The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) launched the book of its 9th Advanced Architecture Contest: Design for Biocities. The publication includes the more than 130 proposals that were selected among the 202 proposals received from over 50 countries.
A guide to contemporary architecture practice in one of the most important fields today - the transformative adaptation of existing buildings. A manifesto and survey of contemporary practice by one of the leading offices in this domain, Deborah Berke Partners.
One of the most important design competitions in the world, the A' Design Award and Competition is open for yet another cycle of awards, with over 100 categories to apply to. Rewarding the best designs, design concepts, products, and services, whether at the concept stage, prototype, or as finished products, the A' Design Award not only gives tremendous visibility to winning projects but at the same time supports global design culture, creating incentives for entrants to submit superior designs for a better future.
The deadline for submission is February 28, 2023 and the results will be announced to the public on May 1. Register, nominate, or submit your design here, and find more information below.
The 2023 A' Design Award Competition is announcing its last call for submissions, which close on February 28th, with the results announced to the public on May 1st. The international A' Design Awards give designers an opportunity to showcase their work to a global audience, for designers, architects, or innovators from any other design field. Among other design competitions and awards, the A' Design Award stands out for its exceptional scale with over 100 design categories.
Join us for the Special Session of Redes | Palabras Cruzadas en Iberoamérica on Monday, February 20, 2023, at 7:00 PM CET.
Starting March 2, 2023, at 7:00 PM, Anita Schwartz Galeria de Arte presents the exhibition "Dialetos do Firmamento" (Dialects of the Firmament). Featuring works by artists Bonikta, Ivan Grilo, Jeane Terra, Rochelle Costi, Shen Özdemir, Thiago Costa, and Zé Tepedino, the exhibition explores diverse worldviews, invented realms, and the enchantment and mysteries that exist between heaven and earth.
On Thursday, March 2, architects Joan Busquets, professor at Harvard University; Clara Olóriz, researcher and professor at the Architectural Association; and Martha Thorne, distinguished professor at the IE School of Architecture and Design, will join journalist Llàtzer Moix to discuss the role of architecture in addressing the primary challenges of the climate emergency and the need to improve living conditions on the planet.
ARCA is a FAC initiative dedicated to the social and legal recognition and understanding of contemporary architecture with significant value. In line with this goal, the ARCA Meetings serve as a forum for identifying challenges and opportunities, sharing methodologies, lines of action, and best practices, providing a space for networking and building synergies around contemporary architectural heritage.
As part of the Madrid Design Festival 2023, Andreu World is hosting a meeting with companies from various economic sectors—including consumer goods, construction, and furniture—that leverage creativity to achieve a positive impact in terms of sustainability.
As part of the Madrid Design Festival, we invite you to the presentation of the Beyond The Plastic Wave exhibition. This immersive showcase addresses the issue of plastic waste pollution in our oceans, particularly in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an advocacy exhibition that serves as a catalyst for rethinking plastic use and encourages the manufacturing of products from recycled materials, thereby promoting a circular economy.
Envisioned by the architectural pioneers at Woods Bagot, the Sculptform Design Studio was the recipient of the prestigious Best Small Workplace Award at the recent World Architecture Festival 2022. The space is an immersive tactile experience and has become a gathering space for the wider architecture industry. The design evokes the bespoke timber and aluminium products, craftsmanship and the custom detailing they are known for.
Sculptform and Woods Bagot set a new standard for the reciprocity that can exist between client and architect and showcases the limitless potential when a design team is truly immersed in materiality. Blurring the line between retail space and installation, it is a brilliant ‘working showroom’ case study for just how impactful design can be when local manufacturing and quality craftsmanship come together.
The Dragon Tree of Icod de los Vinos, in Tenerife, is the oldest specimen of Dracaena Drago, which is preserved in the Atlantic archipelago, a tree 16 m high with a 20 m circumference at the base. An endemic species of the Canary Islands, with a slow growth, the dragon tree has a strong symbolism since, in the past, it was considered the protector of the islands, but, at the beginning of the 1980s, the one who needed protection was precisely the dragon tree. Visitors - about 1 million a year - flocked to visit it, and the intense activity that tourism brought around it put its life in danger. It was necessary to stop the visits and find solutions so that the drago tree did not die of success.
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Cities are a collection of many things: memories, desires, and signs of a language. They are places of exchange, as explained in every economic history book, but these exchanges are not limited to goods; they are also exchanges of words, desires, and memories. This is how the philosopher Italo Calvino described cities in his seminal work Invisible Cities, noting that we, as inhabitants, construct individual and collective meanings, memories, and histories. Each city is distinct, unique, and unrepeatable in its conditions, dynamics, and potential, making each one a living laboratory for constant experimentation and transformation.
Karel Klein is an architect and educator who has been working with various AI technologies since 2016. Her ongoing project is an investigation into crossbred image-objects produced using atypically trained GANs (generative adversarial networks) and their capacity for contemporary myth-making in architecture. In the same way that imaginative vocabulary and metaphoric style were primary, if literary instruments for the invention of new mythologies for the Surrealists, the strange and idiosyncratic qualities of images produced using AI are similarly a kind of matter metaphor-ed and made visible by the cyborg imagination. With these tools, Karel is interested in the re-enchantment of the architectural body—one that both foments and succumbs to sensual perceptions, and one that discovers new and unexpected relations to the world beyond the realm of the rational. Her work in this realm has been exhibited at the 2021 Venice Biennale; the FRAC Institute, Orleans, France; Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis; and SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Angeles. Recent essays in pursuit of this work include “Verto Pellis” in Offramp, issue 17; “Machines are Braver than Art” in “Rendering Fiction,” Paprika!, volume 7, issue 8; and “Machines À Rechercher,” in Log 55, summer 2022. Karel teaches currently at Washington University, University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).
Designed directly by the internal Research & Development office, the new showroom becomes the focal point of Linvisibile’s presence in the Piedmont area.
An anthology featuring over a hundred works representative of the lessons that form the foundation of Venezuela's architectural tradition. Austerity, tropicality, character, composition, openness, and plasticity: these lessons highlight the critical role and political implications of the aesthetic decisions involved in an architectural project.
TerraViva Competitions launches TACTICAL URBANISM NOW! 2023, a new edition of the architecture competition that puts the focus on the transformation of public space all over the world. Prizes up to 7.000 € will be awarded to the winners selected by an international jury panel composed by, among others, Huicheng Zhong (Atelier Scale), Sarah Seigel (Hapa Collaborative), Jokin Santiago (Leku Studio), Marcos Coronel Bravo (Pico Colectivo);