In the contemporary context, diversity is undoubtedly one of the defining characteristics of Madrid. Today, as cities increasingly trend toward standardization—replicating commercial models and cultural structures—complexity emerges as a value in itself, serving as a defining feature of urban identity.
Drawing on examples of their own instantly recognizable Minimalist-inflected designs, often evoking the work of Donald Judd, celebrated architects Messana O’Rorke demonstrate how to create a serene haven for modern living.
The real estate industry moves fast. It wasn’t so long ago that potential buyers narrowed their searches by driving around with a sheaf of printed listings, and designers and builders relied on CAD drawings and artist renderings to show yet-to-be-built spaces. Nowadays, advances in graphics technology have brought us interactive 3D renderings, making it easier for investors, buyers, and other stakeholders to truly understand the designs they’re looking at.
Following on from these advances, we’re also seeing technology that can excite and entice buyers, like sales configurators and interactive tours, where visitors can choose finishes and design their own spaces right before their eyes; virtual reality experiences, where architects can get feedback from investors on design at key stages of the process; shadow studies, where potential occupants can see how a space will be affected by sunlight at various times of day; and digital twins, where cities can get a true idea of a building’s usage, which leads to new ways to optimize efficiencies and design better spaces for residents.
Building performance is a hallmark of architecture in the 21st century. With buildings and the construction industry being significant contributors to carbon emissions, designers must do everything to reduce their buildings’ energy consumption and carbon footprints. Moreover, buildings need to contribute to a positive occupant experience, improving the health and productivity of their users through enhanced visual and thermal comfort and air quality. Today’s buildings are also expected to perform outside their physical boundaries and positively impact surrounding communities; by reducing their contributions to local heat islands and stormwater runoff, and supporting local green economies and sustainable systems.
With high-performance design goals becoming a standard benchmark for buildings, designers must identify the high-performance aspects they want to design for and set targets for key performance metrics. By tracking a building’s performance at each design stage through various simulations, building performance analyses provide a road map that gradually connects its predicted performance to its target values.
The Municipality of Chile Chico, located in the Aysén Region, invites entries for the public tender titled "Architectural Design and Consistorial Profile for the Chile Chico Municipal Building." The initiative is organized by the Municipal Planning Secretariat of Chile Chico.
From Friday 23 September 2022, the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London will host The Future is a Journey to the Past: Stories about Sustainability, an exhibition curated by Mario Cucinella Architects. The exhibition explores past and present notions of sustainability in order to develop the ecological thinking necessary to bridge the divide between the natural world and human activity – including, of course, architecture.
Held in the AA Gallery on the ground floor of 36 Bedford Square, the exhibition comprises three key elements: a timeline tracing the evolution of environmental awareness and activism from prehistory to the present, and speculating on the future; a selection of projects designed by Mario Cucinella Architects that explore these themes through scale models and booklets; and a map highlighting the locations of key sites and projects explored in Cucinella’s book The Future is a Journey to the Past (Quodlibet, 2022).
New solutions through planning and innovation often require expensive and complex stratagems. However, a journey into the past reveals how, in eras when sustainable thinking was a necessity, humans created ingenious practical solutions that we still have much to learn from. While nature has offered us the sustainable environments of the termite nest and beehive, of forests and the very structure of trees and plants, human ingenuity once shaped the stepwells of India, the ice houses of the Iranian desert and the city of Hyderabad in Pakistan that catches the wind to naturally ventilate its buildings. These projects, and many others, have much to teach us beyond their intrigue and beauty.
In the exhibition, these journeys through the past are projected into the future, suggesting a synthesis of traditional and modern thinking in how we approach architecture and the environment. Architectural history, in all its global richness, becomes a relevant source of inspiration to educate us about our sustainable past while providing us with tools to become future guardians of the global environment.
Join us for Best Practice, a virtual fireside chat series dedicated to practice operations at architecture firms and beyond. From pain points to potential, hear how leaders in the architecture and engineering industry are innovating through new business models and managerial techniques.
The work of Dhaka-based Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) often addresses the needs of marginalized communities, whose well-being has been especially threatened during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 and 2021, the firm undertook various projects that dealt with displacement, vulnerable populations and humanitarian challenges. During this lecture and presentation, MTA founder Marina Tabassum — the Daniels Faculty’s 2022-2023 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design — will be speaking about those projects, about her experience as an architect in South Asia and elsewhere, and about the changing role of architects as agents of change.
"The Architecture of Transition: Emergent Practices in South Asia" will convene young practices that have displayed a rigorous engagement in making architecture in the public realm and in response to the spectrum of issues that societies in acute transition are experiencing. This online lecture series will take place over the next year beginning on September 17, 9am EST.
On Friday 23rd of September, at 3:30 p.m., Patricia Urquiola will be at the Andreu World stand at Feria Hábitat Valencia presenting her new designs for Andreu World, in addition to those made over the last decade. All of them 100% sustainable, with the Cradle to Cradle® certification, which represents a further step towards the circular economy.
An exhibition dedicated to the career of award-winning Australian architect Greg Burgess will be on display at the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne School of Design.
Classifying, structuring data is key to unlocking the full value of BIM. It makes data easier to understand, ensuring accurate and timely budgeting, planning, building, and management of a given asset.
This Master's program is specifically designed for professionals seeking a degree in Cities and Urbanism without the need to travel or relocate abroad. It offers distance learning led by experts in Architecture, Urbanism, Sociology, Ecology, and Economics, featuring faculty from the IAAC and a roster of leading transdisciplinary professionals in the field.
What you will learn:
- Learn how to increase the perceived value of your work to close more and better projects;
- Learn the secrets to becoming a more confident professional;
- Discover Renata Pena's tips for growing your architecture and design firm.
Natural light is a key design element that can improve indoor comfort in architectural projects. VELUX Academy offers courses, videos on daylighting design, and information modules featuring exclusive content on the subject. This expert-curated content challenges how architects and designers think, ensuring the best possible design outcomes for their clients.
A little-known facet of Sigurd Lewerentz’s work is the collection of photographs he took during his various travels throughout Sweden over the course of his life. While his famous photographs from his travels in Italy sought to capture the essence of ruins and fragments of classical architecture, in his native country, he turned his attention to landscapes and gardens, cemeteries, and vernacular architecture—ranging from isolated buildings to entire clusters—as well as church interiors, domestic spaces, walls, fences, and gates. Everything was captured through the lens of an architect, rather than an ethnographer.
The Interior Lighting course aims to provide the necessary tools to develop lighting projects for residential and/or commercial spaces. Participants will learn how lighting can personalize and shape new spaces based on the program and its lighting requirements.
TAGMA and the Sustainability Committee of the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism at the University of the Republic (Uruguay) invite students to participate in the Student Ideas Competition for the development of the Center for Trials and Errors (Centro de Ensayos y Errores), an infrastructural support facility for CAMPUS (Training in Sustainability and Regeneration) located in the department of Maldonado (Pan de Azúcar).