Lorcan O’Herlihy’s Los Angeles: Dignity, Beauty, and Belonging - Free Self Guided Architectural Trail Map
Each month, Friends of Residential Treasures Los Angeles (FORT: LA) curates a new self-guided trail, inviting Angelenos to explore the city's rich architectural heritage. These immersive experiences highlight significant homes, hidden gems, and the designers who have shaped Los Angeles' built environment.
On Tuesday, March 29, from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM (CET), a virtual reality talk will take place at the Meetaverse Cultural Center, hosted on the AltspaceVR application.
Permaculture, social housing, positive social impacts, and human labor and local resources as active agents in construction and spatial occupation guide contemporary architectural practices in the "Arquitetura Pau-Brasil" meeting cycle.
Arquitetura Pau-Brasil May 21 and 28, June 4 and 11, 2022 Saturdays, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM Zoom Marieta Virtual
Panel discussion: Latin America Architecture: Contemporary Research Issues. Promotional poster designed by Victória F. Vicente.
Architectural production in Latin America presents complex particularities and is a field open to new perspectives and approaches. In this panel discussion, three Brazilian authors will offer their distinct, yet complementary, perspectives on the subject and present their recently published research.
How can we consider the relationships between art, architecture, humanity, and social housing? Who is architecture intended for? Who does it actually serve? What issues permeate and, above all, affect urban life? These and other questions will be debated at the seminar Imersões: arte e arquitetura (Immersions: Art and Architecture), which will be held virtually on March 2, 3, 4, and 5, 2021, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, featuring national and international guests. The seminar will promote a critical debate on topics within the context of the 27th World Congress of Architects - UIA 2021, when Rio will receive the title of World Capital of Architecture from UNESCO.
Paulo Mendes da Rocha, PMR Chaise Longue, 1985. Photo: Edouard Fraipont. Courtesy Bergamin & Gomide
Bergamin & Gomide is participating in EXPO Chicago 2019 at booth 311. The gallery presents the project “Exhibit A.A.A,” curated by Sol Camacho, which proposes an intersection of art, architecture, and design, featuring works by historical artists such as Alfredo Volpi, Aluísio Carvão, Athos Bulcão, Lina Bo Bardi, Lygia Clark, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Roberto Burle Marx, and Sergio Camargo, among others.
The 2019 Informal Means Symposium: Alternative Practices in Latin America will showcase unconventional production methods and professional empowerment within the built environment.
The Latin American Steel Association (Alacero) presents the webinar "Health and Well-being in Projects and Structures - SDG 3," a virtual meeting for construction industry professionals and architecture students across Latin America interested in learning more about addressing health and well-being in architectural projects. This topic aligns with SDG 3—Good Health and Well-being—of the UN 2030 Agenda, which is the theme of the 14th Alacero Steel Architecture Competition 2021.
The research platform Justicia Espacial is organizing this virtual discussion to address and prioritize urgent and relevant topics concerning spatial justice and gender.
Ideas de Ciudad is a laboratory for research, dissemination, and debate on the spatial and social transformations of the contemporary city. Its goal is to create a city laboratory—an open research platform aimed at exploring the future of cities as spaces for culture and the generation of new social, technological, and innovation paradigms.
On April 28, you are invited to attend the launch of the CTeC Innovation Park, the first technology park for the construction sector. Here, companies and institutions can pilot, prototype, monitor, and validate innovations, construction solutions, materials, and new technologies under real-world, integrated conditions before they are implemented on-site.
In this special edition of 'Terrace Talk,' the Colombian firm OPUS will host a Facebook Live conversation with four Latin American architects and activists to share perspectives on cities in quarantine.