There is an underexplored niche within architecture and construction that is revolutionizing the market. With greater agility, speed, design freedom, and sustainability integrated throughout the process, Modular Construction represents a blue ocean of opportunity that is growing exponentially worldwide.
Since 2016, the Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture has hosted Atraviesos Urbanos (Urban Traversals), a series of thematic tours through various sectors of the capital where an architect from the institution discusses the cultural, urban, and historical value of a neighborhood. For this new edition, the school has joined forces with Nuestro Centro, a neighborhood association dedicated to the revitalization of five neighborhoods: Bellas Artes, Bustamante, Lastarria, Plaza Italia, and Bellavista.
Estudio Guto Requena is opening its creative hub—a historic mansion in downtown São Paulo—to the public for the first time, showcasing projects and works developed through research at Juntxs.Lab, its laboratory for empathy, design, and technology studies. The studio will host guided tours on September 8 as part of the DW! 22 program at Rua Major Diogo, 91, in Bela Vista, by appointment.
This new edition of the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism will take place from September 21 to 25, with Mexico City and the MEXTRÓPOLI Architecture and City Festival serving as the primary stage, before extending to 22 Ibero-American countries over its two-year duration.
For the first time, LIGA presents the work of a Cuban architecture firm: Infraestudio. The studio, led by Anadis González and Fernando Martirena, addresses various conflicts and challenges in its daily practice, including job insecurity in a context where private architecture is illegal. Despite this obstacle, they have managed to develop a provocative body of built work that they intertwine with proposals linked to artistic practices.
Participating institutions: Faculty of Architecture, UNAM; Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Cuenca, Ecuador; Department of Humanities and Communication of the Catholic University of Uruguay; and the Franz Mayer Museum in the Historic Center of Mexico City. The international workshop is coordinated by academics Guillermina Rosas López, Geraldine Rodríguez Cárdenas, and Brenda Pérez González.
SANILOCK®, a Mexican company dedicated to the design, manufacture, sale, and installation of restroom partitions for non-residential buildings, is celebrating 35 years in the market. Since 1987, the company has provided a new and stronger architectural design for public restroom partitions.
BIM methodology is currently booming and on the lips of every industry professional, making it essential for any sector expert to keep in mind. In this article, we review the five most relevant factors to help you assess your compatibility with BIM, according to Editeca.
“Stage Lighting,” the new course from EAD Sesc Digital, will be open to the public starting August 31, featuring content developed by Marisa Bentivegna across a series of six video lessons.
The World Around has launched an open call for applications to its inaugural Young Climate Prize. The prize has been designed to invest in the generation born into the climate crisis, and provide visibility, support and mentorship for 25 of the world’s most talented and passionate climate designers under the age of 25. We are looking for young people who are working on their own self-started projects that address, draw attention to or mitigate climate change in their community. The chosen applicants will join a bespoke academy and each be mentored by one of our extraordinary Design Champions – the world’s leading climate-change-focused designers, museum directors, curators, writers and business leaders.
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Volume Zero Architecture Competition invites each one of you to participate in our 19th edition of architecture competitions and the 3rd edition of Tiny House Architecture Competitions. This year’s Tiny House Architecture Competition aims to celebrate individuality, redefine sustainability and exalt simple, resourceful living. The Tiny House Movement is also a platform to explore the avenues of mobile living spaces and the freedom they would offer. Come be a part of this movement; join a new wave of habitat designers!
Can we reweave the city into a factory building?
Can we reweave our lives today into the buildings of yesterday?
Can we reweave the life of a weaving factory?
Can we reweave the factory into the city?
The Faculty of Architecture and Design at Universidad Finis Terrae will launch the second issue of Revista Archipiélago, an academic publication that seeks to disseminate new knowledge related to various artistic disciplines. This issue focuses on "distance," a crucial theme for our times and for the fields of space and design, explored through three thematic axes: Design Critique, Design Processes, and Logbook.
Communities have always thrived and sustained themselves through innovative collaborations with their environment and individuals that surround them. These have often been responses to diverse needs, ranging from celebrations to contestations, formal to informal associations or progressive development to building capacity and resilience. Agency that the communities gain through such associations empower them to translate their needs to tangible and intangible solutions, each unique to the problem, place and time. Architecture can thus be identified as a tangible solution to community needs that emanate out of a collaborative alliance.
The submitted essay should reflect on how collaborative architecture can be a tangible solution to attain good and functional design that enables diversity and inclusion. How do architects reimagine/reframe processes to design for and with communities? What are the possibilities for design interventions that would involve inter-disciplinary collaborations for community infrastructures?
The IIA Young Architects Festival 2022 is a national event, of The Indian Institute of Architects, to encourage & promote participation of Young Architects and to celebrate the contribution of the youngsters to the profession. This year the IIA Kerala Chapter has the pleasure and privilege of hosting this magnanimous event at Calicut and take pleasure in reintroducing the YAF Awards in a brand-new format to encourage, acknowledge, appreciate and honour the creative contribution of the younger IIA members in the field of architecture and to promote creative thinking for a resilient future.
The goal is to design a farmhouse for a maximum capacity of a joint family. The concept should address the climatic aspect and material aspect. Participants are encouraged to explore how the architecture of a place affects the behavior of people under its influence.
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