The Minergie basic course offers the opportunity to understand the building as an interdisciplinary project and to navigate the comprehensive certification process, from planning through execution to building operation.

What is the significance of certain monuments to our cities? Can we measure our memories or qualify their meanings in how we view the world? I believe every city or place holds something that leaves a mark on us, representing our identity or our journey. When we are far away, visualizing these places makes us feel comforted, welcomed, and, in a sense, at home.

The PROJETO + PROCESSO series will feature prominent figures in national and international architecture to present one of their projects, introducing their methodologies from initial studies and sketches to client presentations and their active involvement in the process. The series will explore the references used in the project and the relationships with the surroundings, the city, and the environment.

The 2021 Archipacker Collection calendars were created to fuel the desire to travel in an ideal, pandemic-free year, while also providing knowledge through new and historic architecture from around the globe.

Practical and minimalist, they are perfect for decorating homes and offices, as gifts for yourself, colleagues, clients, or friends—whether they are architects or backpackers—or simply for anyone who appreciates good taste and design. The collection features 13 projects in 13 different countries: each month offers a new inspiration and a new story immortalized by the photographs of architect Frederico M. Montanha (@fredemontanha).

The competition aims to design a "Women's House" through symbolic, ecological architecture inspired by local traditions. It is envisioned as a space where associations and various elements of society can meet and discuss issues on equal terms and human rights, thereby fostering the involvement and emancipation of the women's community in support of the territory's social, economic, and political development. Gender equality is not merely a fundamental human right; it is a necessary condition for a prosperous world.

The postgraduate program in "Parametric Design in Architecture" aims to foster the development of technical skills and cognitive strategies, enabling students to create design methods using programming languages.

The writings of historian Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994) have had a significant impact on critical theory in Latin America. His theses on contemporary architecture were interpreted across the continent in various ways and at different times, leading to significant hubs of debate regarding the particularities of the discipline's historiography. This event presents recent studies concerning the relevance of the Italian author's work, seeking to broaden perspectives of thought within the field.

How can we consider the relationships between art, architecture, humanity, and social housing? Who is architecture intended for? Who does it actually serve? What issues permeate and, above all, affect urban life? These and other questions will be debated at the seminar Imersões: arte e arquitetura (Immersions: Art and Architecture), which will be held virtually on March 2, 3, 4, and 5, 2021, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, featuring national and international guests. The seminar will promote a critical debate on topics within the context of the 27th World Congress of Architects - UIA 2021, when Rio will receive the title of World Capital of Architecture from UNESCO.

On March 8, 2021, Simone Cadinelli Arte Contemporânea will open the exhibition "Rubble, Skins, Residue" to the public, featuring new works by artist Jeane Terra. These pieces were created using various unique techniques and processes she has developed over the past few years—including during the months of social isolation—taking as a starting point the rubble of houses in Pontal de Atafona, a beach in the northern region of Rio de Janeiro state that is being swallowed by the sea. The exhibition will occupy the entire gallery. In addition to the "dry paintings"—or "paint skins," a process she created and has since patented—and the "dry monotypes," the show will bring together sculptures, photographs, an embroidery piece, and two installations: a wall excavation and a window display facing Rua Aníbal de Mendonça in Ipanema.

Pináculo magazine is the first in Brazil dedicated to architecture students.
Its content is designed to support students in their Theory and Design courses, as well as to serve as a research reference.
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Online Launch | A Small Guide to Modernist Botany, by Ana Carolina Carmona Ribeiro

Procurement of a specialized firm for the development of executive architectural and engineering designs for a socio-educational detention facility in the municipality of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

On March 24 (Wed) at 7:00 PM, {CURA} will host its first Open Class of 2021. This time, the guest studio is Superlimão!

The Ordem dos Arquitectos proposes a dialogue regarding current challenges for a post-pandemic future, intersecting architecture, art, the city, and politics in response to the European Commission President’s call for a New European Bauhaus. The event serves as a debate on new ways of inhabiting space, grounded in the premise of sustainability.

The magazine bears the welcoming name of Engawa. It is welcoming because, as a transitional space, it suggests ideas like hospitality and invitation, or, conversely, projection and openness.

At a time when urbanization has become planetary and humanity has become a geological force capable of profoundly altering Earth's thermodynamic cycles, it is urgent to reinvent the urban way of life and rehearse other forms of coexistence between humans, animals, and plants—between cities, forests, rivers, and mountains. Furthermore, it is urgent to design, with our feet on the ground and in collaboration with the peoples and sciences of the Earth, the conditions for future habitability.

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As longtime partners, Portobello and journalist and TV host Pedro Andrade have embarked on a new project together—this time collaborating on the Horizontes line. Inspired by Andrade's five favorite destinations, the line was launched this year as part of the 2021 Unlimited Experience collection. This partnership represents another innovative step for Portobello in engaging professionals from diverse fields in its creative process, which typically invites architects and furniture or surface designers.