Since its first edition in 2010, URBICENTROS has established itself as an innovative space for meeting and reflecting on the importance of diversity and the tension between the centrality and periphery of our historic centers. In this edition, URBICENTROS specifically seeks to:
The Ministry of Culture, through the Rouanet Law, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Museum of Afro-Brazilian History and Culture (MUHCAB), and the Instituto Pedra are pleased to present the seminar Between Two Worlds: Africa and Africans in the Historical Archives of the Itamaraty, which will take place on May 15, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM, at the MUHCAB auditorium in Rio de Janeiro.
The Latin American city is built upon fragments: fragments of landscape, memory, construction knowledge, and modes of habitation that remain present, even if they often go unnoticed. In Manizales—a city shaped by its steep terrain, risk, adaptation, and the constant transformation of its territory—these fragments manifest with particular intensity.
The 18th National Meeting on Landscape Architecture Education in Brazilian Schools of Architecture and Urbanism (Enepea) will be held from August 11 to 14, 2026, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. As the most traditional and established scientific event in the field of landscape architecture, it will bring together researchers, professors, professionals, and undergraduate and graduate students from across the country for four days of lectures, workshops, short courses, and technical visits.
The São Paulo State Secretariat of Culture, Creative Economy and Industry (SCEIC-SP) and the Pinacoteca Arte e Cultura Association (APAC) announce the opening of submissions for the 36th Museu da Casa Brasileira Design Award in the Product and Written Work categories. Participation is free and open to Brazilian citizens and foreign residents living in the country for more than two years. Interested parties may register from December 2, 2025, to January 28, 2026, via the official website: premiodesignmcb.apacsp.org.br.
Collaborative Housing in Colombia
Myths, Legends, and Dreams
July 20th to 26th
IAAC – Advanced Architecture Barcelona
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
Beyond AI_ded Design:
Looking Forward, Looking Backward
Thirty years after its founding, SIGraDi and the University of Chile invite the academic, professional, and creative community to participate in the 30th international congress of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics, to be held in Santiago at the University of Chile from November 18 to 20, 2026.
This gathering marks a symbolic return to the University of Chile, which hosted SIGraDi 2006 two decades ago under the theme "The Human Factor." At that time, we invited participants to reflect critically on the role humans played in the emerging world of digital design. That critical look at the past—and the future—is more relevant than ever in the face of even more disruptive technologies.
In this spirit, we are proposing the concept of "AI_ded Design," a notion that updates the legacy of CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and projects it toward a new horizon where design, architecture, and urbanism are redefined by algorithmic structures, intelligent environments, and autonomous systems mediated by Artificial Intelligence.
We invite you to think beyond computer-aided design. We aim to open a space for discussion on a form of design where computation—increasingly transparent, ubiquitous, and autonomous—gives way to new forms of cognition, agency, emergence, distributed processes, and a necessary technological ethics that reconfigures design practices.
To stimulate this collective conversation, we propose four open questions:
What have we learned in these 30 years?
What have we improved in these 30 years?
What have we achieved in these 30 years?
What challenges are emerging in the relationship between humans, machines, and environments?
"DENISE SCOTT BROWN. CITY, STREET, HOUSE"
February 11, 2026 – May 31, 2026
Curators:
M. Pia Fontana, Professor of Architectural Design
Miguel Mayorga, Professor of Urban Planning
ETSAB - UPC
Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) - Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
Founding partners of mayorga + fontana arquitectura
https://www.mayorga-fontana.com/
The Italian Cultural Institute of São Paulo (IICSP) will host Italian architect and researcher Stefano Passamonti for a lecture reflecting on the relationships and dialogues between contemporary Italian and Brazilian architecture.
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?
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.
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.
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.