The Mieres Polytechnic School of the University of Oviedo, through its Transport Engineering Department, is launching an international ideas competition for university students to solicit proposals for resolving an urban and territorial issue associated with the evolution of transport networks.
The Municipality of León, through the León Municipal Housing Institute (IMUVI) and the León Municipal Planning Institute (IMPLAN), invites students, faculty, and professionals to participate in the Second National Ideas Competition: Intra-urban Housing and Park Solution. The goal is to develop a conceptual design proposal for a high-density social housing complex and a neighborhood public park within a consolidated urban area in the city of León.
Driven by the vision of redirecting how we plan and manage cities, we invite you to participate in this rethinking process by submitting conceptual proposals for intra-urban social housing. These proposals should integrate public and green spaces, utilizing best practices in architectural design, innovation, and sustainability to ensure healthy neighborhood coexistence, equal access and opportunity, freedom from discrimination, and safe, affordable, and accessible housing for lower-income groups in society.
This single-stage international architecture ideas competition invites all architecture students, young architects, and young professionals with a degree in architectural studies (≤ 40 years old) to develop and submit ideas for the design of the ‘Site Mausoleum,’ located at the Jasper Quarry, ‘Serra da Arrábida,’ Portugal.
New competition on Desall.com: Perletti and Desall invite you to design a new umbrella that stands out from the competition through its design and style, making it an easily recognizable product.
The Norman Foster Foundation is selecting ten students to receive a scholarship for the upcoming On Cities workshop, to be held at the Norman Foster Foundation headquarters in Madrid, Spain, from May 27 to 31, 2019.
Laws, norms, standards, rules, regulations, orders, ordinances, protocols, codes. Like any endeavor that unfolds in the public sphere, architecture must submit to laws that exist outside of it, while simultaneously maintaining its cohesion through adherence to laws internal to its own field. However, architecture appears to be more than the mere application of these internal laws or simple submission to external ones.
The Compagnie des Notaires de Paris building, located in the heart of the capital at the Place du Châtelet, is undergoing a transformation, and an architectural competition is currently underway.
New industrial design competition on Desall.com: Falmec and Desall invite you to design new products.
Does everything really deserve to be published and preserved? Or perhaps we publish out of an anxiety to insert ourselves into a larger history, with the vague hope that the future will take notice of what we do today? The excess of publications must be weighed against the mathematical impossibility that everything is worthwhile. Naturally, this includes us. In this age of suspicion, as defined by Boris Groys, criticism—and above all, self-criticism—is an intellectual duty. This is the spirit that frames this 100th issue of ARQ. For despite the urge to celebrate, we could not help but ask ourselves: what are we celebrating? Mere survival?
Gabriel Rivera views architecture as the experience of dwelling—as the architect's response to user needs, site conditions, and the built or natural environment. Architecture as experience and as a reflection of the self; a search for joy, clarity, and calm. Architecture that serves as an experience for the senses, defined by materiality and ideas; it is the pursuit of life's flow, a human design act with a purpose and a rationale, always born from reflection on ways of dwelling, being, feeling, and living to uncover its motivating meaning. Architecture that acts as an extension of its inhabitants and a reflection of the architect. Architecture that seeks to restore our essence and reconnect us with our own nature. Life flows, and we must flow with it; for Gabriel Rivera, this translates into an architectural duality: stillness and movement. It involves understanding the void around which everything is built and organized—a void understood as space and as a possibility for introspection—alongside the flow, the freedom of movement, of coming and staying.
Acoustics as a science encompasses various areas of human knowledge. It is a discipline present in all human activity, including the field of architecture.
Residential spaces conceived by architects in private practice address diverse social segments. By engaging with the substance of architecture, their formation and realization transcend individual cases, coalescing into a valuable experience.
Ediciones Pichoncito and the real estate firm Morada present their latest publication, titled David Mutal Arquitecto. The book features a photographic compendium of the work of one of the most prominent contemporary Peruvian architects, who has been recognized, among other honors, with the 2012 Hexágono de Plata for the Hotel B project and the 2015 Premio Casas from Grupo Editorial Cosas for the Residencial Santa Rosa project. The architect also received First Place in the Commercial Category at the Peruvian Architecture Biennial (2018).
Trama Magazine 151: Offices and Workspaces
In special locations where the landscape, topography, and views are fundamental, the design of these houses prioritizes these elements in their volumetric conception, siting, spatiality, and language. The work draws from local architectural traditions, materials, and construction systems, while maintaining a free-spirited approach to combining them—without hesitation—with contemporary and urban materials. This creates a unique interrelation between past and present, tradition and modernity, in harmony with the site. In terms of volumetry and morphology, the focus is on contextual harmony: an appropriate scale that does not compete with its surroundings, and a spatiality that embraces the landscape while allowing the gaze to flow toward both near and distant views. The organization is free from prejudices regarding conventional function and form, appealing to the contrast between opposites in elements, planes, and textures—smoothness and rusticity. At times, the work is dense with a variety of components, materials, and textures; at others, it is subtle, highlighting guiding elements; and in some cases, it resorts to the utmost spatial, constructive, and formal simplicity. Seeking energy and resource efficiency, the orientation of these solitary structures plays an important role in achieving climate-related comfort. Far from urban densities, explorations, recycling, and experimentation are amplified.
This Atlas aims to document and illustrate, through a graphic record, the characteristics of the landscape agents that compose the ecosystems of the Concepción region, their conservation status, and the fragmentation effects caused by various territorial transformation dynamics.
Ediciones Asimétricas, in collaboration with the Fernando Higueras Foundation, the ICO Foundation, the ICO Museum, and the Ministry of Public Works, has published the 2nd edition of the catalog Fernando Higueras. Desde el origen.
We live in a globalized world where, due to hyperconnectivity, information is stored and accumulated online without filter. But can there be something more behind an image than mere visual information? What distinguishes an image from a memory or a postcard? What can we convey through a graphic document? MOMENTUM emerges as a response to an atmosphere in which the image is reduced to a swift, ethereal tool that transmits superficial information. Conceived as a reaction to the incredible amount of unfiltered input and imagery we access online with a single click, it proposes opening a new dialogue and returning, for a moment, to carefully chosen personal references that allow for the illustration of an opinion on a specific subject, uncovering new conversations, viewpoints, or ways of thinking.