Join architect Nzinga Biegueng Mboup, principal of the Dakar-based practice WOROFILA, for a lecture on designing and building in the Senegalese context, with references to its climate, culture, traditions and unique “concrete modernity.” Mboup will address working with biomaterials, passive design strategies, her various cultural projects, and her research and collaborations. A Q&A session will follow.
By re-contextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, David Gissen’s 2023 book The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access challenges current modes of architectural practice, theory and education by proposing architecture that fully integrates disabled persons into its production. Both the author and book look beyond traditional notions of accessibility and show how certain incapacities can help to positively reimagine the roots of architecture. A Q&A session will follow Gissen’s presentation.
A celebration of sea swimming – looking at the architecture, history and social significance of sea pools around the world.
Competition Overview
The A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 2023 are open from the 13 September 2023
Nominations are open for the 2024 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize!
We aim to translate our research findings into applications through design studies and artworks. The goal of the residency is to explore new ways in which to apply our research results for creative expression. Specifically, we aim to collaboratively create an art piece or design prototype that will be exhibited and publicized in appropriate venues. The residency at GCM can last for up to three months starting in March 2024 at the earliest.
Maeve Brennan and Sophie Jung
opening 31 August, 6pm at A plus A Gallery, Venice
curated by School for Curatorial Studies Venice
The factory from the famous movie Schindler’s list by Steven Spielberg will be resurrected. A global architectural student competition INSPIRELI AWARDS introduces the new topic for 2024 Inspireli Competition -The Schindler’s Ark - creating the Museum of Holocaust Survivors and Sustainable living area in the Schindler’s factory.
Women* in Architecture Belgium seeks new and alternative ways of expressing the
progresses of architecture, underlining the role of the women working to its evolution.
Besides highlighting their architectural work, WIAB aims to showcase the leadership skills
female architects have, giving them the space to become role models for the future generations and increase the proportion of women in leadership roles within architecture.
Women* in Architecture Belgium warmly invites researchers, writers, critics, professionals and scholars in architecture, interior design, landscape design and urban planning to submit an original abstract for consideration at our upcoming ‘Think Tank 2023’ - Women in Architecture Belgium Event.
Guest curator Katrien Vandermarliere invites you to write about the following topics:
1. Liquid, fluid, flowing. Concepts and values take on new interpretations in the world
and in architecture.
2. Representation of women in architecture. What are new role models and why are
they important?
3. Ecofeminism / Regenerative architecture and self-building, activist and feminist.
You can find more information in the encolsed pdf.
i Light Singapore 2024 Student Call
🔖 Reshape conventional home design thinking and contribute to healthier, more sustainable lifestyle choices related to cycling. – only 1 drawing, with absolute freedom of scale.
The Dubai Government, in collaboration with Buildner, has launched the House of the Future competition for ambitious architects and designers from around the world to design a highly-affordable, expandable, revolutionary, innovative, aesthetically-pleasing house suited for modern Emirati needs.
Days of Architecture are the biggest architectural festival in Bosnia&Herzegovina, and one of the biggest in the region of South Eastern Europe. This year's festival marks 15th edition of the Days of Architecture and first one since it became biennale two years ago.
The festival will take time in period of 15-22nd of September in Sarajevo, with curators Hubert Klumpner and Michael Walczak, and it will host many architects from Spain, UK, Norway, the Netherlands, Croatia, Montenegro, France, Germany, USA and Bosnia&Herzegovina.
Besides lectures and presentations, the Days of Architecture will host many exhibitions, panels and gatherings of architects, designers and constructors.
Very important aspect of this year's edition is the promotion of the first architectural guide of Sarajevo, published by Berlin-based DOM publishers.
Following the success of our events in Perth and Melbourne, we are thrilled to announce our upcoming industry roundtable discussion in Sydney. Join us as we delve into the ever-evolving world of AI, exploring the latest challenges and opportunities. Gain valuable employment insights and a deeper understanding of the future of work in architecture and design.
More than 50 years after documentary photographer Tony Ray-Jones captured iconic images of Deptford’s brutalist Pepys Estate for The Architectural Review, a group of image-makers has returned to explore aspects of contemporary life at the groundbreaking housing scheme.
World Premiere – La chambre des mémoires à-venir
in the forbidden basements of Paris La Défense
From September 16 to October 01, 2023, Paris hosts the world premiere of La Chambre des mémoires à-venir.
Two partners, Mondes Nouveaux and Paris La Défense, have joined forces to offer the public a unique experience: the discovery of a complex world where you are invited to get lost or find yourself, for a period of 30 minutes, in the forbidden basements of Paris La Défense.
La chambre des mémoires à-venir is designed by architect François Roche, who has brought together a multidisciplinary, international team with New-Territories: philosopher Emanuele Coccia (France) & artist Mika Tamori (Japan/Thailand), artist-director Chris Delaporte (France), sound designer Damien Sorrentino (France) and actress Laura Benson (UK/France). Signaling the return of New-Territories_S/her to Europe, France and Paris, La Chambre des mémoires à-venir is the ultimate opportunity to plunge beneath the Paris La Défense slab into these forbidden places, programmed to be re-structured.
The 6th edition of the Scientific School is starting today!