Where is public housing in the Basque Country (Spain) headed? Do the built dwellings align with the needs of contemporary society? How can it be improved? How has it evolved over the last few decades? These questions, and many others, will likely arise during the roundtable discussion organized for Thursday, May 17, at the Bizkaia Aretoa. The event is part of the ‘Housing the Basque Country’ exhibition program, promoted by the Basque Government's Department of Environment, Territorial Planning, and Housing.

Art and Technology: Great Allies, with Edson Pavoni – artistic sensitivity as an ally in creating companies and projects that touch, transform, and help people find meaning in the world around them. How can art and technology, combined with emotion, change our environment?

The IAB-MG Urban Kindness Award was conceived, developed, and launched by the Minas Gerais Department of the Institute of Architects of Brazil 24 years ago, in 1993. Since then, its objective has been to encourage diverse initiatives from both individuals and legal entities that contribute to improving the quality of urban life. The core idea is to reward and value the small acts and attitudes of citizens that help make city life better every day. Urban Kindness refers to attitudes, gestures, and interventions that foster a new perspective on the city, promoting the preservation of its cultural and natural heritage and expanding the concept of citizenship.

To celebrate its 7th anniversary, the publisher and publication AMAG is offering a 50% promotional discount to all its subscribers on the online purchase of the AAICO FULL TICKET, which grants access to a workshop, attendance at all conferences, the AAICO kit, and a choice of one issue of AMAG magazine.

“Those who fear the people have forgotten that they are the people, too. Or they have never felt like the people.” — Criolo

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For the fourth time in Cataguases, the Congress of Architecture, Tourism, and Sustainability (CATS) will bring together hundreds of professionals, students, researchers, and the general public to discuss the preservation of historical heritage. The congress will take place from September 27 to 30, 2018. Registration opens on August 30, 2018.

Francisco Nogueira will open the exhibition "Man Made" at the Art Room in Lisbon next Thursday, June 21, from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM.

Call for Submissions: Cadernos de Pesquisa Journal, Escola da Cidade #6

On Friday, March 2nd, the 2nd edition of "Enquanto Alunos," hosted by Seu Acervo, will feature the winners of the "Trabalho 2017" open call.

First RENAV (National Network of Volunteer Architects) Training Session: “Basic Concepts, Stages, and Tools for Emergency Management in Chile.”

Casa Tegra, a space located at 1009 Rua Oscar Freire and inaugurated by the developer Tegra, will host Benedito Abbud this coming Saturday, September 22, at 10:00 AM. Abbud will speak on the importance of greenery in cities.

Founded in 2016 by three architecture and urbanism students—Matheus Pereira, Ellen Corrêa, and Yasmim Amorim—driven by a desire to analyze urban space and engage in a deeper discussion about São Paulo's architecture and its layers, the project was born from a desire to inspire architecture and urbanism students, as well as those interested in the field, to develop a new perception of space through the observation of the city and the places we inhabit daily, which often go unnoticed despite their significance.

The graduate program at Escola da Cidade, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2018, currently offers four regular courses: ‘Housing and City,’ ‘Geography, City and Architecture,’ ‘Architecture, Education and Society,’ and ‘Mobility – Its Logics and Scales.’ In 2019, the program will expand to include the course ‘Conceiving and Constructing: Lightweight Structures and Prefabrication.’

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Held as part of ITESO's 60th-anniversary celebrations, this international congress will take place from September 5 to 7, 2018. The event serves as a forum for exchanging academic and professional expertise through a variety of specialized activities, including presentations, lectures, panel discussions, workshops, guided technical tours, and exhibitions. These sessions will showcase technological innovations and successful examples of social creativity in building resilient cities.

In a context shaped by neoliberal policies, urban design in Santiago, Chile, has been progressively limited to private, internalized spaces. Specifically, through the shopping mall model, which, rather than serving as a suburban solution, has transformed into a vehicle for developing central, pre-equipped areas. Urban shopping malls are large-scale consumption artifacts that not only aggregate a significant amount of infrastructure, programs, and services to meet daily demands, but also represent a "real" opportunity to create urban spaces with a spatial and symbolic richness unavailable elsewhere in the city. However, this complexity comes at the expense of the urban experience. Housing, understood as the center of domesticity, has lost its fundamental relationship with the city and today is merely an isolated component of urban design, the result of an undifferentiated proliferation of housing units, buildings, and blocks that serve no function other than accommodation.

The School of Architecture at Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción campus, presents the first Architecture Guide of Greater Concepción. Volume 1: The Biobío River.

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The launch of the book ART-quitectura will take place on November 20th. This is the 14th work by architect Luis Alonso, founding partner of the firm Alonso, Balaguer y Arquitectos Asociados—one of the most international and prolific Spanish architecture firms today—in which he showcases 10 of his projects developed across different countries.