New Investigations in Collective Form presents a group of design experiments by the design-research office The Open Workshop, that test how architecture can empower the diverse voices that make up the public realm and the environments in which they exist.

The 1st Biennial International Conference on Acoustics and Vibration (ANV 2020), will be held Online, at 23 – 24 November 2020. The Conference is organized by The Vibration and Acoustics Laboratory (VibrasticLab), Engineering Physics Department, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, Indonesia. The theme of the Conference is “Sound of Indonesia” and will be held Online. The aim of the conference is to bring together students, scientists, and engineers who are involved in research and development of technology related to acoustics, vibration, and its application.

It takes more than creativity to create exceptional designs. Effective collaboration is an essential element in any successful project, as well as in day-to-day business. Using the right tools can help architects and designers overcome project obstacles and elevate their designs. Real-time rendering tool Enscape has introduced a collaborative issue-tracking feature, aptly named Collaborative Annotation, in their latest software version 2.8. This new feature promises to provide architects and designers with a more collaborative workflow.

Tuesday, July 21, at 8:00 PM: João Whitaker is the guest for the next Meia Hora com o BrCidades. Whitaker, a professor at FAUUSP and former Municipal Secretary of Housing for São Paulo, will discuss housing and the right to the city with Paolo Colosso and Tainá de Paula.

Social Urbanism is an urban intervention strategy created in Medellín that was fundamental in transforming the social reality of the city's impoverished neighborhoods. Brazil already has a success story in Recife: the Compaz (Community Centers for Peace). Drawing on these experiences and with the support of professors from Eafit Urban, the postgraduate program launched by Insper, Itaú Cultural, and Arq.Futuro aims to train managers capable of addressing the complex reality of vulnerable urban centers in Brazil.

The course brings together leading architectural photographers and their contributions across three historical periods: pioneers (1826–1900), modernists (1900–1950), and contemporaries (1950–present).

Silkmatters is a digital platform for all things Architecture and Design. We encourage creative freedom and open learning through Competitions and Awards.

Step into a world created within the fascinating whimsy of fourteen minds lost in a space beyond mere imagination. 

Simone Cadinelli Arte Contemporânea opens the exhibition "How to inhabit the present? Act 1 – Everything is coded fog" on July 20, 2020, featuring video works by 14 artists from across Brazil, installed in the gallery's window on Rua Aníbal Mendonça, in Ipanema. The videos will run 24 hours a day and can be viewed by passersby. The exhibition will be replicated on the gallery's website, with full information on the works and artists [https://www.simonecadinelli.com].

Architecture and Engineering in Wood: Design and Detailing of Glulam Structures, with engineer Daniel Salvatore from ITA Construtora.

Our project sets out to make the villages in the Spanish colonization program visible again through a review, under a contemporary gaze, of their current situation by means of photography which, as we have seen, represents a crucial means of diffusion and analysis of Architecture.

Our project aims to make the towns of the Spanish colonization program visible once again by revisiting their current state through a contemporary lens, using photography as a crucial medium for the dissemination and analysis of architecture.

As the world bears witness to the widespread protests that directly confront racism and the institutions that uphold its existence, monuments continue to function as sites of radical gathering and critical action. This keynote discussion will focus on acknowledging, removing, and reimaging how monuments function within our society.

On the weekend of July 25 & 26, Gray Area is proud to present in partnership with the Architectural Association and California College of the Arts, a transcontinental gathering of leading creatives in art, architecture and design for UTOPIAA, a new online festival dedicated to boldly reimagining architecture and spatial practice in response to the ongoing global pandemic. Curated by the Architectural Association’s new AA Visiting School San Francisco in residence at Gray Area, this two-day event will feature live workshops, panel discussions, online exhibitions and other activities staged in virtual space for audiences in the Bay Area, London and beyond, bringing together the respective institutions’ communities of innovators, designers, architects and academics for a critical conversation about the future of the cities and spaces we inhabit.

Network Rail and RIBA Competitions have launched an international competition to shape the future of Britain’s railway stations. The competition will provide architects, engineers and designers the chance to improve the travel experience for the millions of passengers who use Britain’s railway, and leave a lasting legacy on station design.It asks designers to reimagine small to medium-sized stations – which make up 80% of all those on Britain’s railway – so they can better serve the needs of both passengers and their local communities.

For the first time, MSDx will be held as a virtual exhibition on an interactive multimedia platform, showcasing hundreds of pieces of studio work by our talented students.

Two characters, Vernacular (V) and Modern (M) constructions, live in a fantastical universe in harmony. They find proximity next to each other, and a relationship occurs between them. Their physical (architectural components, or elements) and mental (genius loci, or spirit of the place) capacities intertwine. At a certain point, a will to power emerges and stirs the calmness that previously existed: M starts to over-embrace V and the latter suffocates. V starts, then, to look for a way out of the relationship. After several trials, a “heterotopic escape” succeeds. The relationship is broken, and V searches for a new adventure elsewhere, looking for beauty. Once the new journey ends, V comes back to M, with a new and twisted approach towards their relationship.

We all know the Workplace will never look the same after this, but how will what we call our 'Workspaces' change? How can we best prepare to adapt for the new normal, ensuring our spaces continue to attract staff and build the human connection?