HOUSE IN FOREST is pleased to announce its 6th annual international design competition: House In Forest 2020 - Wooden House. The competition is designed to challenge and seek creativity with ideas and concepts in architectural design, as well as landscape design and site planning. The aim of this competition is to promote our ideas of protecting the forest and its environment, as well as focusing on urban design problems, while simultaneously raising awareness of sustainability.
A special night to support DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State, honor the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice for the renovation of its landmark building, and celebrate the legacies of Kevin Roche and Dan Kiley.
The Portfolio Cycle continues at Simbiotika/Archmotion, a lecture series featuring "Made In Talca" firms and initiatives developed over the last few years in the Maule region and abroad.
The objective of this competition is to generate a conceptual proposal for a circus for acrobats and trapeze artists located at Plaza Dr. Escudero in the Parque Saavedra neighborhood of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
São Paulo, like other global metropolises, faces significant challenges in managing its water resources, including diffuse urban water pollution and flooding—consequences of an accelerated urbanization process that often overlooks the biophysical potential of its natural landscapes.
In this context, Green Infrastructure is recognized as a landscape design method capable of mitigating and treating water pollutants through the creation of multifunctional landscapes. These integrate Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) for ecological source-control management and adapt gray infrastructure to the hydrological cycle, while simultaneously reducing flood risks, providing opportunities for the revitalization of urban watercourses, and delivering additional ecosystem services to society.
The nexus between architecture and installation art has long been a topic worthy of exploration. Installation transforms space and interacts with the audience; it must be designed, constructed and installed and therefore relies on architectural components.
The Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIAU) is an initiative of the Government of Spain in collaboration with various Ibero-American institutions. After ten editions, it has established itself as a key reference for understanding the current state and future prospects of architecture and urbanism within the Ibero-American community.
From the author of Soviet Bus Stops, an underground trip through the Soviet Metro
The Center for Architecture is now accepting for applications for the 2019 Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant. The grant provides single or multiple awards of up to $25,000 for early to mid-level architects who wish to further their personal and professional development through travel. Originally conceived as a fund to provide architects with the experience of a European Grand Tour, recipients now explore unique travel research topics around the world. Recent topics include the study of architecture in Siberia, post-revolutionary architecture in Cuba, and a survey of the art of topiary in Europe and the United States, among many others. The Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant focuses on self-directed education through travel. Itineraries should be focused on a selected topic of interest to the individual, rather than a part of a larger humanitarian or institutional endeavor.
Arquitectura Viva has released its latest monograph. This edition is dedicated to the Chilean firm Undurraga Devés, the architects behind projects such as the Palacio La Moneda Cultural Center (2004-2005), the Ministry of Social Development (2011-2014), and the Expo Milan Pavilion (2013-2015).
The lecture will briefly explore five questions that highlight the work of the architectural firm founded by George Baird in the late 60's. Renamed Baird Sampson Architects when Barry Sampson became a partner in 1981 and Baird Sampson Neuert architects, when Jon Neuert became a principal in 1998, the firm has been in continuous practice for half a century. Each question encapsulates concerns pertinent to the evolution of the firm's interests and challenges over the decades.
The 5th Conference on “Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development” (UPADSD), follows the success of previous versions in 2015, 2017, 2018. It is concerned with the concept of sustainable development and the different approaches that have become essential to modern development and energy efficiency.
This lecture is being led by Adamo-Faiden which is an architectural firm established in Buenos Aires in 2005 by Sebastián Adamo and Marcelo Faiden. Whose practice extends to the field of teaching and research, and has been internationally recognized by different media and institutions, talk about how the realm of finance and risk management involves the identification, analysis, and mitigation of uncertainty, all of which are necessary for, and inseparable from financial return and performance. The speakers also go over and explore different topics/questions on How can architecture become an instrument of risk management, capable of wielding influence over economics and politics rather than being at the whim of both? And how a discipline that has traditionally been thought of in material and cultural terms be reconsidered in financial and socioeconomic ones?
Although the field of architecture likes to think it is cutting-edge, adamantly liberal, and on the forefront of history, we still look towards the compulsive tendencies of the glorified visionary, their revolutionary thoughts, illuminating process, and iconic vision. This historiography is, in and of itself, an obsession - fetishizing personas, establishing camps, crafting a storyline that awards persuasion and trend over quality and sincerity. In the longstanding tradition of self-made, winner-take-all fanaticism, now more than ever do we see a craving for attention that is pulling (or rather dragging) the field even further from its core values and closer to soulless squander.
La Ruta Solar is organizing the third edition of Expo Construye Solar in Chile, a project in which various universities across the country present full-scale prototypes of sustainable social housing to promote environmental awareness.
The Contemporary Architecture Foundation announces the third edition of the #Entreplanos urban audiovisual competition, using this highly participatory activity to prepare for the celebration of World Town Planning Day, which will take place in November.
The Master’s Program in Territorial Management and Urban Planning (MOTPU IV) at the Faculty of Architecture, Arts, Design, and Urbanism of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia, presents the international seminar: "Technological Innovation in Urban Policy: A Critical Perspective."
This Master Class will share Leopoldo Prat Vargas's 42 years of teaching at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Chile, juxtaposing this experience with his 50 years of professional practice through architectural projects and competitions.