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Executive Summer School for Milano Design Week 2023

For the third consecutive year, the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Colombia is organizing the Executive Summer School - Milano Design Week 2023.

LINA Platform: Feminist Architecture Workshop

This book compiles the reflections and experience of the inter-university program developed by LINA Plataforma, which aims to explore the field of design from a gender perspective.

Book: The ArchDaily Guide to Good Architecture

Drawing on ArchDaily’s curation of more than 40,000 projects over the past 15 years, it spotlights the most innovative built environments of our age—those paving the way for a better, more sustainable future.

Curated around their 10 principles of good architecture, the special edition of The ArchDaily Guide to Good Architecture covers what’s best in architecture today and the most relevant for tomorrow.

Timber Extension Housing Competition: Innovating Social Housing Architecture in Uruguay

The Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning of Uruguay and Mevir, with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank, are calling for proposals for new low-rise timber housing typologies. These units will be constructed by MEVIR as a 20-unit demonstration project in the town of Tranqueras, in the department of Rivera, Uruguay.

Call for Entries for High-Rise Timber Housing: Innovating Social Housing Architecture in Uruguay

The Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning of Uruguay and the National Housing Agency (ANV), with the support of the Durazno Departmental Government and the Inter-American Development Bank, have launched a call for proposals for a pilot project to construct high-rise social housing in timber in the city of Durazno.

Bernard Tschumi Lecture

Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts and wrote Architecture and Disjunction, a series of theoretical essays. Major built works include the Parc de la Villette, the Acropolis Museum, Le Fresnoy Center for the Contemporary Arts, Paul L. Cejas School of Architecture at FIU, MuséoParc Alésia, the Paris Zoo, the Binhai Science Museum, and a large educational complex for the University of Paris-Saclay opening in 2023. He was the Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation of Columbia University in New York from 1988-2003. The book Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color is a comprehensive collection of his conceptual and built projects. His drawings and models are in the collections of several major museums, including MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which each presented a major retrospective of his work in 1994 and 2014.

Designing Black Spaces with Community Accountability

Featuring Tura Cousins Wilson of SOCA, Jessica Kirk of the Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism and Jessica Hines of Black Urbanism Toronto, this conversation about what it means to take accountability within the practice of design and focus on Black community engagement is the first in a series centred around Blackness in architecture, landscape, and design within academia. As noted in the University Commitment in the Scarborough Charter, the work of Black flourishing and thriving should “be informed, shaped and co-created by communities” in order to be effective. Other discussions in this series will include Black Flourishing through Design (February 15), a workshop for designers and educators called Blackness in Architectural Pedagogy and Practice (March 1) and a student-led online event that centres Black belonging through design.

Avani Dissertation Symposium 2023

Prof. Sharon Rotbard from Bezalel Institute of Jerusalem presided the inaugural session of Avani Dissertation Symposium 2023 and addressed foundation studio students on January 23rd 2023. He also organized a workshop for selected faculty members of Avani Institute of Design. Prof. Sharon Rotbard is an architect, academician, author of several books, including the much acclaimed "Black City, White City" and a publisher. He has conducted several studios in India and also taught at CARE, Trichy for over a year.

Open Call: Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 Curatorial Competition

The Estonian Centre for Architecture announces the curatorial competition of the seventh international Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2024.

Organized by the Estonian Centre for Architecture (ECA), The Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) is an international architecture festival held since 2011. The festival contributes to creating and promoting a high-quality built environment by addressing timely issues, providing a platform for discussion, bringing together top players, delving into the present and future, and introducing local architectural culture. TAB’s program offers events for the top of the field, young professionals just starting out in the field of architecture, and a broader audience of architecture enthusiasts

Film Mosaic: Leave No One Behind

Participate in Copenhagen Architecture Festival’s global short film competition focusing on the UN's 'Leave No One Behind' agenda (LNOB).

Dimitra doesn't want to move: aging in-place, localized communities and the adaptive re-use of traditional building typologies in villages in Northern Greece

Dimitra doesn’t want to move symposium to be held on February 14, 2023

The University of Texas School of Architecture Lecture Series: Ross Altheimer and Maura Rockcastle

As the field of landscape architecture evolves to combat the issues of our time—climate change and just futures—how we practice matters. Through design research, experimental methods of design process and ideation, and provocative questioning, TEN x TEN challenges the normative environment of professional practice through process-oriented ways of working, engaging, and seeing landscape. Our agency as landscape architects to address the issues of our time is grounded in part by our ability to challenge the critical foundation of the design process itself and to practice modes of discovery as a generative act.

The University of Texas School of Architecture Lecture Series: Lorcan O’Herlihy

Addressing the crisis of housing, Lorcan O'Herlihy will present a number of projects that are tackling these important issues. 

The University of Texas School of Architecture Lecture Series: Alex Josephson

Born in Toronto, Canada, Alex Josephson studied architecture at the University of Waterloo and in Rome. He co-founded PARTISANS in 2012 after dropping out of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA). Alex is the only Canadian to have received the New York Prize Fellowship at the Van Alen Institute, and he was named 2015 Best Emerging Designer by Canada’s Design Exchange. He currently lectures at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture. Alex is a registered architect in Ontario.

The University of Texas School of Architecture Lecture Series: Michael Hsu

Michael Hsu Office of Architecture (MHOA) serves a broad audience, while specializing in materiality, detail, and design. The studio approaches everyday architecture and high design projects with a wide range of perspectives. In addition to offering architecture and interiors, the firm integrates branding, art curation, and landscape design services. This lecture will explore the firm's approach across a range of projects and will touch on the future plans of the studio, including our newly developed R&D team, established to ensure that we continue to push design forward. 

TECHSPO Nashville 2023 Technology Expo

Where Business, Tech and Innovation Collide in Nashville!

Taking on California's First Mass Timber Building

Mass timber is emerging all across North America. Beyond the benefits of natural materials and visible structures, the capabilities of industrialized offsite construction are beginning to change the model of delivery for an increasing range of buildings. When a California owner-developer proposed the first mass timber building in the state, they chose the experience, scope, and qualifications carefully, and the entire mass timber package was delivered on a train from Quebec, Canada.

Technical Assistance Forum for Risk Mitigation: Institutional actions and arrangements regarding socio-environmental issues, displacement, and unsanitary conditions

The “Technical Assistance Forum for Risk Mitigation: Institutional Action and Arrangements Regarding Socio-environmental Issues, Displacement, and Unsanitary Conditions” aims to share, critically discuss, and propose alternatives to the limitations and potential of Technical Assistance in addressing socio-environmental risks, displacement risks, and risks related to unsanitary conditions. This will be achieved through the exchange of professional experiences and the formulation of analyses regarding existing and potential institutional arrangements in the country.