The call for applications for the Lilly Reich Grant for equality in architecture is open until April 8 for high school research projects focused on disseminating and highlighting contributions to architecture that have been unfairly sidelined or forgotten. The jury's decision will be announced on June 16, the anniversary of Lilly Reich's birth.
General poster for the Sarañani! 2022 Festival. Art by Oaxacan artist Fanel Reyes (@fannnel on Instagram)
The Sarañani! Festival of Native Architectures of the World (Let’s Walk) fulfills its promise as a traveling festival, arriving in Oaxaca, Mexico, for its second edition. From January 27 to 29, the Sarañani! Festival will bring together global architectures that share the goal of achieving more equitable and responsible living. Hosted from Oaxaca, the event is made possible through a partnership with the Roots studio, led by architect and artist João Boto Caeiro, whose work is recognized for its exceptional quality, integrating tradition, sustainability, and social purpose. This year’s theme, presented in the Nahuatl language, references the Oaxacan custom of Tequio—a form of collaboration that invites collective efforts to preserve the knowledge of living in community.
The 1st International GADU Congress: Gender, Architecture, Design, and Urbanism will take place from September 28 to October 1, 2022, in a hybrid format—both virtual and in-person—at the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The exhibition The Vienna Model - housing for the twenty-first-century city opens on Thursday, May 5, at the Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM). The exhibition is organized as part of the AHA (Affordable Housing Activation) UIA International Forum 2022.
Alameda 1873, drawing by Germán Hidalgo Hermosilla
April 20, 2022, marked the 150th anniversary of Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna taking office as Intendant of Santiago and proposing the challenge of its transformation. Two weeks later, on Wednesday, May 4, the opening of this temporary exhibition commemorating such a unique initiative took place.
'Unusual Architectures: "Other" Experiences in the Architecture and Urbanism of Santiago de Chile (1950–2020)' is an exhibition of city representation and photography. It showcases a collection of objects and cases from Santiago, a capital that increasingly presents itself as a casual, uncontrolled, and contingent accumulation of matter and experience—an expression of the "other" and the unfathomable.
The Atraviesos Urbanos (Urban Crossings), organized by the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae, consist of four walking tours through different sectors of the capital during the first semester of 2022. Each tour is led by an architecture faculty member who discusses the history and heritage value of each site for an audience of students, faculty, and the general public interested in learning more about the city.
This upcoming session, titled "From Plaza de Armas to the General Cemetery," will take place on Monday, May 16, at 3:00 PM. The route begins at kilometer 0 in Plaza de Armas, continuing through the Central Market, the Mapocho River, the Pérgola de las Flores, and Avenida La Paz, ending at the cemetery. The tour will be led by academic Max Palma.
Fotografia Edgard Torres, Diagramación Felipe Miño.
Within the academic dialogue and reflection space 'Del territorio al Detalle,' which brings together architecture professors and students alongside renowned architects, the spin-off 'Del territorio al detalle .re' explores, through informal conversations with key stakeholders, the thesis that a territory's richness stems from its capacity for renewal, activating its own disused spaces to transform them into challenges and resources.
This Friday, August 5, at 1:00 PM, David Miranda and Raúl Monterroso will discuss their contribution to Re_vista 05 of the Museo Experimental El Eco, titled "Modern Dreams, Magical Realisms, and Other Fantasies of Yesterday and Today."
"For Mies, modern architecture in the age of industrialization required a renewal of the art of building from within. This could not be achieved by inventing a new formal language, nor by turning architecture toward technology, as many of his modern colleagues assumed. In his view, the modern architect had to recover the intrinsic value of architectural phenomena and fuse them with new life, rather than abandoning architectural values in the name of a new era. From this perspective, Mies combined, for example, classical monumentality and modern transparency, using marble or travertine in combination with modern steel and glass construction.
Mies’s attempt to explore the architectural potential of modern steel construction and the language of formal abstraction was not dedicated to rationalization, but to a new measure of spatial freedom. To achieve this, in the late 1920s, Mies developed his concept of the dialogue between opposites and their morphological transformation, brilliantly implemented in the 1929 Barcelona Pavilion. Later, in his American work, Mies transformed modern steel construction into a classical tectonic framework for an open, column-free space." - Fritz Neumeyer
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Starting March 15, Guatemala will host its first-ever biennial event dedicated to the best of Guatemalan design: Red Space, organized by the Guatemalan Interior Design Association (ASODI). This significant event will cover topics in architecture, interior design, sculpture, painting, and the latest trends in decor. It will be a month filled with design in Guatemala.
Porto Academy is the result of a profound passion for architecture as a discipline. It was established in 2013 as a manifesto of pluralism and opportunity, rooted in close engagement with a wide range of architects, artists, and curators.
Porto Academy is the result of a profound passion for architecture as a discipline. It was created in 2013 as a manifesto of pluralism and opportunity, based on close engagement with a wide range of architects, artists, and curators.
We invite you to join us on January 31st at 10:30 AM (Dubai local time) for the roundtable discussion "Women & Sustainability: Perspectives from Architecture, Design, Education and Corporations," to be held at the Women's Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.
Discover SketchUp and its workflow with other documentation and rendering software in four completely free workshops held on June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 2022.
As part of an initiative to develop social projects aimed at improving housing for those in need, TAO is partnering with Urban Green and the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Morón to host a live "Workshop-Build" open to the public. The event will take place from March 7 to 11 at 7446 Galileo Galilei Street in Moreno, Buenos Aires Province.