The XXV Pan-American Biennial of Architecture of Quito – PROHIBIDO NO TOCAR takes over the city with the Pavilion Design Competition for public spaces in Quito.

An ideas competition for the redefinition of the 21st-century lighthouse as a habitable space, accessible to visitors, where architecture not only emits light but is also lived in, explored, and occupied.

A Mountain Sanctuary will be designed within the National Park in Argentine Patagonia as a space for pause and contemplation for hikers and mountaineers on their journey toward Mount Fitz Roy.
The MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY must be conceived as part of the natural flow of the trail, functioning as an organic pause within the ascent experience. The expectation is for a space that provides protection against the extreme weather conditions of the Patagonian environment (wind, cold, snow) without becoming a permanent or massive shelter.

The Baluarte Congress Palace in Pamplona will host the 6th International Forum on Wood Construction (FMC 2026) on June 3 and 4, 2026. This benchmark event analyzes the role of technical wood in residential, social, and industrial construction. Against a backdrop of housing shortages and the European goal of reducing sector emissions—which, according to the International Energy Agency, account for 39% of global CO₂ emissions—the event will bring together professionals exploring industrialized wood solutions to address both affordability and the reduction of the environmental footprint of buildings.

interzum bogota is the leading trade fair in Colombia and the Andean region for the furniture and woodworking industry. It serves as a space where manufacturers, suppliers, and decision-makers gather to discover the innovations, technologies, and solutions shaping the sector.

For this issue of Dearq, "The Spatial Dimension of Urban Mobility," we are seeking contributions that critically analyze the interrelationships between urban mobility, space, and the territorial dimension, while considering social dynamics and environmental aspects. We place special emphasis on understanding how mobility practices, policies, and projects interact with the built environment and contribute to producing—or transforming—urban and regional landscapes.

For this issue of Dearq, "Tectonic Matter," we are seeking contributions that address tectonics not as a style or a fetishization of detail, but as a rigorous field in which the material realities of architecture—such as provenance, craft, labor, structural systems, fabrication protocols, and performance criteria—become inseparable from how space is perceived, inhabited, and understood.
Who can participate: We welcome contributions from architects, historians, theorists, engineers, educators, and researchers addressing this theme. Interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives from specific contexts are encouraged, provided they remain anchored in tectonics as a conceptual and practical field of architectural invention.
The editors invite submissions of research articles, case studies, visual essays, and projects, provided they are original, unpublished, and comply with the journal's editorial policy.
Guest Editors:
Nader Tehrani
(The Cooper Union, USA)
Julián Palacio
(The Cooper Union, USA)
Rafael Villazón
(Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Submission period: April 17, 2026 – August 30, 2026
Issue publication: September 2027 (Dearq 49)
More information: https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/dearq/callforpapers

CALL FOR ENTRIES - Central Exhibition of the Buenos Aires International Biennial of Architecture 2026, Anniversary Edition

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama (MAC Panamá) announces the launch of an international architecture competition for the design of its new headquarters, an initiative that marks a milestone in the institution's history and in Panama's cultural projection within the Latin American context.

This professional qualification course aims to enable architects and urban planners to work effectively in the conservation of recent heritage, strengthening professional practice in the preservation of architectural, urban, and landscape heritage. In this edition, the course focuses on reinforced concrete construction systems and their application in modern buildings.

Demolish or renovate?

2025 Conference on the History and Criticism of Architecture | ARCHITECTURE AND REBELLION IN LATIN AMERICA. Alternative pedagogical experiences; from "everything is political" to "disciplinary autonomy"; 1963–1983. Organized by: Master’s Program in the History and Criticism of Architecture.

The ground we walk on is composed of layers of history buried over time: infrastructures, vegetation, animals, and human beings who inhabited these territories form a collection of sedimented layers and historical deposits that combine with geological layers from deep time. This interrelation between the artificial and the geological is especially evident in the forgotten infrastructures buried beneath our cities. How can we unearth both the memory and the material evidence of these? And what does this tell us about what we have collectively forgotten?

An architectural award serves as a legitimizing mechanism, indicating which approaches, materials, and strategies are beginning to take center stage in the discipline's discourse. By bringing together projects with different programs, scales, and constraints, these initiatives bring to light emerging priorities and directions in the field. Within this context, the Shaw Contract Design Awards have established themselves as a global recognition platform for interior design and a barometer of the transformations reshaping the discipline, prompting reflection on the role of design in building more responsible, inclusive, and sustainable environments.

Concéntrico begins its 2025/2026 season by reinforcing its role as an Urban Innovation Laboratory, a collective creative space that explores how architecture, design, and art can transform urban life.

The Secretariat of Culture, Economy and Creative Industries of the State of São Paulo (SCEIC-SP), in partnership with the Institute of Development and Management (IDG)—manager of CULTSP PRO, a professional qualification, innovation, and sustainability program—and the Pinacoteca Art and Culture Association (APAC), is hosting an in-person, free lecture on December 9, 2025, at 7:00 PM, featuring designers Levi Girardi and Mario Fioretti on the topic "Behind the Scenes of Iconic Industrial Design Projects in Brazil." The event will take place at the Questtonó / QNCO office in the Pinheiros neighborhood of São Paulo.

Buildner has announced the results of its Re-Form: New Life for Old Spaces, second edition, an international ideas competition examining the adaptive reuse of small-scale existing buildings. The competition invited architects and designers to propose transformations of used, abandoned, or overlooked structures with an approximate footprint of 250 square meters, located anywhere in the world. With no fixed site or program, participants were encouraged to explore alternatives to demolition and new construction through reuse strategies grounded in contemporary social and environmental concerns.

About the Book: The second expanded edition of the book Remanescentes da Mata Atlântica presents, in an even broader and more compelling way—with nearly 200 new images—the visual history of this biome, which dominates Brazil's entire coastal landscape and has been devastated throughout recent history.