We are living at a moment of great promise. Humanity’s breakout into space is underway. Yet success is not inevitable. The Internet or Digital Economy that began in the last two decades, has been on an exponential growth ever since. Falling costs, new technologies, and a new generation of entrepreneurs are charting out a bold era of space development and space economy.

Population aging - an increase in the proportion of older people in a population.
As one of the most significant social changes of the 21st century, it is predicted to impact all sectors including labor and financial markets, housing, health care and social protection.

Penelope Haralambidou's project 'City of Ladies' studies 'The Book of the City of Ladies', 1405, by Italian/French medieval author Christine de Pizan (1364 – c.1430). The text is part of a compilation assembled for Queen Isabeau of Bavaria between 1410 – 1414 (Harley MS 4431) the largest surviving collected manuscript of her works and one of the foundation manuscripts at the British Library. In the book, de Pizan describes her visitation by three female Virtues, Reason, Rectitude and Justice, who commission her with the construction of an imaginary city inhabited solely by women. Conflating the act of writing a book and the construction of an imaginary city with building a thesis against misogyny, her work has been seen as a proto–feminist manifesto.

Since the integration of Cheongju City and Cheongwon County, a regeneration project to restore the core functions of the original city center has been promoted. By linking the project with the new City Hall, which will be constructed by 2025, it is aimed to achieve balanced regional development through revitalization

Public Play Space (PPS) is launching a Call for Best Practices for projects and concepts focusing on innovative and creative practices for the co-design of inclusive, cohesive, and sustainable public spaces and cities, through the use of games and digital technologies.

“Rethink the City: New Approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges” is a free online course offered by the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands). Following two editions with over 17,000 students, the third edition begins on February 19, 2020. The course was awarded the 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award by the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP).

This theoretical and practical course focuses on Green Infrastructure Urban Design. Through case studies and group project development, participants will learn the core concepts and tools required to implement Green Infrastructure.

The Arquitetas II Exhibition, organized at the University of Beira Interior (UBI) within the Integrated Master’s in Architecture program at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, seeks to highlight academic work produced for the History of Architecture III course, as well as the women architects studied within those projects.

The Call for Papers is now open for the international conference Critic|all IV, which is dedicated to themes related to architectural and urban criticism and theory. Critic|all is organized by ETSAM-UPM (Madrid), and its fourth edition will be held in partnership with FAUUSP and the PC3 Research Group.

“Rethink the City: New Approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges” is a free online course offered by the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft (Netherlands). Following two sessions with over 17,000 students, a third iteration will begin on February 19, 2020. The course received the 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award from the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP).

This study presents a rich field of intersections between the modern radical avant-garde—before and after the Situationist International—and social architecture projects centered on the lifestyles of Roma, southern migrants, and the urban lumpenproletariat. These are the very sites where various flamenco heterodoxies emerge, fostering new forms of habitability, symbolic production, and the reinvention of audiences, spaces, and places.

Showcase your talent in the 2020 Construlita Lighting Awards!

Designing well, creating beautiful buildings as well as boosting revenue and making your firm profitable rank highly among the goals of architects around the world today. What are the most effective tools architects need to achieve those goals? At a recent Technology and Architecture panel, successful architects discussed answers to that very question. When you watch this panel discussion, recorded live at the prestigious Pritzker Military Museum and Library, you will hear inspiring approaches to design, coordination and project management - rooted in BIM and enabled by the design flexibility found in ARCHICAD.

In light of recent events in Chilean cities, the Fundación de Arquitectura Frágil has launched a competition for Chilean architects and artists. The entries will be judged in March 2020, with Instagram serving as the visual platform for the competition.

While the first issue of VAD. veredes, arquitectura y divulgación focused on "the beginnings"—those origins and principles that provide, tangibly or symbolically, what seeks to exist—this issue aims to broadly explore the parameters belonging to those origins.

7.2% of Europeans have no contact with friends or loved ones even once a year. This percentage is even higher in France, at 12%. Humans are meant to interact with one another, which is why there are so many examples of communities throughout our various societies and across history.

Invite the adventurous tourist to stay by creating optimal conditions in design, functionality, pragmatism, durability, and sustainability. The overall design of the Tren a las Nubes Adventure Camp must be sensitive to the surrounding context, ensuring a harmonious coexistence that integrates the proposal into the monumental structure.

A room of audience erupts into a fit of giggles as a comical tramp with a short mustache, wearing a suit and tall hat slips on a banana peel. The couple embrace as the man makes her stand on the railing of the ship, grabs her arms and extends them out. "I'm flying" she says, as people swoon in unison over their romantic harmony and impending tragedy.