PAE 1st Congress: Principles of Architecture offers students, architecture professionals, and those in allied disciplines an opportunity to explore topics that will foster personal and professional growth, alongside distinguished national and international speakers and fellow students from across the country.
Do you struggle to understand the latest trends in contemporary architecture? Don't worry; few can navigate the landscape of buildings with glossy finishes or envelopes that appear to be in ruins. Moreover, it is difficult to grasp why buildings designed by renowned architects no longer reflect traditional standards of good composition or the Vitruvian triad: firmness, commodity, and delight. In fact, these buildings are often clad in gold leaf, incorporate gargantuan images, are covered in vegetation, or appear to hover above the ground.
On Tuesday, November 19, the COAC (Architects' Association of Catalonia) will host a public event to mark the launch of the book La Casa de Ozu by architect Marta Peris. In addition to the author, the event will feature philosopher and art critic Menene Gras Balaguer (Director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Asia) and architects Josep Ferrando and Antonio de Moragas.
The Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea and Grupo Cosentino invite you to the colloquium "Bringing Contemporary Architecture Closer to Society." Moderated by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, the event will feature architects Rafael de La-Hoz, Victoria Garriga, and María González, all trustees of the Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea and participants in various editions of the international MadeinSpain lecture series.
The Master’s Program in Territorial Planning and Urban Planning (MOTPU IV), from the Faculty of Architecture, Arts, Design, and Urbanism at the Higher University of San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia, presents the seminar: "Conceptual and Empirical Contributions to the Optimal Location of Collective Facilities or Services in Urban Spaces."
ARKxSITE is pleased to announce the international architecture ideas competition ‘SITE MONASTERY’ for architecture students and young professionals (≤ 40 years old).
At Visualiza VR19, we aim to cover a broader range of topics, expanding our focus to include video games, artistic and cultural projects, and even healthcare, while continuing to explore virtual reality applications for architecture, industry, and civil engineering.
The SKYHIVE 2020 Skyscraper Challenge is the third annual architecture competition which searches out the latest and greatest designs for an iconic high rise structure. Participants of the SKYHIVE Challenge are tasked with creating a concept for a state-of-the-art tower that breaks from the norm.
ARKxSITE is pleased to announce the ‘SITE MONASTERY’ international architecture ideas competition for architecture students and young professionals (≤ 40 years old).
This book considers the contemporary house through close scrutiny of works designed by Ian MacDonald, and the ideas that are embedded within them. The architect explores boundary and illusion, and considers site and sightings in both the city and countryside to create houses that appear, disappear, and re-appear. Energetic explorations of land and considerations of weather provide the basis for MacDonald's designs of residential spaces that capture particular views, establish sequences of movement, and make inspiring places to live in nature. Featuring a well-illustrated selection of projects designed over the past twenty years, the book outlines MacDonald's way of working, notably his engagement with landscape. By carefully observing a site's topographic features and vegetative cover and by using these observations in the design of a house, from early conceptual sketches to detailed construction documents, MacDonald ensures that the essential character of the site is present in the experience of the house.
It is a great honor and a particular pleasure for us to warmly invite you to attend the 3rd International Conference on Innovative Technologies for Clean and Sustainable Development co-sponsored by American Concrete Institute (ACI) and RILEM Association in February 2020 in Chandigarh, India.
Layered Landscapes Lofoten — Understanding of Complexity, Otherness and Change adresses today’s most urgent issues about living together in landscapes and territories under severe pressure and transformation. The landscape holds essential information about our common history, ecology and social behavior — both rational and cognitive experience, and even hidden enigmas. The authors suggest how an open and unbiased approach to the landscape enables us to understand and operationalize knowledge and theory into valid proposals and projects for the future — not primarily through the traditional and habitual idea of the architectural object, but rather in contact with a global, collective and spatial territorial reality.
Archistart promotes the fourth Architectural Thesis Award, the international thesis award, launched with the aim of promoting, rewarding and giving visibility to young talents in architecture.
In our present moment, the incessant production of culture and knowledge imparts an important task to the notion of commitment. Knowledge and culture are produced in excess in institutions and popular culture, making it the impossible task of critics and scholars to sift through endless amounts of cultural material and make value judgements. Partly a consequence and a cause of a shift in thinking that began in the 1960s and 1970s, a phenomenon that could be called a democratization of production (of narratives, images, cultures) has had some positive effects for the civil rights movements, leading to the inclusion of underrepresented demographics into fields that were previously hostile to them. However, the consequences of the Postmodern debunking of universal truth (that was necessary for and produced by such a shift in thinking) has carried with it the accompanying erosion of the concept of morality. The last decade has seen a further dismantling of the universal notion of “truth” and its effects in politics—note the great difficulty for contemporary politicians to convincingly assert that something is morally correct and necessary. The statement that “truth is subjective,” once a great tool to undermine the dominant grand narratives of the past, is now freely used in the name of individual freedoms, often without assessing the morality of such freedoms.
Cinema Tamayo
Presents:
Female Protagonists
Aquarius
On 14th October 2019 the Czech Museum of Romani Culture in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and ONplan, the competition organizer, announced a landscape and architectural competition for a memorial to the Roma and Sinti Holocaust victims in Bohemia. The memorial is to be set in Lety u Písku, a village where during World War Two a so-called Gypsy Camp was built, a forced labour facility for Bohemian Roma and Sinti before their transport to Auschwitz.
Concéntrico, the Logroño (Spain) International Architecture and Design Festival, seeks to reflect on the urban environment and the city through different formats of architectural and design projects. Next year’s edition, Concéntrico 06, will take place from April 29 to May 3, 2020.
The world is facing a huge learning crisis. Education systems have become so generic and systemic that it doesn’t provide personal, innovative and optimized care to its pupils. While countries have significantly increased access to education, being in school isn’t the same thing as learning. Worldwide, hundreds of millions of children reach young adulthood without even the most basic skills like calculating the correct change from a transaction, reading a doctor’s instructions, or understanding a bus schedule—let alone building a fulfilling career or educating their children.