The competition aims to encourage a documentary and artistic perspective on architecture in Santa Catarina and will offer cash prizes to the top entries.

Dossier: Space for Life - Vol 26, No. 39 (2020)
Submission deadline: February 28, 2020.

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In a territory historically marked by earthquakes, ruptures, and borders, architecture has manifested itself through diverse expressions over time. These expressions are nuanced by sociocultural processes that have defined the approaches and stances translated into urban imagery and architectural production.

Festival Habitante is a film, city, and architecture festival that will showcase international and national audiovisual works in the Ecuadorian cities of Quito and Guayaquil. The program is complemented by parallel activities open to the public, aimed at fostering discussion around the act of inhabiting.

It is said—perhaps closer to myth than reality—that when Mies van der Rohe interviewed a candidate to join his studio, he would subject them to a peculiar test. He would lead them to a drafting table, provide them with the necessary instruments—rulers, compasses, squares, triangles, pencils, erasers, and so on—and ask them to arrange these elements within the confined field of the drawing board.

ICOMOS, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, is a global non-governmental organization associated with UNESCO. Its mission is to promote the conservation, protection, use, and enhancement of monuments, urban centers, and sites. ICOMOS serves as an advisory body to the World Heritage Committee for the implementation of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention.

On February 11, 2020, at 7:00 PM, the IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) will host the first IED Parla of the year in Higienópolis, São Paulo. Moderated by José Carlos Carreira, the lecture “Design, Value, and Purpose” brings together the experiences and insights of the coordinators of the postgraduate programs in Fashion Marketing and Communication (Juliana Lopes and Caline Migliato), Strategic Design and Innovation (Francisco Albuquerque), Contemporary Interior Design (Alexandre Salles), and User Experience (UX) (Ricardo Couto).

Bas ten Brinke (70F architecture) will be giving a lecture called 'The reality of architecture', about 'place, perception, tactility and loving architecture’.

Russian architectural Group of Webs 360.ru and Tchoban Foundation Museum for Architectural Drawing (Berlin) invite architects and architectural illustrators to take part in ArchiGraphicArts 7 International Contest of Architectural Hand Drawings.

The vision for the project is to build unique and landmark strip mall in AlShati area in Dammam city, Saudi Arabia. to attract high level tenants of retail shops and F&B shops, with dynamic and eye catchy outdoor spaces (terraces, landscape, hardscape & parking area). Alsalimi is looking for dynamic, functional & attractive design and with cost efficient.

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The Pavilion marked a new milestone in the history of Walk&Talk, creating an open and public house for the festival’s program, a symbol of the project's autonomy, maturity and capacity for innovation as a space of creation and experimentation in the various artistic fields.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the International Journal of Education in Architecture and Design (IJEAD), a new journal aiming to create a platform to collect and present several approaches, examples, experiments to architectural and design education. The journal will be a valuable resource for those interested in the areas of architectural education, design education, urban planning education, interior architecture education, industrial design education, landscape design education and other related disciplines. Its main aims are:

The brick in the picture is being preserved as part of the archival holdings of the Canadian Centre for Architecture on the work of the Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG). Founded at the McGill University School of Architecture in the early 1970s with the goal of analysing “How the other half builds,” the MCHG focused on practices of building and dwelling in developing countries. The group’s research and project work, including experiments with sulphur concrete, were part of a paradigm shift in the discourse on the housing crises of the global South. Measures such as slum clearances and resettlement, often financed by the World Bank or other international organisations to counter the hardships of the “urban poor,” were mere expressions of the functionalist logics propagated by the construction industries in capitalist societies. Many architects and planners criticised the destruction of existing structures and practices of communal dwelling that went along with these measures, and shifted their focus to informal and vernacular building practices. The notion of Habitat, already discussed in the 1953 CIAM meeting, shaped the approaches to the human settlement problems of the poor from the 1970s onwards.

Research-related design and design-related research in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture are generated, supported and structured by intentions as conscious purpose and position as well as intended content of perception, thought and action. The symposium will examine modes of action and meanings of intentions. How do they have an orienting, clarifying and dynamic effect within the processes of design and research, and how do they contribute to design and knowledge? What tensions arise between imprint, orientation and the projective, between research, imagination and realization, and how can these be evaluated, communicated and conveyed in a transferable way? To question characteristics of intentions in the creative contexts of action and their impact is particularly connected with dimensions of 'Reflexive Design'.

The New Sense of Place: Education, Profession and Social Interaction

IED school offers 17 (seventeen) international scholarships in Fashion, Design, Visual Communication or Management 2020/2021 academic year for its university degree (Undergraduate Degrees, Bachelor and Diplomas Courses - English and Spanish) in Barcelona.

International Architecture Exhibition (Biennale) in Venice / La Biennale di Venezia/ is the most important global event that presents modern achievements and tendencies in the field of architectural and urban creativity.

The Mohamed Makiya Prize is part of Tamayouz Excellence Award's programme that champions and celebrates the best of architecture in the Middle East and North Africa. Every cycle, the prize is presented to the 'Architectural Personality of the Year', or the individual/organisation that has made the greatest contribution towards the advancement of architecture in a specific period. The winner will be celebrated during the annual Tamayouz Excellence Award Ceremony.