Dupont Underground has just launched their second International Design Competition: Re-Think Dupont Circle. One of the key public spaces in Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s famous urban plan for the nation's capital, Dupont Circle was not built out until the late 19th century and has not seen a significant redesign since the 1940’s when the automobile was ascendant. We feel it’s well past time to rethink Dupont Circle as a social, human-centered, public space. The competition covers the immediate urban area of Dupont Circle and it takes place at two scales (micro & macro) that must be interwoven through concept and design. Call for submissions and registration is now open through December 4th, 2020.

The vision for the project is to build a Contemporary, efficient, well designed attached villas (town-houses) in Ash Shatti Sharqi, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Our main goal is to provide the buyers with an extraordinary, smart living space that satisfies their needs and allows them to live comfortably. In addition, being able to live in an affluent area for an affordable price.

Camping is a tourism model based on humanity's most primal way of inhabiting nature: itinerancy. Nomads settle on the land without physically altering it, yet they imbue it with meanings that forge connections to the occupied sites, both while traveling and at rest. This mobile habitat originates from the need to find shelter and food, but also from the desire to discover new cultures or places. Thus, vacation life—free and carefree—intensifies interpersonal relationships and allows for experimentation with new ways of communal living.

Simone Cadinelli Arte Contemporânea continues its exhibition "How to inhabit the present?" with "Act 2 – We Are Here," on view in its storefront window and on its website starting August 24, 2020. The video works, created using various multimedia languages such as videomapping and GIFs, will run 24 hours a day and can be viewed by passersby at Rua Aníbal Mendonça, in Ipanema. The exhibition will also be replicated on the gallery's website, featuring complete information about the works and the artists [https://www.simonecadinelli.com].

In the field of architecture, collage serves as a record of the creative process. It involves exploring space, tapping into instinct, and establishing a project's atmosphere.

The 5th International Congress on Architecture and Gender | ACTION: Feminisms and the Spatialization of Resistance continues the reflections that have been organized since 2015, primarily from Southern Europe, enabling the construction of transcontinental work, research, and experience networks. This genealogy includes congresses such as ArquitectAs (2014, Seville), Matrizes (2015, Lisbon), MORE (2017, Florence), and Fielding Architecture (2019, Brighton). The fifth edition aims to emphasize the political component of the intersection between space and rights, without forgetting the diversity of being a woman or a girl and the intersection with current circumstances resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2020 Pan American Biennial of Architecture of Quito has opened its call for entries for projects and publications completed in the four years leading up to each edition. Over its twenty-one editions, the Biennial Competition has received more than 7,000 submissions and recognized contributions to the practice of architecture, urbanism, landscape, theory, and architectural dissemination.

The First National Meeting on Architectural Initiation is an event designed to establish an unprecedented space for dialogue, aimed at exchanging diverse teaching experiences, building a national overview of current university-level architectural education, and proposing new collective challenges regarding the process of introducing students to the discipline.

During the pandemic, the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae has hosted the "Isolated Dialogues" lecture series, in which professionals from various fields discuss art, music, design, architecture, urbanism, and creative processes, among other topics, through the lens of confinement.

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York is pleased to announce its new SCIAME Global Spotlight Lecture series, “Far South” curated by Associate Professor Fabian Llonch.

Héctor Esrawe is a leading figure in contemporary furniture and interior design in Latin America. From his studio, Esrawe, based in Mexico City, he develops everything from furniture and objects to interiors, architecture, public space installations, and museography.

The Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile is celebrating another anniversary with a series of free, fully online events. The milestone began on Tuesday, August 4, marking 78 years since the enactment of Law 7.211, which established the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile in 1942—during the administration of President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo—and kicked off the Month of Architecture in Chile.

The School Competition is a tradition spanning over twenty years, serving as the primary activity that engages the entire student body around a specific theme, resulting in proposals approached through the lens of architecture.

This year, the 5th Aysén Architecture Week 2020 has chosen the theme "INHABITING MINIMAL SPACES IN AYSÉN: CONTRADICTIONS OF A RURBAN LANDSCAPE" to explore, viewing this topic as a provocation intended to spark a deeper discussion regarding the right of Aysén residents to a daily life that fosters health, fulfillment, and ensures their physical, psychological, and social development.

This masterclass, presented by Rafael González del Castillo Sancho, explores how to optimize your BIM projects to deliver them faster and with higher quality.

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated urban inequality in Latin America, with impacts evident in the vulnerability of citizens and their relationship with public space. "This situation reflects the need to adapt and implement our streets in a creative way that accounts for the diversity of people, thereby achieving spacious public areas that help reduce the risk of contagion for the most vulnerable users," says Mariana Alegre, Executive Director of Lima Cómo Vamos and Ocupa Tu Calle.

On Wednesday, August 26, at 5:00 PM Mexico City time, Igor Zotti, General Manager of Soprema Mexico, and Jorge Echeverría, Commercial Manager, will present an introduction to the brand's synthetic, asphalt, and liquid solutions, with an emphasis on their application for metal roofs.

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Aiming to continue the discussion and uncover opportunities for adaptation and resilience, this AOA session proposes an optimistic approach to the challenges facing the city and its inhabitants within both local and global contexts. It highlights existing opportunities for positive change following a crisis, thereby promoting more resilient cities in both the short and long term.