This book The Architecture of Point William. A Laboratory for Living shares Shim-Sutcliffe’s significant work at Point William intertwines landscape and architecture with ancient rock and water reshaping and reimagining a site on the Canadian Shield for over two decades. The project is a laboratory for experimentation at many scales of design including the landscape, built form, furniture, lighting and hardware shared in this book through sketches, model photos and photographs. Kenneth Frampton provides an insightful introduction with his own selected sketches framing a way of seeing Point William for the reader. Michael Webb’s provocative interview with Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe describes the evolution of the site. Immersive spaces have been captured by three remarkable photographers Ed Burtynsky, James Dow and Scott Norsworthy.
Open Call | Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations
Sophia is currently accepting the submission of articles for consideration, following the external Peer Review process as per described on the Editorial Policies section. All articles submitted should address the topic for the upcoming issue and be written in accord to the Author Guidelines.
Issue #6: "Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations" Call deadline: February 28, 2021 Expected publication date: December 2021 Expected International Conference: May 2021
The Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design is pleased to announce that the 2020-21 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design is Douglas Cardinal, OC, FRAIC, a renowned Canadian architect known both for his inspiring designs and for his advocacy for the rights and dignity of Indigenous peoples. Cardinal will lead a series of public events including lectures and conversations in collaboration with the Daniels Faculty, throughout his appointment as Gehry Chair.
On the 4th of August 2020, a massive explosion hit the heart of the city of Beirut. The Epicenter of this explosion was the main port surrounded by the historic center of the city. This scar left more than 300,000 people without a home, and destroyed hundreds of historical buildings. The area was also known to be an attraction to a majority of the Lebanese youth, an Art and Cultural Hub standing side to side with a Nightlife and culinary center. The area affected was part of a collective memory of generations and generations evolving organically with the passing years. It was a perfect example of how a historic area can intuitively evolve and keep up with the times without losing its features.
Contracting Entity: United Nations Office for Project Services - UNOPS Method: National Public Tender - RFP No. 17880/2020 Funding Source: International Technical Cooperation Project BRA/14/2020
Objective: Contracting a specialized and qualified firm to conduct geotechnical studies, planimetric and cadastral surveys, and to develop reference executive architectural and engineering designs for a male socio-educational detention facility in the municipality of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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VinFast Global Showroom Design Competition to receive work submitted until 25/2/2021
On January 25th 2021, Vietnam Design Association – Ho Chi Minh City (VDAS) officially announced the "VinFast Global Showroom Design Competition 2021" (VFDC 2021) to find the most outstanding design idea that will be deployed for VinFast smart vehicle brand's showrooms globally. VFDC 2021 offers designers the opportunity to showcase their talents to the prestigious jury board from leading international architectural organizations and win prizes valuing a total of more than USD 60,000.
What Design Can Do is calling on designers and creatives around the world to join the No Waste Challenge, our third Climate Action Challenge in partnership with the IKEA Foundation.
INTRODUCTION The bauhaus design style is a 2021 design and writing competition organized by artuminate. Bauhaus is a design movement that began in 1919, geometric and abstract featuring little emotion with no inclination towards history. It is an arts and crafts movement emphasizing on function. Artuminate is looking for a conceptual design and write-up submission on the design style of Bauhaus. • Create a Mood Board that explains your take on the bauhaus design style. • A write-up / basic understanding of the bauhaus design style with an interesting title. • A conceptual design development based on the write-up and the mood board.
The Selser Schaefer Architects’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Scholarship Program was created to support and mentor students from historically underrepresented demographics in architecture and interior design.
Raffles Milano, one of the most exclusive fashion and design schools in the world, located in the center of Milan, is awarding 30 scholarships up to 50% of tuition fee for Master courses in Fashion Design and Business, Photography, Visual Design and Communication, Product and Interior Design starting in November 2021.
The Félix Candela Award is an international architecture ideas competition conducted in Spanish that takes place in two phases. Organized annually by the Instituto Español de Arquitectura (IESARQ), it is open to students of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and design, as well as architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and designers up to 35 years of age, participating individually or in teams of two to three members.
Silk Matters organization is pleased to announce the first Architecture Affiliate Awards 2021. This award aims to promote the affiliated career opportunities for architects who want to do more than architecture, and recognize the many talents architects acquire through the course of becoming one.
Organized by the research platform Justicia Espacial, the studio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman shares its experience with Participatory Action Research (PAR) processes within their architectural and political practice in San Diego.
Archstorming is launching a new competition seeking designs for future schools for the NGO Abay Ethiopia, an organization founded in Spain in 2009 that operates in Walmara, Ethiopia, with the goal of fighting poverty and promoting equal opportunity, primarily through the development of education, health, and community support projects.
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.
