The Competition aspires to have a realistically feasible project that will restore vitality to the district and aims to select the best proposals of an urban and landscape project relevant to the competition zone, foreseeing the establishment of a university campus with residences, study zones and laboratories, green areas and sports areas that will go to complete the planned building of residential and commercial buildings. The objective is urban requalification of the zone that unites the ex TECUMSEH area (circa 40.000 m2) and the CASTELLO DI MIRAFIORI area (circa 30.000 m2) starting from the indications present in the “Notes about the Planning” document attached to the Competition Notice.
The Competition calls for an overall project for the entire portion of territory integrating the park and the built areas with the relevant surrounding environmental context and in general with the pre-existing buildings of the district. The project will evaluate the eventual recovery, even if only partial, of the industrial buildings within the abandoned areas for services. The graphic sheets must show in a synthetic way both the idea of urban insertion and the architectural-building features.
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The seminar “Jorge Wilheim: Faint Hope in the Vast Chaos” aims to highlight the theses on the future of cities in the 21st century—developed by Wilheim during the UN Istanbul Conference in the 1990s and expanded upon in publications in the early 2000s—and to present the architect’s thinking as an urban planner, based on his publications: “The Istanbul Path,” with its appendix “Our Fruitful End-of-the-World,” and “Faint Hope in the Vast Chaos – Questions of the 21st Century Proto-Renaissance.”

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Conceived and organized by CICOP.Net Italy (Centro Internazionale per la Conservazione del Patrimonio Architettonico), the 5th edition of the Biennial of Architectural and Urban Restoration – BRAU is scheduled for April and May 2021.

'Possible City: Architecture and City Seminar' is an event taking place as part of 'Rumbo a la BIALIMA'—a prelude to the Lima International Architecture Biennial - BIALIMA 2021.

"We had become accustomed to self-exploitation, exhaustion, competition, and perfect performance. However, a microscopic virus forced us to stop (perhaps for the better, at least in this regard). We had to learn to care for ourselves. After more than a year of the pandemic, we became aware of our vulnerability and our dependence on others... we have not only learned to care for ourselves and others, but we have also established relationships of care with 'non-human' agents: plants or pets within our homes; heritage buildings and neighborhoods in our cities; or even landscapes and ecosystems on a territorial scale.

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The Trouble in Paradise exhibition in the Polish Pavilion treats the countryside as an independent area of research and seeks within it answers to the main theme of this year’s Biennale Architettura 2021 in Venice: How will we live together?
Exhibition curators, PROLOG +1 collective, in collaboration with an international group of architects and artists, will show that in times of growing local and global crises, rural areas are an important element of building sustainable human environments.

Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal, French architects who have recently been named 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates, were appointed co-chairs of the inaugural, three-year Rothwell Chair at the Sydney School of Architecture, Design, and Planning in 2020 to explore their topic: ‘we propose to deal with contemporary urban conditions of living in the city’.

Organized by two schools of the HES⁠-⁠SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (Geneva)—HEAD, Geneva School of Art and Design and HEPIA, Geneva School of Engineering, Architecture and Landscape—Archipelago: Architectures for the Multiverse is the first edition of a digitally-anchored international event arising from a partnership between three departments—architecture, interior architecture and landscape architecture—that will be broadcast from May 6 to 8 in Geneva.

New exhibition at SPARK Malmo, Fake Fakes & Multilayered Materialities,
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Colour Memories - a new exhibition from Museum of Architecture

Tariq Dixon, co-founder of TRNK NYC, will discuss PROVENANCED, a digital exhibition that debuted in fall of 2020. PROVENANCED explores what it might mean to establish a canon of African and Indigenous-inspired design that exists outside a colonial legacy of extraction and appropriation. Dixon's lecture will look at product design and industrial design through the lens of racism and classism in terms of curation, the industrial design business, and how the industry historically has been impacted by these phenomena.

On April 28, you are invited to attend the launch of the CTeC Innovation Park, the first technology park for the construction sector. Here, companies and institutions can pilot, prototype, monitor, and validate innovations, construction solutions, materials, and new technologies under real-world, integrated conditions before they are implemented on-site.

The Institute of Architects of Brazil – São Paulo Department (IABsp) is reactivating its educational platform! In alignment with the 2020–2022 management program, particularly regarding the promotion and consolidation of a space for debating pressing issues in the education of architects and urban planners, we have undergone a complete restructuring that deepens and strengthens the democratizing spirit of our previous initiatives.

This ideas competition focuses on the challenges of preserving public works heritage, particularly regarding railway infrastructure.

Lecture by Chilean-Italian architect Renato Vivaldi Tesser, who co-founded the Taller Puertazul in Chiloé alongside National Architecture Prize winner Edward Rojas.

In times of change, the AOA proposes an optimistic approach to the challenges facing the city and its citizens within both local and global contexts. We are highlighting existing opportunities for positive change during and after crisis situations, thereby promoting more resilient cities in both the short and long term.

The Pritzker laureate Renzo Piano is recognized worldwide as one of the most
renowned architects of our time. Central elements of his aesthetics include the
playful use of natural light, the transparency of his buildings and their fine detailing. Museum buildings are among his most important construction projects.

The Latin American Steel Association (Alacero) presents the webinar "Health and Well-being in Projects and Structures - SDG 3," a virtual meeting for construction industry professionals and architecture students across Latin America interested in learning more about addressing health and well-being in architectural projects. This topic aligns with SDG 3—Good Health and Well-being—of the UN 2030 Agenda, which is the theme of the 14th Alacero Steel Architecture Competition 2021.