In October 2024, the winning projects of the fourth edition of the Rogelio Salmona Latin American Architecture Award were announced—a distinction that highlights projects that have clearly generated significant, open, and collective civic spaces in the region.
Eat, Ask, Repeat: An Investigation into Food and the City. The city and food are more closely related than you might think. Our bodies act as the mediators in this relationship. This book of questions materializes research conducted within the Master in Architectural Communication (MAca9) program at ETSAM. This publication offers a critical look at the dynamics of production, consumption, and the right to the city. What drives us to overeat? Or to eat too little? Is food an elemental resource for survival, or has it become a different kind of entity today? We invite you to reflect on aspects that go unnoticed in our daily lives within this great kitchen we call the city.
In Espacio, cuerpo y mente, Ana Mombiedro explores the intersection of architecture, neuroscience, and psychology to reveal how built spaces influence physiological, cognitive, and socio-emotional health. The book offers a profound and captivating perspective on the value of neuroarchitecture, demonstrating that the design of a place can enhance one's sense of well-being.
PLOT Special Issue 21, "Soils, Ecologies, Territories, Communities," proposes four themes that transcend the field of architecture, approaching conceptions of landscape and the inexhaustible debate between culture and nature from various perspectives. It brings together a selection of projects located in Latin America and research addressing the ecological and climate crises, as well as economic and social inequalities. These initiatives, notable for their connection to the soil, communities, and their territories, highlight the importance of construction processes and their relationship with available materials. They challenge traditional models and demand greater action and reflection from a collective dimension.
Kazuyo Sejima, a guest of Congreso Futuro, will join Alejandro Aravena in Santiago to discuss the significance of receiving the Pritzker Prize, reflecting on the challenges facing 21st-century cities and the impact of the spaces we inhabit.
The Millennium Nucleus for Mobilities and Territories (MOVYT) invites all interested parties to attend its keynote lectures, which are open to the public. These lectures will be delivered by international guests as part of an international course held at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Chile, from September 2 to 5, at 6:00 PM.
Concursos AG 360 announces the "Alpine Hostel 2019" International Ideas Competition, which will take place from January through April 2019.
Following the success of our inaugural challenge last year, SkyCity is pleased to invite architects, designers, artists, engineers, scientists, restorers, digital nomads, craftspeople, and anyone with big ideas from around the world to participate in the SkyCity Challenge 2019: The Future of Housing. Current construction methods are impacting our environment by depleting limited resources and relying on outdated techniques. We believe that, with today’s technology, we can create far more sophisticated housing solutions that will revolutionize the future.
The forms of industrial construction (across all sectors, from dams, warehouses, and silos to workshops and mills), in their pursuit of economic and spatial efficiency, served as compelling formal references for architects at the dawn of the modern movement, as noted by Banham; they often inspired the design of ordinary urban buildings.
The competition seeks to conceptualize a coliving housing project as a replicable design tool for Mexico City, serving as a model for other cities facing challenges related to overpopulation and the high demand for quality housing.
Our second open call borrows its title from Stevphen Shukaitis’s book, Imaginal Machines, to address productive structures that operate through radical and collective imagination. This mechanism is activated by social self-determination and joint action—the result of the exchange of experiences, knowledge, and techniques that have shaped us as a society.
The competition calls for the conceptualization of a coliving housing project as a replicable design tool for Mexico City, serving as a framework for other cities facing challenges related to overpopulation and the high demand for quality housing.
Choosing high-performance BIM software is key to developing efficient projects by automating tasks that traditionally consumed time in conventional design workflows—such as documentation, calculations, analyses, and other repetitive processes.
“Arquitectos” is a micro-documentary series produced by AvantVisual and directed by Mauro Alfaro on the life and work of prominent Chilean architects. The series was originally scheduled to premiere at the XXI Chile Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, “The Common and the Everyday.” However, due to the suspension of the Biennial in the wake of the 2019 social uprising, the premiere could not take place.
The Council of Architecture and Urbanism of Rio de Janeiro (CAU/RJ) is conducting an unprecedented study to profile architects and urban planners working in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The survey primarily aims to gather data on professionals working outside the capital and those employed in the public sector. The initiative also seeks to gather input for the council's strategic planning for the 2021–2023 triennium.
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).
Japan’s natural and built landscapes coexist intensely, creating highly dynamic and unique spatial relationships in architecture. Taught by architect and professor Marina Lacerda, the course presents works by architects who have explored these relationships from various perspectives. The selected architectural proposals exemplify conceptual, spatial, and material aspects.
Live online conference featuring the curators of the Chilean Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, discussing the process and experience of their participation. Organized by the Universidad Mayor School of Architecture, the session will be presented by Emilio Marín and Rodrigo Sepúlveda, and moderated by Marco Beovic.