A prolific architect, trailblazing city planner, and civic and cultural leader, Daniel Burnham has been described by contemporaries and biographers as both a pragmatic realist and a visionary idealist. CAC docent Marcia Matavulj dives into this apparent contradiction by exploring Burnham’s architectural practice during Chicago’s fast-moving progression from short buildings with load-bearing walls to steel-framed skyscrapers never seen before.

In this Nesta Talks To conversation, Sendra and Sennett will propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the social life of our cities. ‘Infrastructures of disorder’ combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism in order to develop places that nurture rather than stifle, bring together rather than divide up, remain open to change rather than closed off.

This virtual tour highlights famous and lesser-known buildings in downtown Chicago designed by women architects including Studio Gang’s Aqua Tower and Vista Tower, and the International Style landmark 401 North Michigan, completed in 1965 as the Equitable Building and designed in part by Natalie Griffin de Blois of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

A prolific architect, trailblazing city planner, and civic and cultural leader, Daniel Burnham has been described by contemporaries and biographers as both a pragmatic realist and a visionary idealist. CAC docent Marcia Matavulj dives into this apparent contradiction by exploring Burnham’s architectural practice during Chicago’s fast-moving progression from short buildings with load-bearing walls to steel-framed skyscrapers never seen before.

In this Nesta Talks To conversation, Leslie Kern exposes the social inequalities that are built into our cities, homes, and neighborhoods, and offers an alternative vision. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and careful cities together.

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The Abierto Mexicano de Diseño is an international festival that gathers and celebrates the design community in Mexico every year, in all its breadth and diversity. It focuses on promoting, exhibiting, supporting, and disseminating Mexican design.

The International Scientific Conference SWS Vienna ART 2020 is organized as an extended session of the SWS International Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES. The event will be held in the biggest and most historically Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria in the period of 9 – 12 December 2020.

Now more than ever, the future of our cities is a primary concern for many Brazilians. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the structural, social, and environmental deficiencies of urban centers, demanding new and urgent responses. This presents an enormous challenge for current and future administrators to be elected later this year.

Mobility is a central issue in inquiries and research regarding cities and urbanization processes.

With this in mind, and in conjunction with the curriculum of the "Mobility and the Contemporary City" postgraduate program, the online debate series "Mobility in Times of Crisis: The Challenges and the New Future of Urban Mobility Amidst Political, Economic, Social, and Health Crises" will take place.

Founded in Rio in 2004 and having held 77 editions across 14 state capitals, the city's most stylish and daring architecture, interior design, and design event returns in October 2020.

Do you have questions about project eligibility or how to participate in the 2020 Biennial Competition?

Don't miss the live presentation on Thursday, July 2, at 4:30 PM (Ecuador time). You will have the opportunity to interact directly with the organizing committee and coordinators.

Design Week Mexico invites you to participate in the sixth edition of Inédito, which will take place at Espacio CDMX from October 9, 2020, to February 8, 2021. In this new reality, design will be more important than ever.

Isolation viewed through a multidisciplinary lens is the central theme of "Isolated Dialogues," a series of conversations organized by the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae, which has already featured artists, architects, designers, musicians, scientists, and writers from both national and international backgrounds.

Artist Fernando Prats and architects Mirene Elton, Mauricio Léniz, Francisco Cruz, and Eugenio Mandiola present the work "Su Vertical Nos Retiene"—a project located in Parque Bicentenario Cerrillos, Santiago, Chile. The streaming event will be moderated by Pola Mora, Head of Community & Partnerships at ArchDaily.

Architects have always been asked to breathe new life into ancient architectures inherited from the past or into historical –often monumental– artefacts that no longer respond to the customs and needs of the contemporary society. Nevertheless, the ancient architectures tell our story, therefore deserve to be restored with interventions that bring along a hint of modernity and show the trace of the design activity. The Architecture for Heritage course has been created on these premises.

The CAP Regional Lima invites you this Thursday, June 25, to a conversation with David Sim and Alexander Spitzer—partners at Jan Gehl—on the relationship between quality of life and urban density. They will present their latest book, "Soft City," and discuss the firm's project experiences in South America.

AméricaEconomía and ArchDaily present "The Digitalization of the Architecture and Construction Industry." Two of the region's most prominent media outlets are joining forces for a webinar to discuss the future of this sector and the impact of this process in Latin America. The discussion will address the implications for various related industries and reveal the opportunities that may emerge post-pandemic.

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The exchange of ideas and concepts is a major part of any large modern building project. Architects, investors, general contractors and sub-contractors all use different tools to form both mental and modeled images of what the end result will look like. When some parties rely on renders or fly-throughs and others use 2D drawings, it can lead to communication difficulties. Reynaers discovered that by bringing together collaborators from different disciplines in its Avalon, the fog of misunderstandings evaporates and difficult decisions can be made on the spot.