□³LE Competition is looking for individual shelter solutions for evacuation centers in Japan proposals. Record-breaking rainfall and subsequent flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, heatwaves, and forest fires, humanity is experiencing devastating natural disasters with no signs of easing.

Videos

"Journey" is the topic of the seventh Redes IAAC session, an open, online event broadcast via streaming.

The worth of a civilization can be gauged from the place that it gives to women. Women today have distinguished themselves in various spheres of life as orators, doctors, diplomats and so on. There is no denying the fact that women all across the globe have made tremendous progress in this constantly developing economy.

The Terraforming is a three-year (2020–2022) design-research initiative of the Strelka Institute, directed by Benjamin H. Bratton and Nicolay Boyadjiev. The program runs as an interdisciplinary design think-tank and will host contributions from multiple faculty and experts including Lydia Kallipoliti, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Tobias Rees, Valerie Olson, Christina Agapakis, Ken Goldberg, Venkatesh Rao, Fred Scharmen, David Delgado and many others.
The third and final cycle of The Terraforming program invites a group of 30 interdisciplinary researchers to join the initiative for 5 months from February - June 2022.*
The premise of the design research program is that a viable future depends on comprehensive terraforming, not of Mars to make it suitable for Earth-like life, but of Earth itself — ecologically, geopolitically, geotechnologically.
The research of the first two years has reoriented foundational debates on how to conceive and model that viability, based on speculative analyses of synthetic intelligence, automation and ecology, food systems, space law, new modes of governance, the evolution of cities and much more.
The final year returns to the question of the built environment at multiple scales, from the epidermal to the continental. Artificial environments are designed spaces for diverse functions and ways of being and knowing: the city, the laboratory, the factory, the home, the space station, virtual and mixed reality, the body itself, etc. All speak to the planetary as both the condition that makes specific enclosed worlds possible and also as a collective compositional project. In 2022 The Terraforming is adding a new chapter of motivating research themes - Artificial Environments, Astropolitics, Synthetic/Spatial Materialism, Planetary Sapience.
The program is tuition-free (researchers receive a monthly stipend) and invites architects, urbanists, filmmakers, media theorists, historians, philosophers, science-fiction writers, artists, engineers, economists, political scientists, ecologists, anthropologists and graphic designers to apply and work collaboratively on interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of cinema, text and speculative design-research.
Applications will be accepted till November 7, 2021.
For more information visit theterraforming.strelka.com or contact us at apply@strelka.com

mOOO calls on architects live in every continent to submit successful and unsuccessful stories of their ventures in a video format, to fire up young architects to create their unique careers and realise the full potential of an architect’s skill set.

To mark the 10th anniversary of LÍNEA 1, in partnership with Lima Cómo Vamos, a nationwide call is open for citizens to submit initiatives, practices, and projects.

Transformation of the space, once intended for military infrastructure, into a public multifunctional city park has multiple significance for the future development of Banja Luka.

Brief

"A Thicket and a Palm at a Street" is an installation conceived in collaboration with the Berlin-based practice Something Fantastic that proposes pausing to consider what already exists. Through a specific framing, the work transforms a familiar landscape into something strange, inviting us to reflect on how we relate to the environment we inhabit.

Norwich University is proud to announce the 2021 High School Architecture Design Competition: Pocket Place

Palabras y Trazos brings together architects from different generations whose projects highlight an interest in architecture as a city-shaping element that integrates urban, environmental, heritage, and identity values.

SUMMARY
Our world is changing fast, while ambitions and challenges match in importance. In this context, design can play a huge role. How do we imagine the world to be? What range of possibilities we haven’t discovered yet? What’s a Non Architecture for a World in crisis? In 2020 we started the second phase of competitions to address the issues of tomorrow.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2021
Voting Opens: January 5, 2022
Voting Closes: January 31, 2022
Event Participants Announced: February 3, 2022

“The Limits of the Possible” is the title of a lecture in which prominent Mexican sculptor José Dávila will discuss his work and processes, as part of the “Architecture of Selection” series organized by the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae.

Living Without a Bathroom: Módulo Sanitario and a Multidimensional Need for 6 Million Argentines

This book emerged from the first Buenos Aires Publica open call, promoted by the Fundación Tejido Urbano in 2019, and was one of the two inaugural prize winners. The publication is a reworking of the research conducted by the author for their doctoral thesis. The publication’s central argument is that the city of Buenos Aires is the product of deliberate decisions rather than spontaneous growth. In a comprehensive and methodological narrative, the author compiles decades of urban planning decisions embedded in the city, accompanied by a central color section that investigates and reinterprets the most significant maps and plans in the development of our metropolis. It offers an interesting and necessary reflection on the construction of the city through political and state-led actions.

This book is a study of the relationship between architecture and painting through the work of Francisco Méndez Labbé, a pioneer of non-figurative abstract art in Chile and co-founder of the Institute of Architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Méndez Labbé transitioned to painting after training as an architect, at a time when the arts and architecture in Chile were navigating a complex period of integration into the modern art debate.