workshop encourages the production of speculations that transgress established cultural identities in order to define new forms of beauty.
Organized by students from the School of Architecture, the 34th edition of this event features an invitation to prominent figures who transform architecture into a unique experience.
As part of the first radio broadcast of the 2018 season—now in its third year on the air—Etéreo (arquitectura que se escucha) captures highlights from the sessions held during the course on urban resilience and climate change in Latin American cities, organized by CELFI (Latin American Center for Interdisciplinary Training).
The 1st ITESM CEM Architecture and Design Congress will be held on campus in the conference hall on March 21 and 22. The event will address topics in urbanism, design, and architecture to foster the progress of cities.
The AA Visiting School Mexico is a summer workshop based in Oaxaca, Mexico. The Visiting School offers the opportunity to experience the Architectural Association's experimental culture firsthand in the heart of Oaxaca city. It is open to current architecture and design students, PhD candidates, and young professionals in related disciplines: architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, planning, geography, civil engineering, etc.
