At Construmat we are firmly convinced that construction and building renovation are a key element in facing today’s social, economic and environmental challenges, and that is why we focus on sustainability.
Adapted from the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning’s large-scale solo exhibition that ran last year, “Ma Yansong: Landscapes in Motion” has been exclusively curated for the HKDI Gallery by its founder, and principal partner of MAD Architects - an architectural collective, Ma Yansong. After graduating from Yale University in 2002, Ma has participated in various international exhibitions and is now set to debut his first-ever large-scale solo exhibition in Hong Kong, solidifying his status as one of China’s most influential architects. The exhibition presents MAD’s most significant urban architectural projects in history led by Ma Yansong, including the soon-to-be-completed Shenzhen Bay Cultural Park, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, and the FENIX Museum of Migration in Rotterdam. In addition to Ma Yansong's thought-provoking design concepts and imaginative vision, this exhibition offers a glimpse into the future of urban civilization – proffering a harmonious coexistence of urban landscapes, historical sites, and natural environments.
Looking for a fast and seamless way to coordinate and align on spatial information with clients and colleagues? Join urban planner Juan Pablo Corral for a masterclass focused on streamlining your team's mapping workflow. Whether you work in urban design, planning, transportation and mobility, or civil engineering, this event will help you find ways to work more efficiently with the help of accessible tools like QGIS and Felt.
We often take plants in the urban landscape for granted: we see them on a daily basis but don’t really look. We usually cannot name them, nor do we know whether they’re edible or have healing properties. It’s typically only when nature becomes a nuisance, for example during allergy season, that we take note of plants in the city.
This May, in Discourse: art across generations and continents (May 4 - 12, 2024), browngrotta arts in Wilton, CT, will assemble an eclectic group of artworks that celebrate artists from different countries, who work with varied materials, and represent distinct artistic approaches. Discourse will feature dozens of contemporary art textiles and fiber sculptures. More than 50 artists from 20 countries will be featured. Included will be works from fiber art’s origins 60 years ago, current mixed media works and sculpture, and pieces created in the decades between — spurring a dialogue across generations and across continents.
Rebecca Baumann, Light Event 2024, dichroic film. Installation view in Carillon City, Perth. Commissioned by Perth Festival, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Moore Contemporary, Perth. Photograph: Dan McCabe
Under the Artistic Directorship of Iain Grandage, the 2024 Perth Festival is inspired by the theme of Ngaangk (a Noongar word meaning sun or mother). Giver of life and light, Ngaangk is the ultimate creator – rising, surely, each morning at dawn to break the still darkness of night. Ideas of light and perception, so critical to the experience of the visual arts, punctuate the 2024 Perth Festival program, across a series of projects that encourage consideration of related themes of sustainability, growth and nourishment, and the tension between heat as both a creative and destructive force.
Linda Tegg with Vivienne Hansen, Wetland 2024. Commissioned by Perth Festival, 2024. Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Linda Tegg
Under the Artistic Directorship of Iain Grandage, the 2024 Perth Festival is inspired by the theme of Ngaangk (a Noongar word meaning sun or mother). Giver of life and light, Ngaangk is the ultimate creator – rising, surely, each morning at dawn to break the still darkness of night. Ideas of light and perception, so critical to the experience of the visual arts, punctuate the 2024 Perth Festival program, across a series of projects that encourage consideration of related themes of sustainability, growth and nourishment, and the tension between heat as both a creative and destructive force.
Tandem - Frederik Fialin and Réjean Peytavin @Salone del Mobile 2024
In occasion of Milan Design Week 2024 Oxilia presents the duo exhibition ‘Tandem’. The gallery will showcase the minimalist furniture by Danish designer Frederik Fialin, whose practice straddling art and industrial design seamlessly fits into the gallery’s curatorial path, engaging in dialogue with ceramics and tapestries from the ‘Traduslation’ series by French-Swiss artist Réjean Peytavin. In this series, Peytavin’s unmistakably non-conventional approach to exploring production techniques shines through.
If you were to make a list of requirements for your design software, an ability to be both efficient and accurate would certainly make an appearance. It may even make your top five. In order to cater to these demands, software developers are constantly striving to make their products more effective for their customers. In the case of Vectorworks, which was built to deliver absolute creative expression and maximum efficiency, this is no different. Below, we outline four main ways the software can be used by architects and designers.
In modern-day urban environments, green spaces such as gardens, home yards and public parks are becoming increasingly important to provide balance to our day-to-day lives. In the case of playgrounds, which are key public spaces for children, the question arises: if we make playgrounds for children to spend time and play in, why shouldn’t we extend this idea to serve adults as well? Adults need to be present in playgrounds, accompanying their children, so why not extend these areas to become interesting and inclusive for adults too?
We are excited to announce a scholarship for "Sustainable Healthy Cities: building for the future" course, which offers a unique opportunity for both aspiring architects and experienced professionals to participate in a 2-week program in Venice. The course is designed to help participants develop skills in designing for present-day urban realities and to explore the concept of sustainable cities. Offered in partnership with Kellogg College, University of Oxford, and The Prince's Foundation, it seeks to equip individuals with the necessary ideas and tools for designing future-proof, healthier cities, using Venice as a unique case study.
In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture founding, ANFA will host a design competition honoring one of its key founding members, John P. Eberhard, FAIA, to create greater interest and understanding of the relationship between neuroscience and architecture. A Design competition motivates students to perform and excel in their fields. Architecture competitions offer a chance for participants to gain experience, showcase skills, understand their design better, understand their topic (Neuroscience) better, and garner recognition.
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BuildFest Poster, courtesy Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival
BuildFest invites academics and researchers to propose ideas for large-scale art installations to be built on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock festival. Over the course of a five-day live-work festival, accepted participants will work with self-organized student teams to build, install, and work through on-site design solutions. Once completed, the selection of installations will be utilized during the Catbird Music Festival—an Americana festival taking place on the historic 1969 Woodstock site—as functional art-infrastructures to be experienced and adapted for festival attendees.
The awards for architecture in Portugal have been abundant and extraordinary, a result of the quality work that has been developed by teams of architects. Currently there are around 11 national awards and around 11 more municipal or regional awards, but almost all of them are themed or focused on rehabilitation.
Organized by Womxn in Design and Architecture (WDA, @princetonwda), a graduate student group formed in 2014 at Princeton University School of Architecture, this annual conference celebrates the work and memory of a pivotal architect or designer with contributions from international historians and scholars, in addition to artists, musicians, curators, and practitioners. The eighth Womxn in Design Conference at the Princeton School of Architecture honors the life and work of Alero Olympio.
Periurban Cartographies looks through the prism of the “almost urban” to consider what a “city” is or could be. In doing so, the book challenges assumptions and reconsiders design practices.
View of the city from the American Academy in Rome
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOR DESIGN PRACTITIONERS: Alastair Swayn Foundation-RMIT Architecture Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Applications NOW OPEN
