There’s a bright world just beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, and Waterfront Toronto, the organization tasked with revitalizing the city’s waterfront, is working to deliver on that future with its vision for the Quayside Project—a 12-acre mixed-use development poised to transform the industrial lands at the foot of Parliament Street.
The Universidad Intercontinental (UIC) celebrates the 20th anniversary of its Academic Competition for Schools of Architecture, a contest open to sixth-semester students from any university. This year's conceptual theme, "Voids that complete the city," seeks to address environmental challenges such as the indiscriminate use of automobiles—and the resulting increase in public parking—the exploitation of existing resources, food supply, and the lack of responsible water harvesting and management.
The need for developing 3D digital environments has grown significantly following the pandemic and the imminent digitization of many processes previously conducted in person, transforming how we interact with objects, spaces, and people. This course provides the foundations for building 3D spaces using the Unity platform. Participants will learn how to sketch, conceptualize, and execute ideas within this medium, while also understanding the creative and logistical logic involved in creating these spaces. We will progress from basic concepts to intermediate and advanced levels of production. You will create your own space featuring advanced graphics. You will learn to generate and texture terrain, apply lighting, and import your own creations into your project. Furthermore, the course is designed to encourage creative practice. We will create first-person executable projects ready for web deployment, while also exploring the optimal conditions for hosting them online. We will build basic menus and learn to utilize and optimize free assets to develop more complex, feature-rich projects. Additionally, each project will be reviewed to address individual needs, ensuring your ideas are successfully translated to the screen and the web.
This Thursday marks the conclusion of the discussion series dedicated to integrating architecture into the public investment value chain. This session will explore the current landscape of public competitions across Latin America and examine potential collaborations between the public and private sectors.
Organized by the research platform Justicia Espacial, this upcoming discussion features the team from AGA Estudio, Caracas, and their experience in programming for social impact projects.
Believing in the importance of supporting knowledge and policy production in the field of design and architecture, the Istanbul Design Biennial hosts a research programme titled Designing Resilience, in partnership with the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research. The programme aims to work collaboratively with a selection of four women designers, curators, researchers, thinkers (two from Turkey and two from the US) who are actively investigating geopolitics to build new tools and systems for social, economic and mostly environmental resilience.
“Designing with People” Online Conferences on 16th and 23rd of March 2021
UCTEA Chamber of Architects of Turkey is organizing a series of online conferences called “Designing with People”. With the support of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture program, in these conferences, valuable laureates of the program will be giving lectures talking about their approach in architecture and/or urban planning, their ethical and design approach, and their ideas and development of participation processes. Moderated by Prof. Dr. Deniz İncedayı, President of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey, Prof. Dr. Jana Revedin, Founding President of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, and Marie-Helene Contal, Director of the Department of Cultural Development, Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine will be giving introductory speeches about the award program which started in 2006, and continues under the patronage of UNESCO. The award program recognizes five architects who share both the principles of sustainable development and a participatory architectural approach to the needs of society, in both the northern and the southern hemispheres.
Boredom is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Endured by everyone, it is both cause and effect of modernity, and of situations, spaces and surroundings. As such, this book argues, boredom shares an intimate relationship with architecture — one that has been seldom explored in architectural history and theory.
This lecture is designed for architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and climate activists. It focuses specifically on the public urban landscape and the importance of making cities "climate-ready." With over 40 years of experience, Martha Schwartz and her firm have completed projects worldwide, ranging from site-specific art installations to public spaces, parks, master planning, and land reclamation. Schwartz is now dedicated to strategic landscape planning and land use, helping leaders prepare for the climate change impacts their cities will face in the near future. This is undoubtedly a lecture you won't want to miss.
On Tuesday, March 23, at 6:30 PM, the launch of ARQDocs: Teodoro Fernández will be held via the UC School of Architecture's Facebook Live. The event will feature Valentina Rozas Krause, researcher and PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and Rafael Zamora, architect and founding partner of the Llonazamora studio in Lima, Peru. Additionally, the event will include commentary from architects and researchers Daniel Talesnik and Marés Sandor.
2020 Edition Winner: Steampunk Installation by SoomeenHahm Design Ltd. Igor Pantic Fologram. Image Courtesy of German Design Council
Today marks the start of the registration phase for the international ICONIC AWARDS 2021: Innovative Architecture. The awards recognise the best achievements in architecture, innovative interior and product design, as well as outstanding communication concepts and singularly innovative materials. The winners will be honoured at the awards ceremony on 11 October 2021 at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, where they will have ample opportunity to network with other players on both the national and international scene.