Days before the opening of the 7th edition at Cinema São Jorge in Lisbon, which takes place from June 4 to 9, the Arquiteturas Film Festival (AFF) is preparing for its official presentation on May 30 at the Roca Lisboa Gallery, starting at 6:30 PM.

EL ASUNTO URBANO, in collaboration with the MUSEO TAMAYO, presents the third edition of SUMMER SCHOOL, a training program that seeks to foster transdisciplinary practice in the design of projects that intersect visual arts, literature, architecture, and urbanism. The program takes the urban environment and the various possibilities of city-making, citizenship, and memory as its starting point.

The mobility perspective has shown significant analytical potential in territorial studies, addressing mobility either as an object or as an analytical lens for observing the territory. As an object, it allows for an emphasis on people's experiences in their practices of changing locations. As an approach, it reveals complex interrelationships that occur in daily life through the use of mobile concepts and methodologies.

Upgrading skills, renewing oneself, or reinventing a career can sometimes feel like a pipe dream. Indeed, work and family obligations, or simply where we live, often make it nearly impossible.

For Paris Design Week, taking place from September 5 to 14, 2019, in Paris, maison marcoux mexico is pleased to occupy the display windows of the Cultural Institute of Mexico from August 30 to September 17, 2019. The 9 pieces of the Mezcalienne collection, conceived by Constance Guisset and staged by the designer herself, will be presented there.

Javier Sordo Madaleno Bringas was born in Mexico City in 1956 and studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Iberoamericana (1974–1979). He has made significant contributions to architectural development and style in Mexico, improving the built environment and the quality of life for users. With over forty years of experience as an architect and developer, his professional career has been highly prolific, encompassing approximately 190 designed projects, more than nine million square meters built, and around two and a half million square meters developed. His most representative projects include: Hotel Westin Regina L.C. (1993), Moliére Dos22 (1997), Masterplan Antara (2006–2018), San Josémaría Escrivá Church (2008), Masterplan Andares (2009–2017), Antea Lifestyle Center (2013), Toreo Parque Central (2014), Residencial Artesia (2014), Andamar Lifestyle Center (2014), Grand Hyatt Playa del Carmen (2015), ARTZ Pedregal (2018), and 28 projects for the Teletón Foundation (1999–2016).

New design competition on Desall.com: MetaFin and Desall invite you to propose a new concept for a green recreational area to be built in the near future, conceived as a gathering space for families, a playground for children, and an area dedicated to sports, culture, activities, and community events.

Thursday, May 30, 2019
Tercerunquinto Lecture

After 15 years of success and replicating the format of major global cities, WORKTECH LATAM brings together international experts to provide an inspiring and innovative perspective. The event offers exclusive content that blends new ideas, strategies, case studies, and industry developments, while providing a dynamic forum for debate on the trends shaping the future of the workplace and new ways of working.

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Following a successful competition in our first challenge last year, SkyCity is pleased to invite architects, designers, artists, engineers, scientists, restoration experts, digital nomads, craftspeople, and anyone with big ideas from around the world to participate in the SkyCity Challenge 2019: The Future of Housing. Current construction methods are impacting the environment in which we live, relying on limited resources and outdated building practices. We believe that with today's technology, we can create much more sophisticated housing that can revolutionize the future.

Philip Ursprung, Dean of the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, presents two essays in this Docs: "Representation of Work" discusses, through authors such as Harun Farocki and Guy Debord, the invisibilization of alienated labor at the foundation of the current economic model, arguing that the discussion regarding the representation of work must also be a discussion about the role of architects in society.

Adrian Forty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History at UCL, presents two articles in this ARQDocs in which he precisely discusses, first, the use of the concept (and word) 'primitive' at different moments in the history of the discipline, and subsequently examines its dependency on the written word, extending and revising the conclusions of his book, 'Words and Buildings'.

Thomas Weaver is an architecture writer and editor. Having served as editor of AA Files for 10 years, he is currently a visiting professor at the Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design at TU Delft. In this ARQDocs volume, he presents the essays "Grimm the Modelmaker" and "Against Research."

Manuel Corrada holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Chile. He is a researcher in logic, the metamathematics of set theory, Gödel’s methods, and Turing machines. He has published various scientific articles, as well as writings on design, perception, architecture, and book criticism.

Beatriz Colomina is the director and founder of the interdisciplinary Media and Modernity program at Princeton University in the United States, where she also serves as a professor and director of Graduate Studies at the School of Architecture.

Selling bricks and exposing architectural avant-garde is an audiovisual archive project developed by Pablo Ibáñez Ferrera and Antonio Giráldez López since 2018. To date, it has taken the form of an Instagram feed (@kellycorbusier) and a publication. Selling bricks captures avant-garde architecture and cases of particular relevance featured in urban music videos in Spain.

This publication is a device of the Fiestas Raras (Queer Parties) project, a contribution aimed at opening new lines of flight regarding the queer, the party, and public space. It brings together voices and reflections on the potential of thinking about public space from a non-normative perspective—viewing the queer as a form of tension against the canonical, and the party as a mechanism for encounter through which to weave alliances.

As part of the elective course "Architectural Production Modes: Dissemination and Criticism," architect and 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena will deliver a lecture delving into the trajectory and production methods of ELEMENTAL, through the exhibition work produced by the firm for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.