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The Fundamental Design Build Initiative invites 10 early-career architects, designers, and engineers from around the world to San Jose, Costa Rica for a three-month summer residency. Over the duration of the program, participants will be exposed to all aspects of a built work of design including: site analysis, brainstorming, fundraising, project management, sourcing materials, pre-fabrication, onsite construction, public relations, and preparing publicity materials. Participants will be chosen through a competitive selection process and are invited to attend and participate at no cost to themselves beyond travel and per diem expenses. Accommodations are provided in the cultural center of downtown San

We are pleased to announce the launch of an annual international design competition: Low-cost House Design Competition. The competition is designed to challenge and seek creativity with ideas and concepts in architectural design, as well as landscape design or site planning. This competition aims to promote alternative solutions to housing, coming up with affordable and sustainable units with limited size and budget to the urgent demands for a house of urban poor.

The challenge is both multidisciplinary and multi-scale, a minimal housing capable of fulfilling the residents' requirements of thrift and sustainability. This year’s competition focuses on low-cost house, an affordable

Bas ten Brinke (70F architecture) will be giving a lecture called 'The reality of architecture', about 'place, perception, tactility and loving architecture’.

Russian architectural Group of Webs 360.ru and Tchoban Foundation Museum for Architectural Drawing (Berlin) invite architects and architectural illustrators to take part in ArchiGraphicArts 7 International Contest of Architectural Hand Drawings.

Deadline for Entries: March, 02, 2020 (11:30 PМ, Moscow Time)

The internet-platform of the competition: http://competitions.archplatforma.ru/

Hand Drawings created without using any computer technology are accepted!

Participation in competition is free.

Competition is held on 4 nominations:

- Drawing from Nature
- Architectural Fantasy
- Drawing to the Project
- Drawing Modern Architecture. Special Nomination by Sergei Tchoban and Tchoban Foundation Museum for Architectural Drawing

Participants can present 1 Entry in

OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES
ALSHATI STRIP MALL

1.0 Project Brief
1.1 The Project Vision
The vision for the project is to build unique and landmark strip mall in AlShati area in Dammam city, Saudi Arabia. to attract high level tenants of retail shops and F&B shops, with dynamic and eye catchy outdoor spaces (terraces, landscape, hardscape & parking area). Alsalimi is looking for dynamic, functional & attractive design and with cost efficient.

1.2 Background
This is one of the new projects for Alsalimi company, the land is located in Dammam city at the coast side of Alshati district with square shape.
Our independent market research indicates

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The Pavilion marked a new milestone in the history of Walk&Talk, creating an open and public house for the festival’s program, a symbol of the project's autonomy, maturity and capacity for innovation as a space of creation and experimentation in the various artistic fields.

The receptivity to the first Pavilion was proven by the way it involved and crossed different audiences, attracted by an inviting, open and activated space with an intense two-week program that included concerts, talks, parties and performances. The Pavilion was the "meeting point" and "starting point" of the activities of Walk&Talk 2018, revived the São João Square

Call for Papers
New Journal publishing from March 2020 Submissions Open
The first issue is planned for March 2020.
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2020.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the launch of the International Journal of Education in Architecture and Design (IJEAD), a new journal aiming to create a platform to collect and present several approaches, examples, experiments to architectural and design education. The journal will be a valuable resource for those interested in the areas of architectural education, design education, urban planning education, interior architecture education, industrial design education, landscape design education and other related disciplines. Its main aims

The brick in the picture is being preserved as part of the archival holdings of the Canadian Centre for Architecture on the work of the Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG). Founded at the McGill University School of Architecture in the early 1970s with the goal of analysing “How the other half builds,” the MCHG focused on practices of building and dwelling in developing countries. The group’s research and project work, including experiments with sulphur concrete, were part of a paradigm shift in the discourse on the housing crises of the global South. Measures such as slum clearances and resettlement, often

Research-related design and design-related research in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture are generated, supported and structured by intentions as conscious purpose and position as well as intended content of perception, thought and action. The symposium will examine modes of action and meanings of intentions. How do they have an orienting, clarifying and dynamic effect within the processes of design and research, and how do they contribute to design and knowledge? What tensions arise between imprint, orientation and the projective, between research, imagination and realization, and how can these be evaluated, communicated and conveyed in a transferable way? To question

THE NEW SENSE OF PLACE: EDUCATION, PROFESSION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION

ORGANIZED:
UPC Research Group (GIRAS)
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
Mind, Land & Society Arquitectonics Network

Key Speakers:

3rd June:
- Luis Umbelino. Philosopher from Portugal
- Karl Friston. Neurologue from England
- Addenda Architects, from Barcelona
4th June:
-Alberto Magnaghi, Architet and senior professor at UNIFI,
- Anna Marson, Urbanist and professor at IUAV di Venezia,
-Aldo Bonomi, Sociologist, AASter
- Fabio Parascandolo , geographer and researcher at Università di Cagliari.
5th June:
- Alberto Campo Baeza Doctor Architect from Spain
- Abalos+ Sentkiewicz, AS+ (Madrid, Cambridge y Shangai)
- Barozzi-Veiga. Architects.
“Architecture and Art”

The school offers 17 (seventeen) international scholarships in Fashion, Design, Visual Communication or Management 2020/2021 academic year for its university degree (Undergraduate Degrees, Bachelor and Diplomas Courses - English and Spanish) in Barcelona.

