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Design Competition for the Architecture Awards Sculpture

The Spanish Council of Architects (CSCAE) has launched a competition for the design of the sculpture to be awarded to the winners of the Architecture Awards. COMPAC, as the official sponsor of the awards, will provide participants with the materials to create the piece. The design must be original, and the competition is open to architects and multidisciplinary teams of artists and designers working in collaboration with architects. The deadline for submitting proposals is April 22. The winner will receive a cash prize of 5,000 euros.

Chile Design Awards 2021

The eighth edition of the Chile Diseño Awards will recognize the capacity for adaptation to the new reality.

Public Spaces for Early Childhood: Urban Design Competition

One of Lima's major deficits is the lack of public spaces designed for children to develop their psychomotor, intellectual, and social skills during their early years. Design focused on early childhood seeks to foster a more attentive perspective toward the needs of the city's most vulnerable users: children aged 0 to 5, their caregivers, and pregnant women.

RETROACTIVE 2020. Fall '22 Call for Entries

30 proposals
30 jurors
3 winners

RADICAL 2030: Spring 22 Call for Entries

The Paris Agreement is an international treaty on climate change. Adopted by 196 countries in Paris on December 12, 2015, it entered into force on November 4, 2016. Its goal is to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius—preferably 1.5 degrees—compared to pre-industrial levels. To achieve this long-term temperature goal, countries aim to peak greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible to achieve a climate-neutral planet by mid-century. This entails reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030 relative to 1990 levels.

Ideas Competition for the New Building and Central Plaza at Torcuato di Tella University

The Ideas Competition for a new 24,000 m2 building at the Di Tella Campus is now open to all architects licensed in Argentina.

MATE + Domus Academy Scholarship

A year ago, MATE began an educational collaboration with Study Milan, the representative in Peru for some of the world's most renowned schools in fashion, art, and design. Domus Academy is one of the most prominent learning environments for visual design, user experience, and fashion, offering an extraordinary postgraduate program. To celebrate a year of collaboration, MATE and Domus Academy are jointly presenting a scholarship covering 50% of the tuition for any of the 11 master's programs offered by the prestigious Italian school.
The scholarship application process will take place in two stages: a pre-selection based on submitted portfolios, followed by a workshop morning led by Luca Tarasco, a Domus Academy professor who will travel to Lima to meet the applicants.

MUTEK Mexico 17th Edition: #FrenteNacional Open Call

For the second consecutive year, MUTEK MX is officially launching its open call for artistic proposals for its 17th Edition, which will take place from November 23 to 29, 2020.

O’Gorman O’Gorman 1905 – 1982. Call for cultural projects

The Azcapotzalco Mayor's Office, through the Azcapotzalco Cultural Center, invites artists, architects, and creators to submit cultural projects for the "O’GORMAN O’GORMAN 1905-1982" exhibition, which will take place in February 2021.

Architectural competition for the design of public space and interior gardens for the CHSJD

The Mayor's Office of Bogotá, through the Bogotá Urban Renewal and Development Company (ERU) and with the guidance and expertise of the Colombian Society of Architects (SCA), is launching an architectural competition to determine how the San Juan de Dios Hospital Complex (CHSJD) will be integrated with the surrounding neighborhoods and the city center, focusing on its public space and internal foundational gardens.

4th How Are We Doing Cities Forum: Call for entries extension

The Ciudades Cómo Vamos Forum is a space for discovery and discussion regarding the present and future of cities, promoted by Lima Cómo Vamos. Its objective is to share approaches, evidence, and proposals concerning the country's cities, and to facilitate the dissemination of multi-stakeholder efforts aimed at improving urban areas in Peru.

PALIMPSEST. Erased City [1521-2021]

Call for essays and graphic narratives reflecting on the architecture, engineering, and/or spaces that no longer exist in Mexico City, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the fall of Mexico-Tenochtitlan.

Bicentennial Station Competition - Lima Metro Line 1 and Lima Cómo Vamos

To mark the 10th anniversary of LÍNEA 1, in partnership with Lima Cómo Vamos, a nationwide call is open for citizens to submit initiatives, practices, and projects.

Call for entries for the MIRO digital museum: Museum of Impunity, Resistance to Oblivion

MIRO (Museum of Impunity: Resistance to Oblivion) is a digital museum exhibition project by the Estudio 3.14 Fellowship Program that seeks to showcase a diverse range of visual works with protest-oriented and subversive content. These works address various social issues stemming from the prevalence of impunity in Mexico and globally, through the power of imagery. Artists and designers are invited to submit existing works to be exhibited across the museum’s six constituent levels, each addressing the following issues: corrupt politicians, media, complicity, disappearances, and femicides.

