Across nine episodes, the series Proyecto Habitardelves into the intimacy of homes to explore the reality of housing in Chile. Through the perspective of its protagonists, directors Joaquín Mora and Verónica Wüst aim to spark an urgent conversation on housing-related issues.
"The issue of housing is crucial and will soon take center stage, as our current economic system presents various challenges we must address as a society," Mora comments.
This time, we invite you to watch the final three episodes of the series: childhood, roots, and projection.
Coexist is the new work by Erik Harley, an audiovisual artist and urban studies expert from the University of Barcelona, created for Biel Blancafort, a Spanish music producer based in Barcelona.
The music video uses digital imagery from Google Earth paired with electronic music to explore the built condition of our globalized world and the way we understand the environment as we construct and digitize it. Theoretically grounded in the ideas of British geographer and social theorist David Harvey, the video critiques the continuous and unlimited growth of our cities, which leads to design solutions driven by financial arguments and executed rapidly while the next development is already being planned.
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Congonhas Airport Footbridge. Courtesy of Arquitetura Paulistana
The open course Arquitetura Paulistana, organized by Marco Artigas, took students to visit the Congonhas Airport Pedestrian Bridge project, designed by Estúdio Artigas in partnership with the firm H2C Arquitetura. Begun in 2014, the project took four years to complete and featured the participation of Nitsche Arquitetos, who were responsible for the project's visual communication.
The *Geography, City, and Architecture* graduate program at Escola da Cidade invited architect Mario Figueroa to deliver a lecture on Chilean architecture, where he discusses the so-called “Generation of the '90s” and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights.
Balkrishna Doshi designed numerous projects throughout his career, yet his name remains relatively unfamiliar in the Western world. Directed by Premjit Ramachandran, the documentary “Doshi” offers viewers insight into the design philosophy of the renowned Indian architect through his own reflections, while also showcasing several of his works. Filmed as a series of candid conversations, the documentary reveals Doshi as a highly original and creative architect who, even in his later years, remained deeply passionate about architecture, life, and learning.
The film serves as a roundtable discussion between Doshi, his former students, his peers, and even his family members, all set against the backdrop of the buildings he designed. The camera follows Doshi through these spaces as he shares his narratives, memories, and explanations of his creative process, revealing how he integrated his philosophy into his daily life.
"How do Chileans live?" is the question directors Joaquín Mora and Verónica Wüst seek to answer in the series Habitar, which portrays the current reality of housing in Chile through the intimacy of their homes.
On October 22, the nine-episode series will launch on the official website of Proyecto Habitar and on ArchDaily en Español. It will also premiere on Thursday, October 26, as part of the Arqfilmfest programming.
Afastado de Quem Falais a diptych short film about Adega Baía da Arruda, a project by the Portuguese-Swiss studio Barão-Hutter, built on Pico Island in 2017.
The open course Arquitetura Paulistana, organized by Estúdio Artigas, offers guided tours of prominent contemporary projects in São Paulo. Accompanied by the architects behind the designs, participants gain insight into each work through the eyes of those who conceived them.
Dresden-based architecture collective ruestungsschmie.de has shared another large-scale video mapping project, this time on the facade of the Church of St. Ludmila in Prague. Titled NUCLEUS³, the project uses audiovisual media to raise the question: what do we expect for the future?
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Iglesia Cristiana del Norte / Eero Saarinen. Image Cortesía de Versus Entertainment
Throughout the history of cinema, there are numerous examples of a close and deep relationship between film and architecture. The film 'Columbus', recently released in Spain and the feature debut of South Korean director Kogonada, is a magnificent example of how significant architecture can be an essential factor in the development of a film project. Set in the American city of the same name, the film serves as a genuine and wonderful tribute to its architecture and urban environment.
In the 1950s, through the Cummins Foundation and in collaboration with the city of Columbus, industrialist J. Irwin Miller launched a program to subsidize the construction of public buildings designed by prominent architects. In this way, Columbus, Indiana, became a sort of open-air museum, eventually coming to be regarded as a mecca of modern architecture. During those years, more than 60 buildings were constructed by great masters of the Modern Movement, such as Harry Weese, Cesar Pelli, I.M. Pei, Eero and Eliel Saarinen, Richard Meier, Robert Venturi and James Stewart Polshek, to name a few.
At the end of March, 250 students from across Latin America gathered to reflect, share, design, and build three projects in the town of Chucuito, Peru. This was the 15th edition of the Latin American Social Workshop (TSL), a workshop organized by the Latin American Coordinator of Architecture Students (CLEA) and partnered on this occasion with the Peruvian Organization of Architecture Students (OPEA).
Over ten days, the students worked intensively alongside architects Enrique Villacís (ENSUSITIO, Ecuador), Juliana López and Daniel Buitrago (Ruta 4, Colombia), Jhony Chávez (Peru), and Lucio Torres (Peru). Divided into three teams, the students and workshop leaders addressed issues related to heritage restoration, landscape, and public space, while also learning about the places, traditions, and inhabitants of the region known as the folklore capital of Peru.
The identity of cities lies not only in their name, geographic location, or development. It is also found in the haptic perception we have of them as inhabitants—that is, how our senses interpret the elements within the city.
In this video, photographer Óscar Iván Núñez presents “How Does Bogotá Sound?”, an audiovisual compilation of both natural and artificial urban sounds from the Colombian capital. In it, he invites viewers to explore an area of the city in a different way, identifying everyday sounds that shape this capital's soundscape.
Wandenkolk Tinoco designed numerous projects after graduating in the late 1950s from the School of Fine Arts of Pernambuco: residences, institutional and residential buildings, as well as paintings and sculptures. Beyond his active practice, Wandenkolk taught for several years at the School of Architecture of Recife, which later became part of the Federal University of Pernambuco.
The graduate program Architecture, Education, and Society hosted philosophy professor Lorenzo Mammì to discuss the development of interpretations of works of art and architecture.
Lorenzo Mammì approaches the interpretation of architectural works from a perspective related to philosophy, music, and the visual arts, which are key areas of interest. The discussion addresses the varying readings of works, as well as the relationship between these analyses and the production process.
In March of this year, Escola da Cidade, in partnership with Editora Perspectiva, hosted the launch of the book How to Study Public Life by Danish architects Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre, alongside a panel discussion with architects Sergio Kon, Fernanda Barbara, Nabil Bonduki, and journalist Leão Serva.
The Architecture, Education, and Society graduate program at Escola da Cidade invited Rodrigo Mendes de Souza to present research on the pedagogical program of the Bauhaus Vorkurs during the directorship of Walter Gropius.
Through the theories of Pure Visibility (Sichtbarkeit) and Objectivity (Sachlichkeit), Rodrigo Mendes de Souza addressed Walter Gropius's pedagogical program for the Bauhaus, drawing on various authors—such as K. Fiedler, A. Riegl, H. Wölfflin, and G. Semper—to better understand the school's pedagogical theory and practice.
If you haven't gotten a chance to visit Brasília, Joana França's photographic projects offer a comprehensive interpretation of the capital of South America's most populous country. França has dedicated a significant part of her career as an architecture photographer to the pursuit of amassing an impressive archive of images of the city planned by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer.
We recently published an exceptional selection França's aerial photographs of Brasília divided by scale - residential, monumental, gregarious and bucolic. These overhead views solidify what, in theory, is already evident: the city lacks human scale, or the human scale of Brasília is just vast and (perhaps) not very human at all.
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