Fundación Tejido Urbano, a research space focused on urban habitat issues that aims to combat housing problems in the city and raise social awareness, has launched its second open call for research on urbanism, housing, and new forms of habitat in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA).
Temperature, lighting, air quality or noise development: MyData Analysis from Regent Lighting measures the framework conditions that influence whether employees feel comfortable in office spaces. Image Courtesy of Regent Lighting
With MyData Analysis, Regent Lighting provides a smart technological solution that saves costs, increases efficiency and simplifies workflows – confirmed by its successful application in one of Europe's largest smart building projects.
We would like to invite you to our second event in collaboration with The Developer UK, a publication for enlightened real estate developers working in the private and public sector along with their investors, local government, architects, placemakers and project teams.
As an evening program to the Wiki Women Design symposium "Women, Design and Heritage", taking place on September 23, the Flanders Architecture Institute is organizing a debate evening on the same day in collaboration with MAD Home of Creators in Brussels. For this occasion, architects and researchers are invited to debate the role of women in contemporary architectural practice.
Material Responsibility discusses issues of contemporary material fabrication in context to social, environmental, and construction related challenges. Researchers, designers, and builders assume the mantle of responsibility to address inherited legacies in everyday practices. This event tries to unravel not only assumptions about what and how we build, but also looks to question why, to situate our motivations and impact. In moving away from practices that simply justifies the present moment, the discussion on Material Responsibility aims to identify where our responsibilities lie in the complex global systems and networks that make up our contemporary practice.
An online event in memory of our founder, late Indian architect and urbanist Charles Correa. The event will consist of the award ceremony for the Charles Correa Gold Medal and the international release of Rahul Mehrotra’s new book ‘The Kinetic City and Other Essays’.
A wall at Auckland’s MediaWorks, composed of Autex Acoustics’ Cube panels that are cut and reassembled in careful compositions to make an irregular, sculptural surface, representing discordant noise. Image Courtesy of Autex Acoustics
Autex Acoustics’ intelligent, sustainable solutions not only integrate into different architectural contexts, they also contribute to greater well-being and performance in working environments.
Seminar on wooden heritage architecture co-organized by Patrimonio Sur and CIPYCS, uniting the north, center, and south through wood.
The significance of wood throughout Chile's architectural history, and how this has been reflected in the buildings and neighborhoods constructed with this material, will be among the topics covered at the Heritage Wood Architecture Seminar in Chile.
Organized by Patrimonio Sur and CIPYCS, the goal of this Heritage in Wood week is to promote this type of architecture and educate the community on the importance of preserving and conserving our heritage.
"The City Inside the House" is a collection of essays by various authors written during the 9th edition of the URBANBATfest architecture, urbanism, and social innovation festival. The experience of lockdown—spending so much time in our homes—has forced us to focus on the domestic sphere, a concept that has gained particular relevance in current reflections, research, projects, and public policy.
Designed in 1949, String Furniture has adapted over the years to different uses across different rooms, and different phases of life. A choice of materials allows it to fit with any environment. Image Courtesy of String Furniture
When it comes to creating timeless furniture, there's a lot to learn from modern classics like the String furniture system.
The theme will be "BIM from North to South"—the 3rd edition of the CREA-SC BIM Congress will be held in Florianópolis on November 10 and 11. The event is open to professionals nationwide working in public and private companies, software development, engineering, architecture, and other fields related to construction and design.
Bavarian wood furniture expert Zeitraum’s Curtain table marks a departure from classic table archetypes, while also embracing the company’s trademark commitment to sustainability.
This open class will bring together creative entrepreneurs and beginners looking to express their ideas and projects through techniques in narrative, assertiveness, empathy, and persuasion.
Architectural discourse is often based on what is revealed in and by architecture, while this event draws attention to that which conversely can be hidden, concealed, omitted through architecture.
Architectures of Hiding considers apparatuses, modes, temporalities, motives, and materialities in the crafting of architecture—whether for the deployment of coercive power, exclusion, erasure, or as techniques of imagination, resistance, safety, or agency.
image description: Building Natural Connections - How can we leverage the interdependence of nature, society and economy to provide solutions for a sustainable built environment?
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Future Spaces Foundation BUILDING NATURAL CONNECTIONS webinar series
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Modulo’s horizontal pendants, seen here in satin bronze, can be grouped to create a one-off sculptural arrangement to fit a specific space. Image Courtesy of CTO Lighting
For CTO Lighting’s new Modulo collection, designer Federico Peri found inspiration in a childhood memory to create a luminaire family that is contemporary and timeless, all at once.