CANactions School, Brno University of Technology - Faculty of Architecture, the City of Warsaw, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and the Romanian Order of Architects Bucharest, are introducing a new educational post-graduate program, to embrace and establish international knowledge exchange between institutions and organizations based in post-socialist states, in order to tackle 'Alternative Models' — for Collaboration, Ownership, Governance, Polycentricity – in urban scenarios across their regions. The consideration of political, social, cultural, and historical background in these cities and regions imposes questions, problems, and challenges universal to all of these geo-locations. https://canactions.com/alternative-models
The College of Environmental Design (CED) at the University of California, Berkeley is offering a slate of introductory and advanced virtual programs for those interested in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, environmental planning, urban design and sustainable city planning.
How can we create, reinvent, and occupy city spaces? This is the mission of the Instituto A Cidade Precisa de Você, which seeks to redefine the relationship between the urban environment and the population through actions that broaden perspectives on the city, public spaces, and their cultural manifestations. The non-profit institute brings together individuals interested in promoting the coordination and activation of public spaces.
Medina, Gloria. Felix Candela in Colombia: The Santa Helena Market, Cali. BITÁCORA ARQUITECTURA Number 9, 2003. National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, p. 20.
This is an international call for consulting firms to submit expressions of interest for the development and formulation of the Special Management and Protection Plan (PEMP) for the Santa Elena Market in Santiago de Cali, Colombia. The market is the largest structure designed by Félix Candela in South America and is a designated municipal Cultural Interest Asset.
This book compiles a series of essays written between 2010 and 2020 by the Belgian architect Kersten Geers. In these texts, he writes about a diverse range of historical architects—from Bramante, Scamozzi, and Mies van der Rohe to Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, Álvaro Siza, and Robert Venturi—who serve not only as companions in his writing but also as a means to construct a theory of contemporary architecture, through which he can address the core issues that inform his own practice.
This book explores the enormous impact of medical discourse and imaging technologies on the formation, representation, and reception of 20th-century architecture, while challenging the conventional understanding of modern architecture by proposing that it was shaped by the dominant medical obsession of its time: tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the X-ray.
The RIBA has launched a competition for the design of a new mosque on a site near Preston in Lancashire on behalf of a local registered charitable trust.
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia – IAAC, wants to support the development of the field of urbanism, urban planning, and urban design by advancing technologies for the formation of the future urban environments. For this reason, IAAC and its industry collaborators offer a partial scholarship to study in IAAC’s Master in City & Technology which begins in October 2021!
IF it is an international platform for competitions that aims to connect ideas from different areas of society in order to help transform cities and make them increasingly self-sustaining, efficient and green. We are looking for innovative ideas and new ways of thinking. In a global emergency period, it is increasingly important that we think globally. IF is the space Here, you can try and experiment, everything is possible!
The MEDIA ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE - MAB20 invites students to send in their projects for the MAB Student Awards. An internationally acclaimed jury will select nominees and winners in five categories. A selection of projects will also be presented in an online exhibition to be displayed on the MAB Student Awards website. [https://studentawards.mediaarchitecture.org/mab/projects/]
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the fifth call of the Media Architecture Biennale Awards for outstanding projects at the intersection of architecture, urban design and planning, media and interaction design. The awards ceremony will take place on July 2nd, 2021 as an online live cast featuring the nominees and winners.
Design "HER PLACE" an inspirational girls’ development centre that welcomes girls from Nepalese municipalities, spreading knowledge and support to rural areas and above all providing a safe environment for deeply vulnerable young women in need.
At Artists 4 Peace, we dedicate space to the works of people who focus their practice in peace and sustainable living. We collect works in a number of mediums including Architecture, Dance, Film/Video, Multidisciplinary, Music, Theatre, Science, Visual Arts, Written Word, and works from young artists from the age of 18 and below.
