Call for Papers: Between the Ephemeral and the Enduring, Dearq Journal
Architectural production is inherently linked to time, whether through the intent to endure or through a planned duration. However, the permanence of buildings is limited: elements wear out, are repaired, and are transformed, while users change their activities, integrate unexpected uses, and adapt spaces to their evolving needs. Similarly, projects with a set duration can extend their utility, travel to new spaces with updated programs, and generate new transactions. Even more paradigmatically, projects and construction are often carried out according to the rhythms of the community rather than a fixed schedule.
Caption: Veduta with the Temple of Jove. Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 1750–1758; Bosco Verticale. Boeri Studio. 2014. Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
Architecture, as an act of human cultural artifice, has historically maintained an indissoluble relationship with Nature—as a site, enclave, environment, material, or mirror of the habitat for communal life, and as a factor of language. Both the symbolic tradition—monument, tomb, idol—and the typological tradition—temple, hut, theater, palace—form the basis of the elemental corpus of Vitruvian formulation. Whatever the artifact to be built, the natural condition is unavoidable. Fire, water, earth, and air—the elements that compose the universe according to ancient philosophy—are, in turn, constitutive of architectural thought. However, arrogance, success, or disruption over pre-existing conditions have dominated human behavior toward Nature. The current state of extreme intervention on the Earth as a planet, on geography as a foundation, on climate as a resource, or on the atmosphere as a domain, demands a critical review of the diverse perspectives that architecture has adopted according to historical, political, and cultural contingencies and their consequences on lifestyles.
The submission period for the curatorial competition for the International Union of Architects (UIA) World Congress of Architects in Barcelona 2026 opened on June 28.
Concéntrico celebrates its 10th edition with a major transformation, aiming to envision the festival's future and share the knowledge gained about the city by incorporating new formats, engaging diverse audiences, and tackling challenges that explore time as a catalyst for change in urban and social design. The new edition will take place from April 25 to May 1, 2024.
The Brazilian Center for Steel Construction (CBCA) has opened registration for the 16th CBCA/Alacero Architecture Student Competition 2023. Interested participants may register until July 17 and submit their projects by August 25. The first-place winner will receive a prize of R$ 10,000.00, to be distributed among the team and their faculty advisor. The winning project will also represent Brazil in the 2023 #desafioALACERO Steel Design Competition for Architecture Students, organized by the Latin American Steel Association (ALACERO).
The modern design of a protected life, assuming a passive body constructed individually in the disease-health opposition, focuses on the elimination of disease through the use of the hospital as a fundamental device for biomedical knowledge and intervention. However, health is permanently reinvented through its social, ecological, and political dimensions, and the medicalization of life centered on the individual is expanding into spaces composed of less static and more complex visions, problematized by (re)emerging challenges such as the recent Covid-19 pandemic.
The city of Alicante, the provincial capital and the fifth most populous city in Spain, boasts a privileged climate, an exceptional location, magnificent infrastructure, and extraordinary connectivity. With its airport—the fifth busiest in Spain by passenger volume—and its high-speed rail connection to Madrid, the city is a continuously developing technological and service hub that also hosts the European Union Intellectual Property Office, the registry for EU trademarks and designs.
Talca has uploaded a multi-million dollar tender for the restoration of the Central Market to the public procurement portal. The project has a budget of over 17 billion pesos for this historic national monument. Mayor Juan Carlos Díaz, along with Regional Governor Cristina Bravo, met this morning with the market's tenant board to announce the timeline for this process.
Idealism and materialism, those two antagonistic philosophical visions, are constantly perceived in architecture. Juan Gris said that a nail was made with the idea of a nail, while Braque thought that a nail was made with iron.
Jeannette Sordi, Maura Mantelli. Photograph by Ignacio Ferrari
The Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning of Uruguay and Mevir, with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank, are calling for proposals for new low-rise timber housing typologies. These units will be constructed by MEVIR as a 20-unit demonstration project in the town of Tranqueras, in the department of Rivera, Uruguay.
The Master's Degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Oviedo, through its Transportation Engineering and Infrastructure department, is launching its fifth international ideas competition for students to solicit proposals for addressing issues related to transportation networks. The competition is supported by the Mieres City Council, and as such, it focuses on interventions within its municipal boundaries.
The School of Architecture at the Campus Creativo of the Universidad Andrés Bello is launching an open call for the second edition of the Remote Residencies. This project aims to foster openness and interdisciplinary experimentation regarding contemporary and relevant themes, posing questions that challenge the status quo and creating spaces for research and free creation.
The Municipal Mayor's Office of Bucaramanga and the Colombian Society of Architects announce the launch of the 'Public Ideas Competition for the development of a land occupation model for the northern edge of the municipality of Bucaramanga.'
Labi is proud to announce the launch of our second ideas competition for the Bixiga Park and Zé Celso Theater School, located in the Bixiga neighborhood of São Paulo.
The TRANSFER Architecture Video Award is an independent award organized by TRANSFER Global Architecture Platform and supported by the Sotto Voce Fondation.
The TRANSFER Architecture Video Award is an independent prize, launched in 2019, to recognize the most creative and innovative videos in the fields of architecture, the city, and landscape internationally.
Following the success of the first two editions of the "Jaime Lerner Scholarship," IAAC, in collaboration with Redes, is launching the third edition. This year, the scholarship is open to professionals from all Latin American countries to study our Online Master in Cities: The Next Urbanism for the 2023/2024 academic year. Through this initiative, IAAC reinforces its commitment to supporting young architects in their efforts to specialize and contribute effectively to improving the cities in their respective countries.
