On October 10, 2023, more than 200,000 Brazilian architects and urban planners will choose their representatives for CAU Brasil and CAU/UF for the 2024–2026 term.
Activities related to the 2023 CAU Elections begin on January 1, starting with a campaign to update professional registration data, ensuring everyone can vote and run for office. The deadline to complete the update is May 31.
Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy is the new book by David Escudero, published by Routledge and a recipient of a Graham Foundation grant. Illustrated with over 120 images—most of which are previously unpublished—the book explores the links between architecture, film, and the built environment in postwar Italy (1940s–50s) to reveal whether and how neorealism manifested in architecture.
Why do we behave differently in a crowded restaurant than in a cathedral at sunset? Why do teenagers and older adults require different environments to feel at ease? It is because an invisible dialogue exists between our bodies and our surroundings. This shift in perspective is what the author defines as neuroarchitecture.
Marina Otero will give a lecture on Monday, January 16, at 6:00 PM as part of the XXII Chile Architecture and Urbanism Biennial: 'Vulnerable Habitats.' The event will take place in the temporary inflatable structure designed by Smiljan Radic at Plaza Bulnes, Santiago.
In an inflatable pavilion designed by Smiljan Radic located in Plaza Bulnes, opposite the La Moneda Palace, visitors can enjoy free screenings of the films selected by the Santiago Architecture Film Festival for the XXII Chilean Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, themed this year as “Vulnerable Habitats.”
The 27th edition of FEICON will take place from April 11 to 14 at the São Paulo Expo in São Paulo. Widely considered a premier platform for business development, professional growth, and networking within the industry, the fair will feature a series of new developments and a 50% increase in the number of participating brands this year.
Following a diagnostic assessment in the previous issue regarding the severe housing deficit affecting our country, issue #47 of the Association of Architecture Offices (AOA) magazine presents a proactive vision, offering proposals to address this situation through practical approaches and effective actions.
"We don't want to see the final image of your projects; we want to know how you create them."
Profine Iberia - KÖMMERLING, a leading manufacturer of PVC window systems, in collaboration with the Green Building Council España (GBCe) and the Zero City Project, is launching the 1st KÖMMERLING Challenge Architecture Award. This initiative aims to recognize architecture firms that strive to innovate their work methodology to prioritize sustainability across all their projects.
Registration for the 5th Tomie Ohtake Design Award, aimed at university students and recently graduated professionals from all fields, has been extended until February 16. The initiative has established itself as the leading Brazilian design mapping award, welcoming multiple languages due to its transdisciplinary nature and avoiding rigid categories, as it encompasses projects of diverse natures.
Nara Roesler Rio de Janeiro is pleased to open its 2023 season with the exhibition "Córte," by the celebrated artist Lucia Koch, starting March 16, 2023. The exhibition will feature unpublished works from the "Fundos" series, one of the most iconic in her production, in which she photographs the interiors of empty packaging used to store various products. When enlarged to human scale, these become architectural spaces that interact with the exhibition's path, creating surprising perspectives for the public.
In the design exhibition area, new pieces designed by Superlimão for Amazônia Móveis will be on display. These include four examples of the Cadeira n.6, part of an outdoor furniture collection created by the firm that features durable, lightweight, and versatile pieces.
This year's DW! will feature the launch of the Satélite lamp, created by Superlimão for Luxion Iluminação. Inspired by space exploration devices, the design blends the essential with the unexpected, pairing indirect lighting—which adds comfort to any environment—with an articulated body that allows for endless lighting configurations.
This is the third edition of the book originally published in 1999 by Fernando Pérez Oyarzún, Alejandro Aravena, and José Quintanilla. Intended primarily for architecture students and faculty, and secondarily for professionals and interested readers, Los Hechos de la Arquitectura aims to illustrate the fundamental issues that form the substance of the discipline, adopting the perspective of project generation and development.
Insper, through the Arq.Futuro Cities Laboratory, has opened registration for the first cohort of the online course Urban Rehabilitation: Investment and Opportunities, which begins on May 8. In this course, students will learn to identify the factors that determine the obsolescence of an urban area, as well as rehabilitation strategies capable of transforming such environments into vital new spaces. The course is led by architects Samuel Kruchin, principal of Kruchin Arquitetura—one of the first private firms to work in the field of preservation and restoration—and Cristiane Gonçalves, principal of Cambota and a professor at FAU-Mackenzie.
Habitat for Peace is an urban, architectural, and technical proposal that captures the expectations, dreams, and needs of a community of former FARC guerrilla combatants in the process of reintegration, aimed at the management and construction of a new settlement.
No one suspected that the least extraordinary of architectures—the house, our home—would so quickly change its meaning. While this box, burdened by mortgages and rooms, has traditionally served as the most immediate human habitat and our daily point of departure, the dizzying changes it has undergone in recent times have endowed it with new and profound existential dimensions.
On April 19, we will gather with national and international experts to discuss the housing deficit and the climate crisis. Additionally, we will launch the Construye Zero Program, led by CTEC and supported by Corfo, which aims to contribute to the decarbonization of Chile amidst the climate crisis.
On April 19 at 7:00 PM, we invite you to the Fundación Arquia (C/Tutor, 16, Madrid) for the screening of Reusing Posidonia, a documentary about the first public housing units built on the island of Formentera by the IBAVI (Balearic Housing Institute) based on the principles of circularity, emission reduction, and climate change adaptation from the Life Reusing Posidonia project.
Following the screening, there will be a discussion regarding the documentary and the recently published El Croquis monograph on the IBAVI, which compiles and analyzes 24 works and projects promoted by the Balearic institution between 2019 and 2023. Speakers will include Carles Oliver, director of the Life Reusing Posidonia project; Albert Cuchí, author of the essay "IBAVI, una experiencia necesaria" published by El Croquis; Sara Ferran, architect and partner at the firm taller11; and Marta Palacín, the documentary's screenwriter, director, and producer.