To observe and document how people navigate the streets of the peripheries—including gender differences and street design—the Semana do Caminhar - Perifa a Pé [Walking Week - Periphery on Foot] has launched the #PerifaAPé Gallery challenge, running until August 10th on social media. The initiative aims to create a collection of images showcasing people walking in these areas, encouraging the public to share their territories while highlighting gender disparities and walkability conditions.

The firm Estúdio Módulo will host a public presentation of the winning project for the International Competition for the Rio-Africa Cultural Center.

Königsberger Vannucchi Arquitetos Associados and Romano Guerra Editora are launching the book Königsberger Vannucchi [et al.] arquitetura. More than a retrospective, the publication offers a critical and reflective view of the trajectory of architects and founding partners Jorge Königsberger and Gianfranco Vannucchi, while revealing the complexity and depth of the firm's architectural production.

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ArquiMemória 6 – International Meeting on the Preservation of Built Heritage is undoubtedly the largest and most significant forum for debate on the preservation of built heritage held in Brazil. The event will bring together approximately 800 professionals from a wide range of fields, including faculty, students, and researchers from renowned Brazilian and international universities; directors and technical staff from IPHAN and state and municipal cultural heritage and urban planning agencies from across Brazil and abroad; and independent practitioners working in restoration projects and construction, among others.

9th Docomomo SP Seminar

Dates: September 26, 27, and 28, 2024.
Location: Unisanta | Santos.
Call for papers until June 3, 2024.
More information on the website: https://9docomomosp.wixsite.com/9docomomosp

The Docomomo São Paulo Chapter and the Architecture and Urbanism program at Santa Cecília University announce the call for papers for the 9th Seminar, dedicated to the theme "Preserving and Valuing Modern Architectural Heritage: The Role of Public Institutions and Private Stakeholders."

“A Compendium of Rammed Earth and the Women Within It” is an editorial publication that, from a feminist perspective, positions earth as a creative element that, as it interacts with the body, deepens the intimate relationship with a material that serves as both an enabler and a witness.

On Saturday, October 5, 2024, at 4:00 PM, artist Panmela Castro will present the premiere performance "Revanche" at the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR). In this performance, Castro confronts the impositions of compulsory femininity, inviting the public to witness a reckoning with a four-meter-tall pink bear. The bear is part of the exhibition "Radical Ideas About Love," which remains on view through November 24, 2024. It has been a major attraction of the show, with visitors interacting with it since the exhibition’s opening.

On March 2 at 4:00 PM, a free public talk will be held with artist Ana Holck and curator Felipe Scovino at the "Entroncados, Enroscados e Estirados" exhibition at the Paço Imperial. The event will also feature the launch of the exhibition's 37-page e-book catalog, which includes text by the curator and photographs of the installation and artworks, designed by Estúdio Afluente. The catalog will be available for free viewing on the artist's new website: www.anaholck.com, which also launches on Saturday.

The Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI), the Black Planning Project, and the Faculty of Architecture at UFBA invite you to the webinar "Experiences, Learnings, and Exchanges: Anti-Racist Planning Practices in Brazil and Canada," to be held on February 16 (Friday), from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (Salvador/Brazil time).

Archtrends, the architecture and design portal by Portobello, has opened registration for its 4th annual architecture competition. Participants are invited to submit projects under the theme "Projects That Tell Stories" via the Archtrends website by February 23. The authors of the 10 best entries will receive an invitation to an exclusive experience with the Archtrends team at the Portobello booth on March 22, during Expo Revestir—Latin America’s largest surfacing fair, held in São Paulo—in addition to having their proposals featured on the Archtrends website.

On September 28 at 4:00 PM, artist Panmela Castro will present the performance “Honra ao Mérito” (Honor to Merit) at the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), as part of the exhibition “Ideias radicais sobre o amor” (Radical Ideas About Love), which runs through November 24, 2024.

On April 17 at 7:00 PM, Arquitectura en Corto invites you to the Fundación Arquia in Madrid (c/ del Tutor, 16) for a screening of "The Divine Way," an award-winning short film that pays tribute to the staircase through a journey across various classical and contemporary buildings. Loosely inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, the film uses the metaphor of the staircase to reflect on "the journey of self-discovery in relation to architecture and landscape," in the words of director Ilaria di Carlo. To discuss staircases following the screening, architect Santiago de Molina—author of Todas las escaleras del mundo, an essay reflecting on this essential architectural element from antiquity to the masters of modern architecture—will be present. He will be joined by historian and journalist José María Faerna, who highlights the renewed prominence of staircases in contemporary buildings recently recognized at the FAD Awards and the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism. Rounding out the panel is Joan Roig, founding architect of the firm Batlleiroig, who will discuss the role of staircases in architectural history and their narrative function in cinema.

The Spanish Association of Furniture Manufacturers and Exporters (ANIEME) invites you to Design Workspace Madrid 2024. This event is aimed at the professional office and contract furniture and equipment sector, featuring leading brands in the industry at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid.

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"Maurice and I" by Rick Harvie and Jane Mahoney (New Zealand) and "Spaces written by light" by Judith Oláh (Hungary) took home the awards for best feature and best short film, respectively. The festival also recognized the best architectural record, highlighted a standout Chilean film, and honored the work most representative of emotional architecture. These highlights and more defined the 6th edition of the Architecture Film Festival Santiago.

The 22nd SIACOT, the Ibero-American Seminar on Architecture and Construction with Earth, will be held in La Serena, Chile, in November 2024, continuing the legacy of the 21 seminars initially organized by the Proterra Research Project (2001–2006). Since 2006, SIACOT has been organized by the Ibero-American PROTERRA Network, which emerged from the aforementioned project. It has since become one of the network's primary activities and has established itself as the most significant Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking gathering focused on architecture and construction with earth. To date, SIACOT has been held in Brazil, Spain, Argentina, Portugal, Uruguay, Peru, Chile, El Salvador, Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Cuba. Its most recent edition, held in Colombia, brought together more than 300 participants.

In recent years, traditional ideas about the "workplace" have been completely transformed. With remote and hybrid systems becoming the new normal, employees now expect flexibility regarding where and when they perform their work. However, prolonged remote work has also revealed the irreplaceable value of in-person collaboration and connection.

On October 24, the winning projects of the fourth edition of the Rogelio Salmona Latin American Architecture Prize will be announced at the Virgilio Barco Public Library auditorium. Concurrently, the book and exhibition featuring the 26 most representative works from the 47 participants will be launched.

As the only living artist from the Grupo Frente—a significant artistic movement established exactly 70 years ago in Rio de Janeiro and considered a landmark of the constructive movement in Brazil—César Oiticica will open the exhibition "Frente a Frente" at the Paço Imperial on November 13, 2024. Curated by Paulo Venancio Filho, the exhibition will present 20 works that are either previously unseen or have long been absent from public view. A large portion of these were created during the period when the artist was a member of the Grupo Frente, founded by Ivan Serpa (1923–1973) in 1954, which included prominent figures such as Abraham Palatnik (1928–2020), Aluísio Carvão (1920–2001), Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980), Lygia Clark (1920–1988), Lygia Pape (1927–2004), Franz Weissmann (1911–2005), and Rubem Ludolf (1932–2010), among others. The exhibition will also include recent works, providing the public with a comprehensive overview of the artist's trajectory.