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XIII ARQ URB Week: Architecture as urban kindness
In its 13th edition, the ARQ URB Week at Faculdades Santo Agostinho has established itself as the largest Architecture and Urbanism event in Northern Minas Gerais. Featuring workshops, short courses, debates, design marathons, and lectures, the event aims to explore themes of architecture focused on urban kindness in a cross-disciplinary manner.
For over 20 years, the Proyecto Escape organization and the Altos del Pino community have developed cultural practices aimed at fostering a culture of peace to improve the quality of life for the children, youth, and mothers in their community. To promote these practices, Escape, in partnership with various organizations, has organized the Workshops on Emerging Architecture and Urbanism. These workshops aim to create spaces for the exchange of knowledge among neighborhood residents, students, and professionals regarding the construction of various participatory projects.
Provincia is a festival taking place in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, from April 9th to 14th of this year. It aims to create an open space for dialogue and the presentation of topics of civic interest, emphasizing responsible participation in architectural development within the provinces.
Promotional poster displayed at Schools of Architecture and Urbanism (FAUs) across Brazil.
Motivated to bring to life an organization that strives for a better city and seeks to deconstruct the false stereotype of the AMAZONIAN METROPOLIS, the Organizing Committee presents the city of Manaus as the host of EREA Amazônia 2018.
escolaabertanogalpao. Art by Zenilda Pasquini and Luan Fernandes.
A project born from a desire to share and foster critical thinking on architecture and urbanism, the arts, cinema, geography, and other fields that play a fundamental role in how we appropriate and transform urban life. Connection drives us; building knowledge sustains us.
Founded in 1948, the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP) is currently one of the most important architecture schools in Latin America and ranks among the top 50 in the world.
Tactical urbanism intervention carried out earlier this year by FADU-Udelar students
The "Corredor Sur" project—a partnership between the collectives TransLAB.URB (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Urbanismo Vivo (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and FADU (Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism at the University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay)—began in November 2017 and is now seeing its first results.
Program subject to paid registration and limited to available seats/studio dobra
Act 4 of Please Share! /Indoor, a program curated by Roberto Cremascoli, requires paid registration and is subject to availability. The complete list of participants will be announced very soon.
This Sunday, November 11, we invite you to a day of public space activation featuring two winning proposals from the IDB and Placemaking Latinoamérica México 2018 Urban Interventions Competition:
From May 17 to July 14, 2018, Pinakotheke Cultural Rio de Janeiro presents the exhibition "Victor Brecheret (1894–1955)," featuring works by the renowned artist born in Italy and based in Brazil. A key figure of modernism and a participant in the historic 1922 Week of Modern Art, Brecheret is the focus of this exhibition curated by Max Perlingeiro. The show gathers significant works by the artist alongside those of other figures who participated in that watershed event in Brazilian art: Anita Malfatti, Di Cavalcanti, Menotti del Picchia, John Graz, Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Helios Seelinger, and Zina Aita. Many of these pieces were featured in the original 1922 event at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo.
The course seeks to contribute to the education of citizens capable of interpreting the reality of urban spaces and adopting a critical stance on the future of cities; registration is open until
Coinciding with the opening of the 15th Architecture Week, an exhibition is being presented to commemorate the centenary of the birth of architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, a fundamental figure in Spanish architecture, and particularly in Madrid.
On October 9 at 7:00 PM, the foundation stone for Gustavo Penna 73/23 - 50 Years of Architecture, Design, and Word will be laid at Cidad3 in São Paulo. This long-term project, conceived by a team of professors from PUC Poços de Caldas and sponsored by Gerdau and Deca, includes the publication of books, workshops, competitions, a multimedia platform, and an exhibition. These activities anticipate the architect's five-decade career milestone, which will be reached in 2023.
"ENERGY THINKING" is a space designed to bring together disciplines such as architecture, engineering, urban planning, and design, alongside business leaders. The goal is to establish dialogues, projects, and educational activities that promote greater knowledge and awareness of renewable energy in our country.
As part of the HAY Festival Segovia 2018, the film Mies on Scene (2018), directed by Pep Martín and Xavi Campreció, will be screened in Segovia, Spain, this Saturday, September 22. And ArchDaily en Español is giving away tickets!
Mies on Scene explores the history of a building that changed the course of architecture in Europe and across the globe. It tells the story of the Barcelona Pavilion, the masterpiece through which Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich staged their revolutionary ideas in 1929. Its construction and subsequent reconstruction immerse us in a reflection on the perception of art, space, and the concept of a masterpiece.
The National Academy of Architecture, Monterrey Chapter, has added an event. Yesterday at 12:03 AM · "Young Vision of Architecture" presents three talented, award-winning, and innovative young Mexicans based in Nuevo León in a TED-style format. Two architects: Marcela González Veloz, founder of OFICIO Taller de Arquitectura, and Vicente "Chente" Tapia, director of the alternative community design studio W.E.Y.E.S. And one civil engineer, Kenji López Rivera, leader of the firm Greendfield. They will share their passion for architecture and their experiences through clear, dynamic, concise, and even entertaining talks.