The Félix Candela Award is a two-stage international architecture ideas competition conducted in Spanish. Organized annually by the Instituto Español de Arquitectura (IESARQ), it is open to students of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and design, as well as architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and designers up to 35 years of age, participating individually or in teams of two or three.

The Creative Urban Agriculture Workshop will investigate how design, driven by creativity and new technologies, can help boost participatory food production in urban environments in a proactive and productive manner across various scales. Our goal is to develop innovative prototypes for urban food production systems, sharing knowledge with citizens, architects, designers, and artists on how to build creative cultivation systems.

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.

A presentation of the work of the firm Gonzalez Moix Arquitectura (Peru), featuring a conversation with its founder, Oscar Gonzalez Moix. The firm's work has been exhibited at architecture biennials in Lima, Buenos Aires, Quito, and Venice, among others. Notable accolades include awards from Peru’s National Architectural Quality Competition (2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010) and the Peruvian National Architecture Biennial (2004, 2006, 2008, 2012). A drive for experimentation and new models, combined with a deep understanding of construction, defines an architecture that bridges millennia-old tradition, modernity, and contemporary innovation—creating spaces that are sensitive to their context and welcoming to their inhabitants.

A series of short presentations followed by a discussion on various approaches to defining architectural projects based on their density, viewing this as a condition of both their physical and social contexts. This forum aims to open a dialogue on different modes of daily life and levels of communality shaped by architectural density.

LECTURE by Gabriela Carrillo, titled "Architecture: Processes"
Mexican architect, graduated with honors from the UNAM Faculty of Architecture. She develops public and private architectural projects of varying scales, as well as historical restorations, ephemeral interventions, and exhibition designs. Her work has been published and featured in national and international magazines, books, and exhibitions. She has collaborated with Mauricio Rocha since 2001, and in 2011, they partnered to form Taller |Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo|. In 2016, they designed the exhibition layout for "The Great Animal Orchestra" at the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the pavilion for Hermès at the Milan Furniture Fair. She has delivered lectures, led workshops, and taught postgraduate courses at various universities in Mexico, the United States, and several South American countries. She has received awards at the Mexican, Ibero-American, and Pan-American Architecture Biennials. In 2012, the UNAM Faculty of Architecture awarded them the Federico Mariscal Chair, the university's highest recognition for professional practice. She was a recipient of the 2014 Emerging Voices Award from The Architectural League of New York and was named "Architect of the Year 2017" by the international Architectural Review and Architects' Journal award.

Published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, A House Is Not Just a House examines Tatiana Bilbao's work on housing. Regardless of the typology, her work constructs arguments regarding the production of domestic spaces in a way that is both expansive and minimal, inseparable from the context in which they are located, and based on the fundamental principles of dwelling.
The book includes a lecture delivered by Tatiana Bilbao at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, as well as reflections from colleagues and scholars such as Amale Andraos, Gabriela Etchegaray, Hilary Sample, and Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco.
The book presentation brings together its authors for a discussion that will provide an in-depth look at Tatiana Bilbao’s work and delve into the genealogies of social housing. This project also connects to the recent exhibition at LIGA, “Trayectorias de un panel,” which explores the geopolitical history of social housing in Chile.
A House Is Not Just a House is a publication by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, part of the Transcripts on Housing series, within the GSAPP Transcripts series, in collaboration with the M.Arch Housing Studios at Columbia University GSAPP.

This Master Class will share Leopoldo Prat Vargas's 42 years of teaching at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Chile, juxtaposing this experience with his 50 years of professional practice through architectural projects and competitions.

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The Millennium Nucleus for Mobilities and Territories (MOVYT) invites all interested parties to attend its public masterclasses, which 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.

Organized by SOM and the Fundación Arquitectura COAM, this exhibition explores the work of SOM’s structural engineering team, its integration with architectural design, and the ideas behind some of the world’s most significant projects.

The Millennium Nucleus on Mobility 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.

Presentation by the studio Peter Barber Architects (UK), featuring a conversation with its founder, Peter Barber.

As part of the [+] with [-] Lecture Series organized by the Final Integrated Project Chair, and for the first time in Argentina—in alignment with our academic philosophy—we are premiering the award-winning documentary 'Doing More with Less' at UM FADAU. The film was directed by Katerina Kliwadenko (Chile, 1985) and Mario Novas (Spain, 1977) in collaboration with the Ecuadorian architecture firm Al Borde.

"Recuerdo tu nombre" is a large-scale concert held at Villa Músicos del Mundo in the San Joaquín commune of Santiago. The concert aims to strengthen the bonds between community members and their daily environment, offering an opportunity to learn about the history of an artistic discipline while advancing the development of a personal language in the construction of a musical event.

Architect Juan Ignacio Cerda, a partner at ELEMENTAL, will present the housing projects of ELEMENTAL, an architecture firm led by Alejandro Aravena and also comprising Gonzalo Arteaga, Juan Cerda, Víctor Oddó, and Diego Torres.

“To make is to think”—a phrase we have taken from Richard Sennett’s book The Craftsman—summarizes our working system across the various projects developed for this exhibition. Architecture takes time; constructing a project can take years. It is these almost infinite moments that allow the architect to rethink their work, evolve it, sometimes contradict it, and at other times, perfect it. When we speak of architecture and ask ourselves what it is, we can recall the words of one of the great masters, Mies van der Rohe, who reminds us that “Architecture starts when you put together two bricks, carefully.” In other words, architecture begins with placing one brick next to another, but the detail lies in doing so with care.

The School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae hosts monthly "Atraviesos Urbanos" (Urban Crossings), thematic tours of Santiago led by architects. This edition, titled "Paseo Bulnes: Tracing Our Civic History," will be led by architect Andrés Echeverría.

Dichotomies of Power is an exhibition by the firm Dellekamp/Schleich, contextualized within a historical moment of change in Mexico. Part of the Abierto Mexicano de Diseño 2020 program, this exhibition invites visitors to use their interpretive skills to immerse themselves in three dimensions of the representation of power: the real, the symbolic, and the imagined.