｢International Design Competition for Yeonsu-gu Youth Center｣

ARKxSITE is pleased to announce the ‘SITE BATHHOUSE’ international architecture ideas competition for architecture students and young professionals with a degree in architecture studies (≤ 40 years old).

SUMMARY:
Co-organised by the Urban Planning & Design Institute of Shenzhen (UPDIS), the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), the international agency ARQ and curated by Non Architecture, this competition, titled “Community 2050”, aims to gather reflections and design inputs for a more sustainable and equitable progress of cities.
The competition theme proposes to look at communities through the lenses of technology and innovation. What is ahead?
+ Five overall topics are considered central:
+ Environmental Sustainability
+ Safety and Resilience to Climate Change and Disasters
+ Ecology and Health
+ Urban Regeneration, Densification and Heritage Protection
+ Social Inclusiveness and Community thriving
These five topics can be conjugated into the two competition sites. The sites present common features but also radical differences.

INTRODUCTION
"People ignore design that ignores people."

Life and old-age

The condition of »fake« and »real« in architecture is rarely publicly discussed nor has it encountered broad journalistic or scholarly attention. This book explores the realm of truth, authenticity and fakery in architecture, providing a timely collection of analytical essays and projects. The authors challenge our perception of »authenticity« through the examination of built and simulated environments, architectural fiction, theatric illusions and mannerist trickery. Expanding from the discussion about truthful materiality and tectonics, this book provides an understanding of real, authentic, and fake in urbanism and architecture.

Be part of Saudi Design Festival's inaugural edition, and make creative cultural history in the Kingdom with us.

Videos

Shaping the City: A Forum for Sustainable Cities and Communities is a forum organized by the European Cultural Center in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Architect and engineer Werner Sobek has a knack for making the world’s most complex designs possible. His imaginative structural solutions have aided the work of Helmut Jahn, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaus and others over a fruitful career.

You're invited to the launch of Sent! One hundred ideas about space have now been compiled into a box of treasures, co-published with Post-Post-.

“Architects After Architecture”

Following the success of the 1st Edition and 2nd Edition international conference on “Urban Regeneration and Sustainability”, this year's 3rd edition will address all the aspects of the urban environment. Urban regeneration is discussed thoroughly in this conference, by rendering it as a process and a strategy that aims to transform and renovate areas in hopes of upgrading public housing, public buildings, private buildings, infrastructure, and services. It could also be considered as a highly effective way to improve urban performance by targeting countless areas and taking their economic levels and developments into consideration which could affect society either negatively or positively.

The following online programs at the Daniels Faculty are open for registration for Winter 2022 (January 16 - March 27)

The Daniels Faculty at the University of Toronto and Black Students in Design (BSD) are launching a 10-week mentorship program called Building Black Success through Design (BBSD). BBSD is a free mentorship + design competition created by Black students for Black students interested in design and architecture. Participants in this program will work with Black architecture and design university students who will act as mentors, guiding them through a series of workshops that reflect each step of the design competition. Learn more about the BBSD Mentorship program by visiting our website, or join our online information session on Thursday December 2nd at 6PM.

Join us to tour the liminal space between public and private realm. We're talking about public art on (private) garage doors.

The general reading public is likely to think of architecture as
buildings. But, with this book, Robert Steinberg would like to help
readers understand that architecture shapes lives. Architecture can
help communities integrate and thrive. Architecture can touch us,
influencing how we feel, and how we interact with others. In short,
architecture can fundamentally improve our quality of life.
As a young graduate architect fresh from Berkeley, Steinberg began
to discover the potential of architecture to shape communities.
Working with his father, an architect who had studied with Mies van
der Roe (and whose father was also an architect), one of Steinberg’s
first projects was to draft and redraft a parking garage in downtown
Silicon Valley, CA. As he mediated between the two architects in
charge of the project—his father and the city architect—he noticed
that with each evolution, the garage became more beautiful and
refined. And with each improvement, this garage became more able
to succeed in the goal of reviving the dying downtown core of Silicon
Valley.
The garage was a huge success, and Steinberg began to codify
what he had learned. Thanks to the garage, he wrote the first of
what would become the 9 Realities of Architecture: Architecture is
the Pursuit of Perfection—a magnificent take-away from a humble
parking garage project. As Steinberg eventually rose to become CEO
Title: How Architecture Tells
Size: 8.6” x 10.6” Portrait
Pages: 296pp
Binding: Hardbound
Publication Date: Fall 2021
ISBN: 978-1-954081-31-4
Price: $60.00
World Rights: Available
of his firm and grew it into a global practice with six regional offices
including Austin and New York, and a major office in Shanghai, he
used his drive for creating thriving communities to eventually touch
the lives of countless people around the world.