On December 30th, 2019, Pasadena Heritage invites you and your holiday guests to take walking tours featuring some of Pasadena’s unique architectural treasures and/or visit Pasadena Heritage’s 1893 headquarters to see a presentation featuring Pasadena’s historic architecture in the movies! Attendees have the opportunity to participate in two different walking tours and the movie presentation, each with a 10:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m. start time!
The HECAR Foundation have curated the Women In Design 2020+ (WID 2020+) International Conference in Mumbai from 8th to 10th January 2020. This global platform will provide women with the opportunity to celebrate the evolution and success of their practices; innovative techniques in Architecture, Planning, Conservation and related fields; challenges faced by women in constructions working with arts and crafts and their role in pedagogy, sustainability, research and the visual arts. It is a global perspective encased in the Indian ground reality showcasing the immense capabilities, accomplishments and innovative genetic abilities of women in Architecture and Design. Celebrating path-breaking projects built and influenced by women shall be the essence of the conference.
Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. Projections show that urbanization combined with the overall growth of the world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban areas by 2050.
Living in these densely urbanized pockets is not just ridiculously expensive, but also substandard for average and low economic groups. Moreover, the cost of living increases so rapidly that being at the same pace with it becomes almost impossible for most households, resulting in an abysmal quality of life.
Description via Amazon. The New York City School Construction Authority’s (SCA) mission is to design and construct safe, attractive, and environmentally sound public schools for children throughout the communities of the City’s five boroughs.Since its creation in 1988, the SCA has kept moving forward, constantly innovating to ensure that it designs and builds schools that meet the current needs of the City’s students and teachers. In addition to building and modernizing educational facilities, the SCA is invested in developing much-needed resources and capacity building mechanisms for engaging diverse communities in the construction process. The SCA maintains one of the most successful small business development programs in the country and recently established a workforce development and small business initiative for college students.As the SCA celebrates its 30-year anniversary, its primary goal remains the same as on the day of its creation: to ensure that all children in the country’s largest public school system have the facilities necessary to prepare them for the twenty-first century and beyond.
Launched in 2014, this competition promotes important business fundamentals in small to mid-sized architectural practices.
Are you a leader of a small architecture firm interested in planning for the future of your business?
The European Parliament has launched an Architectural competition with the purpose of choosing the best concept for its plenary building in Brussels – The Paul Henri Spaak building.
We invite you to participate in the Critic|all IV International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism, organized by the Department of Architectural Design at the Madrid School of Architecture, Technical University of Madrid, in collaboration with the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo.
The book series 'Plan para Chile', by prominent Chilean architect Raúl Irarrázabal, consists of three volumes that invite the reader to envision a new urban planning scheme for Chile through an avant-garde, bold, and inclusive lens.
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.