On Thursday, May 23, the FAU auditorium will host the panel discussion "Teaching and Overload in Architecture." The event will be moderated by Nicolas Valencia, ArchDaily's Editorial Data & Content Manager, and will feature:

Attend the first YAP International Seminar: New Practices in Contemporary Young Architecture

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.

The international design competition seeks to shape the new central space in Sant Feliu, Barcelona. The goal is to solicit urban proposals for the space that will be freed up once the railway tracks are placed underground. Sant Feliu must leverage this urban project as a catalyst for the city's transformation.

With various itinerary options, the city center allows for an exploration of modern buildings within the Historic Triangle, showcasing the experience of a pedestrian-oriented city. It is also possible to explore the area around Avenida São Luís and rediscover the Copan, the Esther, the Terraço Itália, and the Metrópole, Califórnia, and Rock galleries, all while being captivated by the new SESC 24 de Maio.
André Scarpa
An architect and photographer who graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto in Portugal, Scarpa has worked with architects Álvaro Siza and António Madureira. Having returned to São Paulo in 2011, Scarpa worked as an associate at Nitsche Arquitetos until 2018 and has been creating personalized architecture-focused city tours since 2013.
1 session | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Saturday

To explore the work of the architect behind some of São Paulo's most iconic buildings, we invite you on a tour that spans from her residential designs to her powerful and democratic public spaces.

The tour begins on Rua Pará, where we will see the Buenos Aires (Majer Botkowski), Abaeté (Abrahão Sanovicz), and Solar do Conde (Pedro Paulo de Melo Saraiva) buildings. We will head down Avenida Angélica toward Parque Buenos Aires, passing the Imperator (Vaidergorn and Verona) and Vera Cruz (Oswaldo Bratke) buildings. We will also visit the Paquita Building (Alfred Dundutch), cross the park toward Praça Vilaboim, and finally conclude at the Louveira Building (Vilanova Artigas and Carlos Cascaldi).
*Special student pricing available. Please contact us.

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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.

History of Art, Painting, Architecture, Photography & Cinema Course - Module 3

This course—offered in three monthly modules (April, May, and June) of four classes each—will discuss central issues in the history of modern art through iconic works by Paul Cézanne, Louise Bourgeois, Le Corbusier, Marguerite Duras, Federico Fellini, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, Kazimir Malevich, Hannes Meyer, Aleksander Rodchenko, Arnold Schoenberg, and Giuseppe Terragni. The modules can be taken individually or sequentially. By adopting a critical and non-linear approach to the history of art and architecture, the classes will explore paradigmatic points of the field in the 20th century. The diverse group of young speakers selected—including art historians, curators, architects, and psychoanalysts—provides, in itself, an overview of contemporary art criticism and research in São Paulo.

In previous decades, Ediciones ARQ published the first "Compendium ARQ" volumes, focusing on the work of an emerging generation from the 1990s and later, in the mid-2000s, on vacation homes, recognizing a new spirit in Chilean architecture that, at the time, sought to innovate in form and its relationship with the landscape, unique to our national territory.

This edition of the Architectural Culture Lecture Series [CCCA] explores various approaches to architecture and the city through an understanding of the floor plan. Graphic representation is an indispensable instrument in the discipline, and the floor plan, as the quintessential architectural tool, not only represents the project's concept but also manifests a discourse—a vision of the specific context in which the work is framed. History, economy, and society are all captured within it.

The Spanish company Beltá & Frajumar, a manufacturer of home and hospitality furniture and upholstery, invites professionals, architects, and interior designers specializing in habitat environments to participate in the InterCIDEC'19 International Contract Design Competition.

The purpose of this call is to create an artistic or expressive work that represents and gives form to the competition's interpretive scope.

Ediciones Asimétricas, in collaboration with the Fernando Higueras Foundation, the ICO Foundation, the ICO Museum, and the Ministry of Public Works, has published the 2nd edition of the catalog Fernando Higueras. Desde el origen.

In defense of Modernity and against all robotic classicism and buffoonish romanticism, Miranda has always been an uncomfortable presence—a resistor who understands the value of the sedimentation of structured thought and knows that one must preach constantly. A committed intellectual during cloying times when the most pedestrian discipline took over the classrooms, his voice has been beloved by students and scorned by many of his colleagues in an Academy he has always questioned. This doubt has become an instrument for transforming his thinking; we know that doubting is dangerous, as those in power have always fed us certainties that allow for unceasing adoration, yet never for progress or change.

This essay examines the role of the architect in contemporary society, aiming to be critical and, even more so, combative. Grounded in a deep understanding of the profession's history, the author seeks lessons from the past to illuminate paths for the architect of the future. It addresses not only the individual but also the collective, operating on the belief that opportunities for professional corporatism still remain.

Cultural criticism is an occupation as serious as the work of an actor or a comedian. No society can do without it without suffering an internal process of fatal contraction. Neither can architecture, a discipline that suffers—perhaps more than most—from the pressures of political and economic powers, as well as the prejudices of the public and architects themselves. With the same insistence that people speak of the 'death of the novel,' some critics and historians frequently revisit the tropes of the 'death of architecture' and the 'death of criticism.' These are bad times for criticism. Yet it is precisely the threatened state of the discipline—the fact that it finds itself in a 'crisis' that will lead either to its death or to its revitalization—that opens the door to reflecting on it without prejudice.