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);
Film and architecture festival announces an open call for films related to the topic of architecture and urbanism. It could be short films, mid-length or feature films.
Selected works will be screened at the 12th edition of Film and architecture festival which will be held from September 29 to October 4. Please submit your movie using this form: bit.ly/opencall_FA2023
The Property Department of the Riga City Council in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia and the Latvian Architects Association on 18 January 2023 announced the launch of the international architectural competition of RIGA PHILHARMONIC. Interested architects are invited to design the building of RIGA PHILHARMONIC within the historic center of Riga, in a scenic urban environment – in Kronvalda Park, rebuilding the Riga Congress Centre located at Krišjāņa Valdemāra iela 5, Riga.
How can modular timber construction be used to respond to the contemporary housing crisis?
How to achieve the greatest architectural variety with the fewest building elements possible?
Can we redefine the construction industry as the production of standard elements and create a new, more efficient construction system that is both durable and sustainable?
Border crossing involves a change of state; the crossing of a barrier between two nations. The nature and meaning of this barrier are very specific to its location and the different characters of the nations involved. Borders can mark dramatic transitions between different cultures, political systems, economies, and levels of freedom. They range from open and undefended to closed and heavily militarized.
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) wants to support a new generation of young talents and help them propose a new sustainable architecture, urbanism and rethink the future of the construction industry to face the challenges of our century. For this reason, IAAC and its industry collaborators offer scholarships to study in IAAC’s On Campus Educational Programmes listed below.
A new 2,600m2 park is coming to 229 Richmond St. W in downtown Toronto, Canada. The site is currently leased to a restaurant and used as an outdoor patio. It has been purchased by the City of Toronto for future park use.