We invite everyone to re imagine the conventions of public toilets and encourage the best possible solutions for this serious problem scenario which plaguing our World.
The world today is experiencing unprecedented demographic growth and consequent urbanization of various places. Rapid population growth in urban areas usually gets coupled with poor planning of physical and social infrastructure along with a lack of individual and communal sanitary consciousness.
In this webinar, Eric Salitsky will present his 2018 Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant research, Exploring the Global Phenomenon of Multifaith Spaces. Most commonly found in airports, hospitals, and university campuses, multifaith spaces also exist in military bases, prisons, malls, stadiums, museums, and as stand-alone institutions. Salitsky traveled to over 50 of these spaces in New York, Boston, London, Manchester, Zurich, and Berlin to document the various ways that both architects and laypeople have attempted to solve the inherent issues involved in accommodating the prayer needs of various religions at once.
In this webinar, Amanda Aman, AIA, LEED AP BD+C will present her 2018 Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant research, Fragile Fields of the Arctic Circle Periphery. The perpetual global climate shift materializes within the Arctic Circle as a reaction to the pressures of petrochemical industrial output and unsustainable human practice. Arctic environments are among the first to experience the manifestations of this shift as the Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the globe. As a result, natural systems, wildlife migrations, and patterns of habitation will be severely altered, in addition to the dependence of indigenous people groups on these for cultural preservation and physical survival.
Architects, landscape architects and urban planners from around the world are invited to contribute to the Open international architectural ideas competition for landscaping of Vyzvolennia Square and the revitalization of the DASU building with adjacent territory in Mariupol, Ukraine.
Construction alone accounts for more than 30% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and must now be reinvented to meet the ecological, economic and societal challenges of doing better with less, reducing its environmental footprint, limit the consumption of natural resources; build more responsibly and sustainably.
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) calls its 8th Advanced Architecture Contest as a global reflection to rethink human habitats, at a time when the fight for life and climate allows us to consider how we would like to live in the coming decades.
The Intimate City hosts Dining in the Urban, a design competition that offers the opportunity to explore domestic rituals in Skopje's public realm. The brief uses the knowledge gained from domestic rituals to expose the current social and physical forms, unveiling the boundaries between the public, communal, and private within the city. Aiming to reveal social and physical latency the brief is an experiment that acknowledges form as a social commitment in order to mediate the tension in the city.
Promotional image for the 2nd Cinecubo IAB Short Film Festival
The current global pandemic has necessitated the adoption of radical seclusion and social distancing measures on an unprecedented scale. In light of this transnational calamity and the gradual emergence of new social and political forms, CineCubo IAB—a film club organized by the Institute of Architects of Brazil, São Paulo Department—is launching an open call for its 2nd Cinecubo IAB Short Film Showcase. The event will select films that contribute to a reflection on the circumstances beginning to take shape as a result of this new epidemic situation.
The "Dialogues of Light" program presents its third 100% online meeting via our Instagram account @_Ciluz and Dr. María de los Ángeles García’s account @marillo2015, where the central theme will be "Light and the Circadian Cycle." Have you ever heard that sunlight is the most perfect light? Do you know the effect light has on our daily lives?
The 16-hour online version of the "Luz en movimiento" (Light in Motion) workshop aims to expand the artistic and professional possibilities for visual artists, designers, advertisers, and musicians through the creation of audiovisual content using Modul8. The workshop also includes an introduction to MadMapper software. "Luz en movimiento" is divided into documentary screenings, theory, real-time practice, and experimental exercises, among other components.
The Interior Lighting Course aims to provide you with the tools necessary to develop lighting projects for residential and/or commercial spaces. You will learn how lighting can personalize and shape new spaces based on the program and its specific lighting requirements.
The Theatre Populaire Idea(l) is an open student competition of architectural, artistic and design ideas for the sustainable rehabilitation of deserted green amphitheater at the complex of the “Centre de Développement Chorégraphique” La Termitiere in the city center of Ouagadougou, in Burkina Faso. The emphasis is placed on innovative, respectful, courageous visions valorizing the local potentials and materials.
In celebration of ten years of practice, Omar Gandhi – Adaptation is an introspective look at a meandering and often times daunting journey through architectural education and the first years in the profession. The first monograph by the studio - produced in collaboration with Arquine of Mexico City.
Architectural criticism will be the central focus of "Laboratory Critique," an online conversation series organized by the Postgraduate and Continuing Education Department of the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Universidad Finis Terrae, as part of the launch of the Projective Critique Laboratory diploma program.
The School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae is launching a new series titled "Isolated Dialogues," a set of online conversations in which prominent international and national guests will analyze the theme of isolation from various perspectives.
Personalized Online Digital Collage Course for architects with Carolina Zapata of @cazabu_illustration. This course provides a personalized foundation for exploring digital collage editing techniques across various architectural image editing software. Participants will learn how to set the scene and represent 2D and 3D architectural project drawings, creating presentations that showcase personal style and highlight design intent through compelling, high-impact imagery.