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The 2023 AZ Awards is Open for Entries! Show the World What You Have Accomplished!

This Thursday, January 19, at 1:30 PM (5:30 PM in Italy), the Gradoni Hall at the Università Iuav di Venezia library will host the book launch for Del territorio al detalle (Bifurcaciones, 2021). Edited by architect and academic Germán Valenzuela, the volume serves as an effort to gather a significant portion of the Latin American architectural discourse from the last decade into a single publication.

Chilean architect Smiljan Radic will deliver a lecture this Wednesday, January 18, at 8:00 PM as part of the XXII Architecture and Urbanism Biennial of Chile: 'Vulnerable Habitats.' The event will take place in the temporary inflatable structure designed by the architect in collaboration with Nicolás Schmidt, located in Plaza Bulnes, Santiago.

Registration for the 5th Tomie Ohtake Design Award, aimed at university students and recently graduated professionals from all fields, has been extended until February 16. The initiative has established itself as the leading Brazilian design mapping award, welcoming multiple languages due to its transdisciplinary nature and avoiding rigid categories, as it encompasses projects of diverse natures.

The XII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism: "Habitar al margen" (Living on the Margins), which opened in Mexico City last September 2022 alongside the MEXTRÓPOLI Festival, is expanding its reach through a traveling program. Throughout January and February 2023, it will be presented as part of the XXII Chilean Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism: "Vulnerable Habitats".

The submission of papers for the six thematic sessions is open to all participants of the V International Seminar on Hospital Architecture History (V SIHAH).

The modern design of a protected life, assuming a passive body constructed individually in the disease-health opposition, focuses on the elimination of disease through the use of the hospital as a fundamental device for biomedical knowledge and intervention. However, health is permanently reinvented through its social, ecological, and political dimensions, and the medicalization of life centered on the individual is expanding into spaces composed of less static and more complex visions, problematized by (re)emerging challenges such as the recent Covid-19 pandemic.

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The 27th edition of FEICON will take place from April 11 to 14 at the São Paulo Expo in São Paulo. Widely considered a premier platform for business development, professional growth, and networking within the industry, the fair will feature a series of new developments and a 50% increase in the number of participating brands this year.

Cultura Efímera A.C., through its program Patio. Encuentro de Intervenciones Efímeras, in collaboration with the National System of Art Creators of the Federal Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Culture of the State of Puebla, the Municipal Institute of Art and Culture of Puebla, and the Office of the Historic Center and Cultural Heritage of the Municipality of Puebla, invites visual, graphic, multidisciplinary, and fine artists, as well as architects—both established and emerging—to participate in the fourth edition of Patio Efímero.

“Journey of an Architect” is the title of an exhibition dedicated to the work of Eduardo Souto de Moura, opening on January 17 in Seoul, South Korea. The exhibition is part of a collaborative agreement between the Casa da Arquitectura – Centro Português de Arquitectura and the Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture, with the support of the Embassy of Portugal in Seoul.

Following a diagnostic assessment in the previous issue regarding the severe housing deficit affecting our country, issue #47 of the Association of Architecture Offices (AOA) magazine presents a proactive vision, offering proposals to address this situation through practical approaches and effective actions.

"We don't want to see the final image of your projects; we want to know how you create them."

Profine Iberia - KÖMMERLING, a leading manufacturer of PVC window systems, in collaboration with the Green Building Council España (GBCe) and the Zero City Project, is launching the 1st KÖMMERLING Challenge Architecture Award. This initiative aims to recognize architecture firms that strive to innovate their work methodology to prioritize sustainability across all their projects.

The School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering of Politecnico di Milano opens the renovated exhibition space by displaying some of the most significant projects designed by Kazuyo Sejima, founder with Ryūe Nishizawa of SANAA in 1995, Pritzker Prize in 2010, and Professor at Politecnico di Milano since 2015.

How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants. She investigates Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's fascination with perspective, Team Ten's interest in the humanisation of architecture and urbanism, Constantinos Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti's role in reshaping the relationship between politics and urban planning during the postwar years, Giancarlo De Carlo's architecture of participation, Aldo Rossi's design methods, Denise Scott Brown's active socioplactics and Bernard Tschumi's conception praxis.

The College is open to graduate students, graduates under the age of 30, to early career academics (PhD candidates, researchers, assistant professors, tutors, teaching fellows, etc.), and emerging practitioners under the age of 35. In line with the general goals of all Biennale Colleges (cinema, dance, music, theatre, art), this first Biennale College Architettura will seek to complement and enrich the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale by exploring how to place the Exhibition’s central themes, decolonization, and decarbonization, at the heart of architectural education.

On February 9, 2023, AsBEA-SP (Brazilian Association of Architectural Offices – SP), with the support of various sector entities, invites architects, urban planners, public officials, and developers to discuss the center of São Paulo at the "Acontecendo o Centro" seminar, to be held at the Fecomercio auditorium in the state capital.

The Faculty of Architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico invites you to the opening of the exhibition Sara Topelson: Architecture and Life in Diversity. This exhibition marks the conclusion of the 2022 Federico E. Mariscal Extraordinary Chair, which celebrates the distinguished career of architect Sara Topelson.

Marina Otero will give a lecture on Monday, January 16, at 6:00 PM as part of the XXII Chile Architecture and Urbanism Biennial: 'Vulnerable Habitats.' The event will take place in the temporary inflatable structure designed by Smiljan Radic at Plaza Bulnes, Santiago.

Utilities seeks to excavate and document the multilayers of Beirut’s economic collapse, and employs an ethnographic lens to explore the material manifestations of the crisis across the city’s urban fabric. The project unearths the material infrastructural apparatus that is emerging as a response to socioeconomic conditions; solar panels, water tanks, private generators, and prison-like façades of banks are all elementary fragments of this apparatus.