Avani Annual Research Symposium 2021
Advisor: Ar. Bijoy Ramachandran
Convenors: Ar. Meenakshi Dubey, Ar. Sebastian Joseph, Dr. Soumini R, and Ar. Thushara K

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The new Archstorming competition takes us to Bamako, Mali. The goal is to design and build a new urban school for Enko Education, a rapidly growing network of international African schools that provides affordable, quality education to give African youth access to the world's top universities.

Now in its third edition, SEPPAS will take place from December 1 to 4, 2021. The event will be held entirely online, featuring lectures and debates with professors, researchers, academics, renowned professionals, and members of the public across various fields of expertise. The event is organized by the Graduate Program in Project and City at the Faculty of Visual Arts of the Federal University of Goiás, with support from the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (Argentina), the Grupal.UFCG research group, and Revista Jatobá.

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Dimension is relative. When an object is stripped of its scale, the importance of its size fades. An unprejudiced look at a scaleless object reveals new scopes and possibilities contained within it.

Roundtable discussion with Igor de Vetyemy, architect, urban planner, and President of IAB-RJ, regarding the film he directed about architect Marcos Konder Netto.

The Nordic Neighbourhood Thinking Camp is a Nordic arena to share experiences, reflections and ideas about neighborhood development and strategic urbanism.

Combining presentations from acclaimed Nordic urban practitioners and thinkers, focused workshops, symposiums and social gatherings, the camp goes beyond the celebratory pitches. The ambition is to help foster ideas and bring forward practices that make a difference in terms of social and environmental sustainability.

Future Airports re-examines the relationship between the growth of capital and the history of New York City real estate by speculating that airports play a role in the city’s financial success. What is the typology of a successful airport for the 21st Century? What role does the airport play in the context of rapid globalization and ever-expanding International logistics networks? Can the Airport become a regional economic catalyst while also creating an inspiring and novel experience for passengers? The Future Airport becomes an important infrastructural space intricately weaving New York City’s desire to maintain its leadership in global financial markets with the imminent need of improved air infrastructure and the emergence of the logistics hub as an important and growing building typology.

Homelessness is one of the monsters that haunts our society. Thousands of people are trying to address the challenge but fail to come up with a solution. Valley View Senior Housing, built in 2019 in Napa County, CA, is a VERY affordable community of 70 cottages. This groundbreaking homeless project was organized by American Canyon’s city government, for older homeless people and homeless veterans of the area. This solution-oriented book shares the inspiring story of a compassionate & humane project. Imagine if every city could do one community like this and we can begin to make headway to solve the homeless problem. Every city can do this! And from this we can grow to do even more.

The pedagogical experiments of the Bauhaus, imported by Gropius, Mies, Hilberseimer and others to the US system, challenged traditional Beaux-Arts thinking and played a crucial role in shaping modern architectural education. Historically, the German architectural training has been different from the Franco-Italian model. New interdisciplinary and technology-focused modes of teaching architecture and design had a long-lasting impact, however, are now again transformed by German-trained educators currently active in reshaping curricula. The conversations reveal the critical and independent thinking of this group of educators, and how they make a meaningful contribution to the discourse of architectural education appropriate to the 21st century. The book provides insight into the ways in which these German-born educators influence architectural and design education in the United States to this day.

Applications for the Escola da Cidade lato sensu postgraduate program are open until August 13, 2021. Established over 10 years ago, the program consists of seven courses and is structured around two central pillars: practice and design, both understood as research and strategies for engaging with space across its multiple scales. The program’s overarching theme, "Civilization America: A Look Through Architecture," seeks to understand and address the historical, geographical, territorial, and social conditions that define us. With this perspective, the postgraduate courses at Escola da Cidade aim to connect professionals working in architecture, urbanism, and related fields with research and critical reflection applied to design and teaching.

The book focusses initially on the philosophical, artistic, and scientific forces that impacted on the humanist of the late Medieval and Renaissance period, profuse in the exchange of ideas and discovery. Behind much of which was the impact of Dante’s Divine Comedy with a message which continues to reverberate through the centuries. What has also persisted is the perpetual tension between science, religion, and design because of their perceived contradictions. The book explores how we might gain inspiration and motivation to embrace a consistent artistry and sense of exploration in the face of an ever-expanding knowledge-based frontier.

For the fourth time, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale presents the Début Award to an architect or a practice in order to celebrate their achievements and stimulate their career.

Our Voices II: the DE-colonial Project will showcase decolonizing projects which work to destable and disquiet colonial built environments. The land, towns, and cities on which we live have always been Indigenous places yet, for the most part our Indigenous value sets and identities have been disregarded or appropriated. Indigenous people continue to be gentrified out of the places to which they belong and neo‐liberal systems work to continuously subjugate Indigenous involvement in decision‐making processes in subtle, but potent ways. However, we are not, and have never been cultural dopes. Rather, we have, and continue to subvert the colonial value sets that overlay our places in important ways.

12 Projects in 120 Constraints reviews a set of Plan: b projects in Colombia through the environmental, social, and voluntary constraints the projects faced, and the interim agreements built around them. The book details a reconstruction of these buildings' central facts through an "inverse" exercise — explaining each project based on contextual constraints rather than singular architectural ideas. As a prelude to the projects, the book examines other authors' work and how they understand the limitations and difficulties that are part of their creative activity. This revision generates a broad reflective base to approach the architectural projects and the predominant role that restrictions have played in them.

On July 6 at 7:00 PM, the book "Brasil de dentro – Heartland Brazil" by photographer Elaine Eiger will be launched. The event will feature a discussion with the author and guests Adélia Borges, José Marconi Bezerra de Souza, and Fernando Serapião.

MOVYT has created a tool to support, among other things, the design of Mobility Plans that municipalities must implement under the new Public Space Contribution Law. The launch will take place on Thursday, July 8, at 10:00 AM via our digital platforms, where participants will be able to download the cards for free.

Terra. It’s the 6th edition of the Triennale for 2022.
It will take place between October and December 2022, chief-curated by Cristina Veríssimo and Diogo Burnay. “Terra explores how new paradigms are changing our ways of place-making in a globalised Planet. Terra addresses how climate cha(lle)nges, pressure on resources and socioeconomic and environmental inequities are profoundly intertwined”.

The 2021 Summer School will focus on water and public spaces in urban areas.