CENTROmx, with the support of INDAJO and the Government of Tlajomulco, announces the 2018 Mictlán Pavilion Competition. Open to students and recent graduates (28 years of age or younger) in Architecture, Industrial Design, Interior Design, and Urban Planning from the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, the competition invites participants to design and intervene in a pavilion at the San Juan Evangelista pier on the shores of Cajititlán, offering the opportunity to imagine and propose a space that interacts with the community during the “Mictlán Festival 2018,” held in celebration of the Day of the Dead.
Last year, with "Anual Arca," we questioned the ephemeral nature of exhibitions in a creative way. This year is no different, except that we have decided to do something radical: redirect the resources that an exhibition of this kind would require toward something transcendent—education.
5th Edition of PNAM: "The best timber constructions by the best Portuguese architects." Submissions are open until July 26 for permanent structures built within mainland Portugal or the islands, completed between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2018.
Call for entries for the 2019 Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture
The Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture aims to promote the value of traditional architecture as a proven reference for contemporary design in Spain and Portugal. This applies both to the restoration of monuments and urban ensembles of historical and artistic value, and to new construction projects that, rooted in local traditions, are capable of integrating harmoniously into these settings.
Registration is now open for the 19th Arquia/Becas 2018 call for applications, offering 24 internships for architecture students and recent graduates from schools of architecture in Spain and Portugal to gain professional experience at European architecture firms.
Jerte Reservoir, Plasencia. Photograph by José María Sánchez García
The Arquia Foundation has announced the curator and theme for the 10th edition of arquia/próxima (2024–2025), a program dedicated to fostering, promoting, and showcasing emerging architecture in Spain and Portugal. This open call, which runs until February 5, 2026, is curated by architect José María Sánchez García. His proposal, "Territory," invites participants to rethink this concept beyond its geographical dimension, incorporating cultural, ecological, social, and virtual aspects.
Lima Cómo Vamos, an institution with over a decade of experience, is calling for submissions of progress reports and results from research and projects focused on our cities and their development. Selected research will be presented at the II Foro Ciudades Cómo Vamos, a platform for sharing approaches, evidence, and proposals with public authorities, private institutions, and the general public dedicated to improving the country's cities and the quality of life of their inhabitants.
The rapid processes of informal urbanization in Metropolitan Lima have hindered the comprehensive planning of many neighborhoods and settlements in our city. Within this context, unequal access to quality public space has emerged as an urgent urban issue that must be addressed and resolved.
AGENDA OF THE CITIES, TABASCO: Call for submissions from architects in Tabasco for a compilation of ideas, proposals, and/or studies in the fields of architecture, public space, urban development, and territorial planning.
LA ESCUELA___ invites the student community in Paraguay to participate in an architecture competition that will give rise to our AULA "Aprendizaje al borde" (Learning at the Edge), led by the architecture firm Al Borde and developed in partnership with the Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Alto Paraná Campus.
Mexico Interior Lab is a specialized interior design and architecture competition in Mexico, focused on video content production. With the high demand for content flooding digital media and social networks, video has gained significant importance, enabling a deeper and more immediate connection to a message or concept.
The "Encuentro de Construcción con Tierra" (Earth Construction Meeting) is an event organized by faculty members from the Eastern Regional University Center (CURE) and the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism at the University of the Republic (FADU). It is funded by the University of the Republic's Sectoral Commission for Scientific Research (CSIC) and supported by the Ibero-American PROTERRA Network. The event is open to the general public, with a focus on Uruguayan students, self-builders, construction professionals, and architects, who may participate as attendees or as presenters by submitting their work.
Trenzando, an itinerant cultural center that travels along railway lines to visit isolated communities, invites architects, students, and interdisciplinary teams to participate in the "Railway Station Rehabilitation / Red Trenzando" architecture ideas competition. The initiative seeks to promote the rehabilitation of railway architectural heritage in four Chilean locations: Rungue (RM), Ocoa (Valparaíso Region), Yumbel, and San Rosendo (Biobío Region).
On November 16, the call for entries opened for the 6th edition of the Citizen Festival of Urban Interventions, which invites the residents of Santiago to carry out various initiatives, including music, performance, theater, installations, dance, workshops, and games in public spaces.
The deadline for the national short film competition has been extended to September 25. The competition invites Chilean filmmakers—or residents—to submit works up to 30 minutes in length across three categories.
The Architecture Film Festival Chile will hold its 5th edition in November 2020 in an online format.
The Illustrious Municipality of Las Condes, in collaboration with the University of Chile and the Cerros Isla Foundation, announces the launch of a national public competition for the design of the "Cerro Calán Observatory Park." The competition aims to select the best proposal and an interdisciplinary team for the architecture, landscape, and specialty design.
The EARQ-UC Architecture Initiation Cluster (Chile) invites participants to the first national meeting on architecture initiation, to be held on Thursday, August 27, and Friday, August 28, 2020. The event aims to share diverse perspectives on teaching during the first year of university architecture studies in Chile, as reflected in the content and methodologies proposed by each school within the national academic landscape.
Metropolitan life implies an accelerated pace that excludes moments of contemplation and introspection. The ideal of the primitive hut, meanwhile, represents a primordial moment for architecture, where material and symbolic needs converge, the relationships between form and use intensify, and the distinctions between furniture and building blur.
The VAAD HAJINUJ Educational Corporation, the central body for Jewish education in Chile, invites Chilean and foreign architects (based in Chile) to submit architectural proposals for the new Instituto Hebreo building. The site is located at Chesterton No. 8630 in the Las Condes district, which is part of the current grounds of the Estadio Israelita Maccabi (EIM).
The objective of this competition, sponsored by the Colegio de Arquitectos and the Association of Architectural Offices (AOA), is to obtain an architectural response that is well-suited to the functional and spatial needs of the Instituto Hebreo’s program, as well as the urban and environmental requirements inherent to its site and the building's institutional character.
Now in its third edition, the Mi Parque Foundation and Fahneu Design and Innovation Competition invites students and professionals in design and architecture under the age of 30 to submit proposals aimed at improving the experience of young people in public spaces.
To foster the creative work of young talent and promote knowledge of steel and its applications, CAP Acero, a company of the CAP Group, has opened submissions for the 33rd edition of the "CAP Competition for Architecture Students."
