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,
BRRUM (SE).
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.
YAC - Young Architects Competitions - launches ARCTIC HOTEL, a competition of ideas for the design of accommodation facilities combining hospitality and unspoilt nature and offering a unique experience for the observation of the Aurora Borealis.
Projections, the biennial peer-reviewed Journal of the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, is now accepting abstracts for Projections 16, "Measuring the City: The Power of Urban Metrics", to be published Fall 2022. Projections 16's doctoral editors are MIT PhD candidates Chaewon Ahn, Carmelo Ignaccolo and Arianna Salazar Miranda.
Passion and boldness are the key words of the 11th International Architecture Competition of the Jacques Rougerie Foundation - Institut de France.
OPENCALL 2021
Course Details
The Master in Design for Emergent Futures is for students who want to expand their focus interests and acquire the skills to turn protests into prototypes, ideas into actions, and who are engaged in the mission of transforming the current status of affairs in society. The programme aims to provide strategic vision and tools for designers, sociologists, economists and computer scientists, to become agents of change in multiple professional environments and focuses in the design of interventions in the form of products, platforms and deployments that aim to produce new emergent futures, by previously analysing the current challenges in society and industry. The Master in Design for Emergent Futures is organised by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, in collaboration with the Fab Academy.