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Join us on Wednesday, January 15, as we unveil the 2025 World Monuments Watch, WMF's biennial selection of 25 treasured heritage places around the world facing urgent challenges and timely opportunities for preservation.

Tropical Configurations
Lecture by Felipe Mesa, Principal of PLAN B Arquitectos.
Felipe Mesa is the founder and principal of PLAN:B Architects, a design practice based in Medellin, Colombia. During the last 20 years, he has built over 50 buildings, with different programs and scales: public spaces, sports, and educational buildings, hotels, offices, houses, and art installations. PLAN:B's work has been selected and exhibited in various venues: Colombian Architecture Biennial, Ibero-American
Architecture Biennial, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Biennial of the Americas, Pamplona Latin American Architecture Biennale; and has been published and disseminated in specialized magazines and digital websites: A+U, Architectural Review, Lotus, Domus, Abitare, Arquitectura Viva, Archdaily, Architizer,
Designboom.
www.planbarq.com
Mesa is an Associate Professor in The Design School (Architecture Program) at the Arizona State University. Before this appointment, he was an Assistant professor in the architecture programs of some Universities in Colombia: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Medellin; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) in
Bogota, Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota; and he was Ivan Smith Eminent Visiting Professor at the University of Florida School of Architecture (SoA) - 2014.
Felipe understands the architectural project as a provisional pact, a permeable configuration, and a positive expression of the eco-social constraints surrounding us. His projects and research topics related to the practice and teaching of architecture have been published in four books by Mesaestandar Editors: Acuerdos
Parciales (2005), Awaiting Architecture (2007), Permeability (2013), Architecture in Reverse (2017); one book by AR+D Publishing: 12 Projects in 120 Constraints (2021); and one book by ORO Editions: Design Build Studios in Latin America (2023).

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Pioneering Biomaterials Symposium & Exhibition 2025

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In a world facing unprecedented challenges, the need for innovative housing solutions that prioritize both people and the planet has never been more critical. Housing to Save Humanity brings together global thought leaders in sustainable architecture, regenerative real estate, and innovative design to explore bold ideas that are redefining how we live and build.
Hosted at the iconic Microsoft Research Lab in New York City, this event features a dynamic panel of professors, TED speakers, and industry leaders who are shaping the future of housing, including:

The Department of Architecture is proud to present the exhibition Winners! AIA Florida & Miami Design Awards 2024 showcasing the work and recognition of eleven students, eight alumni, four scholarship recipients, and five faculty members who received awards during this year's AIA Florida and AIA Miami Design Awards.