The National Reflection and Research Competition, Arquitectura Escrita 2022, organized by the Grupo Arquitectura Caliente, seeks to highlight and disseminate readings on the discipline through an open competition that awards the best texts from architecture students, professional architects, or representatives of other disciplines who, through their research and reflections, contribute to the knowledge and debate of architecture in Chile.
Applications opened yesterday, Thursday, September 29, for the competition of ideas for the exhibition to be presented at the XXII Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism of Chile, co-organized by the Association of Architects of Chile and the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage. The call for entries will remain open from September 29 through October 24, 2022, with the event scheduled to take place between December 2022 and January 2023.
The EARQ-UC Architecture Initiation Cluster (Chile) invites participants to the first national meeting on architecture initiation, to be held on Thursday, August 27, and Friday, August 28, 2020. The event aims to share diverse perspectives on teaching during the first year of university architecture studies in Chile, as reflected in the content and methodologies proposed by each school within the national academic landscape.
Metropolitan life implies an accelerated pace that excludes moments of contemplation and introspection. The ideal of the primitive hut, meanwhile, represents a primordial moment for architecture, where material and symbolic needs converge, the relationships between form and use intensify, and the distinctions between furniture and building blur.
Trenzando, an itinerant cultural center that travels along railway lines to visit isolated communities, invites architects, students, and interdisciplinary teams to participate in the "Railway Station Rehabilitation / Red Trenzando" architecture ideas competition. The initiative seeks to promote the rehabilitation of railway architectural heritage in four Chilean locations: Rungue (RM), Ocoa (Valparaíso Region), Yumbel, and San Rosendo (Biobío Region).
Countless women around the world have contributed to the development of the built environment and the habitat, as well as to the advancement of architecture as a profession; however, much of this work remains unpublished and unknown. This invitation to join the 1x1 Collection of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) seeks to make the contributions of all women architects visible so that the record of their work does not disappear, taking their valuable stories with it.
The 2023 National Thesis Project Competition (CNPT) by Arquitectura Caliente – Graphisoft Archicad is an open competition that seeks to recognize and reward the best thesis projects in Chile. It is aimed at recent graduates with projects developed between June 1, 2021, and July 31, 2023, at any of the country's architecture schools.
The 2023 National Undergraduate Project Competition (CNPP), organized by Arquitectura Caliente and Graphisoft Archicad, is an open competition that seeks to recognize and reward the best undergraduate projects in Chile. It is open to students in their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th/5th years, featuring projects developed between June 1, 2021, and July 31, 2023, at any architecture school in the country.
September 22 marks the launch of the Architectural Skins competition: timber envelopes for existing buildings. This invitation from WoodArch is sponsored by the AOA (Association of Architecture Offices) and the Chilean Institute of Architects.
The Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage, in collaboration with ProChile and the Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DIRAC)—both part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs—announces the launch of the Curatorial Project Competition for the Chile Pavilion at the 2023 London Design Biennale. The event will take place from June 1 to 25, 2023, in London, United Kingdom.
More than half of the global population currently lives in cities, presenting a challenge for urban planners and professionals in urban management and design. One of the most significant elements of this landscape is public space—including parks, plazas, esplanades, boulevards, and streets—where everyone has the right to be and move freely. These spaces function as meeting points where cultural, social, economic, and informational exchanges converge.
The Illustrious Municipality of Santa Cruz invites students and architects from across Chile to present and develop ideas for the intervention of the former Santa Cruz departmental government building, located at 74 Diaz Besoain, to transform it into the future House of Culture.
The trajectory of design is inherently uncertain. Hands and minds, engaged and restless, seek new scenarios where process and exploration take center stage.
Interceramic, a leading company in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of ceramic floors, wall tiles, and installation materials—as well as the commercialization of bathroom furniture, whirlpool tubs, kitchen sinks, and faucets—is committed to promoting architecture and interior design. The company recognizes works that best reflect originality, composition, structure, harmony, conceptualization, and all attributes contributing to the realization of any architectural or interior project. With this in mind, the Interceramic Award is reinventing itself for its eighth edition with the following objectives:
The Abierto Mexicano de Diseño (AMD) is an international festival that gathers and celebrates the community that enjoys, consumes, and practices design in Mexico in all its breadth and diversity. As the name suggests, it is an event open to all creative expressions related to design, without distinction of discipline, education, experience, age, socioeconomic status, or identity.
Colegio de Arquitectos de Nuevo León
The Nuevo León College of Architects
CENTROmx, with the support of INDAJO and the Government of Tlajomulco, announces the 2018 Mictlán Pavilion Competition. Open to students and recent graduates (28 years of age or younger) in Architecture, Industrial Design, Interior Design, and Urban Planning from the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, the competition invites participants to design and intervene in a pavilion at the San Juan Evangelista pier on the shores of Cajititlán, offering the opportunity to imagine and propose a space that interacts with the community during the “Mictlán Festival 2018,” held in celebration of the Day of the Dead.
Last year, with "Anual Arca," we questioned the ephemeral nature of exhibitions in a creative way. This year is no different, except that we have decided to do something radical: redirect the resources that an exhibition of this kind would require toward something transcendent—education.
Tabb Architecture, in collaboration with the Instituto Sonorense de Cultura, invites you to participate in the first edition of an architectural photography competition dedicated to the 'Parque El Rebote' project, located in Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico.
Organized by IESARQ, this competition is open to students of architecture, urbanism, and design, as well as Mexican architects, urban planners, and designers up to 35 years of age, participating individually or in teams of two or three members. The second edition of the Félix Candela Award invites participants to reflect on architecture as an autonomous discipline within the cultural context of Mexico.
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The call for entries for the 2019 CEMEX Building Award, Mexico edition, closes on May 3. Projects completed in 2018 within the country are eligible. There will be 5 categories and 4 special awards. Winners will compete in the international edition.
The competition to design the itinerant pavilion reinforces Provincia's commitment to establishing a tradition of developing innovative ideas on contemporary themes through ephemeral structures for the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico, during the Architecture and City Festival, which will take place in April 2019.
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The 4th Call for Applications for the 2018 Research Grant has opened. This grant is aimed at architects who have graduated from a school of architecture in Spain and wish to develop a research project in New York City.
The Research Grant, organized by the Arquia Foundation in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, aims to promote the execution of an architecture research project by providing opportunities for its creation, development, and dissemination. It offers candidates the necessary conditions and resources to support their efforts and initiative.