After the crisis that has just gone through the world, several questions will have to be asked of decision-makers, in particular the conditions of confinement in very narrow dwellings and devoid of living spaces or confinements elsewhere.

Open House Madrid announces the 2nd edition of the City Awards, which recognize the most innovative, social, and engaged proposals that will shape the future of cities.

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Open House Madrid is an architecture and city festival that, over the course of a weekend, offers free access to dozens of buildings that are usually closed to the public.

For 2020, Open House Madrid has designed a Special Edition that, under the theme "Rediscover Madrid," will focus on the city as a benchmark for architecture and design. The city's most unique spaces will open their doors through small-group in-person tours and virtual visits. The program ranges from classic and historic buildings to contemporary architecture and some of the most renowned architecture firms, where the public can learn firsthand about the latest developments and the design process behind the buildings that surround us.

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The event is titled DigitalFUTURES. It will feature a series of lectures by distinguished architects and engaging architecture and design workshops focused on bio-design, AI, VR, and AR, led by faculty from the AA School, UCL Bartlett, ETH Zurich, ICD Stuttgart, Harvard GSD, UMichigan, UPenn, UCLA, SCI-Arc, Clemson, FIU, FAU, SUTD, RMIT, Angewandte, IAAC, CITA, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, NYU Shanghai, Tongji University, Southeast University, Code-It, Archi-Union, and Zaha Hadid Architects, among others.

The Arc. Eddy Eguavoen Foundation is a nonprofit organization that aims to build sustainable housing for communities in need across Nigeria. The foundation was officially announced on January 11th 2020, one year after the passing of Arc. Eddy Eguavoen, an accomplished Nigerian Architect.

Time moves slowly in architecture. While the technological, financial, transport, and commercial industries of the world evolve at an unprecedented, exponential rate, the evolution of cities themselves is not keeping pace. While everyday commodities, from phones to cars to banking systems, change before our eyes, we continue to live and work in buildings designed for a past era, and depend on urban infrastructures long past their capacities.

The Professional Council of Architecture and Urbanism (CPAU) and the Central Society of Architects (SCA) invite architects to participate in the "Arquitectura Argentina Solidaria" open call. The initiative aims to gather ideas and initiatives from work, projects, built works, and research conducted over the last five years by architects with a focus on solidarity and social inclusion.

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Mass Collective features six photographers in a virtual reality gallery. They will be showing photographic work documenting the British built environment. For each weekly gallery the photographers will present their work at opening night, which will be open for the public to attend in the virtual gallery space, and also streamed to Youtube in collaboration with architectural photography festival Zoomed In. The space will remain accessible night and day to be explored with your personal avatar according to the following schedule:

The Estonian Association of Architects (EAA) has joined forces with the Estonian Centre for Architecture (ECA) and Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) to promote an international Open Call to select a curatorial team for Wood Works— a new exhibition programme taking place between Ireland and Estonia in 2020—2021.

Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, tells the story of a group of young people that escaped Florence during the black plague, taking refuge together in the countryside of Tuscany. For Boccaccio, the suspended time given by the plague and the condition of isolation provides the literary expedient for a moment of general rethinking. As the stories of the protagonists follow one another, the images, relational structures and values of society that would otherwise be lost are reconstructed. Similarly, the workshop is at the center of this global epidemic that we are experiencing within the same landscape.

These days architecture schools are trying to figure out how to conduct lectures and seminars, studios and crits online. But it is just as well a test of the very foundations of architectural education. Do we need architecture schools? Do we need them to change? Are they capable of change, to prepare to deal with this crisis and the next to come?

How do we define “home”? Although our ideas about home are constantly being rethought, the careful examination of “home” has recently come to our attention for architects and nonarchitects alike. Almost everyone has had to confront their perspective of “home” as they have adapted workplaces, social gatherings, fitness routines, and everyday life. We now not only internalize a home, but look at how our homes digitally connect to the rest of the world.

The 4th Latin American Landscape Architecture Biennial aims to highlight the relevant role of landscape architecture in the construction of the human habitat. This space is intended to serve as a catalyst for reflection and an incentive for creativity, recognizing and awarding high-quality works and projects that have proposed innovative solutions to the environmental and social issues affecting Latin American countries.

Isolation, viewed from various perspectives and disciplines, is the central theme of the "Isolated Dialogues" series, organized by the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae, which takes place every Wednesday. Participants include artists, architects, designers, musicians, scientists, writers, journalists, and others, both Chilean and international.

«Coziness Valley» is an open international architectural competition focused on Coziness valley park area development.

Mobile Architecture and new ways to inhabit the territory is an International Design Summer School that explores the theme of minimal and mobile architecture as a tool to define new ways of living and reactivating the spaces of uncertainty that characterize contemporary society: those in a state of abandonment and peripherals, those affected by emergency situations, those linked to new social needs and those in which the scarcity of services avoids the enhancement of the landscape and the environment.

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BLANK SPACE is pleased to present a special exhibition of works by designer and artist Hayoun Won which directly responds to the current Covid-19 pandemic. Moments of Silence, pictured above, is a multimedia installation and series of printed works which offer a memorial space for the victims across the globe. Also included are a number of both digital and hand drawn design works which seek to expand the reach of design in relation to social issues.

COVID19 demonstrates the need for strong local economies and resilient solutions. Urban agriculture is a productive form of green infrastructure that supports local economies, creates jobs, improves access to healthy fresh food, and provides ecosystem services. GRHC brings together urban and rooftop agriculture experts to share the benefits and challenges of urban agriculture projects at its Urban Agriculture Symposium