LIBRARY ILLUSTRAZIONI is a cultural association born with the aim of promoting graphic research in Architecture, stimulating its cultural production up to the limits of the discipline.

At this critical moment in time, LIBRARY is promoting a special edition of CFAD to support the WHO (World Health Organization) in response to the Covid-19 pandemic through the “Solidarity Response Fund”.

Archue – A complete Architecture Platform presents ‘International Drawing Competition’.

Our first competition celebrating the talent of architecture and design students and young professionals through a single drawing.

In A Scientific Autobiography, originally published in 1981 by Aldo Rossi—who would go on to win the Pritzker Prize nine years later—we find a reflection, or rather a compendium of reflections, on his professional thought process, shaped by the experiences and events of his youth.

Design research in cooperation with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity. Image Space Material” at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Natural disasters, flooding, unbalanced environmental exploitation, urban occupation of high-risk areas, exclusionary urban planning, the degradation of historical and cultural heritage, precarious housing, restrictive urban mobility, and government neglect are some of the many adversities that define the context of contemporary cities. The city emerges as a grave consequence of these disastrous events, which occur either through continuous processes or isolated episodes.

Projetar is the first ideas competition portal for students and young professionals in Brazil. Our purpose is to contribute to professional growth through competition, providing opportunities for creative practice, skill development, and visibility at the beginning of one's career. Over the past 8 years, we have launched 36 competitions and received more than 3,000 projects from participants across the country and abroad.

In light of the foregoing, we offer a provocation:

“Solution for Sustainable Cities and Communities” is the theme of the 13th Architecture Student Competition. The competition is organized by the Brazilian Center for Steel Construction (CBCA). Interested teams must register via the website https://www.cbca-acobrasil.org.br/arquitetura/ by July 24. To participate, teams must consist of two to four students and be advised by a professor from their university. Teams may also include a co-advisor.

The CBCA is offering online courses that you can take from the comfort of your home. The available courses are: "Introduction to Steel Construction," "Steel Structural Systems," and "Execution of Steel Structures."

INSPIRELI AWARDS is the world's largest global student contest in Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape, and Interior Design, which in 2019 involved 136 countries. INSPIRELI AWARDS are enabling new talents to tell their stories and raise awareness about their own world view before they get their chance to build it. It brings together up-and-coming students of architecture, as well as established professionals, and provides for them a forum to connect to the general public.

IF it is an international platform for competitions that aims to connect ideas from different areas of society in order to help transform cities and make them increasingly self-sustaining, efficient and green.
We are looking for innovative ideas and new ways of thinking.
In a global emergency period, it is increasingly important that we think globally.
IF is the space.
Here, you can try and experiment, everything is possible!

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The second edition of the cultural project Reuse Italy promotes an international architecture competition on the reuse of Piscina Mirabilis, a Roman reservoir located in the countryside of Naples. The contest is powered by a partnership with ArchDaily, KooZA/rch, 120g, EX32, and with the official support of the Parco Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei, the Minicipality of Bacoli (Naples) and the FAI.

Urbanised humans are the most invasive species on Earth, consuming the majority of the planet's resources. In an endless battle with nature, the urban fosters an unhealthy condition resulting in extinctions and planetary crises, endangering the livelihood of both humans and non-humans. Meanwhile, in the contemporary urbanised world, health is interpreted as the temporal psychological and physical condition of a human body. A permanent and holistic conception of (well)being and its widened territory embracing the vitality of the entire nature are often neglected. Health in the urban environment is inscribed in infrastructures, rather than being a generative concept for a nurturing habitat. The paradigm of our times is that of treatment-an act after the damage has been done, rather than wellbeing, a sustained state of healthiness.
The emergence of epidemics brings forth the significance of a new concept of health and wellbeing in relation to the built environment and beyond. It is evident from the zoonotic sources of the latest epidemics that humans have penetrated deeper into ecozones not occupied before.

The aim of the RE-DRAW competition is to develop one drawing to ‘represent’ an iconic architecture. The participants are asked to draft one image, with absolute freedom of scale, technique and level of abstraction.

120 Hours is an architecture competition by students, for students. Each year we create a task, giving students from all over the world 120 hours to answer. Last year, 1556 teams signed onto the competition.

Between houses written about (the intimacy of reading) and houses photographed (interiors unveiled), this book explores the dispersed nature of modern dwelling.

The Mieres Polytechnic School at the University of Oviedo, through its Transport Engineering Department, is launching an international ideas competition for university students to solicit proposals for resolving urban and territorial challenges associated with the evolution of transport networks.

"I return to read, with interest and pleasure, the text by Josep Quetglas on the German Pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, a work that established the stature of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe [...] The flashes of lucidity that illuminate the complex scene in a text like this do not aim to convince the reader of a specific thesis; on the contrary, they engage the reader with the text and compel them to read at a measured pace, discovering moments of clarity throughout that bring them closer to the drama of Mies. A drama that may not have been resolved even after crossing the Atlantic. Reading Quetglas’s text, and mindful of the aforementioned flashes, one appreciates this way of viewing the new role of the critic,” writes Rafael Moneo in the new prologue to El horror cristalizado by Josep Quetglas, written specifically for this fourth, revised, and expanded edition, which was overseen by the eminent professor, curator, and researcher Guillermo Zuaznabar.