The Architecture and Urbanism Week is a non-profit event organized by the Architecture and Urbanism Academic Directory at PUC Minas. Held annually, the event is currently part of the university's second-semester academic calendar. Its primary objective is to highlight topics of regional and global relevance through lectures, workshops, and activities. By welcoming students from PUC Minas and other universities, as well as industry professionals, the event fosters an exchange of experiences among participants. Since 1996, the PUC Minas Architecture and Urbanism Weeks have stood out in the local scene as artistic and cultural events. Beyond architectural discussions, they host debates with social and political movements, meetings with renowned and street artists, exchanges with leading professionals, and a variety of workshops and activities.

What is a threshold to you? And how would you represent it graphically?

This is the challenge posed by the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation for the second edition of the International InstaFASota Competition, which will take place on Instagram.

FASHION AND ARCHITECTURE is an event that will explore the close relationship between these disciplines, where both inform one another through volumes, proportions, forms, colors, textures, balance, and creativity.

Escola da Cidade’s open courses are short-term and cover a diverse range of topics. They are intended for those interested in expanding dialogues on subjects such as history, anthropology, technology, economics, photography, literature, design, and music, among others, through cross-disciplinary perspectives on architecture and the city.

Solar technology has enormous potential, but it has been underutilized. To get an idea of just how underutilized it is, consider that every 24 hours the amount of sunlight that hits the Earth could provide energy for the entire planet for 24 years. Of course, it is necessary to collect it properly, through photovoltaic systems. With the climate crisis increasingly present in our daily lives, causing growing concerns about obtaining energy from renewable sources and reducing carbon emissions, using the sun's possibilities to generate clean energy seems to be a path of no return. But there are still some difficulties that reduce its use, such as obtaining economical solar products, aesthetics, availability of these products, regulations, and even installation issues.

Building-integrated photovoltaics, or BIPVs, offer the design and construction industry solutions to typical challenges that hinder adoption of solar energy. Below, we list the main challenges of incorporating solar energy into projects and how they can be overcome.

The IAB 2021 Awards – Centennial Edition marks a new chapter in the long-standing tradition of recognizing and honoring architecture and urbanism, as promoted by the IAB and its various departments throughout its history.

An honourable mention for OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Centre celebrates the textural power of subtly shaded glass.

Arquinema Colectivo, a space for dissemination and exchange that champions the relationship between architecture and cinema, is partnering with Cine Universitario throughout the month of November to present a series of eight films.

The Colombian Society of Architects will host the 37th Colombian Congress of Architecture and Urbanism in a hybrid format—both virtual and in-person—from November 15 to 19, 2021, in Bogotá.

The second edition of the What Design Can Do festival in Mexico City at the Ángela Peralta (open-air) theater is almost here! Join the global community of creatives who are moving the world on October 28th and 29th.

The Creative Campus and the School of Architecture at Universidad Andrés Bello, across its Santiago and Viña del Mar campuses, invite the community to discuss how architecture is strengthened by forging links with other professional and intellectual fields.

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The fourth edition of the cultural project Reuse Italy promotes an international architecture competition on the reuse of the “Lake Chapel”, a small octagonal church on the shores of the lake of Bolsena, and faces the issue of the enhancement of ancient pilgrimage routes, as the Via Francigena.

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We invite everyone to the third meeting of the event "Latin American Conversations: Design Processes," organized by the extension project "Design Processes of Contemporary Women Architects," coordinated by Professor Ana Gabriela Godinho Lima, in partnership with the "Arqtetatlas" collective. The event will take place on Thursday, October 28, at 6:30 PM, featuring Ecuadorian architect Malu Borja.

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Spaces create living environments, and the design of the room has a direct effect on people's moods and behavior. The winners of this year's iF Design Awards show how high-tech materials, elements, and shapes shine in their uniqueness and create a very special atmosphere.

For 125 years, German brand Alape has been perfecting the visual as well as haptic experience of washbasins and washstands made of glazed steel.

The Budapest Development Agency announces an international architectural design contest for the renewal of the Nyugati Railway Station and its surroundings.

The Art Omi: Architecture residency program is first of its kind in the nation, inviting 10 early- to mid-career architects from around the world to develop their work during a full two-week residency on Art Omi's campus. Architecture Residents are selected on the basis of their individual proposed project and portfolio. Completed projects are presented in an informal critique setting at the end of the residency period, with visitors invited to see the proceedings.

Brief: Design a modular pocket housing on an urban residual plot of land in a dense urban city.