The Show Garden Competition of Seoul International Garden Show 2020 is a festival for people around the world to spread garden culture, introduce new garden trends, and discover creative garden design. We look forward to many garden designers' participation.
It's the year 2020. It's the year COVID-19 became a global pandemic. How will it reshape our civilization?
The Next 100 Years Project stands against racism. Because of recent events and civil unrest around the world, the deadline for submissions to the Next 100 Years Project – Architect Edition has been extended to June 28, 2020 at 11:59PM CDT. As before, the Next 100 Years Project invites architects from around the world to envision a hopeful, post-pandemic future for everyone.
Over the past few months, the world has experienced many significant changes and our collective relationship to public spaces is among them. How do we find a new way to exist and share in public space? How do we do that safely? Can we rediscover the joy of our public spaces and build better normal around them?
XVI World Biennale of Architecture is an open international forum with professional participation of architects and students from all over the world, profiling a panorama of the tendencies and achievements of contemporary world architecture. Participants will discuss the topic “Value of Diversity in the Globalization Era”, will exchange of ideas with leading masters of the world contemporary architecture and will take part in the different sections of Interarch 2020.
The Chicago Riverwalk is a 1.25-mile trail along the south bank of the Main Stem of the Chicago River, between Lake Michigan and the confluence of branches at Wolf Point. This presentation covers the history of the Chicago Riverwalk project and highlights some features of this unique park—at the bottom of a “canyon” of world-famous architecture.
Join d.talks on June 20 for a virtual Listening Session led by Métis scholar and associate professor, Dr. Yvonne Poitras Pratt. This session is an opportunity to develop an awareness of the narratives and histories that are often untold.
In this Urban Manifesto Series we will chronicle important ideas to improve urban living. We will talk to politicians, developers, architects, policy makers and activists from around the world to develop an urban manifesto for a happier, healthier and liveable urban future. This series is co-hosted by Lucy Bullivant, Founder of Urbanista.org & Prathima Manohar, Founder of think-do-tank The Urban Vision.
Today, the citizen's relationship with the urban context is moving towards the spreading of new practices for the re-appropriation of public spaces all over the world. It is becoming clearer nowadays, that only the city that improves the quality of life of its inhabitants is truly smart, putting the human element at the centre of every urban project.
Herewearch Journal Issue #01:Co -Times Digital Exhibition
Co–times is a call for co-production. As the whole world, we are going through a difficult period. 2020, will marks an uncommon period that we remember it its uniqueness. Different countries, different cities, different people act with collective consciousness. We want to draw attention to the importance of co-production, sharing and cultural transmission in consideration of this extreme situation. Herewearch invites you a challenge that to think about the changes created by this current situation with a person you do not know but share the same condition and to make a small production together. - Statement from the Open Call: Herewearch Journal Issue #01: Co-Times.
Draw In Order to See is the first book to survey the history of architectural design using the latest research in neuroscience and embodied cognition.
At present, among the dozens of books on architectural drawing, design theory, methodologies, model making, CAAD, and planning, there is no book that specifically looks at the history of representation as a reflection of cognitive habits among individuals and groups of architects. As a historian and a practicing architect, Mark Hewitt has a unique point of view, that has enabled him to study the design practices of many architects during various eras, beginning in the Renaissance
The dialogue with history is certainly one of the most exciting topics for reflection that a designer may approach. Among the several academic and post-graduation courses, YACademy is certainly one of the most prestigious contexts within which designers may explore the topic of history and past architectures. Located in the historical heart of one of the oldest and most important Italian cities, YACademy offers a refined specialization program in "Architecture for Heritage". Now in its third edition, the course offers the opportunity to discuss the topic with some of the most refined design firms, with the likes of Alberto Veiga, Kazuyo Sejima, David Chipperfield and Benedetta Tagliabue.
THE NEW JONGNO-GU GOVERNMENT COMPLEX DESIGN COMPETITION
The Jongno-gu Office announces “the New Jongno-gu Governmental Office Complex Design Competition”. It is an international competition for all licensed architects
Vienna Design Week is Austria's largest curated design festival and has been taking place in Vienna since 2007. Recently it welcomed over 40,000 visitors to around 200 events per year. In 2020 Vienna Design Week will take place from the 25th of September to the 4th of October.
Students of Gedik University Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Department have set up the display of a year-end exhibition as a part of the "Interior Photography" course. It is important that the photographs taken by the students "at home" during the pandemic, became more different and creative at the end of the semester.
Videos
top: Decaying Glamour, by Eliza Soroga; bottom: Understanding Territories, workshop by VIPA
Performance Architecture Online Summer School is an exciting learning journey designed to inspire, broaden and challenge the possibilities of spatial representation and design. Architecture is combined with other disciplines including art, cinematography and performance.
A Homestead in the Sundarbans, against the backdrop of the widespread damage caused by the Super Cyclone ‘Amphan’ in May 2020
Against the backdrop of the widespread damage caused by the Super Cyclone ‘Amphan’ in May 2020, we are calling the students of architecture, planning and design community to propose design alternatives for a Homestead for a Family in the Sundarbans and rise to the occasion to contribute to the society at large.