Aiming to showcase contemporary Japan, whose architecture is internationally recognized, Japan House São Paulo, Arq.Futuro, and the Japanese Pavilion are hosting the debate series "Designing Cultural Institutions: Contemporary Challenges" throughout 2019, featuring renowned Brazilian and Japanese architects. The first session will take place on May 2nd at the Japanese Pavilion, featuring Vinicius Andrade and Hiroshi Sambuichi, who is visiting Brazil for the first time.
Curated by Natasha Barzaghi Geenen, Cultural Director of Japan House São Paulo, the series—which consists of four sessions—will address the current challenges of designing a cultural institution, taking into account new possibilities for space usage and the various media, platforms, and dimensions of contemporary artworks. A session featuring Brazilian architect Thiago Bernardes and Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane, who will have a solo exhibition at Japan House São Paulo in the second half of the year, is already scheduled for August.
The starting point for this series is how architecture responds to the daily challenges faced by cultural institutions, which have evolved into spaces where a wide variety of activities take place—from traditional exhibitions and art preservation to lectures, meetings, workshops, screenings, and performances, as well as spaces dedicated to cafés and restaurants. "These institutions play a fundamental and growing role as centers for social interaction. The versatility of these spaces must be considered from the moment the architectural project is conceived," comments Natasha, the series curator.
The question, "What are the premises and challenges of designing these institutions today? And what is the architect's role in this multidisciplinary work?" guides this series, which aims to debate these issues and present proposals, thereby creating a parallel and contributing to reflection on the subject.
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Cremme Furniture Publishing and the Oscar Niemeyer Museum open an exhibition on Le Corbusier

The Master’s Program in Project Research at the POIESIS Center (FADU UBA) is pleased to invite you to the lecture "Summoning Matter," to be delivered by renowned Paraguayan architect Solano Benítez. This event will take place within the framework of the workshop "Material Experimentations: From Potential Matter to Actual Material." The event will be held on Monday, May 6, 2019, at 7:00 PM in the FADU Aula Magna and is open to the general public.

Miguel Lawner Steiman, alumnus and academic at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Chile and Executive Director of the Urban Improvement Corporation (CORMU) during the Salvador Allende administration, will deliver the keynote lecture "An Architect in Prison."

The International Biennial of Adventist Academic Architecture (BIAAA) is a non-profit event held every two years in a different country belonging to the Adventist Architecture Schools Network. The BIAAA began in 2017 as a joint effort between the schools of architecture at Montemorelos University (Mexico), Peruvian Union University (Peru), the Adventist University Center of São Paulo (Brazil), Andrews University (United States), and Sahmyook University (South Korea). The main purpose of the BIAAA is to bring together designers, professors, and students to engage with and reinterpret the design process, considering service to society as an essential principle. Consequently, the importance of the BIAAA lies in its role as a space to discuss the challenges and opportunities of social architecture and its impact on the community.

The two-week workshop at the UNI-BH University in Belo Horizonte aims to study issues related to the city's downtown area to develop an architectural and urban proposal for presentation to the local administration. Design activities will be accompanied by a series of lectures by guest speakers and three guided tours to Ouro Preto, Inhotim, and Pampulha. The workshop will be coordinated by Alberto Collet, Carlos Maia, Débora Vieira, and Igor Macedo, who form the group AAP – Alternative Academic Project. Workshop guests include Augusto Angelini (Santiago, Chile), Alexandre Brasil, Paula Zasnicoff, Arquitetos Associados (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Gustavo Penna (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Luciano Kruk (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Diego Arraigada (Rosario, Argentina), and Bloco Arquitetos (Brasilia, Brazil).

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This May, a symposium will discuss environmental responsibility in architecture and urban planning design decisions. Registration is now open.

POSSIBLE ARCHITECTURES: The Political Dimension of Architecture.

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The SESC Arsenal Gallery presents the exhibition AFINIDADES — a similarity of tastes, interests, and feelings.
Afinidades is a collection of works by Márcia Miranda and Éder Bispo, featuring prints, paintings, architectural projects, graphic design, furniture design, and surface design.

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We understand culture as all the actions through which peoples express their ways of creating, doing, and living; scientific, artistic, and technological creations; works, objects, documents, buildings, and other spaces intended for artistic-cultural manifestations; as well as urban complexes and sites of historical, landscape, artistic, archaeological, paleontological, ecological, and scientific value. Culture encompasses both the language through which people communicate, tell their stories, and write their poems, as well as how they build their homes, prepare their food, pray, and celebrate.

The HS Arquitetura Art Exhibition is back! The 7th Art Exhibition will be a special occasion, as we celebrate the anniversary of HS Arquitetura and the first edition of the event this year.

The National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscapers, and Conservationists of Italy and PAYSAGE (Promotion and Development for Landscape Architecture) are promoting the international "City Brand & Tourism Landscape Award" as part of the "City_Brand & Tourism Landscape" International Symposium.

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If you work in the world of architecture and find that your daily routine doesn't allow you to accomplish everything you would like, this book will be a great help.

Trama Magazine 151: Offices and Workspaces

Archstorming has launched the Tulum Plastic School, a competition seeking designs for a school built from recycled plastic in Tulum. The winning proposal will be constructed, and a cash prize of up to €20,000 will be awarded to the winners.

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The call for entries for the 2019 CEMEX Building Award, Mexico edition, closes on May 3. Projects completed in 2018 within the country are eligible. There will be 5 categories and 4 special awards. Winners will compete in the international edition.

The new series of city guides for architects by Architectour brings to life the lost essence of travel and discovery. A compilation of exciting places – known and not so known – arranged in an innovative way: a continuous scenic itinerary, which is fun to follow and is full of quirks and surprises along the way. Hand-drawn sketches by architect and author Virginia Duran are the personal touch of the book, revealing the essential without spoiling what is a traveling delight: our first impression of a place.