Waskesiu Beach House, Waskesiu, Saskatchewan. Image Courtesy of Wood Design & Building Awards
The Call for Entries is now open to North American and International submissions to the 2022-23 Wood Design and Building Awards program recognizing excellence in wood architecture.
The Wood Design & Building Awards program recognizes design teams that are passionate about celebrating wood as a safe, strong and sophisticated building material.
This publication is a compendium of Latin American architecture, filtered through the architects who have undertaken the 12-month journey to pursue the Master’s Degree in Architectural Design at the University of Navarra. 32 authors from across the continent present their architectural practice through a project developed over four double-page spreads, with one double-page spread reserved for the presentation of the firm and the Master’s experience.
The fourth edition of "Jornal Coletivo," to be distributed for free in November, explores the theme of creativity. This focus is informed by the Cannes Advertising Festival, which ranks Brazil as the third most creative country in the world, trailing only the United States and the United Kingdom.
Zambia has been hosting Angolan refugees since 1966, when the Angolan revolution against the Portuguese spread to the east of the country, forcing people to flee to neighboring Zambia in search of safety. Nearly 60 years later, Zambia continues to receive refugees from a long list of countries, predominantly from the Congo, Burundi, and Somalia. In total, there are approximately 105,000 refugees in camps and settlements across Zambia, 65,000 of whom are from the Congo and 20,000 from Angola.
ECHO, Tu Delft, the Netherlands. Image courtesy of UNStudio.
Since its inception, UNStudio has been known as a speculative practice, producing real world projects through the means of research, experimentation, testing, and conceptual frameworks.
Discover what’s happening at the Melbourne School of Design at MSDx Summer 2022, as the building is transformed into a multi-floor gallery showcasing hundreds of pieces of studio work by talented students in one of Australia's largest design exhibitions.
Tokyo and New York-based Ippodo Gallery will present Extreme Surfaces, an exhibition of contemporary Japanese kogei (art and craft), November 30–December 4 at Design Miami 2022 (booth G36). The installation will feature works by twenty two living artists including Kodai Ujiie, Yukiya Izumita, Terumasa Ikeda and Hirotomi Maeda, with a focus on the juxtaposition of the surfaces of three distinct object types. Shigeru Uchida’s stunning life-sized tea house will play host to a traditional Japanese tea service each day at 3PM. Marking the gallery’s debut at the fair, Extreme Surfaces comes on the heels of the opening of Susumu Shingu’s landmark Sculpting with Wind exhibit, which is running at Ippodo’s New York location through December 29, 2022.
From November 25-27, 2022, Driving the Human realizes a three-day festival marking the culmination of three years of collaboration, research and experimentation connecting disciplines between sciences and the arts.
The digital submission for the Bauwelt Award 2023 "First Works" is now open - until December 31st, 2022, planning teams and individuals can submit their first realized projects online: www.bauwelt.de/bauweltaward2023.
For the twelfth time, the Bauwelt Award “First Works” will be tendered this year – from now on you can submit your first work.
Clinic Dr. Dragic in Novi Sad, Serbia, project by Studio Fluid, 2015; photo by Ana Kostic. Image Courtesy of Studio Fluid
Combining high style with low maintenance, Corian® Design’s Solid Surface aids designers and architects to create healthy spaces for complete peace of mind. designboom and ArchDaily continues its three-part webinar series with the material producer, this time to explore the future of healthcare facilities. Including Studio Fluid, Operamed and NOAS Sweden, leading architectural and design experts join the conversation which can be watched live – register here.
Organized by the Centro para la Arquitectura Constructo – AoA, this seminar features three lectures exploring the figure, theoretical contributions, and built work of Chilean architect Juan Borchers.
rita_ magazine is now accepting academic paper submissions for its upcoming 19th issue. The call is open to faculty, graduate students, and professionals with a master's or doctoral degree, and submissions may be in either Spanish or Portuguese.
Concéntrico 09, International Architecture and Design Festival of Logroño, proposes to reflect on the urban environment and the city through architecture and design proposals in different formats. The new edition will be held from 27 April to 2 May 2023.
Glenlyon Norfolk School. Image Courtesy of Low Hammond Rowe Architects
Low Hammond Rowe is an architecture firm from Victoria, Canada who are discovering that switching to a new design software can provide them with amazing results. You’ll read about how the firm continues business operation during the switch as well as how they’re realizing undeniable efficiencies that save them time and money.
The Green Building Brasil International Conference is now open for free registration. Starting on the 21st, the event will feature dozens of sessions available to all participants.