Drawing on his expertise and experience, Diego González Alanis invites us to recognize our responsibility to make informed decisions that leverage landscape architecture to improve the city's quality of life and functionality. In his presentation, "The Power of Urban Nature," Diego explores the opportunity provided by this discipline—which complements architecture—to integrate nature in a useful and functional way. He highlights the potential to restore ecosystems degraded by urbanization and construction, while simultaneously fostering local wildlife development.

The Galvanizers Association Galvanizing Awards (GAGAs) is a free annual competition which has been recognising the use of galvanizing since 1994.

IDEA-TOPS Organizing Committee has announced the 10th International Space Design Award, calling for marvelous projects of interior design and architecture from around the world. The winners will be selected by an international jury, which is consisted of senior experts in the field, with the principles of being professional, rigorous, fair and just.

“A HOUSE IS MACHINE FOR LIVING IN” – LE CORBUSIER

Dwelling (A House) remains the place where we all spent most of the time of our lives and experience architecture, learn connect to it through emotions. A dwelling represents our culture our backgrounds, ownership, safety. A dwelling is a place we all want to return where everyone finds comfort, despite how chaotic our lives are.

The Al Wathba Wetland Reserve in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi is home to a vibrance of wildlife, the most famous of which are its flamingo population. The magnificent waves of pink flock to the reserve every autumn to spend the cooler winter months residing in the wetlands until spring, as many as 4,000 at a time.

The second issue of Room will reconvene in the Kitchen; a space that savors the possibilities of both cultural appreciation and cross contamination, serving basic sustenance and special occasions. Taste here is significant though subjective, with its stainless steel tongue wiped perpetually in an attempt to cleanse the palate. Nuanced residues of gender, class, labour, race, and climate cling to the cloth among germs and grains of salt.

Every year, the Festival is visited by a large public. In 2019, it received 19 000 visitors and has been widely published in France and abroad.
For the 15th edition, the Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier will take place from June the 9th to the 14th 2020. The festival thematic is Transition. The FAV will keep to aware a wide public to architecture, to highlight a young generation of architects and to discover places from the urban heritage.

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.

PERSPECTIVES FROM THE SOUTH: PLACES AND IDENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

Architecture Dialogues by the Collegiate of State Entities of Architects and Urban Planners of CAU-SP

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.

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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.

Master's and PhD students in Architecture and Urbanism, share your research with the world!

Architects and urban planners, show your work to the world!