Design Core Detroit presents the 13th Annual Detroit Month of Design Festival. Every September, partners across Detroit—from emerging studios to established companies and educational institutions—come together to show off their latest works and ideas. These cross-disciplinary events take place in all corners of the city, highlighting the talent and innovation that makes Detroit a UNESCO City of Design. The first and only UNESCO City of Design in the U.S.
Through the lens of the pages of the Architectural Review magazine, Wide-Angle View is an exhibition on the Manplan series, a ground-breaking exploration of architecture’s impact on society.
The Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) is America’s largest film festival devoted to the creative spirit of architecture and design. Our curated films and panel discussions provide unique perspectives about the process behind architectural, graphic, and product design, urban and environmental issues, architectural photography, historic preservation, and much more. Our goal is to identify films with impassioned, human stories that appeal to a sophisticated design audience and those with a general interest in architecture and design.
Lorenzo-Eiroa, Pablo "Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information: From Big Data and Simulation to Artificial Intelligence", Routledge, London 2023
This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architecture to understand and unleash potential means to open up creativity in the field.
ArchitecTorah book cover (coverdesign by the Virtual Paintbrush)
ArchitecTorah is a collection of 178 short essays that investigate the Torah through the lens of architecture. Eahc essay briefly introduces a piece of architectural theory, a building, or a section of building code and then re-examines a well-known topic in the Torah to uncover new and insightful interpretations.
Architecture competition | Reinterpreting the Space
With the beginning of the full scale war in Ukraine, we feel the urgent need to preserve the identity of our heritage, and to popularize it in the world. Architecture competition Reinterpreting the Space is looking for the conceptual ideas for revitalization the historical space of the Potocki Palace complex in Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine) with the creation of a public cultural space.
ICON has announced that submissions are now open for Initiative 99, the global architecture competition to reimagine affordable housing that can be built for under $99,000. With a total prize purse of $1M, ICON is committed to building a selection of the winning designs at multiple locations that will stand as a model for future affordable housing.
Responsive Cities 2023 // Advanced Architecture Group
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and the Green Skills for Cities partnership are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for the biennial international symposium, Responsive Cities 2023, a global platform to experiment and rethink urban environments in response to today’s global challenges. Building upon the success of previous editions, we invite researchers, practitioners, scholars and innovators from various disciplines to contribute to the 2023 symposium, centered around the theme of "Collective Intelligence Design". Responsive Cities 2023 Symposium seeks to delve into the emerging paradigm of collective intelligence in the processes of city making. As cities continue to evolve in complexity and interconnectedness in the context of the climate emergency, embracing new forms of intelligence that go beyond human perspectives becomes the cornerstone for the future of urbanity. Collective Intelligence Design promotes an emerging collective intelligence paradigm that empowers the applications of co-creation, following generative processes of both the living and the machine. This post anthropocentric approach highlights a unique combination of crowd wisdom and artificial intelligence that, together with other forms of intelligences including animal, vegetable, or microbial, marks a significant milestone in the creation of our future green cities. By embracing new forms of intelligence in design, architecture and cities can transcend anthropocentric perspectives and cultivate a new ecological, technological but also cultural paradigm of inhabitation where inclusivity lies in its core. This shift recognizes that cities are alive and dynamic ecosystems interconnected with the natural world, while acknowledging the interdependencies among humans, non human, cultural and technological others.
The Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning (MVOT) of Uruguay, the National Administration of Health Services (ASSE) and the Neighborhood Improvement Program (PMB), with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank, open a call for the construction of a wooden health polyclinic in the Cauceglia Park in Montevideo.
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Architecture of the place - International Architectural Competition for Challengeable sites
The vision of an integrated, educated and conscious society is what nations are looking for to develop their human contribution. The interaction of people with their environment in one way or another is what characterizes the vacuum in which they exercises their function. This is precisely the most important goal of architecture of the place competition, which aims to link people with their daily functions with the place in which they works, lives, and develops. Hence, we see the future of the city of Suhag in designing an integrated cultural center that aims to educate and develop people and how to respect identity, history, the environment, and most importantly, the person who lives for creating Architecture of the place.
Universita Luigi Bocconi Milan by Grafton Architects, The Daylight Award 2022 laureates for daylight in architecture. Photo by Iwan Baan
The Daylight Award honors and supports daylight research and daylight in architecture. It acknowledges and encourages both scientific knowledge and practical application of daylight, which interlink disciplines that are usually addressed in separated, monocultural spheres, professional circles or practices. The Daylight Award strives to raise a holistic understanding of daylight and increase its positive impact on life.
Ministry of Ecology, Spatial planning and Urbanism of Montenegro announced an International Competition for a Conceptual Architectural Design of the Emergency Centre within the Complex of the Clinical Centre of Montenegro.
Celebrated architect Tatiana Bilbao developed the theme and will chair the jury for “Care,” WashU’s 2023 James Harrison Steedman Fellowship in Architecture biennial research competition. (Image: Tatiana Bilbao Estudio)
Architecture shelters and protects. Yet too often, the built environment also perpetuates entrenched biases as well as a domineering and extractive view of the natural world.
Lucca Biennale | Paper | Art | Design | Design| Fashion | Performance XII Edition 2024: open calls The four calls to participate in the international event dedicated to paper, scheduled in Lucca from 28 July to 29 September 2024, are officially online. Lubica is a project of 9Muse srl. LUBICA - Lucca Biennale Cartasia is the largest event in the world dedicated to Paper as an artistic and architectural expression and is held every two years in the city of Lucca, Tuscany. LUBICA was founded in 2004, with the commitment to promote tradition, culture, sustainability and innovation. In 2024 the XII edition is held, celebrating twenty years of activity. LUBICA aims to create stimuli and methods of comparison for artists who decide to get involved, "educate to beauty", take care of the other but also and above all break the mold and create new points of view. Registration for the call includes a registration fee of € 30.00. The theme, as can be seen from the Lucca Biennale Cartasia website (where you can view the complete calls and download the registration forms) is: Here and Now: Tomorrow. Everything in the contemporary world is ephemeral, instantaneous: often men seem to act only in the here and now, without consequences, as if there were no tomorrow. Artistic expression is a pair of binoculars focused on tomorrow, on the infinite possibilities that the human mind has to travel beyond t e boundaries of itself, in search of new possibilities and new worlds to imagine, discover and build. At the same time, knowing how to live in the present, here and now – is a fundamental aspect of our existence. The here and now is the only moment we have to fully exist, grow, feel, love and rejoice. We often forget about it by acting mechanically and repetitively, we live at the mercy of time: linear time, ego time, material life time. The outside world, society, commitments, social media constantly draw our attention, tearing it away from the here and now, postponing to another time, perhaps to tomorrow.
L+A+N+D vision rendering by Luckett & Farley in Louisville, KY.
Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest, a 30-minute drive South of Louisville, KY is thrilled to announce the launch of L+A+N+D (Landscape + Art + Nature + Design), an exciting, new initiative that annually celebrates innovative design concepts for immersive outdoor installations on a grand scale that will spark imaginations, conversations, and a deeper appreciation of the natural world.