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."

Fundraising Design Competition: Post-Pandemic Scenarios. Gatherings in Times of Social Distancing

Through its cultural project Pensarq_ and in collaboration with Espacio EMA, TAQ Arquitectura has created Mini Arquis at Home, a free online architecture activity for children aged 3 to 9, designed to be completed at home, from any country, at any time. The premise of the activity is to highlight the importance of architecture listening to what children have to say about their spaces, as they also inhabit and claim them as their own; for them, architecture can serve as the framework for their memories, play, and education.
The activity consists of two parts; Mini Arquis can choose to complete one or both. The first part involves creatively answering a short series of questions about their thoughts on their home and how they have felt spending more time in it. The second stage is to build a model of your ideal home. There are no rules; you can use whatever you find at home. The goal is to have fun, recycle materials, and enjoy quality family time while reflecting on how children perceive and experience their homes.
Participants may choose to complete either of the two activities. Supervising adults should document the work through video or photographs—the participant's face does not need to be visible—and email the files to pensarq@taqarquitectura.com to be featured in a gallery of all the Mini Arquis projects. The deadline for participation is May 31, 2020.
The first 20 children to submit their responses will receive a digital copy of the book Pedro Perfecto Arquitecto.
This initiative will be promoted in countries including Spain, Italy, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and others.
Visit www.miniarquis.com to participate and learn more.

Architecture is inevitably linked to the specific circumstances in which each project is developed, as well as the individual criteria applied to each proposal. At the same time, our discipline is also beholden to general notions that transcend specific conditions. We propose exploring this duality without contradiction, working on a topic that inevitably concerns us all from a broad, universal perspective that allows for the exploration of solutions extending beyond a single circumstance, place, or reality.

To halt the physical and social deterioration of the former "Bronx" sector and create conditions for the center's consolidation as a hub for economic, creative, cultural, and social development, the Mayor's Office—as part of the Bronx Creative District project, led by the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation (FUGA) and implemented through the Bogotá Urban Renewal and Development Company—has published the draft Terms of Reference for the procurement of detailed studies and designs, as well as the management and acquisition of permits and licenses for comprehensive interventions in two Cultural Interest Assets (BIC) that will form part of the Bronx Creative District.

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For nine consecutive years, the Interceramic Award for Architecture and Interior Design has promoted architecture and interior design by distinguishing works that best reflect originality, composition, structure, harmony, conceptualization, and all those attributes that contribute to the realization of any architectural or interior project.

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ENVOLVENTE is a concept representing everything that shelters and makes visible the final idea of a work—that skin that comforts and wraps the building and the space itself. It can be rigid, permeable, light or heavy, flexible, evocative, and avant-garde. As the face shown to the world, the envelope is ultimately the most plastic and pure expression of architecture.

Through this photography competition, Nuestras Arquitectas aims to focus and refocus on images that have been hidden and overshadowed, restoring the deserved recognition and prominence to women architects.

The 19th Academic Competition for Schools of Architecture, organized by the Universidad Intercontinental (UIC), will focus on the urban regeneration of the Corredor del Carmen in the Historic Center of Mexico City (CDMX).

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The Abierto Mexicano de Diseño is an international festival that gathers and celebrates the design community in Mexico every year, in all its breadth and diversity. It focuses on promoting, exhibiting, supporting, and disseminating Mexican design.

To advance the National Public Architecture Competition for the design of Integral Development Sports Space (EDDI RETO) prototypes, the Ministry of Sport, with the advisory support of the Colombian Society of Architects (Bogotá D.C. and Cundinamarca chapter), launched a call for entries on October 15, 2020, inviting architects to design a new model of recreational and sports infrastructure.

Design Week Mexico invites you to participate in the sixth edition of Inédito, which will take place at Espacio CDMX from October 9, 2020, to February 8, 2021. In this new reality, design will be more important than ever.