On Tuesday, March 29, from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM (CET), a virtual reality talk will take place at the Meetaverse Cultural Center, hosted on the AltspaceVR application.

The Sarañani! Festival of Native Architectures of the World (Let’s Walk) fulfills its promise as a traveling festival, arriving in Oaxaca, Mexico, for its second edition. From January 27 to 29, the Sarañani! Festival will bring together global architectures that share the goal of achieving more equitable and responsible living. Hosted from Oaxaca, the event is made possible through a partnership with the Roots studio, led by architect and artist João Boto Caeiro, whose work is recognized for its exceptional quality, integrating tradition, sustainability, and social purpose. This year’s theme, presented in the Nahuatl language, references the Oaxacan custom of Tequio—a form of collaboration that invites collective efforts to preserve the knowledge of living in community.

The exhibition The Vienna Model - housing for the twenty-first-century city opens on Thursday, May 5, at the Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM). The exhibition is organized as part of the AHA (Affordable Housing Activation) UIA International Forum 2022.

April 20, 2022, marked the 150th anniversary of Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna taking office as Intendant of Santiago and proposing the challenge of its transformation. Two weeks later, on Wednesday, May 4, the opening of this temporary exhibition commemorating such a unique initiative took place.

'Unusual Architectures: "Other" Experiences in the Architecture and Urbanism of Santiago de Chile (1950–2020)' is an exhibition of city representation and photography. It showcases a collection of objects and cases from Santiago, a capital that increasingly presents itself as a casual, uncontrolled, and contingent accumulation of matter and experience—an expression of the "other" and the unfathomable.

The Atraviesos Urbanos (Urban Crossings), organized by the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae, consist of four walking tours through different sectors of the capital during the first semester of 2022. Each tour is led by an architecture faculty member who discusses the history and heritage value of each site for an audience of students, faculty, and the general public interested in learning more about the city.

This upcoming session, titled "From Plaza de Armas to the General Cemetery," will take place on Monday, May 16, at 3:00 PM. The route begins at kilometer 0 in Plaza de Armas, continuing through the Central Market, the Mapocho River, the Pérgola de las Flores, and Avenida La Paz, ending at the cemetery. The tour will be led by academic Max Palma.

Within the academic dialogue and reflection space 'Del territorio al Detalle,' which brings together architecture professors and students alongside renowned architects, the spin-off 'Del territorio al detalle .re' explores, through informal conversations with key stakeholders, the thesis that a territory's richness stems from its capacity for renewal, activating its own disused spaces to transform them into challenges and resources.

This Friday, August 5, at 1:00 PM, David Miranda and Raúl Monterroso will discuss their contribution to Re_vista 05 of the Museo Experimental El Eco, titled "Modern Dreams, Magical Realisms, and Other Fantasies of Yesterday and Today."

"For Mies, modern architecture in the age of industrialization required a renewal of the art of building from within. This could not be achieved by inventing a new formal language, nor by turning architecture toward technology, as many of his modern colleagues assumed. In his view, the modern architect had to recover the intrinsic value of architectural phenomena and fuse them with new life, rather than abandoning architectural values in the name of a new era. From this perspective, Mies combined, for example, classical monumentality and modern transparency, using marble or travertine in combination with modern steel and glass construction.

Mies’s attempt to explore the architectural potential of modern steel construction and the language of formal abstraction was not dedicated to rationalization, but to a new measure of spatial freedom. To achieve this, in the late 1920s, Mies developed his concept of the dialogue between opposites and their morphological transformation, brilliantly implemented in the 1929 Barcelona Pavilion. Later, in his American work, Mies transformed modern steel construction into a classical tectonic framework for an open, column-free space." - Fritz Neumeyer

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Starting March 15, Guatemala will host its first-ever biennial event dedicated to the best of Guatemalan design: Red Space, organized by the Guatemalan Interior Design Association (ASODI). This significant event will cover topics in architecture, interior design, sculpture, painting, and the latest trends in decor. It will be a month filled with design in Guatemala.

Porto Academy is the result of a profound passion for architecture as a discipline. It was established in 2013 as a manifesto of pluralism and opportunity, rooted in close engagement with a wide range of architects, artists, and curators.

An exhibition at Disponible and a public conversation at Lerma, curated by Cooperativa Espacial.

This lecture series is part of the Building Technologies course taught at the Universidad Andrés Bello School of Architecture.

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A ceremony to welcome new members and honor our Lifetime and Honorary Members, an exhibition and discussion on the CA Bulletin (1944-1963), the presentation of the CA Awards and Distinctions, and a keynote lecture by the new National Architecture Prize winner are among the activities with which the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile will commemorate its 80th anniversary, all of which will be free and hybrid.

Solo tendrás piedras is an exhibition developed by artist Alejandra Prieto in collaboration with architect Francisco Díaz. The project explores reflections on lithium, an element capable of regulating psychological imbalances such as bipolar disorder while simultaneously storing potential energy in the form of batteries.

The Contemporary Architecture Foundation (FAC), as a Spanish partner of the New European Bauhaus (NEB), is organizing the NEB Meeting Point Sur+ Festival as a program of parallel events to the New European Bauhaus Festival in Córdoba, Spain.

This Saturday, August 6, at 7:00 PM, the Bruther (Stéphanie Bru, Alexandre Theriot) conference will take place, organized by the Center for Studies of Contemporary Architecture (CEAC) at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, with an introduction by Marcelo Faiden.

Organized by the Center for Studies of Contemporary Architecture, with an introduction by Juan José Cruces, Rector of UTDT, the keynote lecture by Jorge Silvetti will take place.