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 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.
Dossier: Space for Life - Vol 26, No. 39 (2020)
Submission deadline: February 28, 2020.
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.
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.
UPDATE: The 13th International Architecture Biennial of São Paulo has extended the deadline for the Co-Curatorship Competition proposals until January 31, 2021, at 11:59 PM. Proposals may be submitted via the Biennial website. This edition features a 12-member committee, including representatives from the IAB (Institute of Architects of Brazil) from other states to ensure plurality in overseeing this event of national and international reach.
This is an open call for projects and publications completed during the four years preceding each edition of the BAQ. Over its twenty-one editions, the Biennial Competition has received more than 7,000 entries and has recognized contributions to the practice of architecture, urbanism, landscape, theory, and architectural dissemination.
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.
Registration is now open for the National Public Architectural Design Competition for Social Housing, organized by CAU/GO in partnership with AGEHAB (Goiás Housing Agency). Proposals will be accepted until 4:00 PM on February 19, 2020, at the CAU/GO headquarters.
In Conflict is the Portuguese Representation at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, taking place in 2021. The Portuguese Representation is commissioned by the Directorate-General for the Arts, with a curatorial team led by the collective depA architects, who are also responsible for the exhibition design.
Rio de Janeiro is inviting everyone to be part of the 2020 official calendar, as the city serves as the first UNESCO-UIA World Capital of Architecture and host of the 27th World Congress of Architects. The City Hall has published a public call (number 02/2019) in the Official Municipal Gazette, opening the floor for institutions and cultural producers from Brazil and abroad to submit proposals for events related to architecture, cultural heritage, landscaping, urban management, or discussions on the cities of the future.
The Latin American Integration Workshop (TiL), established in 2009 by the Faculty of Architecture, Design, Art, and Urbanism at the University of Morón with the support of over one hundred architecture schools in Latin America and partners in Spain, Italy, and Portugal, has opened the call for entries for the sixth edition of the TiL Competition, aimed at architecture and design students from around the world.
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).
Submit your project featuring prominent use of ceramic tiles. Winners will have their work featured as the cover story in the November 2020 issue of TILE Brasil. This issue will also be distributed at Cersaie 2020 in Italy.
I. Project Overview
The project is located in Unit 4 of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, north of Guiwan 2nd Road and west of 11th Road. It encompasses 04-03-01 educational facility land and 04-03-02 green space. The total site area is approximately 37,141.26 square meters, including approximately 3,353.58 square meters of green space on the north side. The total floor area is approximately 95,000 square meters.
MOVE CINE ARTE is an international film festival of Brazilian origin, dedicated to film productions focused on architecture, landscape, spatial representation, urbanism, planning, cities, and the environment. This year, the festival will take place in Venice, São Paulo, and Paris.
The Maré-City International Ideas Competition, promoted by the International Union of Architects (UIA) as part of the UIA2020RIO activities, offers architecture students from around the world the opportunity to develop projects related to the congress theme "All worlds. One world. Architecture 21."