The scholarship covers 100% of the tuition fee.

Candidates will be required to put forward ideas and projects under the theme “RESPECT” Based on their own individual experience and ideas, candidates will be asked to conceive innovative solutions, products or design plans according to the theme in line in line with the course they wish to take.

The project has to be submitted with a description thereof

International Architecture Exhibition (Biennale) in Venice / La Biennale di Venezia/ is the most important global event that presents modern achievements and tendencies in the field of architectural and urban creativity.
The Artistic Director of the Biennale 2020 Hashim Sarkis, titled the exhibition “How Will We Live Together?” (Biennale explained in detail at the official webpage: https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2020). The 17th International Architecture Exhibition (17th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura) will be open to the public from May 23rd to November 29th.
Montenegrin participation in this year’s exhibition has been theoretically framed by the national pavilion Curator Svetlana K. Perović, within the

Open call for submissions for individuals or organisations that have contributed to the advancement of architecture across the Middle East and North Africa from 2017 – 2020. Brief and submissions portal can be found here: https://www.tamayouz-award.com/the-architectural-personality-of-the-year-prize.html

Introduction
The Mohamed Makiya Prize is part of Tamayouz Excellence Award's programme that champions and celebrates the best of architecture in the Middle East and North Africa. Every cycle, the prize is presented to the 'Architectural Personality of the Year', or the individual/organisation that has made the greatest contribution towards the advancement of architecture in a specific period. The winner will be celebrated during the annual

Open call for submissions for a youth house complex in Baghdad’s Sadr City. Brief can be found here: http://www.dewan-award.com/2020.html

Background
Sadr City, also known as Al Thawra City, is located on the far eastern side of Baghdad in Al Rusafa. The original name, Al Thawra City (meaning revolution in Arabic), derives from the July 14, 1958 revolution. The city’s name was later changed to Al Sadr City after Mohammad Sadeq Al-Sadr – an important religious cleric – following the fall of Baghdad and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In this brief, we will refer to it as ‘Almedina’, or ‘the city’,

Open call for submissions for women who work in architecture across the Middle East and North Africa. Brief and submissions portal can be found here: https://www.tamayouz-award.com/women-in-architecture-and-construction-award.html

The Tamayouz Women in Architecture and Construction Award is an excellence award for women who have contributed to the fields of architecture and construction throughout the Near East and North Africa. The award consists of two categories:

1. Women of Outstanding Achievements: This prize recognises the individual’s positive contribution to the field of architecture and the status of women in the field, as well as all other professional achievements and her lifelong commitment to the

The School of Architecture at Mississippi State University is hosting an exhibit of the work of renowned African American Architect Philip Freelon as part of a celebration of Black History Month. The exhibition is located in the Charlotte and Richard McNeel Architecture Gallery in the Giles Hall School of Architecture on the campus of Mississippi State University. This partnership with the Mississippi State University African American Studies Program will also host an opening reception on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 12:00 pm in Giles Hall, located at 899 Collegeview Street, Mississippi State, MS 39762. The reception and exhibit are free

- A photo essay by Belgian architectural photographer Kris Provoost capturing the boldest and most iconic structures of the architectural revolution in China
- Striking images of fantastical buildings from unexpected angles and perspectives "Beautified China shows the country's modern architecture in new light" - CNN Style Photo-Series "Provides an abstracted look at China's iconic architecture," - ArchDaily.com.The past decade, internationally renowned architects such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Ole Scheeren, and Herzog & de Meuron have given their creativity and expertise free rein in China, where the sky is literally the limit, from construction techniques and use of materials

Europe’s oldest known wooden house is the Bethlehem House, a solid timber construction erected in 1287 in the Swiss canton of Schwyz. With a design that is both functional and flexible design, the building is still in use today.

Rossetti+Wyss explore the qualities of traditional building methods and transport these into their work. Many of their projects involve the use of solid wood for project-specific applications and designs, as well as in combination with other materials. Embracing the many facets of this trustworthy building material, they have used it for load bearing and bracing, as well as for protective and insulating