MADE – Mercado, Arte, Design – is an international collectible design fair that brings together quality content in a collective space with each edition. It showcases and highlights national designers and studios, reveals new talent, encourages new production, and, consequently, expands design culture to thousands of people. Its objective is to disseminate education and culture within the sector through a design-focused content program.
“Inside the Landscape”. A collective exhibition of Cuban art featuring Alejandro Lloret, Alexis Iglesias, and J. Pável Herrera opens at the Instituto Cervantes in São Paulo.
The next edition of Design Degustação will take place on June 29, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, simultaneously at the IED São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro campuses. The event aims to showcase the Extension, One Year, and Postgraduate courses offered nationwide by the Italian institution, which is recognized as the only college in Brazil 100% focused on design. It will be an immersive day within IED Brasil's laboratories and facilities, featuring lectures, workshops, and even painting sessions, with both free and paid activities available.
A traveling exhibition on environmental art opens on June 28 in Fortaleza, curated by Angela de Oliveira at ARTIVO Galeria.
Open House Porto 2024 invites visitors to celebrate fifty years of Portuguese democracy. While the Portuguese people demanded “peace, bread, housing, health, and education”* during the revolution of April 25, 1974, in 2024, we aim to both recognize what has been achieved and identify what is desired for the future.
“ALTAR”
A solo exhibition by Fabi Cunha presents a selection of new works, curated by Jozias Benedicto at the Galeria de Arte Ibeu
Architecture firms and real estate developers are constantly seeking industrialized construction solutions to optimize project timelines and costs. However, compromising on aesthetics and energy efficiency is not an option. A viable solution lies within the wide range of systems in the face brick ecosystem.
Three recent projects developed in Spain exemplify how integrating face brick facades can yield unique designs. Furthermore, all three are finalists for the Hispalyt Brick Architecture Award 2021-2023 in the "Industrialization" category.
"OLYMPIANS" at the National Historical Museum
Photography exhibition by Gustavo Malheiros highlights female athletes and opens on July 20 with a book launch (Arte Ensaio Editora)
The Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB-RJ) is hosting the International Competition for the New Rio-Africa Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro. The competition serves as an affirmative action measure that strengthens and realizes the principle of equality in our society, promoting historical reparation and the inclusion of professionals. Its purpose is to provide Black architects from Brazil and Portuguese-speaking African countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe) access to frameworks for reflecting on historical ownership and space.
“With his new diptychs, collage-drawings, wood pieces, and ‘spatial paintings,’ Chico Fortunato expands his vocabulary, demonstrating his customary freedom and predilection for certain elements and colors. He does not clamor for the banal spectacle; he seeks essence,” defines Luiz Chrysostomo de Oliveira Filho, who curates the artist’s solo exhibition, “Construtos.” Featuring previously unseen works produced between 2021 and 2024, the exhibition will be on view at Galeria Patricia Costa starting July 25. As a painter and furniture designer, he reveals through his precise yet delicate lines a preference for geometric figures, dominating the space with lines that articulate colors with a peculiar lightness. Among the most recent works, the collage-drawings stand out—a medium never before explored by Chico Fortunato in his long artistic career.
Color has a profound impact on human emotions. We experience joy, aggression, nostalgia, or affection, and these specific moods can often be triggered by a particular color. Paleta perfeita is a unique color guide—a practical tool for artists and designers working in fashion, graphic design, interior design, and textiles, or for anyone seeking a better understanding of the relationship between color and emotion.
Environmental degradation and reforestation are the themes of the solo exhibition by Rio-based artist Raul Leal, which draws from his observations of the Fluminense landscape.
The Mayor's Office of Villanueva, Santander, in partnership with the Colombian Society of Architects, Santander Regional Chapter, is launching an architectural competition for the design of a Tourist Experience Center.
"Architecture and Feminism: Without Beginning or End"
The Instituto Cervantes in São Paulo, in collaboration with the Escola da Cidade,
presents an exhibition curated by Semíramis González
The 9th ExpoMadera Entre Ríos 2024 is shaping up to be a key event for the timber and construction sectors in Argentina. This international exhibition, taking place from October 4 to 5 at the Concordia Convention Center—with a preliminary workshop on August 15 at the Casa de Entre Ríos in Buenos Aires—aims to promote timber housing and its integration into sustainable architecture.
About the book: In this book, Zaida Muxí reviews the historical role of women in the production and theory of architecture and urbanism. She reflects on how this presence—and, above all, the recurring absence of a female perspective—impacts the spaces we inhabit. From design to urban and housing policy and the debate on new ideas, the book treats the home and the city as representations of the private and public spheres. The home as a metaphor for architecture; the city as a synthesis of human action. Discussing these topics from a female perspective requires deconstructing official historiography, revealing the false universality of how knowledge is transmitted and historical narratives are constructed. As in other fields of knowledge—the arts, science, and politics—women do not exist on equal footing, nor are they represented according to merit. Therefore, it is necessary to revisit the history of architecture and cities to rewrite it, now with women as the definitive protagonists.
About the book: Since the 1994 publication of Móvel moderno no Brasil, which grew out of her master's thesis, Cecilia Loschiavo has become a central reference for understanding the Brazilian material heritage shaped by the period's design activity. She established the historical and theoretical foundations that qualified the revaluation of these works, which began in the 2000s. Her research began in the late 1970s, a time when this modernizing approach to Brazilian living was experiencing a period of intense neglect, and many of its protagonists—with whom the author had the opportunity to work closely—saw their crafts interrupted or re-evaluated. This new book represents the next chapter in Cecilia's prolific academic career: her doctoral thesis, which had never been published in its entirety. In it, the trajectories of Sergio Rodrigues, Joaquim Tenreiro, Celso Martinez Carrera, and José Zanine Caldas are analyzed to support her central argument: the encounter between tradition and modernity in the semi-industrialized Brazil of the first half of the 20th century and its contribution to the country's creative identity. The book includes commentary by Claudia Moreira Salles and prefaces by her colleagues in the international debate on design, aesthetics, and material culture: Bazon Brock, Jacques Leenhardt, and Francisco Providência. It also features illustrations by Francisco Providência.
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