The competition calls for the conceptualization of a floating housing prototype (FLOATING HOUSE) that functions as an independent unit. Through its design, it should be capable of forming a cluster of 10 units, adding value to the natural environment. The site is located on the Caribbean coast, on the island of Holbox, Mexico.
Submissions are now open for issue 10 of Projectare: Revista de Arquitetura e Urbanismo. Following the migration to the UFPel Journal Portal (https://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/), this will be the first issue of the magazine edited and published via the Open Journal Systems platform.
Open House Madrid announces the 2nd edition of the City Awards, which recognize the most innovative, social, and engaged proposals that will shape the future of cities.
From March 12 to 21, 2020, architects from across the country may register for the national public competition, which will select two preliminary architectural, urban, and landscape design proposals for the Parque da Cidade in Belém. The competition is an initiative of the Government of the State of Pará, through the State Secretariat of Culture (Secult), and is organized by the Foundation for Research Support and Development (Fadesp).
Registration for the Ideas and Practices Competition: City, Housing, and Health has been extended until August 3. Launched on July 1, the competition aims to promote Technical Assistance for Social Interest Housing (ATHIS) as a strategy to address Covid-19.
NATIONAL PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM COMPETITION FOR ATHIS SANITARY UNIT LAUNCHED
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The Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism at the University of the Republic (FADU-Udelar), through a committee composed of Leandro Reimundi Scafidi (DEAPA professor) and the Audiovisual Media, Communication and Publications, and Cultural Activities services, invites you to participate in the "Quarantine" photography competition, held in the context of the current situation in Uruguay.
Through this photography competition, Nuestras Arquitectas aims to focus and refocus on images that have been hidden or overshadowed, restoring the recognition and prominence that architects deserve.
Registration is now open for the ‘Ir e Vir’ ideas competition, a contest for architecture students across Brazil that aims to investigate the impact of the pandemic on our collective imagination and its repercussions on the practice of the contemporary city through architectural projects.
The Quechua Architecture Competition (Q.A.C.) invites all participants to take part in a new challenge: to develop and present a project that explores diverse fields of thought and design. This time, the challenge is "CUICOCHA Mirador."
These are small creative challenges that we will launch regularly. We are talking about projects, illustration, photography, sketches, design, video, or other media, all of which share architecture as a common thread. Here, you will test all your skills and discover some you didn't know you had! It’s your time!
INST, an initiative dedicated to disseminating the cultural dimension of architecture, invites everyone to participate in its inaugural exercise.
INST, a new initiative for the dissemination of the cultural dimension of architecture, invites everyone to participate in its launch exercise.
The architectural output from Argentine universities is vast and valuable. Consequently, we are once again issuing a call for submissions to showcase the best final degree projects produced by these institutions.
Academic proposals can serve as genuine intellectual and critical works. Our goal with this call is to ensure these projects do not remain hidden, gathering dust on shelves, and losing the opportunity to spark real change in our cities and in how we inhabit and perceive our world.
The Landscape Institute of the Catholic University of Córdoba (Argentina), in collaboration with the Latin American Landscape Initiative (LALI) —within the framework of World Landscape Architecture Month (IFLA 2006 declaration)— invites professionals and enthusiasts of visual arts, illustration, or design in all fields to participate in the art competition "The Landscape Through My Window."
"Habitar a Quarentena" (@habitaraquarentena) is a collaborative project that seeks to gather insights through accounts and photographic records of the various experiences of living through this period of isolation via Instagram.
After seven years of publishing rita_—an indexed journal of academic texts—and in light of the wealth of fascinating research being conducted across Ibero-America and the many authors with significant contributions to make, we have decided to take the next step by launching the Habitar Iberoamérica novel and essay collection.
The Uyuni Salt Flat Shelter competition seeks to foster a reconnection with nature and with the human experience within solitude. Acceleration, instantaneity, immediacy, technologization... Daily human life has been subsumed by synchronous devices such as the clock and the mobile phone, resulting in a stressed society that has lost all trace of its biological temporality and its shared life with the environment. Here, on the salt flat, all technology disappears. Total computerization is not possible.
Natural disasters, flooding, unbalanced environmental exploitation, urban occupation of high-risk areas, exclusionary urban planning, the degradation of historical and cultural heritage, precarious housing, restrictive urban mobility, and government neglect are some of the many adversities that define the context of contemporary cities. The city emerges as a grave consequence of these disastrous events, which occur either through continuous processes or isolated episodes.
Source: Engineering Design Management Center, Bureau of Public Works of Shenzhen Municipality
The design competition for Phase III of Fuwai Hospital Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), is launching soon. The official tender notice will be released shortly. Global design teams are invited to participate.
Source: Bureau of Public Works of Shenzhen Municipality
The tender announcement for the design and preliminary architectural design of the Phase III project of Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (Shenzhen), has been released. Global design teams are invited to participate. The winning design team will be responsible for the overall master planning, functional layout, full-discipline design, preliminary architectural design, and related design services for the project.
Source: Engineering Design Management Center, Bureau of Public Works of Shenzhen Municipality
The tender for the architectural design and preliminary architectural design of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) School of Medicine and its affiliated hospital (main campus) is launching soon. Official tender information will be released shortly; global design teams are invited to stay tuned.
The Rio de Janeiro Department of the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB-RJ) has opened registration for the 58th Annual Awards—Road to the Centenary and the 37th Architect of Tomorrow Award. The former aims to recognize the intellectual and professional production of the Department's members, while the Architect of Tomorrow is dedicated to honoring academic work produced in architecture and urbanism programs across the state of Rio de Janeiro. The winning final graduation projects in the eight categories of the Architect of Tomorrow award will also compete for the Grandjean de Montigny Award, sponsored by CAU/RJ.