In this third book of the Urban Sketching series, Stephanie Bower demonstrates, through numerous helpful tips, how the often-challenging concepts of perspective drawing can be broken down into simple, practical steps. She guides readers to think like architects, drawing buildings and spaces through a synthesis of forms and gradually adding layers to eventually enhance their sketches with details, tones, and colors. A deeper understanding of perspective will transform how you see and draw the world—perspectives will begin to reveal themselves to you everywhere.

Feira na Rosenbaum, a creative platform that promotes Brazilian design and artistic expression, will make its debut at the IED - Istituto Europeo di Design, a renowned international design school. The exhibition brings together 50 creative brands from different regions of Brazil, showcasing original products in design, art, fashion, wellness, and gastronomy. This free and inclusive event will take place from September 21 to 24, from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm, at the IED campus, located at Rua Maranhão 617, in the Higienópolis neighborhood of São Paulo.

Entre líneas invites a re-reading of history, architecture, and modernity through the contributions of women architects in Chile, dating back to their entry into universities in the 1920s (men began in 1849). The work highlights the young editors' ability to foster a sense of community among a broad collective of individuals and institutions.

Part of the Urban Sketching collection and drawing on this graphic universe as a reference, this book by American instructor Stephanie Bower offers a vast collection of tricks, techniques, and practical, fun ideas for sketching wherever you are. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist, sketching with pencil, pen, or ink, or working on-site or in a studio, this book provides a wealth of tips to help you improve your technique. The book covers line styles, tonal values, composition, perspective, and shading, illustrating each lesson with drawings by various artists.

With this new revised and updated edition, A modernidade superada—a collection of nine essays by Catalan theorist Josep Maria Montaner—reaffirms its role as a fundamental reference for understanding the modern movement in architecture. Through autonomous yet complementary texts, the author reflects on central concepts of the period's production, such as rationalism, the attitude of rupture, expressiveness, and technological, functional, and symbolic paradoxes. The result is a mosaic of arguments demonstrating how the shortcomings of modernity were overcome—particularly in Nordic countries, Mediterranean Europe, and Latin America (with numerous references to Brazilian production), as well as other peripheral contexts—giving way to new lines of thought and forms of expression tied to new contexts.

Short History of Architecture is a dynamic guide to the subject, describing 50 historically significant works—from Egyptian pyramids to sustainable, high-tech skyscrapers—in addition to featuring chapters on the most relevant architectural styles, elements, and materials across all eras. Accessible and concise, the book is organized to connect the content of each chapter, enriching the reader's experience and providing all the tools necessary to understand and appreciate the built environment. The book is part of the Short History series by British author Susie Hodge, which includes two other titles published in Brazil: Short History of Art and Short History of Women Artists.

The history of what is known as internal governance and the role played by territorial entities in the country's organization is the subject of the recent book El país de los pueblos invisibles, published by Ediciones UC and written by José Ramón Ugarte, former vice president of the Association of Architecture Offices (AOA).

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In the blink of an eye, we've entered an era where architects and interior designers can effortlessly craft 3D floor plans of a room, capturing essential elements like dimensions and furnishings, using the LiDAR Scanner on our iPhone or iPad. This cutting-edge technology is a key updated feature in Apple's new iOS 17, available Monday September 18th, known as "RoomPlan."

Streamlining the design process and leaving behind the "days of laborious measurements, reconstructed in CAD only to find missing data and inconsistencies," as Morpholio co-founder Mark Collins points out, you can instantly scan almost any interior space to create floor plans or 3D room models. "This is the fastest 'scan to plan' experience ever available," he adds.

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The 2023 Guatemala Architecture Biennial will take place from November 15 to 17 at the Miguel Ángel Asturias Cultural Center. This regional event is aimed at architects, designers, urban planners, developers, students, and anyone passionate about the built environment.

Brutalist Italy is the first photographic book of its kind with a selection of more than 100 Italian brutalist buildings shown through 146 images taken by the Italian architectural photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego.
Over the past 5 years, the two Italian photographers, authors of Soviet Asia (FUEL, 2019), have traveled more than 20,000 km crossing all the regions of the peninsula to document the great variety of buildings built in this style, the majority between the 1960s and the 1980s.

US Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy, and Defense is a new large format, photo-driven book featuring the fourteen most significant midcentury modern American Embassies built during the Cold War. The 171-page book by David B. Peterson features a wealth of over 200 previously-unpublished archival images. Written for a general audience, this book is the first of its kind published on midcentury modern diplomatic architecture.

The second edition of the "MA Awards 2023" seeks to promote and highlight the work of contemporary women architects in Chile. To this end, there are two award categories: Emerging and Established. Both categories aim to identify and value architectural production in areas such as housing, public architecture, urbanism, landscape, and others. The awards seek to promote built works throughout Chile developed by women architects, thereby increasing the visibility of architecture within our territory and showcasing its diversity.

INSURGENCIES: Experiences in Public Spaces is an event that brings together the 8th International Festival of Urban Interventions (FIIU) and the 5th Placemaking Latin America Meeting, aiming to promote citizen-led urbanism through the exchange of experiences among Latin American countries.

When: 2 October 2023
Where: City of Baky, the Republic of Azerbaijan

Every year, the International Committee for Architecture and Museum Techniques (ICAMT) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) organises an important international conference that brings together experts from different fields, namely museum studies, architecture and exhibition design.
This year, the University of Porto will host the 49th ICAMT International Conference from 25 to 27 October 2023. Together with the ICAMT, the Portuguese entities responsible for organising this event are the Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória (CITCEM/UPorto) and the Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (CEAU/UPorto).
The Conference's central theme will be "Undoing conflict in museums: materiality and meaning of museum architecture and exhibition design". Conference participants will focus their reflections on the power of conflict. Debating how opposing ideas can enhance, change and develop in museums and exhibitions, and the role of architecture and exhibition design in managing conflict in museums.In addition to the presentations organised, the program will include a variety of case studies, providing visits to museums (such as Galeria da Biodiversidade - Centro Ciência Viva, Casa Comum da Reitoria Universidade do Porto, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Museu do Porto - Ateliê António Carneiro, Museu de Serralves, Bienal de Design (main exhibition), Casa da Arquitectura and Museu da Memória de Matosinhos) to consider how museum practices have addressed various conflicts in terms of architectural choices and exhibition design practices.

In this workshop we will explore together the urbanist concept of the ‘15-Minute City’ alongside London-based architectural group Archigram’s ‘Instant Cities’. You will be invited to explore the surrounding hidden gems of modernist architecture in Notting Hill. Participants will record, document, and represent their surroundings through a range of techniques and materials, such as: collage, photography, rubbings and drawing.

The Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) presents the highly-anticipated annual Singapore Archifest for its 17th iteration starting late September this year. Directed by Calvin Chua, Archifest 2023 warmly welcomes you to “Interim: Acts of Adaptation”– an invitation to rethink our built environment as continually being in a state of transition. Presenting itself as a lab, this edition of Archifest investigates the potential of adaptive architecture as the mode of action in response to pressing environmental, cultural, and technological change.

Assembled from the private collection of Singapore-based RT+Q Architects, this exhibition showcasing the buildings of Le Corbusier (1887-1965) features dozens of scaled models of the iconic Swiss-French architect’s work. Through the years, it has been a tradition at RT+Q for interns to spend their first week studying and building a model of a Le Corbusier project, the aim being to acquaint them with his diverse design legacy. This exhibition will run in the LWR Gallery until November 17.