The next edition of PENSARQ_ Charlas will take place on Saturday, August 25, at 12:00 PM, featuring architect and cultural manager Miriam Villaseñor as a guest speaker. Titled "Appropriating Space Through Inspiration," the talk will foster a collective reflection on the processes of occupying public space through inspiration and both personal and shared identity. The event will begin with a short tour starting at Parque del Refugio on Av. Federalismo, leading to a secret destination. As with all Pensarq_ events, this activity is free and open to the public.
The Andes Workshop is a collaborative workshop for students and faculty from around the world. Founded in 2017, it will once again be led by Chilean architects Cazú Zegers + Grupo Talca, Rodrigo Sheward, and Martin del Solar.
Juan Herreros Workshop Book with the participation of Enrique Walker
In October 2016, the School of Architecture at Universidad San Sebastián launched the first in a series of inter-school workshops aimed at fostering critical discussion in architecture, using the project as a vector. This inaugural experience, led by the prominent Spanish architect and academic Juan Herreros, is captured in this publication. It documents the productive week of work shared by the participants—ten national architecture schools and one international school—alongside Herreros, as they designed various proposals seeking a critical and contemporary approach to the issue of residential infrastructure in the La Vega sector of Santiago, Chile.
The new Diploma in Landscape Design: "Strategies for the Integrated Design of Urban and Rural Landscapes in the Southern Austral Region" is now accepting applications for the second semester of 2018.
X-OMA Chair: The X-OMA Chair analyzes projects by the firm OMA, as well as those by subsequent offshoot firms that have emerged from OMA (known as x-OMA's), such as Zaha Hadid, Bjarke Ingels, MVRDV, Fernando Romero, among many others.
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Registration is now open for the 9th LEDforum. Visit: www.ledforum.com.br
As the largest architectural lighting congress in Latin America, LEDforum is organized by Editora Lumière, with the support of AsBAI (Brazilian Association of Lighting Architects), the IALD (International Association of Lighting Designers), and various other associations, institutions, events, media outlets, and educational institutions from Brazil and abroad.
The realization and life of cities are reflections of the power and decision-making structures of the societies that sustain them. Given this, in a patriarchal society, can we expect women to have effective space, voice, and agency in the decisions that shape their daily lives?
IED presents the exhibition "Utensílios Nativos" (Native Utensils), featuring pieces crafted from certified native Brazilian wood by nine designers: Gustavo Dias, Hugo França, Juliana Llussá, Leonardo Bueno, Natasha Schlobach, Pedro Braga, Ricardo Graham, Rodrigo Ambrósio, and Sérgio Cabral.
Participate in the 3rd Collaborative Urbanism Meeting!
Following the success of the first edition in 2016 in Curitiba and the second edition last year in Brasília, the COURB Institute is bringing the 3rd Collaborative Urbanism Meeting to Fortaleza, Ceará, on November 12, 13, and 14.
