We are already developing a new edition of URBANBATfest. This year, we invite you to join a collective reflection on the relationship between food and urban space, and how food shapes our cities.

Inspired by the legacy of Conrado Silva, these regulations establish the framework for the 3rd Conrado Silva Student Acoustics Competition (CACS), held during the 30th Meeting of the Brazilian Society of Acoustics (SOBRAC), which will take place from November 19 to 22, 2023, in Natal, Brazil.

In its second edition, the TAC! Urban Architecture Festival will transform its host cities, València and San Sebastián, into sites for innovation and experimentation in public space.

The Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning of Uruguay and the National Housing Agency (ANV), with the support of the Durazno Departmental Government and the Inter-American Development Bank, have launched a call for proposals for a pilot project to construct high-rise social housing in timber in the city of Durazno.

Since its inception in 2008, the Bienal de Arquitectura Latinoamericana (BAL) has highlighted architectural developments in Latin America. For the 2023 edition, a new exhibition of Latin American architectural photography is being organized, aiming to expand the range of activities presented in order to achieve a broader and more precise vision of the region.

The Municipality of Temuco, through its Municipal Planning Secretariat, invites entries for the Architectural Design Competition for the Young Pablo Neruda House Museum in Temuco, Araucanía Region. The project aims to highlight Pablo Neruda's childhood memories and his development as a poet in the Araucanía Region.

ARCA is a FAC initiative dedicated to the social and legal recognition and understanding of contemporary architecture with significant value. In line with this goal, the ARCA Meetings serve as a forum for identifying challenges and opportunities, sharing methodologies, lines of action, and best practices, providing a space for networking and building synergies around contemporary architectural heritage.

The Mayor's Office of Santiago de Cali, the Administrative Department of Planning, and the Colombian Society of Architects of Valle del Cauca invite you to participate in the Urban and Landscape Design Competition for the recovery and transformation of the center of the City of Santiago de Cali along the axis of the historic Calle 5a – El Paseo de Jovita al Río.

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Concéntrico celebrates its 10th edition with a major transformation, aiming to envision the festival's future and share the knowledge gained about the city by incorporating new formats, engaging diverse audiences, and tackling challenges that explore time as a catalyst for change in urban and social design. The new edition will take place from April 25 to May 1, 2024.

The Brazilian Center for Steel Construction (CBCA) has opened registration for the 16th CBCA/Alacero Architecture Student Competition 2023. Interested participants may register until July 17 and submit their projects by August 25. The first-place winner will receive a prize of R$ 10,000.00, to be distributed among the team and their faculty advisor. The winning project will also represent Brazil in the 2023 #desafioALACERO Steel Design Competition for Architecture Students, organized by the Latin American Steel Association (ALACERO).

The submission of papers for the six thematic sessions is open to all participants of the V International Seminar on Hospital Architecture History (V SIHAH).

The modern design of a protected life, assuming a passive body constructed individually in the disease-health opposition, focuses on the elimination of disease through the use of the hospital as a fundamental device for biomedical knowledge and intervention. However, health is permanently reinvented through its social, ecological, and political dimensions, and the medicalization of life centered on the individual is expanding into spaces composed of less static and more complex visions, problematized by (re)emerging challenges such as the recent Covid-19 pandemic.

Talca has uploaded a multi-million dollar tender for the restoration of the Central Market to the public procurement portal. The project has a budget of over 17 billion pesos for this historic national monument. Mayor Juan Carlos Díaz, along with Regional Governor Cristina Bravo, met this morning with the market's tenant board to announce the timeline for this process.

Idealism and materialism, those two antagonistic philosophical visions, are constantly perceived in architecture. Juan Gris said that a nail was made with the idea of a nail, while Braque thought that a nail was made with iron.

The Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning of Uruguay and Mevir, with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank, are calling for proposals for new low-rise timber housing typologies. These units will be constructed by MEVIR as a 20-unit demonstration project in the town of Tranqueras, in the department of Rivera, Uruguay.

The Master's Degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Oviedo, through its Transportation Engineering and Infrastructure department, is launching its fifth international ideas competition for students to solicit proposals for addressing issues related to transportation networks. The competition is supported by the Mieres City Council, and as such, it focuses on interventions within its municipal boundaries.

The city of Alicante, the provincial capital and the fifth most populous city in Spain, boasts a privileged climate, an exceptional location, magnificent infrastructure, and extraordinary connectivity. With its airport—the fifth busiest in Spain by passenger volume—and its high-speed rail connection to Madrid, the city is a continuously developing technological and service hub that also hosts the European Union Intellectual Property Office, the registry for EU trademarks and designs.

The School of Architecture at the Campus Creativo of the Universidad Andrés Bello is launching an open call for the second edition of the Remote Residencies. This project aims to foster openness and interdisciplinary experimentation regarding contemporary and relevant themes, posing questions that challenge the status quo and creating spaces for research and free creation.

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The Municipal Mayor's Office of Bucaramanga and the Colombian Society of Architects announce the launch of the 'Public Ideas Competition for the development of a land occupation model for the northern edge of the municipality of Bucaramanga.'

Labi is proud to announce the launch of our second ideas competition for the Bixiga Park and Zé Celso Theater School, located in the Bixiga neighborhood of São Paulo.

The TRANSFER Architecture Video Award is an independent prize, launched in 2019, to recognize the most creative and innovative videos in the fields of architecture, the city, and landscape internationally.

We invite individuals interested in deepening their study of architecture through a historical-critical lens who hold a university degree to participate in the program. All are eligible to apply for the two half-scholarships to be awarded in the 2023 edition.

The Félix Candela Award is a two-stage international architecture ideas competition held in Spanish. Organized annually by the Spanish Institute of Architecture (IESARQ), it is open to all students of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and design, as well as architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and young designers, participating individually or in teams of two or three members.

To recognize the sustained efforts of thousands of individuals and organizations working within the public and private sectors, as well as citizen movements, on high-impact initiatives that benefit the country's cities, Lima Cómo Vamos is launching the call for entries for the 5th City Award for Urban Leadership.

With the intention of discovering and establishing new connections between peripheral initiatives, LA ESCUELA___ invites architects, researchers, educators, and community organizations to participate in the creation of programs and content that link architecture and education in Latin America.