The 36th Colombian Congress of Architecture and Urbanism is a forum for reflection and analysis of the challenges facing a territory in transformation. The event aims to update participants on international architectural trends, introduce new business models, and provide an extensive portfolio of commercial contacts. It will be an environment for networking with the country's leading architects, who make the purchasing decisions for the most significant projects currently under construction in both the public and private sectors.
The book "4x4x4. Mockup de habitação," a partnership between Universidade São Judas Tadeu, CAU/SP (Grant Agreement 09/201), and Instituto Anima, will be launched next Monday, June 24, at 7:00 PM.
Creating a book about this work of architecture—this house—means completing the work we began there and rounding out the story of this project up to a certain point. The book documents the various stages of thought, action, and effort that made its creation and materialization possible.
This book aims to showcase, as far as possible, everything from the precedents of an abstract idea and the process of transforming it into architecture, to the presence and importance of the people involved in the work required to build it.
The School of Architecture, Art and Design at Tecnológico de Monterrey will host the panel discussion “From the Project to the City, From the City to the Project” on Wednesday, June 19, at 7:00 p.m. at Espacio CDMX: Av. de los Compositores No. 4, Bosque de Chapultepec II Sección, CDMX.
On June 20, prominent architect, urbanist, and civic designer Domenico di Siena will lead a workshop on urban interventions, sponsored by Las Condes Design. The renowned international consultant and researcher in collective intelligence and innovation processes is visiting Chile to bring together stakeholders from the public, private, and academic sectors to discuss urban interventions through the lenses of placemaking and technical urbanism.
Cinecubo is a film club hosted by the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB) 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 IAB-sp headquarters. Curated and moderated by Nana Maiolini, Travessia Filmes, and guests, the sessions are free and open to the general public.
115 hours of lessons, a 30-hour workshop, lectures and placement opportunities in internationally-renowned architectural firms like SIMONE MICHELI ARCHITECTURAL HERO - PARTISANS - TNE ARCHITECTS - CARLOS MARTINEZ ARCHITEKTEN - ANDREA MAFFEI ARCHITECTS - ALBERTO APOSTOLI
The competition aims to recognize the value of interior workspace design and distinguish interior design interventions that impact how people interact, while supporting companies in their strategies to elevate their operations to a new and improved way of working.
The first course on Container Architecture and Construction to be held in Chile, organized jointly by the CDT of the Chilean Chamber of Construction, Housetech, and Arquibox, and taught by architect and expert in this field, Felipe Savassi.
The Martin Architecture and Design Workshop (MADWORKSHOP) supports students, makers, artists, and architects in the realization of socially valuable design projects. Our thriving fellowship and education programs nurture thinkers who will make radical, sustainable, and lasting contributions to the design discourse and society at large. Merging a contemporary aesthetic agenda, ambitious fabrication techniques, and the mentorship of MADWORKSHOP’s experienced Board of Directors, the foundation offers emerging designers the opportunity to take their ideas from concept to reality.
The Houston Endowment Headquarters International Design Competition is a global search for an outstanding design team of architects and landscape architects for the philanthropy’s new headquarters.
urbanHIST welcomes abstracts on the main theme of its second conference: Interpreting 20th Century European Urbanism. As an explicitly interdisciplinary project, we encourage submissions from urbanism, planning, and architectural historians; preservationists; geographers; museum curators; and independent scholars. More information about the suggested tracks for abstracts is available at: www.bth.se/urbanhistconference.
The second lecture of the Latin American Architecture Cycle will be led by Carlos Medellín, a member of El Equipo Mazzanti (Colombia). It will take place on Thursday, June 27, at 5:00 PM in the Marcos Winograd Auditorium, FAU47 (47th Street No. 162, La Plata).
On the night of April 15 in Paris, television networks, social media—the entire planet, in fact—watched as the Notre-Dame Cathedral burned. Tears, horror, and shock gripped the world at the prospect of seeing the most visited monument on Earth reduced to ashes; yet, after a long night, the city preserved Notre-Dame.
This year is the tenth anniversary of the first edition launched in Concepción, Chile. That pioneer meeting that embraced academics, professionals, technicians and companies from the forestry-timber sector, built the basis for productive exchanges among the countries of the region. Subsequent 2017 and 2018 meetings in Junín (Argentina) and San Carlos (Brazil), consolidated the CLEM as a synergistic forum.
Vectorworks, Inc. invites undergraduate students and recent graduates to enter the Vectorworks Design Scholarship. Applicants that share their best work will have the opportunity to win up to $10,000 USD, gain professional recognition and propel themselves into a bright future of design. Additionally, winners’ schools will receive free Vectorworks Designer software and complimentary training for faculty and students.
