USINA BAR is a public space for meeting, conversation, and enjoyment centered on design disciplines and urban culture, with the goal of facilitating and energizing interaction between diverse actors and fields of knowledge. It is a recurring event held in various locations in a bar format, with all that this entails.

Organized by Editores de Chile, the event opens this Thursday, August 27, at 7:00 PM, featuring a conversation between Francisca Jiménez and Paulo Slachevsky, as well as a performance by the national band Yorka.

For the last seven years, Aarhus School of Architecture has celebrated architectural drawing through the international drawing competition for architecture students, Drawing of the Year. The competition is a joint collaboration with Schmidt, Hammer, Lassen Architects, Vola, and The Danish Arts Foundation and offers prizes from €1,000 to €5,000 (1st prize).

FURNISH is organizing an open call to select 4 teams throughout Europe which will digitally fabricate and deploy urban elements for the purpose of adapting temporary public spaces to meet the new challenges and opportunities presented by the COVID-19 crisis.

On September 18, 2020, AZURE will host the 2020 AZ Awards Gala – an unmissable online soirée where we will fête all the finalists and announce the winners of our 10th annual AZ Awards along with special guests from around the world. We’ll also share the results of our ever-popular People’s Choice voting.

Penang Bay is an ambitious programme to rehabilitate, regenerate and rejuvenate the water-based assets of George Town and Butterworth into a seamless and dynamic space aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

SKOLNICK Architecture + Design Partnership: Public/Private is the first monograph from the award-winning New York–based architectural firm. Covering nearly 40 years of work, the book—presented in a unique double-sided, two-cover format—exhibits projects in both the public and private sectors. Included in the PUBLIC section is an innovative center for entrepreneurial education, a science center built in a former turbine hall, a light-filled synagogue, two colorful and bright public libraries, and a children’s museum inspired by Leonardo da Vinci. The PRIVATE side features a serenely spatial six-story townhouse, a sublimely linear beach house, a residence and matching studios for two painters, and luxurious twin villas in Anguilla.

In Architecture, materials aren’t simply limited to the element which composes a structure. The materials are reproduced according to the substance, but importantly, it signifies being greater than the mass only. Thus, it plays a key role in the perceptional process when the five senses are used including the touch feel materials. Furthermore, it indicates that such experiences undertaken by human beings can be integrated through the sense organs. Materials related to the senses of human beings include a metaphysical meaning such as regions, context, land, and memory. Therefore, this competition is aimed at showing architecture and cities that are reproduced in relation to the materials and the senses of human beings.

As students dedicated to exploring the relationship between people and the places they inhabit, we were profoundly impacted by the shift to staying at home which the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated. This shift has forced us to contemplate now more than ever, how we use the spaces we call home, and how we adapt and adapt to, these spaces under unique circumstances.

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.