National Public Competition: Water Landscapes in Rionegro, Antioquia

The Municipality of Rionegro and the Colombian Society of Architects (Antioquia Regional Chapter) are launching a national public competition for the basic design and preliminary urban, landscape, and architectural project for the Río Negro Park, "Paisajes del Agua" (Water Landscapes), in the municipality of Rionegro, Antioquia.

#002LIMINAL: Open call for the TIMELESS MICRO-EXHIBITION

MICRO was born in 2020 as a reflective process that identified the artistic potential brewing within architecture schools that had remained anonymous, aiming, furthermore, to encourage all students to broaden their horizons beyond the purely architectural. Ultimately, it seeks to collect and host all works produced under the proposed theme in a single exhibition that showcases the artistic talent of architecture schools. The success and quality of the works that comprised the first and second editions have reaffirmed and confirmed the hypothesis of this expanding project.

The Bicycle and Its Doubles: Sculpture / Assemblage / Upcycling / Design Competition

Are you a creative person who enjoys designing objects? Registration for the "The Bicycle and its Doubles" competition is open until September 18, with finalists to be featured in the Bicycle Architecture Biennale (BAB).

MOeC: Jaime Lerner Scholarships for Latin American Students 2022-23

Following the success of the first edition of the "Jaime Lerner Scholarship" in 2021, IAAC, in collaboration with the Uruguayan firm Gómez Platero Arquitectura & Urbanismo, is launching the second edition of the Jaime Lerner Scholarships. This year, the scholarship is open to professionals from all Latin American countries to study our Online Master in Cities: The Next Urbanism for the 2022/2023 academic year. Through this initiative, the sponsors reinforce their commitment to supporting local architects in their efforts to specialize and effectively contribute to improving the cities in their respective countries.

Ciudad Do Competition: Registration open

The national public competition for the preliminary urban, landscape, and architectural design of the Apartadó River Parks – Stage 2 "Ciudad Do" seeks to transform the Apartadó River into the municipality's primary natural asset, establishing it as the articulating axis of urban planning and the focal point of physical interventions that will achieve: "...a living river... and alive in the people!"

Bogotá Public Space Biennial 2021: Open Call

The Bogotá Public Space Biennial (BEP BOG) is a biennial competition organized by the Mayor's Office of Bogotá D.C., represented by the Administrative Department of the Public Space Ombudsman (DADEP) and its Bogotá Public Space Observatory, alongside the Colombian Society of Architects (SCA), Bogotá and Cundinamarca regional chapter. Its purpose is to recognize and promote projects and management strategies for the creation, recovery, and sustainability of public space in Bogotá.

CONSTRULITA Lighting Awards

The CONSTRULITA Lighting Awards return in 2021 to recognize those who, even during the pandemic, continue to enhance spaces through light. Lighting design is an essential field for reaffirming the importance of light in our lives, spanning art, education, science, technology, and design. Accordingly, this competition invites anyone dedicated to lighting design or related fields to register their projects and showcase their talent to the world.
This initiative by Grupo Construlita aims to serve as a platform for new generations seeking recognition, providing a space where their talent and experience can continue to grow and become part of the lighting community in Mexico and Latin America.
Starting Monday, September 6, the online registration platform will be open to professionals and students in fields related to architecture, interior design, industrial design, product design, lighting design, and engineering who currently reside in Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, or the Dominican Republic.
Projects may be registered in five professional categories: Architectural Lighting, Interior Lighting, Light-Art, Product Design, and Connect +IoT—a new category focused on the integration of new connectivity technologies with lighting.

Third NY401 Ideas Competition

Professionals, professors, and students are invited to participate in the Third National Ideas Competition, organized by the Municipal Housing Institute of León (IMUVI León) in collaboration with the León Architects Association (Colegio de Arquitectos de León A.C.).
The objective is to develop a conceptual proposal for a social housing condominium in the Las Américas neighborhood in León, Guanajuato.

8th INFONAVIT Architecture and Urbanism Competition 2021

This national competition, managed by Infonavit, invites undergraduate students of urban planning, architecture, or related fields to develop design strategies and solutions for improved habitability and appropriate population density in housing for workers in Mexico, within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

4th National Meeting on Community Architecture

This meeting, continuing the previous Latin American and National gatherings, aims to bring together architecture professionals, academic departments, educators, researchers, and students to continue debating and deepening the understanding of professional practice in habitat transformation processes.

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