Florenc is a neighbourhood situated about 1km to the east of Prague‘s Old Town Square. Its present character is shaped by transportation infrastructure including a bus terminal, a train station and the metropolitan arterial road, at the same time it is the largest brownfield in Prague‘s centre.
For the new edition of the AUDITORIUM lecture series, Stad en Architectuur vzw is looking for a curator/curators who can create a programme centered on this edition's topic “SLOW SPACE”. AUDITORIUM 21/2 will run from October 2021 to May 2022. Stad en Architectuur vzw is inviting interested candidate curators to apply.
“Quarantine Pod” How to live with Pandemics Forming a pod means total honesty on each family's part to take care of each other, considering the infected and the healthy in the family. “It’s almost like an algorithm of adding space and time and preventing something from encountering us.” It is the safety buffer inside homes after pandemics. This pod design aims to achieve comfort for both sides, keeping the family connected, in addition to the main purpose of infection prevention. Ensuring an appropriate setting and adequate provisions
A group of experts will discuss heritage preservation and its future, focusing on the bill currently under debate in Chile to amend Law No. 17.288. The talk, titled "Heritage Management: Resilient Past/Sustainable Future," is hosted by the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Universidad Finis Terrae and will take place on Tuesday, March 30, at 6:00 PM via Zoom.
Toy - metal and agate cauldron, Inah Meirelles Faria Guimarães Collection. Photo: José Rosael/Hélio Nobre/Museu Paulista.
This theme will be addressed in five meetings throughout this semester, aimed at the production and improvement of entries in the digital encyclopedia. With the presence of researchers from the Museum, the edit-a-thons will feature discussions on topics such as the construction of gender relations through domestic spaces and objects, as well as the historical transformations that have occurred in Brazilian domestic interiors.
Image produced by the doCACAU organization. It features a photograph of the Cais do Sertão Museum in Recife, along with event information.
Promoted by the Academic Center of the Architecture and Urbanism program at UFJF (CACAU UFJF), the doCACAU audiovisual program aims to democratize architectural education for the community, integrating cultural and social knowledge as a means of extending learning beyond the university walls. The program includes internal initiatives focused on audiovisual production and architectural dialogues, which are also published on the Academic Center's media channels.
2nd Colloquium: Women, City, and Architecture during the Pandemic
The 2nd Colloquium: Women, City, and Architecture in the Pandemic will take place from March 26 to 27, 2021. Due to the pandemic, it will be a virtual event; however, it maintains the tradition of involving various groups in its organization, a practice initiated by Lab20 PPGAU-UFBA in 2019. This edition is organized by Amar.é.lina, the Observatory of Feminist Studies in Architecture and Urbanism at PPG FAU UnB, making Brasília the host city for this edition.
SPACE10 – The Ideal City – p.68 – Photo by Iwan Baan – gestalten 2021
Join us for a discussion with architects Alfredo Brillembourg (Urban-Think Tank) and Yasmeen Lari about making better cities accessible to the many people, to celebrate the worldwide release of our new book with gestalten, The Ideal City.
Berlin boasts a unique concentration of noteworthy buildings from the 1980s, and more than 30 years later they deserve a review. The colourful diversity of this architectural vocabulary challenged previous ideas of living in the modern world.
Radical Architecture of the Future, Courtesy Phaidon
Radical Architecture of the Future (Phaidon, 2020) is an important and fascinating collection of original projects by unique thinkers in the world of architecture and spatial design.
With an architecture that focuses on social transformation and community building, Giancarlo Mazzanti has established himself as one of the leading Colombian architects today. He will discuss his work and architectural vision in the lecture "Six Strategies for a More Participatory Architecture" this coming Friday, March 26, at 12:00 PM (Chile time). This event will mark the start of the academic year at the Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture. The lecture is free and open to the public and will be held via Zoom.
As part of ‘Del territorio al Detalle’, a space for academic dialogue and reflection that brings together architecture professors, students, and renowned architects, the spin-off "Del territorio al detalle .re" explores the thesis that a territory's richness stems from its capacity for renewal. Through informal conversations with relevant figures, the series examines how activating disused spaces can transform them into both challenges and resources.
Now recall the last time you meet a client. Preparing a whole bunch of presentation materials including renderings, diagrams, floor plans, elevation plans and section plans is simply not enough. The hard part starts when the client got stuck with one or two renderings and simply wouldn’t let go.
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.