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.

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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.

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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).

Timber construction and its benefits is moving into the BIM space for even more sustainable uses. A new BIM-integrated web application, called Carbon Fixers (which expands on its Offsite Wood plug-in for Revit), pre-calculates the carbon-benefit of choosing timber and other bio-sourced materials in early design.

Carbon Fixers lets you rapidly build a scenario using only basic architectural program information, such as the type, size, and number of stories in the building. For advanced users, preferences can be saved for firms with a regional expert dashboard, side-by-side comparisons and detailed assemblies.

There is an underexplored niche within architecture and construction that is revolutionizing the market. With greater agility, speed, design freedom, and sustainability integrated throughout the process, Modular Construction represents a blue ocean of opportunity that is growing exponentially worldwide.

Since 2016, the Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture has hosted Atraviesos Urbanos (Urban Traversals), a series of thematic tours through various sectors of the capital where an architect from the institution discusses the cultural, urban, and historical value of a neighborhood. For this new edition, the school has joined forces with Nuestro Centro, a neighborhood association dedicated to the revitalization of five neighborhoods: Bellas Artes, Bustamante, Lastarria, Plaza Italia, and Bellavista.

Estudio Guto Requena is opening its creative hub—a historic mansion in downtown São Paulo—to the public for the first time, showcasing projects and works developed through research at Juntxs.Lab, its laboratory for empathy, design, and technology studies. The studio will host guided tours on September 8 as part of the DW! 22 program at Rua Major Diogo, 91, in Bela Vista, by appointment.

This new edition of the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism will take place from September 21 to 25, with Mexico City and the MEXTRÓPOLI Architecture and City Festival serving as the primary stage, before extending to 22 Ibero-American countries over its two-year duration.

For the first time, LIGA presents the work of a Cuban architecture firm: Infraestudio. The studio, led by Anadis González and Fernando Martirena, addresses various conflicts and challenges in its daily practice, including job insecurity in a context where private architecture is illegal. Despite this obstacle, they have managed to develop a provocative body of built work that they intertwine with proposals linked to artistic practices.

Participating institutions: Faculty of Architecture, UNAM; Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Cuenca, Ecuador; Department of Humanities and Communication of the Catholic University of Uruguay; and the Franz Mayer Museum in the Historic Center of Mexico City. The international workshop is coordinated by academics Guillermina Rosas López, Geraldine Rodríguez Cárdenas, and Brenda Pérez González.