This ideas competition focuses on the challenges of preserving public works heritage, particularly regarding railway infrastructure.

Marking the 95th anniversary of the birth of architect Luis Peña Ganchegui, who passed away in 2009, the third edition of the award bearing his name has been announced. The prize is aimed at young Basque architecture and includes a cash award of €6,000.

Against the backdrop of the current climate crisis and environmental collapse, the 2022 AA Visiting School (Architectural Association Visiting School) will explore future scenarios for the Chilean Patagonia, assuming it will undergo a process of rapid urbanization and increasing disputes over its resources and potential.

On September 21 at 6:00 PM, Escola da Cidade is hosting a conversation between alumni, current members of the school (students, faculty, or coordinators), and prospective students interested in our undergraduate program in Architecture and Urbanism. This free, online event will explore various perspectives on education and career paths in the field. Participants will receive a full application fee waiver for the 2022 admissions process.

Mies van der Rohe’s professional career was a story of continuous exploration, infinite ambition, and an insatiable search for what modern architecture should be and the values it should promote.

The Academic Network of Urban Design, the Department of Architecture at the University of La Serena, and Punto Colectivo invite project submissions—from both professional practice and academic workshops—that demonstrate how the broad goals of urban agendas (Sustainable Development Goals, Habitat III, etc.) can be translated into concrete urban design interventions for cases requiring urgent action.

After seven years, revista empena resumes its reflections on the city and those who inhabit it. We present ourselves, once again, as a student journal entirely organized, curated, and edited by students from Escola da Cidade.

'Nuestras Arquitectas' aims, through this second international photography competition, to focus and refocus on images that have been hidden or overshadowed, restoring the deserved recognition and prominence to women architects.

The call for academic papers for the upcoming issue, rita_17, is now open at rita_ magazine. The call invites submissions in Spanish or Portuguese from faculty, graduate students, or professionals holding a master's or doctoral degree.

In recent months, we have witnessed one of the crises that has most profoundly challenged our "essence"—our ways of living, working, communicating, socializing, and even relating to one another. These issues, which transcend the health emergency and the pandemic, have prompted us to reflect on topics related to the environment, sustainability, the efficiency of segregating activities, the frantic mobility to which we had become accustomed, the need for flexible spaces in homes and cities, and the nature of public spaces when social distancing is mandatory.

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The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), one of the most prominent educational and research centers in Southern Europe, is offering a scholarship for students to enroll in the Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings & Biocities (MAEBB) for the 2021-22 academic year. Through this initiative, the institution reinforces its commitment to supporting young architects in their efforts to gain the training necessary to contribute effectively to a better future.

The Undersecretariat of Cultures and the Arts of the Ministry of Cultures, through its Architecture Department, and the Association of Architects of Chile (Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile) announce the opening of the ideas competition for the XXII Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism of Chile 2022. The competition is open to Chilean architects and foreign architects holding an identity card issued by the Chilean Civil Registry and Identification Service, who are over 18 years of age and possess experience in curatorial, editorial, research, or exhibition projects.

Applications for the Escola da Cidade lato sensu postgraduate program are open until August 13, 2021. Established over 10 years ago, the program consists of seven courses and is structured around two central pillars: practice and design, both understood as research and strategies for engaging with space across its multiple scales. The program’s overarching theme, "Civilization America: A Look Through Architecture," seeks to understand and address the historical, geographical, territorial, and social conditions that define us. With this perspective, the postgraduate courses at Escola da Cidade aim to connect professionals working in architecture, urbanism, and related fields with research and critical reflection applied to design and teaching.

Between 1950 and 1970, the Chilean state undertook a national modernization process for its institutions, establishing the state's responsibility to clearly improve the living conditions of its population. Consequently, the Housing Corporation (CORVI, 1953–1976) was established in 1953. Through this body, the state spearheaded the implementation of the Chilean Housing Plan (1959), concretely positioning the construction of housing and the city as a catalyst for social change.

The house has evolved from an individual concern into the built element with the greatest impact on the planet. In this study, Fernanda Canales analyzes the evolution of this space over the last two centuries through projects, exhibitions, and books that have transformed ways of living toward a collective understanding of housing.

This ARQDocs book explores the work of Mario Carpo, a historian of architecture and technology. He holds a Dr. Arch from the University of Florence and a PhD from the European University Institute. He has taught at the Université de Genève, the School of Architecture of Saint-Étienne, the School of Architecture of Paris-La Villette, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He served as the Vincent Scully Visiting Professor of Architectural History at the Yale School of Architecture (2010–2014), as the Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory at The Bartlett, UCL (2014–present), and as director of the Study Centre at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal (2002–2005).

As part of a collaboration agreement between the company Cerámica Santiago and the UDD Faculty of Architecture, the 2021 Brick Week will take place throughout October. The event aims to position brick—and ceramic derivatives—as a valuable resource for both architectural design and construction.

“Our lives unfold through an exchange of nutrients with plants, even if we only remember them when it is time to water them. In one way or another, they are there, allowing us to continue existing here on this planet. However, forty years after the television broadcast of the series Cosmos, it seems we still do not understand plants as a fundamental part of our lives. We continue to view them as a mere source of energy or a raw material to be exploited (capable of defining vast economic sectors); we instrumentalize them when asked to explain the origins of architecture, or we even use their color to tint our projects and ventures with labels like “green,” “ecological,” or “sustainable”; yet it is not common for us to think about them—and with them—when designing. Perhaps to begin settling that debt, in this issue of ARQ magazine, we are seeking essays, projects, and research that challenge the secondary role we have assigned to vegetation, or that demonstrate new ways of including vegetation in architecture, with the minimum condition of moving beyond the paradigm of the primitive hut, as we believe it is time to take a step beyond their mere allegorical instrumentalization.”