Following the success of our inaugural challenge last year, SkyCity is pleased to invite architects, designers, artists, engineers, scientists, restaurateurs, 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 Current construction methods are impacting the environment by relying on limited resources and outdated techniques. We believe that with current technology, we can create far more sophisticated homes that will revolutionize the future.

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Pierre de Meuron, Richard Sennett, Reinier de Graaf, and Winy Maas will join a diverse group of city makers, developers, investors, startups, urbanists, local governments, international institutions, citizen, and more, at this year's Moscow Urban Forum.

Quality of life in cities is in the centre of discussions among politicians, economists, urban managers and planners nowadays. Megacities focus their efforts on the improvement of the quality of urban environment, the development of housing, transport, and social infrastructure, launch and expansion of wide range of urban services, as well as the promotion of their cities as tourist destinations. Thus, the overall objective of city administrations all over the world is the enhancement of quality of life and the provision of services for well being of their citizens.

{CURA} has opened registration for the 8th "Entre Coletivos," to be held at the course's headquarters in São Paulo, starting at 7:00 PM on May 31st. The chosen theme is Landscape Architecture, and the firms Oficina2Mais and Seiva have been invited to participate.

Held since 1992, the ARQUISUR Congresses are organized by the member institutions of the Association of Public Schools and Faculties of Architecture of South America—currently composed of 28 schools and faculties from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The structure of ARQUISUR events reflects the three pillars of university activity: research, teaching, and outreach. Alongside these scientific events, teaching activities aimed at undergraduate students—the workshops—and the ARQUISUR Meetings take place.

The 21st Brazilian Congress of Architects announced on Monday, May 27, an extension of the deadline for project submissions, now open until June 15 via the website www.21cba.com.br. The event will take place in Porto Alegre from October 9 to 12, 2019, and is organized by the IAB-RS.

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."