The Morocco Oasis Heritage Retreat competition invites architects and designers from around the world to engage in a unique challenge. This competition, organized by Buildner, focuses on creating a sustainable and culturally sensitive retreat in Morocco. The aim is to design a retreat that harmoniously blends with the natural landscape and respects the rich heritage of the northeastern Moroccan region.

The competition is a call for innovative designs that reflect a deep understanding of the local culture and environment. Participants are tasked with designing a retreat that offers tranquility and a connection to nature while incorporating sustainable practices. This competition emphasizes creativity, sustainability, and cultural sensitivity.

The new edition of the BIAU will be held in early December 2024 in Lima, an exceptional setting for discussions regarding extreme climatic conditions and their impact on the built environment. The submission period for all six categories will close in September, and the jury's decisions will be announced collectively at the end of October 2024. Under the theme CLIMAS: Actions for Good Living, this 13th edition of the Biennial reflects on and invites action toward producing more sustainable, equitable, and pluralistic futures through architecture and urbanism.

This competition aims to foster creativity in bamboo construction design and is open to students from academic institutions, universities, and secondary and higher education programs.

Taking a step toward improving the quality of public space, the city of Barcelona, which will serve as the World Capital of Architecture in 2026, has launched a new International Ideas Competition for Young Architects. The initiative aims to transform 10 permanent blind walls—one in each district—into new facades. Organized by the Barcelona City Council and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, in partnership with UNESCO and the International Union of Architects (UIA), the competition seeks architectural proposals that provide meaning to walls that are currently anonymous and unremarkable, exposed in public spaces in a state of permanent temporariness.

AND OF ALL THINGS, ONE
Jacqueline Belotti opens solo exhibition featuring ceramics and porcelain
at Galeria Mercedes Viegas, curated by Paula Terra-Neale

Architects from diverse backgrounds have been challenged to answer the question: “What is a space of freedom?”. The exhibition celebrating the Maia Architecture Month in Portugal (MAM) will take place from October 5 to November 3 at the Fórum da Maia, marking the fifth edition of the initiative.

World Monuments Fund (WMF) is now accepting proposals for sites looking to strengthen their resilience to climate change, share their knowledge, and plan for the future through the Cultivating Resilience program.

🔖 One building, any kind of drawing, a single illustration! The RE-DRAW Competition is back! In it’s sixth edition the building you will have to digest to create a completly new illustration is The Line, designed by NEOM. How would you represent this iconic building?

The workshop will be held in Abruzzo, near the town of Morro D'Oro (TE), in the heart of the Vomano Valley. The participatory design and self-construction activity will have as its ultimate goal the creation of two different wooden artifacts. The first one will reconnect the paths among the Abruzzo olive groves to a spring historically used by villagers and for years, though functioning, fallen into disuse. The second structure will be a mobile installation, towed by tractor, serving the public activities hosted in the olive grove.
Participants will work and be hosted by the charming oil mill Frantoio Montecchia (Frantoio Montecchia), that overlooks the land, a center not only of production but also a place open to the public for recreational and cultural activities.

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The Workshop "Taller de Arquitectura Maya" invites architecture students and the general public to participate in a week dedicated to the renewal of a Mayan architecture. The event will take place from August 1 to 8 and from August 9 to 16, 2024 in Bécal. The workshop will include a series of talks given by prominent personalities both internationally and nationally. The objective of the workshop is to develop construction skills and, over the course of a week, renovate some of the Mayan houses of inhabitants in economic difficulty, as well as promote the reactivation of rural networks and making participation in this territory more attractive. At the end of the workshop, a cultural event will be organized that will include a local plant weaving workshop, jarana dancing, Mayan poetry recitals and a collective dinner with local inhabitants, thus promoting the reactivation and attractiveness of rural networks in the region.

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Caravanserai Summer School 2024 returns to İzmir/Bergama/Ferizler Village for its third edition between 6 July - 6 August 2024. The project is organized by Depo Pergamon, Meydan Architecture & Design, Strüktür and Poçolana Works with the academic support of Izmir University of Economics and Yaşar University and the institutional support of the Embassy of Spain in Turkey and Bergama Municipality.
Following the collaborative restoration philosophy of Depo Pergamon Workshops, Kervansaray Summer School 2024 will try to promote a new ecological restoration model for rural architecture based on the principle of circular sustainability: Sun, Water, Soil, Straw, Dung, and Wood. To complete the conservation of the pre-existing buildings, natural materials and techniques will be used in harmony with contemporary materials and ways of construction. All the work will be led by the students, but supervised by academicians and experts in vernacular architecture and building techniques.
The Caravanserai Summer School 2024 is mainly open to anyone interested in ecological restoration and vernacular architecture, and specially to students who have to do office or construction site internships. Those who want to participate in the summer school can access more detailed information and application form from the link below. 👇
https://linktr.ee/caravanserai.ferizler
*Application deadline is 21 June 2024. Quota is limited to 15 people.
For any questions or suggestions: depopergamon@gmail.com
Instagram accounts: @caravanserai.ferizler & @depopergamon

In 1949, at a time when Argentina was one of the most powerful countries in the world, the city of Buenos Aires launched the construction of the Sexto Panteón, an underground necropolis containing 150,000 burial plots. This monumental Brutalist-style cemetery is the first and largest experimentation of modern architecture applied to the funerary field, and yet remains unknown.

Achitectural gifts are everywhere: libraries funded by wealthy philanthropists, shelters donated by humanitarian organizations, farms paid for with development grants, mosques financed by Islamic foundations, and stadiums handed over as part of diplomatic charm offensives. Embedded in religious and imperial traditions of gift-giving, architectural gifts shape the urbanization process across the world. Humanitarian, developmentalist, and diplomatic building-gifts have become ubiquitous in rapidly expanding African, Asian, and South American metropolises and their hinterlands. In North American and European cities, philanthrocapitalists invest in cultural, social, and educational facilities passed down by the dwindling welfare state.

VARES calls for participants to the summer school on spatial activism in August 2024!

In today's construction industry, achieving energy efficiency, sustainability and safety along with aesthetics are essential goals for architects and consultants. Exterior Insulation and Finishing Systems (EIFS) are versatile, high-performance solutions that meet these requirements for both new builds and renovations. These multi-layered exterior insulation systems significantly enhance thermal performance and offer energy savings of up to 50% while providing flexibility in design.

According to the Markets and Markets report on "Exterior Insulation and Finish System (EIFS) Market - Global Forecast To 2028," the growth of the EIFS market is mainly driven by the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and rising development of green buildings, mandated through the introduction of stringent building energy codes in some countries. Therefore, the importance of using certified EIFS systems as per local energy codes is highly advocated.

Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026— 10 Blind Walls International Ideas Competition for Young Architects

The International VELUX Award jury has selected ten regional winners from the 468 submitted projects, from 220 schools of architecture around the world. The renowned jury, consisting of, Song Yehao (CN), Jenni Reuter (FI), Ewa Kurylowicz (PL) and Kent Holm from VELUX A/S (DK), met for the jury meeting in Copenhagen.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the School of Architecture, Art and Design (EAAD) of Tecnológico de Monterrey, in collaboration with the Association of Institutions of Architectural Education of the Mexican Republic (ASINEA), are pleased to announce the 2024 International Conference, which will be held in Querétaro, Mexico, from June 27 to 29, 2024.