Charles Holland is joined by Professor Lesley Lokko to look at the relationship of the domestic plan to issues of power, gender, race and social relations.

Architects Jozé Candido Sampaio de Lacerda and Priscilla Chiesse organized a book with Histories of Rio de Janeiro told by architects, which will be released on December 2nd. The idea was born from each day more, we value our city, mainly through all those who somehow collaborated in making it more beautiful and human. For that, nothing better than the testimonies of some architects who contributed a lot to this valorization.

For the first time in history, 111 driving forces in architecture from 29 countries, spanning five continents, united in a unique collaborative experimental project by creating a magnificent collection of artworks. Each contribution is inspired by the previous work.

“Life within Ruins. Essays on architecture restoration and reuse proposals for Piscina Mirabilis” is an incoming book, published by Save the Heritage Benefit Corporation, including essays on the topic of Architecture Restoration from worldwide researchers and the projects on the reuse of Piscina Mirabilis, to be published on 2021 with ISBN. The editorial board currently welcomes abstracts from University researchers, PhD candidates, professors and any other scholar affiliated to an institution or a cultural organization.

Mars is the most Earth-like planet in the solar system; and the only one where humans have conceived setting up colonies in the near future. A human mission to Mars has been the subject of science fiction and aerospace engineer-since 20th century. Private companies and government agencies like SpaceX and NASA, developing this infrastructure, are set to make this long sought-after human dream come true, possibly by the end of 2030.

ISOLA (Indian Society of Landscape Architects) Mumbai (MMR) Chapter is delighted to invite entries for Flash Fiction (short story up to 750 words) set in past, present or future and based on the theme: “Landscapes & Well Being”.

From a reality of intense transformations generated by the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, the 13th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo presents "Reconstruction" as the central issue for the Co-Curatorship Call for Proposals.

The Driving the Human journey will start with the Opening Festival, a digital festival that will be streamed online from November 20-22, 2020, and hosted by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Open to everyone, the Opening Festival will showcase and critically engage with the urgencies of our time, publicly discussing and condensing questions and visions for shaping a sustainable and collective future by combining science, technology, and art.

Co-organized by the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto and the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University, with Building Equality in Architecture Canada (BEA/Canada).

A Glossary of Urban Voids is a critiqued collection of over 200 terms regularly used to name the urban void, from the "terrain vague" to the "buffer zone," as the means to explore the role of urban voids as public space. As the landscape architect James Corner has pointed out, a void cannot be labeled because “to name it is to claim it in some way.” By listing existing terms, A Glossary of Urban Voids is an attempt to name the unnamable, to define that which should have no precise definition.

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This year, the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Chicago) is honoring the city’s outstanding architectural projects virtually at Designight 2020. For the first time in the event’s sixty-five year run, the organization’s Design Excellence Awards ceremony and celebration will be a free online experience for members and non-members alike.

This event celebrates the six winning entries of the 14th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. This prestigious award program selects exemplary built work that combines social and ecological concerns with innovative and exemplary design.

This is the final in a series of panel sessions launching the fourth volume of Bracket, titled Takes Action. Bracket [Takes Action] collects essays and projects that question how actions can be designed, accommodated for, and encouraged through both creative practice and design citizenship. The book and conversation is situated at a critical point in history in which actions need to be re-conceptualized to relate to who we are, how we live, and how we communicate today. The role of design and the agency of the designer are at stake in facilitating or stifling action.

Surfacing Work presents recent projects by Spinagu, a Los Angeles-based research and design studio that explores architectural ideas and processes through spatial, experimental, and exhibitionary formats.

For the 2020 iteration of University of Westminster's annual Robin Evans Lecture, we are delighted to be joined by Eyal Weizman, founding director of Forensic Architecture and Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.

DigitalFUTURES Talk on Space Architecture
14 November @ 9:00am EST / 3:00pm CET/ 10:00pm China

Founded in 1988 by Gilles Saucier and André Perrotte, Saucier + Perrotte Architectes is a multidisciplinary practice that is internationally renowned for its institutional, cultural, and residential projects. Saucier + Perrotte’s highly acclaimed buildings have been published the world over, reflecting the office’s status as one of Canada’s premier design firms.

The forest, the island, the mountain and the desert are engaged as non site specific spatial metaphors informing architecture. The abstracted idea of landscape as model in these drawings and projects challenges the myth of site specificity in landscape and architecture.