The AIA DC - Urban Design Committee (https://www.aiadc.com/committee/urban-design-committee) has a fun stay at home challenge for everyone. In this challenge, let us look at what is happening outside through the lens of a camera (cell phones make for great cameras). So, open your windows and share your images!
New realismo - inventory of human experience is a catalogue of gestures in PNG to make people reflect on and perceive the city and the social spaces from a new point of view.
Attend the webinar 'Opportunities for Improvement in Technical Commissions', which explores various perspectives from legal, design, and technical standpoints, hosted by the Colegio de Arquitectos del Perú Regional Lima.
COVID-19 has forced us to question the parameters we once considered "normal." For humanity, our journey through the world and the mark we leave behind have led us to confinement—a quarantine of our homes, which have been re-inhabited after being abandoned for work imposed by a world driven by production, the market, and capital.
GIDA 2020 - Goldreed Industrial Design Award - is the new international design award sponsored by the Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute, with the aim of promoting at an international level the concept of “harmony” applied to design.
Being a successful architect is very hard. While this is no secret to anyone who has lead a team or studied the profession; the less obvious thing is what to do about it.
Join us for the second program in Design for Everyone, a lecture series that seeks to open up conversations about design to broader, more diverse audiences. Produced by Form Function Studio in partnership with Goethe-Institut and DC Public Library.
The second annual MICROHOME architecture competition is part of the Bee Breeders Small Scale Architecture Appreciation Movement, which hopes to highlight the fact that bigger isn’t always better. With great design and innovative thinking, small-scale architecture could change how this and the next generation view residential property.
The Hybrid Plattform and Futurium are inviting the public to another “Hybrid Futures” event, where artists and scientists come together to talk about past and present visions of the future that have inspired their work.
Princeton School of Architecture is pleased to announce UnBuilding Building, an online exhibition by the 2020 Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis class coordinated by Professor Jesse Reiser. The website showcases projects by five students—Catherine Ahn, Esra Durukan, Sarah Etaat, Kyle Weeks, and Olga Zakharova—collectively named "V".
With the current economic volatility and a looming recession, this conference brings together the brightest business minds in our profession to provide you with insights, guidance and tactics to not only survive the next few months, but thrive. AIA Houston invites you to participate in an exciting two days of virtual learning. The conference will educate and inform architects on tools and strategies to navigate the current global crisis and anticipate the new normal beyond.
With The Next 100 Years Project – Architect Edition, we invite architects to speculate on the built environment after the pandemic.
Session 3 of the series on supporting remote architecture education. This session will review online workshop experiences from three cities severely impacted by the health crisis, featuring Constanza Ipinza (USACH, Santiago), Carolina Rodas (UDLA, Quito), and Enrique Walker (Columbia, New York).
The course in Architecture for Humanities was born to train designers who know how to compose meaningful architectures even in the most complex contexts to bring quality and beauty where you are not used to seeing it. Today, pandemic, economic crisis, migration and climate change have turned every area -from the periphery of our metropolis to the most remote tropical village- into what can be defined as “emergency context”.
A decade before Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn appeared on the Indian architectural scene, Golconde—the first example of pre-independence modern architecture—was being developed in an enclave of French India, Pondicherry, in 1938. Thirty years later, The Mother envisioned a new city, Auroville, named after Sri Aurobindo and dedicated to achieving human unity and understanding, serving as an example to the international community.
CLEA Magazine is an annual publication that seeks to promote and disseminate the analysis of the diverse social and spatial realities throughout Latin America. By gathering the experiences and perspectives of students and professionals—who are active participants in the conceptualization and materialization of spaces at all scales—the magazine encourages the exploration of new and more conscious understandings of architecture, the city, the territory, and those who inhabit them.
The Urban Habitat and Housing Practices Platform | UHPH, in collaboration with its strategic partners, presents #LAV Informal Settlements and the Migration Phenomenon.
Now more than ever, academia must be linked to society by creating School+Community projects. At Fábrica de Ciudad, given the unique moment we are currently living through, we are redoubling our commitment to education and society. For this reason, we have created Factory Fridays, conceived as an online school project featuring guest professors from both Mexico and abroad. From May 15 to July 30, every Friday we will host a session led by prominent Latin American architects who will share their practice and ideas through lectures and dialogues.
