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The Academic Association of Faculty of Architecture of Warsaw University of Technology would like to invite you to the next lecture in the “About Architecture” series, organised as a part of A-Akademia’s activity. Our guest will be Tim Stonor, architect, urban planner and since 1995 Managing Director of Space Syntax Limited. He has devoted his career to the analysis and design of human behaviour patterns with theory of space syntax.

Culture Amplifier is a virtual panel discussion that continues the dialog about designing for multicultural exchange by promoting opportunities to peacefully interact following the “Cultural Amplifier” competition hosted by the committee last year. Join a panel of interdisciplinary experts and explore how we can create spaces, designs and interventions that promote tolerance and better facilitate multicultural exchange by promoting opportunities for peaceful interaction.

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The historic medieval cities of Kathmandu valley managed to create an urban legacy that was remarkable for its times, marked by sophisticated architectural expression in timber and brick, innovative water structures like hitis, wells, ponds and water spouts that formed strong community-level spaces along with urban level public square in form of Durbar Square right at the heart of the city. These expressions of buildings, water structures and public spaces are amongst the most refined and bold examples of an urban order anywhere in the world making the Kathmandu valley an open-air museum of historic architectures and cities.
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The workshop will be organized under the following themes
-Water: systems and expressions
-Architecture as an urban device
-The idea of public

The call for applications for the Lilly Reich Grant for equality in architecture is open until April 8 for high school research projects focused on disseminating and highlighting contributions to architecture that have been unfairly sidelined or forgotten. The jury's decision will be announced on June 16, the anniversary of Lilly Reich's birth.

Des-Adarve is an ephemeral art competition first held in 2017, aimed at highlighting the city's historical and architectural heritage through contemporary art and public participation.

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Indonesian Dedicated Architecture, Interior Design, and Building Material Exhibition.

United Contemporary is proud to present Turning of Day, a contemplative solo exhibition by Toronto-based painter Stefan Berg. In this new suite of plein air paintings and studio interpretations, Berg draws out and emphasises a compelling geometry found in nature. Grasping the weight and mass of the subject, both in feeling and substance, the artist makes real the physicality of experience, to procure a tangible, haptic touch for the eyes. However, the true subject of this exhibition is light. Returning to familiar landscapes with cumulative inquiry, Berg has painted on-site and from memory, the evanescence of time, exploring temporality and duration. As a result, his paintings are evocative of the mechanics of seeing, layering and revising the passing light and atmosphere observed over days, sometimes months, even years.

The "Flashback / Carrilho da Graça" exhibition allows visitors to relive the moment of creation for various projects, represented through drawings, films, models, and photographs. These are complemented by various external references to the architect's work sourced from national and international museums and private collections, inviting an exploration of the architect's creative process.

The early 20th century in Mexico was marked by a series of social, cultural, and political transformations. European neoclassical artistic influences began to be heavily questioned, and muralism—adopted by the government as a strategy to educate the Mexican people—began to incorporate new narratives, including indigenous and ancestral cultures, while celebrating the revolutionary process.
Collaborative practices between artists and architects intensified during this period. This course seeks to explore and discuss the intersections between art and architecture from 1910 to 1979, based on the work of key figures from this era: Juan O'Gorman and Diego Rivera (1920s–1930s); Mario Pani and Carlos Mérida (the construction of the University City and plastic integration in the 1940s–1950s); Luis Barragán and Mathias Goeritz (1940s–1950s); and Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and La Ruta de la Amistad (1968), concluding with the Espacio Escultórico (1979).

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When specifying materials for projects, the thermal insulation level of windows is essential to ensure comfort inside buildings. A key challenge lies in balancing thickness with performance, as thin monolithic glass offers low thermal insulation, while highly efficient insulated glass is often too thick.

The company Vitro Architectural Glass has recently launched VacuMax™ Vacuum Insulating Glass (VIG), a high-performance glass consisting of two 4 mm tempered glass panes, including a Solarban® 60 solar control low-e coating on surface #2. By using a vacuum space for separation, high-performance thermal glazing is achieved in a thickness of just 8.3 mm.

AceroLAB's mission is to drive innovation in steel through multisectoral development, connecting the public, private, and academic sectors. It approaches design at all scales, with a focus on quality of life, sustainability, and the productivity of buildings and public works in Chile.

Espace Rivière is a project to house a library and maison de la culture, along with community and recreational spaces and an Accès Montréal office in a de-partitioned building. The multidisciplinary architecture competition will involve construction totalling approximately 10,060 m2 of gross floor area.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Are you an architecture student interested in climate change in architectural education? Here is your chance to share your vision, demand, question or concern about sustainable design, climate change, and architecture. It might be a graphic of what you think priorities should be, something you want to learn, a project you recently did, or something that inspires you. The competition is open to architecture students at any level of their program, from anywhere in the world.

Daylight shapes the experience of a space like no other material and is a fundamental aspect for designing healthy and sustainable buildings. Good daylighting design can improve the health, mood, cognitive abilities and productivity of the occupants at home, school or work while reducing the energy consumption of buildings. 

Daylight Visualizer makes it easy to take informed decisions about architectural and daylighting strategies in your projects, and to evaluate compliance with requirements for daylight performance in building regulations and building rating systems.

Architectural renderings are a great way to showcase projects. They provide an impression of what your built environment will look like once completed. Thanks to real-time rendering software, you can now do more than present beautiful images.

We’ve highlighted five ways to optimize your design workflow by using real-time rendering. 

The research group City, Architecture, and Preservation in Historical Perspective (CAPPH - UNIFESP) and the Interdisciplinary Center for City Studies (CIEC - UNICAMP) are pleased to invite researchers dedicated to the study of the city from a historical perspective—whether focusing on urban history, urbanism, and urban planning, or related approaches such as historical geography, social, economic, and technological history, among others—to participate in the 5th edition of the Urbanism and Urbanists in Brazil Seminar. The 5th SUUB will take place in a hybrid format from October 12 to 15, 2022, hosted by the School of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences at the Federal University of São Paulo, located in Guarulhos.

For this edition, we are pleased to welcome guest editors Dr. Célia Gonsales (UFPel) and Dr. Ana Elísia da Costa (UFRGS).
The submission deadline is May 30, 2022. Submissions will be accepted in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

The latest project from BoConcept and designer Karim Rashid results in an organic, minimalist design that blends smoothly into the nature of interior landscapes.