Join The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture for Plant Potential, an online conference that brings together an architect, a theorist, a scientist, an urban gardener, and an artist for a collective exploration of our relationship with plant life. Their investigative and creative initiatives vary in scope and character but all aim at helping human communities to reconnect with the ecological, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of the environment by embracing the nurturing potential of plants as food, material resource, environment makers, companions, and teachers.

iPAC 2021-2022: Mud Futures is a year-long global multi-host multi-location conclave on the futures of mud in architecture is conceptualised and conducted by the School of Art and Architecture, Sushant University, Gurugram, India.
The conclave is an opportunity for a for ideas, thoughts, research and architectural projects centred around mud across various countries. Here, mud is considered as a material, as an approach, as a vehicle for sustainability, and as the source of an ideological imperative for the future of the built environment.
iPAC 2021-2022: Mud Futures brings practitioners and academicians together to deliberate on a material that has its genesis in the past, yet is versatile enough to respond to the technological advancements of the future.
The broad intent of the conclave is
• Take stock of innovations of its application in the urban context
• Exchange of knowledge resource through certificate courses
• Conduct workshops to experiment with new ideas

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The European Cultural Centre presents the fifth edition of the extensive biennial architecture exhibition with the title TIME SPACE EXISTENCE. The exhibition will open in parallel with Biennale Architettura on May 22nd, 2021, and it will run until November 21st, 2021 at Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora and Giardini della Marinaressa, with press previews and opening events in each location on May 20th and 21st.

Internationally acclaimed architect Chad Oppenheim, editor of Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains, examines the compelling and seductive abodes of movie villains. The villain’s lair is much more than where the megalomaniac goes to get some rest. Instead, the homes of the villains are places where evil is plotted and where, often, the hero is tested and must prove him/herself. In Lair, readers are invited to explore the architecture of villainy through rich content that includes in-depth visual and written material and a striking graphic design that features silver ink on black paper.

Don’t miss the inaugural GOFF Fest, November 4-7 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Presenting sounds, archival drawings, and cartographic representations, the exhibition Radio-Activities aims to raise awareness of the contemporary role of the built environment by examining the time when the intricate worlds of politics, aesthetics, and information technologies began to populate the ether. The exhibition is the outcome of research conducted by the Chilean architect Alfredo Thiermann on the infrastructure built for radio in Berlin, starting in the Weimar Republic and running up to the Cold War period.

D5 Render SketchUp Extension | Elmtec SketchUp, a real-time renderer for digital designers, brings a whole new layer to the industry thanks to cutting-edge technologies, making it easier to render ultra-realistic images with real-time raytracing, creating a transformational movement within the design industry. From 28th September 2021, Elmtec is the official distributor for D5 Render in the UK and Ireland.

The national public competition for the preliminary urban, landscape, and architectural design of the Apartadó River Parks – Stage 2 "Ciudad Do" seeks to transform the Apartadó River into the municipality's primary natural asset, establishing it as the articulating axis of urban planning and the focal point of physical interventions that will achieve: "...a living river... and alive in the people!"

The Bogotá Public Space Biennial (BEP BOG) is a biennial competition organized by the Mayor's Office of Bogotá D.C., represented by the Administrative Department of the Public Space Ombudsman (DADEP) and its Bogotá Public Space Observatory, alongside the Colombian Society of Architects (SCA), Bogotá and Cundinamarca regional chapter. Its purpose is to recognize and promote projects and management strategies for the creation, recovery, and sustainability of public space in Bogotá.

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Today’s rapidly changing world calls for entrepreneurs who question the status quo and are able to leverage people, resources, and processes to produce dynamic solutions. As spatial design activities and the global construction industry experience unprecedented transformation, there are endless opportunities for those with the courage to stand up and take them.

Unstable Infrastructures: Strange Ecologies, Discontinuous [De]growths, and Solidarity Energies

The ideas of progress, development, and growth-based models are being conceptually and materially affected by a series of environmental factors or new economies, which are being reprogrammed through a social and sociopolitical ecology.

SPLACES brings together Interstuhl's products and services to create aesthetic, functional and flexible working environments.

The UNEB Urbanism Week is an annual event organized by the students and faculty of the Bachelor’s degree program in Urbanism—the only one of its kind in Brazil—offering participants the opportunity to attend, engage in dialogue, and debate topics relevant to contemporary urban issues. Its objective is to provide students, social movements, and experts in the fields of urbanism and urban-territorial planning, as well as scholars from cross-disciplinary areas, with a space to deepen and systematize their understanding of the urban phenomenon. In this year’s edition, we will take an introspective look at the 20 years since the enactment of the City Statute, examining its benefits and legal contradictions through the lens of the structural inequalities in Brazilian society regarding race, gender, class, sexual diversity, and more.

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Meetings with architects from cities with IAB chapters in the interior and coastal regions of São Paulo.

The European Union intends to be climate neutral by 2050. This will require decarbonization at all levels of the economy, and the construction sector will have a particularly key role to play. The sector accounts for around 40% of CO2 emissions globally, and steel and concrete, in particular, require enormous amounts of energy to produce. There needs to be a paradigm shift to replace these building materials and their associated environmental impact. Natural and renewable building materials play a crucial role in this.

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The Urbanism in Bahia Seminar - urbBA[21], organized by the Lugar Comum Research Group (UFBA), proposes a discussion on the city and care in its 11th edition.

Sustainable construction in Brazil is growing every year. In 2020, despite the pandemic, there was a 28% increase, and this pace is expected to continue this year. In this context, the Green Building Council Brasil will host its 2021 International Conference starting November 22, which is expected to attract an audience of 10,000 professionals from various countries. Held virtually due to ongoing health restrictions, the event will feature 15 consecutive days of technical lectures, master series, expert interviews, and other activities.