The UNIESP Architecture and Urbanism program is hosting SAAU’20, the Architecture and Urbanism Academic Week.

It is necessary to redefine horizons for transformation, and the municipal elections offer this possibility. This is the theme of the upcoming conversations with candidates on our program, Meia Hora com o BrCidades. The first of these features Guilherme Boulos, candidate for mayor of São Paulo; it will take place next Tuesday, September 29, at 8:00 PM, hosted by Paolo Colosso and Erminia Maricato.

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This Thursday, April 23, 2020, at 5:00 PM, the feature-length documentary “Konder: o protagonismo da simplicidade” (Konder: The Protagonism of Simplicity) will premiere. The launch includes a virtual roundtable discussion on the IAB-RJ Facebook page and the film's release on the digital platform filmefilme.com.br. Produced in partnership between ABEA (Brazilian Association for Architectural and Urban Planning Education) and IAB/RJ (Institute of Architects of Brazil – Rio de Janeiro), the film was sponsored by CAU/RJ (Council of Architecture and Urbanism of Rio de Janeiro) with the support of all Architecture and Urbanism entities in the state.

Minga LAB 2020 Virtual is a free academic event that addresses the complex subject of Sustainable Collective Housing from both theoretical and practical perspectives, with a national scope across Ecuador.

"Territorial Planning": The goal of this initial workshop is to provide information on the key considerations for building a sustainable future home and community.

Promoted by the Student Council of the Architecture and Urbanism program at UFJF (CACAU UFJF), the doCACAU audiovisual program aims to democratize architectural education for the community, integrating cultural and social knowledge to share insights beyond the university walls. The program includes internal initiatives focused on audiovisual production and, currently, podcasts, which are also published on the Student Council's media channels.

The Cavalcante region (GO) is home to Brazil's largest quilombo, the Kalunga community. This quilombo preserves immense cultural wealth and has resisted in the area for over 300 years, with its territory only being recognized in 1991, when the state of Goiás enacted the law establishing the Kalunga Historical Site and Cultural Heritage.

The Department of Architecture at the UFRGS Faculty of Architecture is launching a series of remote events with an inaugural lecture by Portuguese architect and professor Graça Correia Ragazzi. These events aim to engage and connect the entire academic community, while also opening the space to the general public. Graça (Porto, 1965) is an architect (FAUP, Porto, 1989) and holds a PhD in Architecture (UPC, Barcelona, 2006). She serves as an Associate Professor (FCATI-ULP, Porto) and Guest Assistant Professor (FAUP, Porto), and has served as a visiting professor at various international universities. Alongside Roberto Ragazzi, she is a partner and lead architect at the firm CORREIA/RAGAZZI ARQUITECTOS, with work that has been widely awarded, published, and exhibited both nationally and internationally.

The 8th DOCOMOMO Brazil – North/Northeast Seminar will take place in Palmas from May 20 to 23, 2020. The event is organized by the Núcleo AMA – NAMA, the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), the Lutheran University Center of Palmas (CEULP/ULBRA), and the Federal University of Uberlândia. The seminar program includes lectures, debates, roundtables, publication launches, and MOMO-Tours, which feature visits to iconic works of modern architecture in Tocantins.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile, numerous Open Design and Distributed Manufacturing initiatives have emerged. By leveraging digital networks and media, these initiatives develop and share high-standard Open Source models that are materialized across the country, creating an exponential impact.

How can we make this type of social and economic behavior permanent, beyond an emergency context?

Portobello, a leader in ceramic tile retail, is hosting the third and largest edition of its Archtrends Summit content forum through its trends and reference platform, Archtrends, on March 9 and 10. The event takes place in parallel with Expo Revestir and will feature prominent figures in design, architecture, and other creative fields. It will be held at Um Rooftop, a new event space designed by architect Ruy Ohtake.

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This course brings together key architectural photographers and their contributions across three historical periods: pioneers (1826–1900), modernists (1900–1950), and contemporaries (1950–present).

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Revista Pináculo is a digital publication and the first in the country dedicated exclusively to architecture students. The issues are published bimonthly and are free of charge. To subscribe, simply send a request to: documentaedu@gmail.com.

This Wednesday, November 11, at 7:00 PM, the UIA2021RIO YouTube channel will exclusively present a special program hosted by filmmaker Eduardo Goldenstein, director of the series Cidades Possíveis, which premiered last week on Canal Curta!

The proposals that make up the exhibition Ciudad Completa | La Palomera: reconocimiento y celebración (Hacienda La Trinidad Parque Cultural) are the result of a multiplicity of individual and collective exercises, deployed as creative actions—experiences conceived to transcend the boundaries that make it difficult to imagine and experience the city as a diverse and complex fabric, open to the forces of the other, always yet to come; and of the other, the inhabitant who, together with us, inhabits and shapes it. A city for encounter, active consensus, learning, and transformation.

The Latin American Coordinator of Architecture Students (CLEA), through CLEA Editorial and ONEA Ecuador, invites you to the virtual launch of the third issue of Revista CLEA, developed under the theme "Decolonization of Spaces." The official presentation will take place on April 23 at 6:00 PM (GMT -5) via a live broadcast on the CLEA Latinoamérica Facebook page.

The First National Meeting on Architectural Initiation is an event designed to establish an unprecedented space for dialogue, aimed at exchanging diverse teaching experiences, building a national overview of current university-level architectural education, and proposing new collective challenges regarding the process of introducing students to the discipline.

“Rethink the City: New Approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges” is a free online course offered by the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands). Following two editions with over 17,000 students, the third edition begins on February 19, 2020. The course was awarded the 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award by the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP).