Every two years, the Manuel de Solà-Morales European Prize recognizes the best doctoral research in the field of urbanism.

After setting aside his career as an architect to serve on the front lines during World War I, Walter Gropius sensed that the world needed a radical change—a change in which art and architecture would play a fundamental role.

The Guatemala Architecture Biennial recognizes excellence in the architectural profession through the DANTA AWARDS. In previous editions, the awards have received over 100 projects from Guatemala and Central America, competing across various categories for both professionals and students.

In the mid-eighties, the advertising campaigns for the Benetton brand—under the art direction of Oliviero Toscani—provided an iconic image for the coexistence of different races and, in doing so, for the very idea of diversity. In 2000, an image created by Polish designer Piotr Mlodozeniec spelled out the word "CoeXisT," with the "C" replaced by a Muslim crescent, the "X" by the Star of David—a Jewish symbol—and the "T" by the Latin cross representing Christianity. Through these images, the concept of coexistence became associated with tolerance, serving as a counterpoint to both racism and religious fundamentalism.

It has been 20 years since Professor Carlos Sambricio proposed the idea of recovering, within the Spanish landscape, what we wish to call "the secondary figures"—those architects who, for various reasons, did not enjoy significant critical success during their professional practice, but whose work, when revisited in light of the years that have passed, raises issues of interest to us today.

Do you have questions about project eligibility or how to participate in the 2020 Biennial Competition?

Don't miss the live presentation on Thursday, July 2, at 4:30 PM (Ecuador time). You will have the opportunity to interact directly with the organizing committee and coordinators.

“Architecture and Urbanism Ideas Competition: New Civic and Citizen Space” is organized by the Municipality of Talca for the site currently occupied by the Talca Prison, which is scheduled to be relocated from the city center to a new facility in 2023.

This is an open, free, and entirely digital competition. Participation is open to individuals, independent professionals, work teams, and architecture and urban planning firms from Chile and abroad.

V.Oid Architecture invites you to participate in the competition Be Part of the Peruvian Pavilion at the 2020 Venice Biennale: "Playground, Artifacts for Interaction." This open call invites the general public to submit photographs of security grilles located in public spaces in any city worldwide.

The best photographs will be selected for exhibition at the Peruvian Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2020.

Tanzania is facing a severe shortage of high-quality, affordable housing. The situation is critical, with the nation currently facing a housing deficit of 3 million units alongside an annual demand for 200,000 more. Over seventy percent of urban residents live in unplanned, informal settlements that lack basic services.

Academic architectural production in Uruguay is vast and valuable; therefore, we believe it is necessary to launch an open call to showcase the best final degree projects that have emerged from it.

Academic proposals can be true intellectual and critical works. The goal of this open call is to ensure they do not remain stored away, gathering dust on shelves, losing their opportunity to generate real change in our cities and in the way we inhabit and think.

If you believe your 2019 final degree project is compelling enough to be published on our site and that your hard work deserves recognition from the wider community, do not hesitate to submit it using the form at the end of this article.

The 'Ideas en Pandemia' and 'Proyecto Perú' initiatives, in collaboration with the Municipality of Lima, have launched a significant effort to bring together diverse civil society actors and local government to address the current challenges facing food markets in the country, specifically in the La Victoria district. This effort promotes formal dialogue between civil society, public agencies, the private sector, and academic institutions in Peru and Latin America to reflect on and resolve shared regional issues.

The 2020 Pan American Biennial of Architecture of Quito has opened its call for entries for projects and publications completed in the four years leading up to each edition. Over its twenty-one editions, the Biennial Competition has received more than 7,000 submissions and recognized contributions to the practice of architecture, urbanism, landscape, theory, and architectural dissemination.

The Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism is aimed at individuals and institutions interested in traditional building, architecture, and urbanism. Published articles address the theory and practice of these disciplines. Its objective is to promote the creation of places and buildings that harmonize with local culture and tradition while respecting the environment and its natural resources. Furthermore, it seeks to foster a deeper understanding of traditional construction cultures worldwide, thereby encouraging greater respect for them and contributing to their preservation and continuity.

Local policymakers in urban planning must have a better understanding of potential impacts and a more profound reflection to find a solid foundation for acting effectively within their own territory. Co-organized by @sca_socearq and the Faculty of Architecture at @universidaddepalermo, the series features guests from diverse fields of urban culture who are active participants in the ongoing reconstruction of the city.

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, better known as COVID-19, has fundamentally altered our reality as a society—both in our daily lives and in the future we will build as we adapt to the current situation. Our public spaces are the first to prompt us to question how interaction and community will function within our cities and living environments. For this eighth edition of the Abierto, we seek to understand how the pandemic will transform our public spaces, how our social, economic, and political relationships will be redefined in light of the current global situation, and how creators, managers, authorities, and citizens perceive these spaces and this relationship.

This is a space where architecture emerges from the defense of our individual bodies, blending the caution and precision of preventive medicine with the boundlessness of art. The goal is to spark creative acts that yield solutions—using materials at hand—to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 while outside our homes: building an anti-body.

We invite individuals interested in deepening their study of architecture through a historical-critical lens, and who hold a university degree, to participate in the program. All are eligible to apply for the two partial scholarships to be awarded in the 2025 edition.

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The Municipality of Nono, with the support of educational institutions and civil society organizations backing the initiative, is seeking innovative projects to develop a park within the nature reserve encompassing the Los Nonos, La Juntura, and Perilago areas.

The concept of urban acupuncture stems from the intersection of urban planning and traditional Chinese acupuncture, which uses needles on specific pressure points to balance the body's energy. Much like its Chinese counterpart, urban acupuncture aims to generate comprehensive, chain-reaction improvements within a sector through targeted interventions in strategic locations, based on the understanding of the city as a connected, systemic organism.

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Identify the best architectural works by architects in the state of Tabasco, as well as publications, research, and theses. Recognize their authors. Disseminate the most relevant works to allow, through analysis and critique, a reflection on responsible contemporary architecture with sustainable solutions.

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At Urbanik Hub, a digital educational platform for architecture, engineering, and construction, we are presenting the Academic Architectural Design Competition. The challenge is to design a conceptual scheme for the "Science, Technology, and Innovation Center (CTeI)" in Medellín, Colombia. This center aims to become an epicenter for transforming Medellín's economic focus, serving as a platform for the creation of startups and technology-based companies, while simultaneously housing offices for global tech multinationals (e.g., Google, Facebook). It will function as a unique Smart Cities experimentation laboratory in Latin America, helping to manage the sustainable transition of our cities and territories.

The Félix Candela Award is an international architecture ideas competition conducted in Spanish that takes place in two phases. Organized annually by the Instituto Español de Arquitectura (IESARQ), it is open to students of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and design, as well as architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and designers up to 35 years of age, participating individually or in teams of two to three members.

The Universidad Intercontinental (UIC) celebrates the 20th anniversary of its Academic Competition for Schools of Architecture, a contest open to sixth-semester students from any university. This year's conceptual theme, "Voids that complete the city," seeks to address environmental challenges such as the indiscriminate use of automobiles—and the resulting increase in public parking—the exploitation of existing resources, food supply, and the lack of responsible water harvesting and management.