The trade & commerce across the works are bustling despite the pandemic push. The innovation of shipping containers is somehow the only way cross-border trade happens especially in the case of waterways. Trade previously had been much organic package sizes, but now the size definitions help not the only manufacturer to anticipate their capacity and cost, but it has boosted logistical speeds tremendously.
Calling for Entries for a 200+ Unit Residential Development in the City of Brantford, Ontario (Canada). This is a REAL project which will be going through development approvals and construction. This project offers a total professional contract value of $55,000 CAD. Opportunities for Structural Design, Interior Design and 3D Rendering. Students and Professionals all welcome. Participation is completely FREE. This could be a career setting opportunity.
Competition “Le Festival des Cabanes” The hut Festival 6th Edition Architecture contest open to architecture students and architects Applications accepted from January to April 10th 2021
2021 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers | Housekeeping
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in lectures, digital media, and an exhibition in June 2021. If COVID-19 restrictions are required, the exhibition and lectures might shift to a digital format. Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000.
We are delighted to announce that the RSA Open Exhibition of Architecture is returning once again this spring as part of the 195th RSA Annual Exhibition. On view from 4 April – 9 May 2021, the exhibition will showcase a diverse range of contemporary art and architecture from our Royal Scottish Academicians, plus artists and architects carefully selected from online open submissions.
Archisource presents ‘Drawing of the Year 2020’, back for the second year to celebrate the talent of students and young professionals and the extensive variety of drawings that are created around the world each year! We are looking for the outstanding drawings in four categories with the aim of showcasing the different types, styles and functions of a drawing.
Being architects and designers, we are always asked to design places that suit humans in every way possible. We are asked to make spaces that are human interactive and those that suit their consciousness the best. But can you design a space that challenges the person's senses and makes him reconsider where he is and what is he doing?
Ground Up is the award winning graduate student journal of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
Today’s rapidly changing world calls for entrepreneurs who question the status quo and are able to leverage people, resources, and processes to produce dynamic solutions. As spatial design activities and the global construction industry experience unprecedented transformation, there are endless opportunities for those with the courage to stand up and take them.
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Neoscape NYC / Chaos Vantage. Image Courtesy of Chaos Group
This year, real-time became really important. For architects and arch-viz artists, the ability to explore and design interactively is nothing short of game-changing, drastically shortening project life cycles and making it easier to present and discuss ideas with co-workers and clients. With remote collaboration becoming a normal part of day-to-day life, real-time views of projects have become invaluable.
Book cover "Pandemic and Lockdown Through the Eyes of an Architect" Author: Marta Miret Rodríguez
Marta Miret Roríguez in her new book "Pandemic and Lockdown Through the Eyes of an Architect" brings architecture closer to us by giving us a vision of how the architecture profession sees the situation that is being experienced in 2020, a global pandemic.
In 2016, the last modern masterpiece designed by world renowned architect Marcel Breuer, the Atlanta Fulton County Public Library, was slated for demolition. One of the Fulton County commissioners described the original design as looking “more like a jail” than a welcoming space for learning and productivity. To save the iconic building from the wrecking ball, changes would have to be made. This case study from cove.tool shows how energy and daylighting analysis is useful not only in new construction, but for revitalizing existing buildings as well.
Developed in association with Barbican, this online evening course provides an engaging and critical introduction to Brutalist architecture through the iconic and groundbreaking design of the Barbican. Learn about the origins of the style, its unique relationship with Britain and its enduring impact on architecture and design.
Practice+Opolis: The City of the Architectural profession
This is a graphic novel about the contemporary architectural profession, in which it acts as the protagonist in the form of an imaginary city called Practiceopolis. The novel narrates quasi-realistic stories that exaggerate the architectural everyday and the tacit, in order to make them prominent and tangible. They depict and dramatise the value conflicts between the different cultures of practising architecture and between the architectural profession and other members of the building industry as political conflicts around the future of Practiceopolis.
The book is the first monograph on Raphael Zuber`s work. It presents four buildings designed between 2009 and 2016, exploring their spaces through the medium of precise computer animation. Rather than simply a presentation technique, these animations were an essential instrument both for the development of the project and the evolution of the architect`s thinking, transitioning from a strong conceptual design to a more conscious resolution of spatial qualities.
In 1959 the American architect John Saunders Chase completed a radical work in Houston: a modernist house for his own family. No architect would hire Chase for the necessary professional internship when he – the first African American to enroll in and graduate from the University of Texas School of Architecture – arrived there in 1952. He instead had to petition the state for special permission to take the licensing exam, and he became the first African American registered as an architect in Texas. Yet by 1959 Chase had worked his way to a position of remarkable influence in the cultural, political, social, and economic life in Houston. His progressive house was testimony to this accomplishment. Its architectural form was equally radical, the first fully enclosed courtyard house – a building type only initially experimented with by progressive architects across America at that time – in Houston. Notorious but not well known, the Chase Residence, in both its original version and after a fundamental alteration undertaken in 1968, is an ongoing experiment in how a family might live. This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of the house, describes how its architecture frames experience, and places the house within the larger context of Chase’s career and times
