Description via Amazon. Through the sketches that make up this book, its author, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, not only teaches us to look at the city of Valparaíso with fresh eyes but also reveals his affection for the port. His obsession and dedication to exploring the buildings, plazas, and hills are captured in strokes that, in sum, compose the author's perspective and the critical lens he applies to them in his annotations. Ultimately, drawing is presented as a tool for observation. With a record dating back to the early 1970s, the representation and analysis of this critical survey of Valparaíso have continued to deepen and expand. Furthermore, the book presents projects completed by the author in collaboration with other architects, serving as evidence of the strong bond between Rodrigo Pérez de Arce and Valparaíso—a bond this book aims to convey faithfully.

The Lo Contador Campus, home to the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, is a repository of historical traces, urban imprints, and artistic and architectural manifestations that have been layered and deposited in this heritage enclave in Santiago since the late 17th century.

Description via Amazon. Estudios Patrimoniales presents the current state of the debate regarding intellectual production within the multidisciplinary field of our local heritage. Its authors understand heritage as a phenomenon far more complex than a mere topic or discipline. It is a relational phenomenon that occurs in specific cases, requiring reflective practices for a cross-disciplinary discussion that engages the professional responsibility of academic knowledge. Today, when the word "heritage" is hijacked by the common sense of political correctness, activist voluntarism, and the demands of various sectors, this toolkit becomes necessary. It allows us to rethink heritage by understanding its conceptual evolution, thereby promoting new research, referencing intervention projects, and inspiring public policy, so that the term "heritage" can expand its meaning to encompass what our future generations deserve.

Letters are everywhere, yet we rarely stop to consider their forms or the complexity they conceal. This book serves as a gateway to the fascinating world of typography, offering readers an understanding of the scope and variety of letterforms, the creative challenge involved in their design, and the magic of composing them into a text.

Fernando Pérez, Smiljan Radic, and writer Pablo Simonetti will present the book "Horacio Borgheresi. 1930-2012," which will be launched by the Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture on Thursday, December 19, at 7:00 p.m. at Casa Jordán, a project designed by Borgheresi in 1964.

Description via Amazon. We live in an era where design and innovation are at the forefront of conversation, and users are increasingly critical and active participants in decision-making. Design and innovation serve as the primary drivers of organizational change, but what theories underpin their solutions? Users are viewed as the center of the process, but what methodologies are used to incorporate their behaviors and beliefs in a rigorous and dynamic way?

Light plays a decisive role in the execution of architectural and interior design projects. However, most literature on the subject consists primarily of catalogs from light source and lighting equipment manufacturers. Until now, with the publication of Manual de Iluminación, there has been no single document consolidating all the information necessary for approaching a lighting project. The author drew from a wide range of sources, including books, catalogs, and manuals from international organizations and renowned manufacturers such as Philips, Osram, General Electric, Erco, Iguzzini, Lamp, Flos, Zumtobel, Westinghouse, Deltalight, Targetti, and Reggiani, among others. This information is synthesized into tables, charts, and practical recommendations, serving as an essential guide for students and professionals in the field.

"The interest in the urban condition of thirty-eight small- and medium-scale residential buildings located in the Providencia district—which form a detailed catalog of works completed between 1930 and 1970—demonstrates how significant the architectural proposals of this period were in the creation and formation of the modern city project in Santiago, Chile.

The competition aims to celebrate six weeks dedicated to the creation and visitation of timber installations, using design to connect people with the cultural and natural heritage of the Ciloria Valley (Valgañón, La Rioja).

The exhibition proposes a space that operates according to the essential strategies that make up the design process of El Equipo Mazzanti + horizontal. Through a shifting exhibition, visitors will be able to understand not only what we do—our completed projects—but also how we work, our processes, and our methodologies. "Playing with Pedagogies" will be a space open to creativity, presented to the public as an ephemeral workshop. It will be a space that places the visitor at the center of the exhibition, making them part of our narrative.

WorkSpaces for Tomorrow is an open competition for students and professionals in architecture, design, engineering, or any other related field.

The School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago is now accepting applications for the 2020–21 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship. Named in honor of the architect and educator Doug Garofalo (1958–2011), the nine-month fellowship provides emerging designers the opportunity to teach design studio and seminar courses and conduct independent research, culminating in a public lecture at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and an exhibition or public conversation at the school.

Urban Confluence Silicon Valley, a worldwide open ideas competition, has extended the entry deadline to April 3, 2020. Urban Confluence Silicon Valley invites artists, architects, urban planners, landscape architects, lighting designers, students, designers, engineers, and anyone with a passion for place-making to submit ideas for activating the most critical urban park in the City of San José. The site, which rests at the confluence of the Guadalupe River and Los Gatos Creek, is in a central park and will be across from the future 6-8 million square foot Google Downtown West Mixed-Use Plan and two blocks from Diridon and the new BART Stations, soon to be transformed into one of the most prominent transportation hubs in the United States.

Art is a repository of a society’s collective memory; it tends to preserve what historical facts cannot. It is a form of representation of culture and tradition in most lucid form and acts as a visual language that speaks to all. It has become a chronicle that has created different identities for itself, namely, visual, performing, and written. Art’s transition from utilitarian purposes and aesthetics into work of expression happened hundreds of years after its birth. Where is it now?
Art is the fundamental form of representation yet it is unnoticed, at the comfort of our screens there is a visual barrier that deprives us of its actual flavor.

The Ceramics of Italy 2020 Tile Competition awards top North American architects and designers for their exceptional work and creative use of Italian ceramic or porcelain tile in built projects around the world. An international jury of design experts will review submissions from all over the continent and ultimately select winners in four categories - residential, commercial, institutional, and student.

The first public assembly of Architecture on Strike (Arquitectura en Paro) seeks to foster an open space where we can collectively engage in pedagogy and discussion regarding the role architecture should play within the current social, economic, and political crisis in Colombia.

The work on housing improvements and the qualification of urban spaces in peripheral areas, resulting from the implementation of public and free technical assistance for the low-income population of the Federal District (DF), is the subject of a book to be launched this Saturday (14th) in the Sol Nascente community, in celebration of National Architect and Urban Planner Day. The publication, edited by the Institute of Architects of Brazil and sponsored by the Council of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal District, brings together texts from various authors regarding the experience carried out by CODHAB between 2015 and 2018, in addition to interviews and articles by professors who also address the topic as an extension project at the University of Brasília.

The course views buildings as bodies, with their parts, components, and materials in harmony. As such, buildings possess a unique anatomy, with their load-bearing structure serving as the closest analogy to the human skeleton and its bones. From this perspective, the course proposes an anatomical operation directed toward understanding their structural core.