During the final week of April 2019, João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba, will host leading figures associated with discussions on the right to the city. Students, researchers, professionals, intellectuals, and activists from across Brazil will participate in the IESP Faculdades Academic Week of Architecture and Urbanism (SAAU’19), which this year will incorporate one of the most important events of the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB) into its program. The event will take place at the Espaço Cultural José Lins do Rêgo, provided in partnership by the Cultural Space Foundation (FUNESC) of the Paraíba State Government.

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The AAP (Alternative Academic Project) is the result of an interest in fostering an alternative debate regarding architecture, urban planning, and landscape. We believe that contemporary education is built upon small components with a strong emphasis on diversity and internationality. Practice as an exercise of the architectural profession, with the intent of offering intellectual freedom, is fundamental to the future of the discipline. Through this project, we seek to blur boundaries and bring people together. The AAP aims to be an organization of professionals capable of providing concrete responses to territorial transformations, serving as a critical complement to architecture schools.

On Tuesday, April 2, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Santiago (Quinta Normal location) will host the opening of the exhibition "Stadium: A Building that Visualizes the Image of a City," a pavilion led by architect Alejandra Celedón that represented Chile at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018.

We, the curators of the Carlo Ratti/South China-Torino Lab (Politecnico di Torino-South China University of Technology CUT) team, are pleased to announce the Open Call for proposals to participate in the “Eyes of the City” exhibition section in the framework of the 2019 Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB). We invite international architects, planners, designers, philosophers, thinkers, scientists, companies, educational institutions, research laboratories, think-tanks and students to submit their proposals from April 1st to May 31st, 2019. The Open Call will accept proposals for design projects, research projects and critical essays that will form the core of the “Eyes of the City” exhibition section, that will be hosted in UABB’s main venue.

Download the information related to this competition here.

The 11th Biennial team and the IABsp invite you to the launch happy hour for the 11th São Paulo Architecture Biennial catalog.

Ideas Competitions: Design against war
New ideas competition on Desall: EMERGENCY, SOSDesign, and Desall invite you to design environments, products, and services to meet the needs and desires of daily life and care in territories affected by war.

This workshop will be led by ZAP&BUJ, winners of the eighth edition of the 2017 Samsung EGO Innovation Project, finalists for Vogue Who´s on Next 2018 and 2019, and recipients of awards at the Ibero-American Design Biennial (BID18), among other recognitions.

Architecture, like any discipline, develops its theory through words; yet, it is equally capable of thinking in images. When Renaissance humanists began to set forth their knowledge of the art of building in treatises, they tended to combine words and illustrations. In fact, some of the most celebrated treatises resemble visual atlases more than written volumes. But how can an image develop a theory? The theoretical fertility of the image emerges, almost by surprise, if we replace the modern conception of "theory" with the genuine meaning of the Greek term theoria: the act of "contemplation" and "speculation," of developing a "vision."

The rapid and intensive evolution of biological and digital technologies at the end of the 20th century has brought about significant transformations in our daily and professional habits.

On March 29 at 7:00 PM, IED will host the free debate "Augmented City – Design and Creativity as Transformative Elements of Urban Territories," featuring Italian architect and urban planner Maurizio Carta (b. 1967, Palermo), Rio de Janeiro-based architect and urban planner Pedro Évora (b. 1978), and Andrea Matarazzo, with moderation by designer Alexandre Salles. The event is part of the Italian Design Day program, established by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to celebrate the influence of Italian design in cities worldwide. Maurizio Carta is the author of several publications and explores the concept of the "augmented city" in books such as Dynamics of Periphery: Atlas of Emerging Creative Resilient Habitats and Territories: Rural-Urban Strategies, both co-authored with J. Schroeder, M. Ferretti, and B. Lino, and published by Jovis, Berlin, in 2018 and 2017, respectively. He is a full professor of urban and regional planning in the Department of Architecture at the University of Palermo and serves as the ambassador for Italian Design Day 2019.

The Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora and the DOMVS research group, in partnership with the Juiz de Fora Department of Transportation and Traffic, the National Front of Mayors, and WRI Brasil, cordially invite you to the exhibition "Juiz de Fora for People: Marechal Deodoro and Batista de Oliveira through the lens of 'Complete Streets,'" running from March 14 to April 30 at the Correios Cultural Space, located at 470 Marechal Deodoro Street, Juiz de Fora (MG).

The big Archikidz Lisbon celebration is back!
April 13, at the Torreão Poente of Terreiro do Paço, from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
For children approximately 5 to 10 years old.
Free admission – registration required.
http://archikidzlisboa.com/inscricoes/inscricoes-criancas/
Guests: Margarida Botelho, illustrator and architect, and Ricardo Oliveira Alves, architectural photographer.

This book on engineer Rubens Meister (1922–2009) aims to contribute to the preservation of Brazil's cultural heritage, specifically through the study of modern architecture in Curitiba. The research behind the book began in 2016, following a call for proposals from the Curitiba Cultural Foundation, supported by Caixa Econômica Federal.

In April, the NGO Vivacidade is hosting the Seminar on Housing Improvements in Self-Construction, a free event organized by the TABA group for Technical Assistance in Social Interest Housing, with funding support from the Council of Architecture and Urbanism of São Paulo (CAU/SP), under public notice no. 001/2018 and funding agreement no. 007/2018.

The 2019 Informal Means Symposium: Alternative Practices in Latin America will showcase unconventional production methods and professional empowerment within the built environment.

Castro Abierto is a festival of architecture, landscape, and heritage that invites the public to rediscover the commune by visiting spaces of high architectural, environmental, urban, social, and cultural value free of charge on March 30 and 31.
This event will take place for the first time in both urban and rural Castro during the last weekend of March. Seventeen spaces will open their doors to the public, offering guided tours led by architects, community leaders, carpenters, managers, neighbors, and the property owners themselves.
This inaugural edition of Castro Abierto aims to create a space for exchange among the various members of the island community to reflect on its cultural landscape and how the processes of territorial transformation affect us all. Accordingly, on March 30 and 31, visitors will be able to explore the following spaces:

This single-stage international architecture ideas competition invites all architecture students, young architects, and young professionals with a degree in architectural studies (≤ 40 years old) to develop and submit ideas for the design of the ‘Site Mausoleum,’ located at the Jasper Quarry, ‘Serra da Arrábida,’ Portugal.

This text aims to clarify the organization of the final architecture thesis, which involves developing a design-based proposal.