Last March, we announced the winners of the 2020 Building of the Year award, which has celebrated the best of architecture built in Latin America and Spain since 2008. As is our tradition, we called upon our expert jury—our readers—to select their favorite buildings published throughout 2019.
In the coming weeks, we will announce the 2021 Building of the Year award. As a prelude to this new chapter, we have organized a series of virtual meetings with each of the 2020 Building of the Year winners to take an in-depth look at the three projects chosen by our readers. We will host the 2020 Building of the Year awards ceremony through a fully digital experience, made possible by the collaboration of our partners, Crest and Fundermax.
https://www.archdaily.com/1102292/take-a-closer-look-at-the-2020-building-of-the-year-winnersPola Mora
Modern architecture in Mexico can be understood through its diverse facets. This course aims to study and discuss, through theoretical and expository lectures, the work of four major architects of this period in Mexico: Juan O'Gorman (1905–1982), Luis Barragán (1902–1988), Mario Pani (1911–1993), and Félix Candela (1910–1997). The sessions will address the historical, political, and cultural contexts of Mexico during this era, while also drawing parallels with the work of Le Corbusier and other artists such as José Clemente Orozco, Mathias Goeritz, and Jesús “Chucho” Reyes. In this way, the course seeks to understand not only the discourse and practice of these architects but also the very construction of Modern Architecture in Mexico.
Xu Tiantian is the founding principal of DnA _Design and Architecture. She has received numerous awards such as the WA China Architecture Award in 2006 and 2008, the Architectural League New York’s Young Architects Award in 2008, the Design Vanguard Award in 2009 by Architecture Record and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architect in 2019. She has built a number of projects, such as Songzhuang Art Center and Ordos Art Museum. In the past years she has been engaged extensively in the rural revitalising process in Songyang County, China. Her groundbreaking “architectural acupuncture” is a holistic approach to the social and economic revitalization of rural China and has been selected by UN Habitat as the case study of Inspiring Practice on Urban-Rural Linkages. Xu Tiantian received her masters in architecture and urban design from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and her baccalaureate in architecture from Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Deanna Van Buren is the Executive Director, Design Director, and Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS), an architecture and real estate development non-profit building infrastructure to end mass incarceration. As one of only 500 licensed Black female architects in the U.S, Deanna is committed to racial equity in the built environment and is a national thought leader in advocating for alternative spaces for justice, including restorative justice centers and mobile resource villages. Van Buren’s most recent notable projects with her team include Restore Oakland, a campus for restorative justice and restorative economics in Oakland, California, and the reimagining of the Atlanta City Detention Center into a Center for Equity. Van Buren received her BS in architecture from the University of Virginia and her Masters of Architecture from Columbia University, and she is the only architect to have been awarded the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist fellowship.
CANactions School Talk is a series of online talks and offline events investigating «How does the world change in the face of global challenges?». It is aimed to share global knowledge, unite, and consolidate professionals around the globe.
Spitzer School of Architecture Spring Lecture Series 2021 Please join us for the new Sciame Lecture Series, &/Or. To learn more, please ‘see link in bio ’
Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, titled And/Or. This lecture will feature Liza Jessie Peterson and Raphael Sperry, introduced by Elias Beltran, for a discussion of art and architecture.
A Brick and Glass House. Photo by Marco Lorenzetti, Hedrich Blessing courtesy of Krueck Sexton Partners.
Refine your eye for design in this special series of programs hosted by notable Chicago architects. Held the first Tuesdays in March, April and May, See Like an Architect examines timeless fundamentals in conceiving and communicating architecture.
Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, &/Or. Mel Chin and Ronald Rael will discuss art and architecture, introduced and moderated by Max Wolf.
Houston’s Buffalo Bayou Park (2019 RBA Silver Medalist) illustrates the resilient and connective potential of public infrastructure. Credit: Jonnu Singleton
A new Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA) partnership with Northeastern University’s Myra Kraft Open Classroom, “Inspiring Design: Creating Beautiful, Just, and Resilient Places in America,” explores how people and places across the country are responding to this charge and creating equitable and inclusive places for all.
Virtual Tour Series on Sustainable Urban Stragies by Guiding Architects
After the big success of the first virtual tour series by Guiding Architects, which took place in October and was joined by more than 550 participants, Guiding Architects now offers a second series of online guided tours.
The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture is pleased to announce its Spring 2021 Lecture Series. With speakers hailing from across the globe, this semester’s lineup represents an exciting range of contemporary voices and international perspectives. Featuring a new, dynamic slate of speakers each semester, the School of Architecture’s lecture series plays an integral role in fulfilling the school’s commitment to fostering lively intellectual curiosity and the open exchange of ideas.
Starting Monday, January 25 and continuing throughout the semester, lecturers representing a broad cross-section of cultural practices—including Pritzker Prize Laureates, video game designers, filmmakers, and beyond—will present talks that push the traditional boundaries of the design disciplines, address some of society’s most pressing challenges, and help us reimagine the relationship between ourselves design and the world around us.
The Foros lecture series at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, an essential annual event in the fields of architecture and urbanism, is launching a new edition in an online format that will run from January 27 to April 28.
In the book “La Silla de la Discordia” (Ediciones Asimétricas), Pablo López Martín explores how the tubular steel cantilever chair, whose patent was claimed during the same period by Mies van der Rohe, Mart Stam, and Marcel Breuer, transcends its own scale to serve as a vehicle for conceptual, formal, constructive, and structural exploration in the work of each of these European architectural icons.
TRACCE is a series of FREE online conversations organized by Studio Traccia. The first episode will be live on Tuesday the 19th of Jan 2021, at 7.30pm (CET), via Webinar and live streaming on Instagram . Tracce means traces, and traces are left by pioneers and read by explorers. We want to be both. A number of different international guests from the creative industry, who through their work are challenging established preconceptions will share ideas, inspirations, knowledge, and discuss provocations.
