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As the domain where different vectors of the current climate crisis meet and interact, and where conflicts around its regulation are emerging, the atmosphere also produces multiple localities where these transformations can be observed and understood—and sites of mediation can be imagined. Far from being understood in all of its complexity, the atmosphere continues to elude our ability to model its dynamics—or to compute future scenarios.

This year, the Energy Strategies Summit is offering both physical and virtual meeting places for the energy industry. The Energy Strategies Summit will take place in a hybrid format, which will combine the best of a traditional conference at the Order of Engineers and Architects of Beirut with a simultaneous digital conference platform. During the event, a virtual exhibition promoting energy and power projects, financial services and instruments, innovative technologies in energy, green buildings, architects, associations and institutions, will be available on a dedicated platform.
Energy Strategies Summit aims at providing all those interested with insights on possible approaches and actual projects for them to draw a better image of their future steps.

After putting his career as an architect on hold to fight the first world war between 1914 and 1918, Walter Gropius sensed the world needed a radical change, a change in which arts and architecture would play a fundamental role.

The Face of Renovation is an open international contest for development of architectural solution concepts of buildings under the program of housing stock renovation in Moscow.

Norwich University’s School of Architecture+Art launched a competition for high school students to design an outdoor classroom with thousands of scholarship dollars as prizes.

From the very beginning of its existence human being have always been involved in the process of adaptation from the consequences created by its own. Among such one of the prevailing consequence humans face at present is the space crunch. As a result of this, we have started building dwelling units stacked next to & over one another and have adapted the change of habituating on heights. But with every new adaptation comes new unimagined challenges as assimilating more people into a confined piece of land requires thoughtful distribution of all basic facilities that are required for living.

Background of Competition:
1)The target is this design competition 「The Library of SONGDO International City」 is a key indicator to carry out the purpose of Incheon-city which orients ‘An International City of Northeast Asia to the World’ and is an important challenge to expand the cultural infrastructure of the local residents.

The year 2020 will remain a landmark in history and in our collective memory. Everything changed and continues to change; the pandemic revealed our fragility and vulnerability in a globalized world, where it took only a few months for COVID-19 to spread across much of the globe, upending the economies and politics of even the world's greatest powers.

This international event is organized by the Faculty of Architecture - Department of Academic Direction (DDAA), the Postgraduate Unit of the UNCP, and the “El Cubo” collective in Huancayo, Peru. The event features keynote speaker Jan Gehl, one of the most influential figures in global urbanism. Through his work, he has championed the sustainability of major metropolises and made it his mission to advocate for urban planning that allows people, rather than automobiles, to reclaim the streets.

The National Professional Council of Architecture and its Auxiliary Professions invites all architecture professionals to attend the book launch of "Pensamientos, palabras y obras" by architect Willy Drews Arango.

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On November 3rd, 2020, after successfully holding the Award Ceremony and the Shanshui City Theme Forum in Lishui, the site of the competition, the Future ShanShui City • Dwellings in Lishui Mountains International Urban Design Competition finally came to a successful conclusion after more than seven months.

A space for dialogue to reflect on the human right to housing and the city.

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Revista Pináculo is a digital publication and the first in the country dedicated exclusively to architecture students. The issues are published bimonthly and are free of charge. To subscribe, simply send a request to: documentaedu@gmail.com.

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The fifth edition of the Arquitectura Film Festival Chile, ArqFilmFest, is drawing to a close. Since November 5, the festival has been streaming nearly sixty films about urban life via its digital platform, free of charge, to audiences across Chile and the continent. It concludes this Sunday.

Formgiving, the new book by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), and the latest installment in its TASCHEN trilogy, is a visionary attempt to look at the horizon of time, from the Big Bang into the most distant future. The volume addresses the development of intelligence, sustainability, communication, migration, and architecture and design, in order to give form to the future world we want to inhabit—right now.

The acclaimed studio Miró Rivera Architects has published a 448-page monograph, entitled Miró Rivera Architects: Building a New Arcadia. Designed by the award-winning architects, the book features 20 of the firm’s most remarkable projects brought to life through 230 color photographs and 95 drawings. Featuring essays by notable thinkers and cutting-edge practitioners in the fields of architecture and urban design, Building a New Arcadia situates the firm’s diverse portfolio in a global context related to concepts of nature, sustainability, history, and urban design.

Designing spaces requires more than just considering sustainability and the future of the planet; it necessitates a focus on aspects that promote well-being, emotional satisfaction, and the best possible experience for those who will inhabit them. The rapid changes occurring globally, further accelerated by the pandemic and the new configurations brought about by the "new normal," increasingly challenge professionals to be prepared to make any space a healthy and pleasant environment.