Join us today for a conversation with Arturo Franco and Toni Gironès, who will discuss their stories, "Malas hierbas" and "Topografías en el tiempo," featured in the book Mucho cuento. Relatos de arquitectos.

How do we perceive the problems of Lima and Callao in the context of the pandemic?

Given the changes experienced since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the needs and challenges faced by the citizens of Lima and Callao have intensified. The country's economic, social, and political crisis has contributed to unprecedented perceptions and moods among the residents of Lima and Callao. Consequently, Lima Cómo Vamos has developed the Urban Report on Citizen Perception in Lima and Callao, which captures public sentiment regarding mobility, the environment, public space, and inequality, among other issues.

Palabras y Trazos brings together architects of various generations who develop projects that highlight their interest in architecture as a city-shaping element, integrating urban, environmental, heritage, and identity values.

The building construction industry currently accounts for 40% of annual greenhouse gas emissions, due to its high carbon embodiment and carbonated energy demands. Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is a sustainable solution to address these concerns and to contribute to a net-positive world. This advanced technology can be utilized in solar building envelopes, skylights, windows, and balcony railings to produce green energy. 

Project conceptualization has the largest impact on the functionality, performance, and cost of a building - this is when key decisions about layout and aesthetics are being taken. Although the depth of data required to make these decisions is best served by BIM, it is understandable why architects are reluctant to use BIM tools in the creative process.

Article 25’s 10x10 online art auction is open for bidding and will be accessible until 8.30 pm on the 1^st of December. Now in its eleventh year, 10x10 features work from over 100 artists, architects, sculptors, photographers, and designers offering their reflections on our urban outdoor spaces and bringing together the likes of Banksy and Sir Antony Gormley, with leading architects including Sir David Adjaye. Proceeds will go towards Article 25’s humanitarian design and build projects focusing on housing, safe schools and effective clinics and hospitals worldwide.

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We often take things for granted, and sometimes barely even register the really important things, only noticing them once they are missing. This can be applied to many things in life, of course, but it is especially apparent in the building industry, and in particular to intelligent building technology that runs in the background while ensuring the functionality and longevity of architectural ideas.

With winter drawing in across the northern hemisphere, Hudson Valley Lighting Group share tips on how to warm up homes with layered lighting and worn-in finishes.

This lecture series, which we call FOCO (launched in 2020), seeks to highlight both commonalities and diversities surrounding a single theme within our discipline. The event will be held in person this Thursday, November 11, at 6:30 PM at the Museo de Arquitectura y Diseño (MARQ), located at Av. Del Libertador 999, at the corner of Av. Callao, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

Internationally recognized for their weeHouse® concept, Alchemy has been proving since 1992 that even the smallest of dwellings can have a huge impact. weeHouse®, a term that Alchemy trademarked in 2002, was conceived as a modular-friendly design system that emphasizes quality before quantity, and has been recognized by an ethos of “less is more.” The Minnesota-based firm, led by Geoffrey Warner FAIA, designs the structures to be modern and sleek with particular attention to using expressive local materials with environmental sensitivity.

The Squam Lake House in New Hampshire, although not technically a weeHouse, was required to strictly respect the floor area and volume of a dilapidated cabin 15’ from the shore. Fabricated mostly offsite by Bensonwood using 18” thick, pre-glazed wall panels and white oak timber framing, the panels were erected in only 4 days.

Eric Winter, AIA and architect at Alchemy, shared some valuable insights about the project’s design process. 

Following several years of preparation, Taipei Fine Arts Museum announces the start of its two-phase expansion project titled Out of Bounds: TFAM Expansion. Construction on a new collections vault began in October of this year, and an open call for architectural proposals for another new museum building will be launched in January 2022. The Museum was completed in 1983 and together with the new collection storage area and a second building, it will gradually expand Taiwan's contemporary art vista.

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Days of Oris is an international architectural festival organized by Oris House of Architecture, held since 2001. Every year, it gathers more than 2000 participants – architects and professionals from the related fields. So far, more than 300 leading experts and speakers from all over the world have participated in the Festival.

Every second year the VELUX Group invites the students of architecture to participate in the International VELUX Award competition on the theme “Light of Tomorrow”. The 2022 competition will be 10th edition, which so far has received thousands of exciting daylight projects from more than 5000 students of architecture around the world.

The Business as (Un)usual competition invites you to imagine a future Australian city that embodies a new Australian Dream for the twenty-first century.

The Institute of Architects of Brazil - Department of São Paulo (IABsp) opens a call for papers for the 13th edition of the International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo, with the purpose of bringing together proposals for the exhibition Produções Insurgentes (Insurgent Productions), which will take place in the city of São Paulo in May 21 to July 10, 2022.

The competition is a collaboration between RESOLVE Collective, the Royal Borough of Greenwich, and Historic England's High Streets Heritage Action Zone programme in Woolwich and invites both groups and individuals to apply, prioritising 'first-time designers' and collaborations with local residents. Applicants' physical designs will be installed across a variety of available locations between the town centre and the river, while digital designs will be exhibited on the competition website.

The PAX Monographs editorial team is pleased to announce the second issue in the series: I.M. PEI in CAIRO.

DESIGN HYPOTHESIS
How architecture can adapt to the times considering the COVID-19 pandemic and the adverse effects of Climate change.