The CEPT Winter Exhibition 2019 is here. This is where we celebrate the collective work of our students and their tutors produced over the last Monsoon Semester in the form of drawings, models and portfolios, by bringing together, students, teachers, professionals, aspirants and potential employers on one platform. The Winter Exhibition is our way to critically analyse the benchmarks we have set for ourselves. We cordially invite you to the CEPT Winter Exhibition’s inauguration on Nov 22 at 6 pm at CEPT Campus, to be followed by a Music Performance.
On November 26, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, the fourth and final meeting of the Portas Abertas (Open Doors) program, hosted by Escola da Cidade, will take place. The program is intended for prospective students interested in enrolling in an Architecture and Urbanism course.
Archstorming is collaborating on this new competition with His Hands On Africa ("HHOA"), a non-profit organization founded in 2016 that aims to address the lack of dental services in developing countries. The chosen location is Rwanda, a small country in the heart of Africa.
BrCidades is a developing network formed through spaces of dialogue, interaction, and the sharing of experiences and projects among various social agents—including social movements, universities, NGOs, technical entities, and legal institutions—committed to the social construction of a project for Brazilian cities that contributes to democratic expansion and urban justice.
Gabriel Rivera views architecture as the experience of dwelling—as the architect's response to user needs, site conditions, and the built or natural environment. Architecture as experience and as a reflection of the self; a search for joy, clarity, and calm. Architecture that serves as an experience for the senses, defined by materiality and ideas; it is the pursuit of life's flow, a human design act with a purpose and a rationale, always born from reflection on ways of dwelling, being, feeling, and living to uncover its motivating meaning. Architecture that acts as an extension of its inhabitants and a reflection of the architect. Architecture that seeks to restore our essence and reconnect us with our own nature. Life flows, and we must flow with it; for Gabriel Rivera, this translates into an architectural duality: stillness and movement. It involves understanding the void around which everything is built and organized—a void understood as space and as a possibility for introspection—alongside the flow, the freedom of movement, of coming and staying.
On November 19, Editora Escola da Cidade launches Um guia de arquitetura de São Paulo: doze percursos e cento e vinte e quatro projetos [A Guide to the Architecture of São Paulo: Twelve Routes and One Hundred and Twenty-Four Projects], organized by architect and professor Fabio Valentim. The book presents a selection of significant works from the recent history of modern architecture in São Paulo and its subsequent developments.
Cinecubo is a film club hosted by the Institute of Architects of Brazil – São Paulo Department (IABsp), aimed at fostering dialogue between audiovisual and architectural languages and debating perspectives on the city. On the third Tuesday of every month at 7:30 PM, Cinecubo screens films followed by a discussion at the IABsp headquarters. Curated and moderated by Nana Maiolini, Travessia Filmes, and guests, the sessions are free and open to the public.
City Main Library Gwangju: This competition is aimed to search for designs of a public library, which will serve as a main Library in Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Did you know that a number of Glenn Murcutt AO’s designed projects have never—or not yet—been realised? Even so, thanks to Virtual Reality (VR) technology, you can now experience some of them in digitally rendered form—as close to finalised as they’ll get, at least for now. By this process, with Glenn’s full support and assistance, Sydney-based Sissons Architects are bringing two of his projects to life in extraordinary detail: the Donaldson House in Somers, Victoria, and a private house in Mount White, New South Wales.
