This publication compiles the teaching programs of the various and diverse units within the Department of Architectural Projects at ETSAM, offering an opportunity to analyze and compare the set of pedagogical initiatives that have shaped the teaching of design projects in recent years. It serves as an X-ray of a department that is key to understanding the general approach to teaching at the Madrid School, allowing readers to discern how learning tools have evolved to become more useful, effective, and contemporary.
In a territory historically marked by earthquakes, ruptures, and borders, architecture has manifested itself through diverse expressions over time. These expressions are nuanced by sociocultural processes that have defined the approaches and stances translated into urban imagery and architectural production.
IF is an international competition platform that aims to connect ideas from different sectors of society to help transform cities, making them increasingly self-sufficient, efficient, and ecological. We are looking for innovative ideas and new ways of thinking. In a time of global emergency, it is increasingly important that we think globally.
As part of its outreach activities, Empresas Melón is organizing this competition to invite individuals over the age of 18 residing in Chile—who are not currently or formerly affiliated with any of the company's divisions—to participate in the creation of a logo for the product "FullColor," in accordance with these terms and conditions.
With a national and international call for entries, the search begins for those who will design the Las Salinas Urban Park, a space of the highest standard for the city of Viña del Mar that will transform into a multifunctional green area within the future neighborhood. This large park, situated in a strategic location, aims to become a significant project of integration—a space accessible to all and a hub for social, cultural, athletic, and educational gathering.
ARKxSITE is pleased to announce the 'SITE MIRADOR' international architecture ideas competition for architecture and landscape architecture students and young professionals (≤ 40 years old).
Given our current reality, CoRe aims to channel the experiences and sentiments of this coronavirus-induced quarantine through literary expression. To that end, the organization is launching:
The new Archstorming competition takes us to Senegal, Africa. In some regions of the country, only 50% of school-age children have access to education, and classrooms are often overcrowded with up to 80 students due to a lack of infrastructure.
It is said—perhaps closer to myth than reality—that when Mies van der Rohe interviewed a candidate to join his studio, he would subject them to a peculiar test. He would lead them to a drafting table, provide them with the necessary instruments—rulers, compasses, squares, triangles, pencils, erasers, and so on—and ask them to arrange these elements within the confined field of the drawing board.
Beyond the romantic content often ascribed to its political-social aspect, resistance is an ambivalent condition. Because it depends on an external entity, it is not an autonomous condition; that is, it only appears in relation to an outside. It does not exist without something to resist. It is an opposition to forces that, as such, implies taking a stance from which that opposition is exercised. Thus, there can be resistance to aspects as disparate as the status quo or change.
XILOFOR invites architects under 40 to consider the kitchen as a creative case study, exploring how post-COVID-19 kitchen furniture can help develop new spatial scenarios that will influence its design.
The Quechua Architecture Competition invites all participants to take part in this one-week challenge and develop a project that explores diverse fields of thought and design. The challenge for this edition: "Shadow Pavilion."
Anyone can contribute to this virtual museum project featuring an Endless Doll House. The goal is to create a never-ending scene through infinite dollhouses. When? NOW :)
The Endless Dollhouse Project is an initiative that seeks to bring visibility to the narratives we hold regarding the domestic sphere through playful visual compositions resembling dollhouses. This is an opportune moment to learn interesting things about ourselves, our world, and our relationships with it through the representation of the domestic within the most popular traditional game: the dollhouse, which, in its ancestral symbolic background, serves as a representation of the social and distinctive traits of an era.
The Mieres Polytechnic School at the University of Oviedo, through its Transport Engineering Department, is launching an international ideas competition for university students to solicit proposals for resolving urban and territorial challenges associated with the evolution of transport networks.
After setting aside his career as an architect to serve on the front lines during World War I, Walter Gropius sensed that the world needed a radical change—a change in which art and architecture would play a fundamental role.
Cortesía de Bienal de Arquitectura de Guatemala - BAG
The Guatemala Architecture Biennial recognizes excellence in the architectural profession through the DANTA AWARDS. In previous editions, the awards have received over 100 projects from Guatemala and Central America, competing across various categories for both professionals and students.
