TAC! Urban Architecture Festival will transform a Spanish city into a space for innovation and experimentation each year. This will be achieved through the construction of a temporary pavilion designed by emerging architects, selected via an open call.

The Brick Award recognises and celebrates exceptional brick architecture from around the world. It creates a platform for architects and planners to present their innovative and creative projects and designs to an international audience.

Architecture can achieve great things and unite cultures and nature, as demonstrated by the outstanding buildings that won the International Brick Award 22. For the tenth time, Wienerberger shone the spotlight on exceptional brick building projects from all over the world. The aim of the Brick Award is to act as a torch bearer and source of inspiration for architecture, planning, urban development and culture. The 50 nominated projects also demonstrate the aesthetic and functional potential of ceramic building materials.

URBANBATfest is a festival that acts as a laboratory—or a laboratory that evolves into a festival. It is a research process focused on urban transformations and an environment for learning, experimentation, and collective creation designed to drive urban innovation.

In this new edition of URBANBATfest, under the theme "No future," we are opening a space for reflection on the future of cities. We are examining the responsibility of architecture and urban planning within this context of multidimensional crisis, their complicity and forms of resistance, their possibilities and limitations, their tools and working methodologies, their relationship with other disciplines, their areas of intervention, their capacity to create new imaginaries, and how to cohabit the present and the future.

Daylighting design is an essential aspect for creating brighter, healthier buildings for everyone. Considering that daylight has a unique ability to shape the experience of a space, it is important for architects and designers to take it into account in order to build healthier, more sustainable buildings. Good daylighting design can improve the health, mood, cognitive abilities and productivity of the occupants of homes, schools or workplaces, while reducing the energy consumption of the building.

We explore a few key factors that can influence daylight availability in buildings and how to account for them in your next project.

For Milano Design Week 2022, UniFor, a company of the Molteni Group specialized in workplace furnishing solutions, will be presenting PRINCIPLES, a new collection developed in collaboration with the international architecture firm, OMA. The unveiling of PRINCIPLES will take place in a new location with a prestigious address, Viale Pasubio, which is also home to the headquarters of Fondazione Feltrinelli and soon to become UniFor’s permanent showroom.

The fundamental concept of PRINCIPLES is to provide furnishings that can be used by anyone, at any time, to best support the flow of operations and communications required by the contemporary workplace.

The goal of these conversations is to exchange experiences, discuss, and reflect on contemporary architecture and construction, while broadening critical perspectives. The aim is to discuss architecture in a critical, provocative, and proactive way, exploring processes, technologies, and innovations.

The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo once again invites the public—especially those who frequent Ibirapuera Park—to experience the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in a new way. On Saturday, June 11, the second meeting of the year for the Pavilhão aberto program will take place. Titled "Possible Urbanities," the event will feature a talk with architect Louise Lenate Ferreira da Silva at 11:00 am, a tour of the Pavilion with the Bienal’s education team at 2:00 pm, and a free step dance workshop for children with the group Crossover at 3:00 pm. All activities are free (see details and registration in the event information below).

"Dentro da Pós" presents the pedagogical framework, structure, objectives, and schedule of the Escola da Cidade lato sensu postgraduate program through conversations, open classes, and final reviews, all of which are open to anyone interested in the seven courses offered.

Since 2016, the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae has hosted "Atraviesos Urbanos" (Urban Traversals), a series of thematic tours through various sectors of the capital. Led by an architecture professor who discusses the history and heritage value of each site to an audience of students, faculty, and the general public, these tours aim to highlight routes of cultural, urban, and historical interest throughout Santiago.

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The new Archstorming competition takes us to Mozambique, a country defined by endless, persistent challenges. Although there has been a substantial increase in household income, more than two-thirds of the population continues to live below the poverty line.

When development firm Blue Heron set out to create their one-of-kind residential showpiece, Vegas Modern 001, or VM001 for short, the goal was to stretch the boundaries of design and create an immersive experience that embraced both the natural and human-made worlds.

“We like to think about the home as being appropriate to our time and place, our culture and the technology that's available,” says Founder and CEO Tyler Jones. “And so there's an energy and spirit that comes from the city … so we're talking about digital media and this playful kind of vibe that we have in some big dramatic moments.”

The Arquitectura Atemporal 2022 (Timeless Architecture 2022) exhibition, organized by INTBAU Spain and curated by Alejandro García Hermida, features both the winning entries from the Architecture Competition and the 2022 Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards. The exhibition will be on view at CentroCentro, a cultural space located in Madrid's Palacio de Cibeles, from June 10 to August 7, 2022.

The Ideas Competition for a new 24,000 m2 building at the Di Tella Campus is now open to all architects licensed in Argentina.

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Discover SketchUp and its workflow with other documentation and rendering software in four completely free workshops held on June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 2022.

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.

Architects have always been asked to breathe new life into ancient architectures inherited from the past or into historical – often monumental – artifacts that no longer respond to the customs and needs of contemporary society.

Nevertheless, ancient architecture tells our stories and therefore deserves to be restored with interventions that bring along a hint of modernity and show the trace of the design activity. YACademy's course in “Architecture for Heritage” has been created on these premises. Its aim is to train designers who will be able to understand and enhance the memory of historical architectures and take inspiration from them to carry out new interventions that both meet new needs and are enriched by the link to the past. In a close dialogue between the ancient and the modern, between existing architectures and new interventions, it is possible to comprehend what has been and what is now, redesigning – through architecture – a historical line bound to be continued by future generations.

The huge strides that have been made in technological and digital innovation in recent years mean we are becoming increasingly familiar with home automation and other systems that have the ability to improve our quality of life and the comfort and efficiency of our homes. In a way that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago outside of old sci-fi films, everything in a smart home–from the curtains, windows, alarm systems and heating to the household appliances, TVs and vacuum cleaners–can now be “robotised” and controlled remotely to manage our living spaces. 

Throughout its history, the Taller Max Cetto has been defined by its reflection on and development of architectural and artistic thought. The Taller hosts various activities, including the "Conversaciones en el Cetto" program, which features lectures by prominent professionals. Previous editions have included architects such as Jorge Ambrosi, Oscar Hagerman, Tatiana Bilbao, Frida Escobedo, Carlos Mijares, Productora, Benjamín Romano, Jorge Yázpik, Isaac Broid, and many others. The 2022-2 cycle will feature Pavel Escobedo, Andrés Solíz, Gustavo López, Luis Young, Isadora Hastings, Javier Sánchez, Daniel Escotto, TO Arquitectura, and Bettina Cetto.