Miguel Lawner, winner of the 2019 National Architecture Prize, was Executive Director of CORMU during the Popular Unity government and has spent his career fighting for the right to adequate housing in Chile. Alejandro Aravena, the 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate, is a partner at ELEMENTAL. His work in social housing has made him a global icon since breaking onto the architectural scene with the Quinta Monroy project in Iquique.

Against this backdrop, it was highly compelling to hear the perspectives of two different generations. They met not only to discuss and analyze the past, present, and future of their lives and careers, but also to address the challenges surrounding access to housing in Chile.

2050年马德里的气候将更像今天摩洛哥马拉喀什的气候，斯德哥尔摩将更像布达佩斯，伦敦更像巴塞罗那，莫斯科更像索菲亚，西雅图更像旧金山，东京更像中国的长沙。

苏黎世联邦理工学院克劳瑟实验室（The Crowther Lab）在科学杂志《公共科学图书馆》（PLoS ONE）上发表了一篇题为《从对相似城市的分析开始理解气候变化》的研究，为世界城市中心的未来描绘了一幅严峻的图景。

Among the various measures cities can implement to become more pedestrian-friendly, developing a comprehensive signage system is a highly efficient, straightforward improvement that delivers transformative results—as demonstrated by initiatives like Legible London, New York's WalkNYC, or Rio on Foot in Rio de Janeiro.

Flying Panels: How Concrete Panels Changed the World is the latest exhibition at ArkDes. Designed by Swedish studio Note Design Studio, it is co-curated by Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola, creators of the Monolith Controversies exhibition, which won the Silver Lion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014.

The exhibition brings together an array of models and material culture—such as posters, paintings, films, toys, cartoons, and opera sets—reflecting how concrete panels influenced culture to build a new society.

When the Minergie sustainable building standard was established in Switzerland 25 years ago to reduce energy consumption and improve indoor comfort, it was hard to foresee that it would become one of the country's most sought-after certifications. Today, it boasts a significant footprint with over 50,000 certified buildings. It was equally difficult to imagine its future in present-day Latin America: how could a system developed for the specific demands of one nation respond to the needs of another region with such diverse geography and culture?

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released the 2019 edition of its annual ranking of the world's top universities in the field of architecture. This year, UCL (University College London) took the lead, a position held by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States for the past four editions.

In Latin America, institutions from Chile, Brazil, and Mexico occupy the top three spots, respectively. See the top 10 below: 

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Grigri Projects defines itself as a platform dedicated to cultural research, creation, and production, focusing its work on participatory design, urban intervention, and transdisciplinary community processes through collaboration with other collectives and agents at local and international levels.

Among its various projects—such as Cocinar Madrid, Pincha tu Deuda, Templete Fantástico, Haciendo Plaza and Fuencarral Experimenta—they develop the residency, workshop, and seminar program Grigri Pixel in collaboration with Medialab-Prado, aimed at exploring practices of cultural cooperation and citizenship between Africa and Europe by creating objects through artistic, collaborative, and experimental practices.

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On Monday, the Paseo del Bajo was officially inaugurated: one of the most highly anticipated—and expensive—infrastructure projects in Buenos Aires in recent years.

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In an ongoing effort to provide tools, inspiration, and knowledge, in 2019 ArchDaily editors and contributors engaged in numerous conversations with distinguished figures from all corners of the design world and the built environment.

To demonstrate this and reflect on how much we and our readers have learned—especially regarding the roles of representation, academia, cities, technology, and architecture itself—we have selected the 20 best interviews published on ArchDaily throughout the year.

The following story takes place during the twenty-seventh edition of the Latin American Encounter of Architecture Students (ELEA) in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, where nearly 800 students from Latin America gathered for a collective experience of participation, integration, and learning. Among other activities was the construction of two wooden structures in two distinct locations: the "Lake Pavilion" in the backyard of the Virgen de Fátima school—separated from a private school by a polluted creek—and "The Cloud" in an unmaintained public square in the Don Bosco neighborhood on the outskirts of the city.

ArchDaily is working with CityMakers to publish a series of articles, conversations, and interviews with the key figures in urban co-production behind the Barcelona CityMakers Lab 2019, an event taking place from October 14 to 20, 2019.

On this occasion, we feature Jokin Santiago Elorriaga, director of Leku Studio, who will lead a masterclass at the Barcelona CityMakers Lab 2019. Jokin is the founding architect of Leku Studio and was responsible for the design and transformation of the Sant Antoni Superblock.

ALCUADRADO Arquitectos + Habitar Colectivo won first place in the national public competition for the environmental, landscape, and urban design of the Cali River urban environmental corridor in Colombia. The competition aimed to explore how to integrate the city with the river, seeking to coordinate the main and complementary ecological structures through the integration of pre-existing elements. Read on to discover the winning project in the words of its designers.

Today marks the opening of the XI BIAU in Asunción, Paraguay, along with the presentation of the 17 winners of the Panorama Obras Award—a recognition that explores architecture and urbanism projects built in Ibero-America.

From October 6 to 11, the city will host exhibitions, debates, and lectures by renowned architects such as José María Sáez, Toni Gironés, Rozana Montiel, Entre Nos Atelier, and Barclay & Crousse, among others, under the theme aî paragua y (inhabit - the water).

On October 5, the XI Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIAU) will begin, held for the first time in the city of Asunción, Paraguay.

The open call for the Panorama of Works section sought architecture and urban planning projects built in Ibero-America by architects, either individually or in teams, completed between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2018, that had not been submitted in previous editions.

From the open call, 210 projects were selected by each country's national committee out of a total of nearly 1,000 submissions. Subsequently, the jury—chaired by Gloria Cabral and Solano Benítez, and composed of Gabriela Carrillo and Mauricio Rocha, Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse, Josep Ferrando, Carlos Quintáns, Nicolás Campodónico, Carla Juaçaba, Javier Corvalán, and curators Ana Román and Arturo Franco—selected the following 32 finalist works:

The City Image Barometer, conducted by the consulting firm Visión Humana, measures the perceived image of 24 Chilean cities through a survey designed to identify the best cities to live, work, study, and visit in Chile.

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In an interview with El Espectador, Colombian architect Simón Vélez opens a debate on the state of the discipline, prompting us to question the role of the architect in both economics and politics.

Chilean architect and urbanist Germán Bannen, known for prominent projects in the municipality of Providencia such as the Parque de las Esculturas, Plaza Pedro de Valdivia, and the Plaza Bustamante Literary Café, passed away today at the age of 91, according to close sources.

A total of 210 works have been selected—from approximately 1,000 projects—to participate in the upcoming XI Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, which will be held for the first time in the city of Asunción in October 2019. The winners of this edition's Panorama of Works Award will be selected from the following list.