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“Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavor to build an earthly paradise for people.” – Alvar Aalto

Imagining New York Stewart International Airport as a catalyst for urban regeneration

Milano Arch Week is a week of lectures, conversations, workshops, and itineraries on the main challenges of contemporary urban transformations.

Lunawood Urban Challenge invites all architecture students, architects and creative professionals to develop and submit compelling ideas to transform our urban cities. We need your help in creating a more natural – yet modern environment using Lunawood Thermowood.

Free and open to the public, particularly for architecture and urbanism students, the “Forum on Technical Assistance (ATHIS) and University Extension in Social Interest Housing: Integrated Action in Urban Space” will take place from May 16 to 19, 2019.

AsBEA Seminar - Where do we stand after the approval of the LPUOS and COE? Uncertainties, questions, regulations, and new administrative procedures.

Starting May 15 at 7:30 PM, the exhibition "Premios y Obras" (Awards and Works) will be on display at the Sociedad Central de Arquitectos (Montevideo 938, CABA). The exhibition compiles winning projects from public competitions held over the last 10 years. Organized by the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (UNLP), the exhibition can be visited in the Salón de las Columnas on the first floor of the SCA. Admission is free.

The book Parques urbanos de São Paulo (Urban Parks of São Paulo) features photographic essays documenting the daily life of thirteen parks in São Paulo, as diverse as the city and its population: parks in the center and the periphery, new and old, famous and locally known. The photos reveal the plurality of uses that residents make of these spaces, and surprise by showing them from a detached perspective, focusing equally on both planned and incidental aspects. The book launch will take place, fittingly, at Ibirapuera Park on May 11th at 11:00 AM.

The cities of Belo Horizonte (May) and Rio de Janeiro (June) will host sessions of Gabriel Kogan's course on the history of international contemporary architecture.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is pleased to announce the launch of the Global Summer School 2019 - Becoming, the 12th edition of the international summer program on the future of our cities, which will take place in Barcelona and simultaneously at other nodes around the world from July 1 to 14, 2019.

To launch its BIM training series, Conexión Eventos will host the conference "BIM: Optimize Design and Construction Processes."

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The Landhaus Lemke is a private residence designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1932, while he was working as the director of the Bauhaus. Completed one year later, the Mies van der Rohe House is filled with rich history and is focused today on organizing exhibitions by contemporary international artists in dialogue to the architecture of the house.

Living Buildings, Donald Insall

Book review by Simon Henley

In Praise of Shadow is the title of the famous book by Japanese author Junichiro Tanizaki, first published in 1933. In it, Tanizaki critiques the West's excess of light and the exhibitionism of forms and colors. It is also the title of a collection of poetry by Jorge Luis Borges, in which he reflects on the awareness of his own shadow and the shadow of his work, where he finds his reflection. As he writes in the poem:

For the fourteenth edition of the "Con Lo Que Hay" (With What We Have) Workshop (PUCE-FADA), we invite you to learn by doing as we construct the San Francisco de Miravalle Bajo de Guápulo Community Center. Learn about three different construction systems through three "on-site" workshops and contribute to the completion of the project; all proceeds will benefit the community.

The objective of this workshop is to reflect on our roles as professionals, educators, and students of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Urbanism, and Design. Participants will explore the application of forces and the assembly of structures—ranging from the scale of the human body to large-scale projects—while establishing a fundamental link between the construction process and structural analysis (spatial and organic).

Growing Home: Archive of Master Architects’ Own Houses (1930s-1960s)

The early modern architecture is diverse, some of which are still maintaining their vitality until now. This exhibition focus on architects' own houses, most of which are works during the modern movement. In this case, the architect is both the designer and the client, and the house is where they work and live. Daily life within the house is a manifesto of both the architecture and a distinct way of living. The house is both a warm harbor meanwhile a business card for the architect. Undoubtedly, the houses present the architects' respective visions, which grow with times and allow us to examine the richness of modern architecture.

Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena (1967), Pritzker Prize laureate and curator of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale "Reporting From the Front," holds a position of particular relevance in contemporary architectural debate and production.