Project conceptualization has the largest impact on the functionality, performance, and cost of a building - this is when key decisions about layout and aesthetics are being taken. Although the depth of data required to make these decisions is best served by BIM, it is understandable why architects are reluctant to use BIM tools in the creative process.
The Municipality of Flores da Cunha (RS), in partnership with the Institute of Architects of Brazil – Rio Grande do Sul Department (IAB RS) and supported by the Council for Architecture and Urbanism of RS (CAU/RS) and the Brazilian Association of Landscape Architects (ABAP), has launched the National Public Competition for Architecture and Urban Design to revitalize Avenida 25 de Julho – one of the city's most important thoroughfares. The competition guidelines are available on the website and the Instagram profiles of IAB RS and the municipal government.
Article 25’s 10x10 online art auction is open for bidding and will be accessible until 8.30 pm on the 1st of December. Now in its eleventh year, 10x10 features work from over 100 artists, architects, sculptors, photographers, and designers offering their reflections on our urban outdoor spaces and bringing together the likes of Banksy and Sir Antony Gormley, with leading architects including Sir David Adjaye. Proceeds will go towards Article 25’s humanitarian design and build projects focusing on housing, safe schools and effective clinics and hospitals worldwide.
The 15º edition of the "From Territory to Detail" International Architecture Seminar serves as a space for dialogue and reflection, bringing together students, academics, and professionals in the field alongside renowned Latin American architects. A common thread among these speakers is their balance of teaching with professional practice across diverse areas, ranging from editorial work to artistic experimentation.
We often take things for granted, and sometimes barely even register the really important things, only noticing them once they are missing. This can be applied to many things in life, of course, but it is especially apparent in the building industry, and in particular to intelligent building technology that runs in the background while ensuring the functionality and longevity of architectural ideas.
Estudio Tupi Invites: The Origins of Brazilian Modern Architecture
The Colombian Society of Architects (SCA) has officially launched the 37th Colombian Congress of Architecture and Urbanism, which will focus on public space as its central theme. This focus comes in response to the pandemic lockdowns experienced both nationally and globally. The event will feature 103 speakers and 60 academic sessions across various formats, offering approximately 45 hours of highly relevant academic, productive, and regulatory content for the industry.
With winter drawing in across the northern hemisphere, Hudson Valley Lighting Group share tips on how to warm up homes with layered lighting and worn-in finishes.
4th MEETING | LATIN AMERICAN CONVERSATIONS: DESIGN PROCESSES WITH ARCHITECTS CÍNTIA AND DEBORAH LINS
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Casa en Jean Mermoz, a cornerstone of Chilean residential architecture, built on Jean Mermoz Street in the Las Condes district and demolished in 1992. Its architect, Fabio Cruz Prieto, pioneered a highly distinctive approach to conceiving, designing, and constructing architecture, in which every part and stage of the work was simultaneously autonomous and complementary.
CAU/RJ has extended the registration deadline for the CAU+Mulheres Awards. Female architects and urban planners now have until November 26 to submit their projects.
Now in its second edition, the CAU+Mulheres Award is one of the Council's initiatives to promote dialogue and increase the visibility of female architects and urban planners across their various fields of work. The award features five categories: Architectural Design; Interior Design; Urban Design; Architectural Design for Emergency Situations; and Theoretical Studies (theses, dissertations, books, and publications).
The Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and Compensar extend a special invitation to the second academic housing forum: Quality and Productivity in the Habitat: Ideas for Rethinking Social Housing.
This lecture series, which we call FOCO (launched in 2020), seeks to highlight both commonalities and diversities surrounding a single theme within our discipline. The event will be held in person this Thursday, November 11, at 6:30 PM at the Museo de Arquitectura y Diseño (MARQ), located at Av. Del Libertador 999, at the corner of Av. Callao, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
Arquitectura en Corto invites you to the screening of 'The Divine Way' on November 30 at 7:00 PM at the CTAV headquarters (Colegio Territorial de Arquitectos de Valencia, C/Hernán Cortés, 6). The award-winning short film by director Ilaria di Carlo serves as a tribute to the staircase as an architectural element, exploring various classical and contemporary buildings located primarily in Berlin. It is both a conceptual and aesthetic journey.
Internationally recognized for their weeHouse® concept, Alchemy has been proving since 1992 that even the smallest of dwellings can have a huge impact. weeHouse®, a term that Alchemy trademarked in 2002, was conceived as a modular-friendly design system that emphasizes quality before quantity, and has been recognized by an ethos of “less is more.” The Minnesota-based firm, led by Geoffrey Warner FAIA, designs the structures to be modern and sleek with particular attention to using expressive local materials with environmental sensitivity.
The Squam Lake House in New Hampshire, although not technically a weeHouse, was required to strictly respect the floor area and volume of a dilapidated cabin 15’ from the shore. Fabricated mostly offsite by Bensonwood using 18” thick, pre-glazed wall panels and white oak timber framing, the panels were erected in only 4 days.
Eric Winter, AIA and architect at Alchemy, shared some valuable insights about the project’s design process.
Following several years of preparation, Taipei Fine Arts Museum announces the start of its two-phase expansion project titled Out of Bounds: TFAM Expansion. Construction on a new collections vault began in October of this year, and an open call for architectural proposals for another new museum building will be launched in January 2022. The Museum was completed in 1983 and together with the new collection storage area and a second building, it will gradually expand Taiwan's contemporary art vista.
Days of Oris is an international architectural festival organized by Oris House of Architecture, held since 2001. Every year, it gathers more than 2000 participants – architects and professionals from the related fields. So far, more than 300 leading experts and speakers from all over the world have participated in the Festival.
Every second year the VELUX Group invites the students of architecture to participate in the International VELUX Award competition on the theme “Light of Tomorrow”. The 2022 competition will be 10th edition, which so far has received thousands of exciting daylight projects from more than 5000 students of architecture around the world.