PANEL DISCUSSION – BALANCING NATURE AND SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Tuesday 22 June 2021
1630 hrs BST
online via Zoom

Lecture series (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM) organized by faculty and students of the "Architecture and Education" group from the Stricto Sensu Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at São Judas Tadeu University (PGAUR/USJT).

In these times of change, the AOA proposes an optimistic approach to the challenges facing cities and their citizens in both local and global contexts. We aim to highlight existing opportunities for positive change during and after crises, fostering more resilient cities in both the immediate and long term.

On June 17 at 5:00 p.m., join us for a discussion on Urban Design, Culture, and Habitat—core topics of the Undergraduate Program in Urban Design and Habitat Management. The event will feature distinguished guests: Alejandro Echeverri, Natalia Castaño, Jean Pierre Crousse, and Teddy Cruz.

There are no two ways about it—life is better by the beach. The smell of salty sea breeze, the sound of crashing waves, and the feeling of release that encircles coastal living are altogether mesmeric. This lifestyle of respite also transcends into local architecture and interior design through the use of traditional techniques, natural materials, and eclectic decor. From humble beach cottages to breathtaking cliff-top perches, Life’s a Beach takes readers into remarkable coastal dwellings around the world—each one characterized by its particular location, climate, and culture. Whether it’s the Anglo-American charm of classy East Coast beach houses, offering both a sense of spaciousness and intimate hideaways for cocooning, the bright white walls and pale wood flooring of Scandinavian seaside homes, the Mediterranean approach to interiors that mixes stark reduction and a deep understanding of the materials used, South East Asia’s beach abodes that celebrate centuries-old craftsmanship, or Latin America’s ‘tropical brutalism’: the homes featured here have found new and inventive ways to interpret classic design vernaculars.
What unites and also differentiates them is a commitment to reflecting their owners’ individual personalities and lifestyles. Each is a canvas for creative expression which seeks to avoid seaside decorating cliches and aims instead to reflect and preserve meaningful stories about its local surroundings and the permanent community that lives there.

PANEL DISCUSSION AND EXHIBITION PREVIEW
Wednesday 16 June 2021 at 17.00 (BST)

Videos

"The Next" is the theme of the fifth Redes IAAC session, which will be held as an open, online event broadcast via streaming.

The City of Cataguases, through the State Government, opened registration on May 24 for the Public Architectural Competition for the city's entrance portal on Avenida Nicolau Siervi.

A virtual event featuring 5 fast-paced presentations with artists, designers and architects exploring the ways in which queer spaces are shaped.

From nightclubs to villages, bookstores to community centres, the 2SLGBTQ+ community has found safety, community and belonging in numerous visible and invisible spaces. These queer spaces have been a life saving haven for many, making room for a historically marginalized community.

Venezuelan architects from different latitudes have surprisingly joined together with their allies in the world, through an educational platform that seeks to "build and not simulate reality with an eye on the peripheral globe."
The program is open to students of all levels and from anywhere on the planet, who will have the opportunity to train in local projects, exploring the peripheries as part of a fresh and challenging context where new spaces of architecture open up.
The 2021-2022 cycle will jumpstart through a Virtual Community format, which offers academic credits adaptable to different university systems: a trimester, a summer school, an internship experience, a research project, or a work of scientific accreditation for studies of postgraduate. This is followed by an experimental laboratory in Central America where students will come into contact with sensitive projects in fertile communities and territories. And finally, it will culminate in the implementation of a project built in a community of Caracas, Venezuela.
The program has the support of the Global Research Program on Inequality, different universities and institutions in Latin America and the world, and high-profile professionals experts in architecture, urban planning, anthropology, sociology, engineering, and sustainability, who will guide the processes of the network, facing complex situations immersed in the fabric of the city, and will certify the knowledge applied by Dislocal.
First Stage
Virtual Community / August - December 2021
16 weeks >> 5 blocks >> 5 topics on urban regeneration and sustainability >>
Block 1. Resilience, urban regeneration, and habitat transformation for emerging landscapes.
Block 2. Ecology, resource management, nature, and energy optimization in the tropics.
Block 3. Technological implementation, systems, and efficient endogenous structures.
Block 4. Local skills, capacity development, and self-sufficiency in popular settlements.
Block 5. Experiments in the global periphery. Scalable intelligences for the prototyping of sustainable structures in Caracas.

THOUGHT AND PRACTICE: The National Congress of Peruvian Architecture is held as part of the "Road to BIALIMA," the pre-biennial event for the Lima International Architecture Biennial (BIALIMA 2021), organized by the CAP Regional Lima.

Designregio Kortrijk is looking for 3 highly motivated and recently graduated designer-makers or creative artists to join in a regional residency program in Kortrijk, Belgium.
The Designers in Residence Kortrijk program is a 3-month full time working residency from October 2021 to January 2022.

The Busan Arhcitecture Festival, which began in 2001, is an open organisation looking at the potential future direction of Busan Metropolitan City and works together with architects and citizens in Busan.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia announces a new Scholarship Competition for the next edition of our online Master in Advanced Computation for Architecture and Design (MaCAD) giving our master’s applicants the chance to win three partial scholarships covering 20% of the tuition fee.

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EASA will take place from 1st to 15th August in Kragujevac, Serbia, on the territory of the abandoned military-industrial complex The Prince's Arsenal, under the theme of Reality. We hereby invite all potential tutors to register with their workshop. The workshop registration deadline is Tuesday, June 22nd at 23:59h (GMT+2).

En 2019 la première session du prix de Genève était lancée, grâce à l’importante donation de l’architecte Daniel Grataloup. Trois ans plus tard, nous sommes fiers de vous dévoiler la seconde édition de ce concours international, qui a été lancée le 15 Mars dernier.
Ce nouveau prix veut distinguer des réalisations, projets en cours et travaux de recherches qui dépassent le cadre classique de l’architecture.

The missile base located above the city of Bratislava on the top of Devínska Kobyla is today an unused and dilapidated memory of history. Concrete silos, bunkers and barracks built in the 1980s attract only a few contemporary witnesses, curious people and passing tourists. The buildings are in poor technical condition and, in many cases, movement in their vicinity is dangerous. In such locality which oozes history and is also surrounded by beautiful countryside, we see the potential for its improvement.