The inauguration of YAP_Constructo 8 will take place next Thursday, April 11, at Parque Araucano (Santiago). The program is developed in Chile by CONSTRUCTO in partnership with MoMA and is directed by architects Jeannette Plaut and Marcelo Sarovic.

The workshop focuses on providing participants with a direct experience, introducing them to the territory where the work of RCR Arquitectes is rooted. The goal is to understand its relationship with the site and the landscape, while sharing and conveying an attitude toward life, architecture, and creativity by putting their working methods into practice.

The workshop aims to expand knowledge of audiovisual media and photography, with a focus on architecture and space. The course is developed through an exploration of the territory and RCR's architecture, combining reflection on the visual arts with practical application through creative work. The exercises are designed to awaken the senses, stimulating the creation of images that evoke the desire to touch, listen, and inhabit the space.

Mal Pelo, under the artistic co-direction of Pep Ramis and María Muñoz, is a creative group defined by shared authorship. Since 1989, Mal Pelo has developed its own artistic language through movement, incorporating theatricality by creating dramaturgy that includes the spoken word, working with composers to create original soundtracks, and collaborating with video artists, among others.

Scenography creates ephemeral spaces that, due to their short lifespan, must express an intention or an idea without room for doubt. Ultimately, space expresses a way of understanding a human story.

Once again, the application process is open for the 2019 Cantabria Traditional Architecture Summer School, organized by the Rafael Manzano Prize and INTBAU.

Des-Adarve aims to be a gateway, open to the public, to explore the iconic spaces of the city of Tudela through participation and contemporary art, while simultaneously highlighting its architectural and cultural heritage.

Panel:
Rodrigo Garcia (Vice-Governor and Secretary of Government) - to be confirmed
Renato Viegas (Former President of Emplasa)
Mario Reali (CAU/SP and Escola da Cidade)
Carolina Heldt (Rede Metropolitana)
Regina Meyer (FAU-USP)
Sânia Batista (Emplasa employee)
Moderator: Fernando Túlio (President of IABsp)

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.

Independent film series on the right to the city.

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.