Why is it such a challenge for architecture to gain visibility in the cultural section of a newspaper? What presence does it have in other sections as politics and economy?

• Title

  Concurso Escuelas del siglo XXI en América Latina y el Caribe

• Type

  Convocatorias

• Organizers

  Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

• Registration Deadline

  June 08, 2018 06:00 PM

• Submission Deadline

  June 08, 2018 06:00 PM

• Price

  Gratis

The Inter-American Development Bank is launching the "21st Century Schools in Latin America and the Caribbean" competition.

We are seeking to recognize 60 educational infrastructure projects that facilitate learning and the development of 21st-century skills and feature innovations in their design, construction, management, or use. Educational projects will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

On May 18-19, the city of Kaliningrad, capital of the westernmost part of Russia, will host the Living Environment: All About Housing Forum. The Forum includes a business program and the Urban Weekend outdoor public festival.

Besides sessions and roundtables, the ambitious program of the event includes the shortlist presentation of the projects submitted for the Open International Competition of Architectural Concepts for Standard Housing and Residential Buildings. Architects and bureaus from 39 countries took part in this prestigious competition with their projects of innovative residential housing for future generations of Russians. The competition announces a remarkable prize fund: 20 finalists will receive 1 million roubles (about € 13 300) each, up to five winning projects will be awarded 2 million roubles (about € 26 600) each, and up to five runners-up will receive 1.5 million roubles (about € 19 900) each.

Barilla launches Barilla Pavilion International Competition, to design an architectural addition to the Barilla Headquarters in Pedrignano (Parma, Italy). The competition will aim to gather architectural proposals from both emerging designers as well as established firms to produce an architectural proposal for the design of a new multifunctional building in Pedrignano and to identify an architect or team capable of subsequently developing the project in close cooperation with Barilla.
The two-phase competition, run by Luca Molinari Studio, after a first worldwide anonymous phase, will involve a selected group of designers into a second restricted stage. An International Jury composed by well-know architects and designers along with Barilla chairman and vice-chairmen will select and declare the winning project that most successfully translates Barilla’s willingness to remove the boundaries between factories and people. The chairman Guido Barilla addresses to architects and designers a passionate request of collaboration to build the future of the Company and the Territory of Parma: “Help us to turn this dream into a reality and give visitors one more reason to come and see the Italian Food Valley”.

The Prague City Council has tasked the Prague Institute of Planning and Development with preparing an urban planning competition for an overall solution for Vítězné náměstí (Victory Square). The solution should deal with improving not only the quality of life of the local residents, but also the traffic situation.

THE CHALLENGE
Our world is witnessing a time of record migration and
displacement. According to the United Nations High
Commission for Refugees, there are now more than 60
million forcibly displaced people worldwide, the result
of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights
violations.
Cities are on the front lines of this global crisis. Sixty
to seventy percent of displaced people now live in
cities. As the number of urban displaced persons
grows, so does the moral imperative to welcome and
embrace them.
While immigrants and refugees face many challenges
in their new urban lives — language, access to
services, work and housing, cultural barriers — they
also bring new energy to our cities and economies.
Their success is our success.

Nominations are now open for the 2018 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the prize recognizes architects or designers that have demonstrated innovative solutions to preserve or save threatened modern architecture.

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Tamayouz Excellence Award is delighted to invite students, designers and architects worldwide to participate in the newly launched "Dewan Award for Architecture" and its competition subject for this year: School in the Marshes. Winners of this Award will be offered fully paid employment at Dewan Architects and Engineers in Dubai for 6 months expandable to 12 months.

The Walk DVRC International Design Competition is a way to imagine a more walkable, pedestrian environment on a 1.4 km stretch of Des Voeux Road Central in the heart of Hong Kong’s Central Business District. It is an idea-based contest to re-envision and re-engage the street as quality public space – a placemaking effort in a vehicle-choked urban street. The Competition is an international one where any interested party is eligible to participate. From all compliant Expression of Interest statements, a renowned Jury will invite five Finalists to participate in the Design Competition.

Since 2016, Lima has hosted the International Forum on Urban Interventions, which aims to highlight citizen-led initiatives implementing small-scale urban interventions. These initiatives seek to improve the quality of life in public spaces, offer solutions to various challenges, and encourage other citizens to initiate their own projects.

UTSN 2nd Edition is about the importance of urban transit and networking system and how can it affect the environment either positively or adversely. This conference will be aimed to solve and provide technical solutions that will help the non-Eco-friendly cities to change into eco-friendly ones.

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The exhibition project Dreams of Frozen Music at the Tokyo Art Museum in Sengawa will present about 30 drawings from the last couple of years from the architect. These works are not meant to be “the typical drafts” for architectural projects. No building is ever being built according to them, they rather can be seen as “free architectural fantasies.” Tchoban’s esthetic approach, his visual language and his artistic means seem not to be contemporary but rather timeless. Classical orders of columns, domes of baroque churches and e pre-modernist architecture are being blended into surreal vedutas. A technically brilliant draughtsman, Tchoban employs all kind of materials including ink, water color, red chalk, charcoal and pastel chalk.

The International Workshop RCR is born of a way of understanding Architecture and Landscape from a humanistic spirit. The coexistence in a space and time of different creative disciplines creates synergies for mutual enrichment between the parties.

Het Nieuwe Instituut announces an open call for three research fellows to work in residence from September 2018 to February 2019, with the title: BURN-OUT

Designregio Kortrijk is looking for 3 highly motivated and recently graduated designer-makers or creative artists to join in a regional residency programme in Kortrijk, Belgium.
The Designers in Residence Programme Kortrijk is a 3-month full time working residency from September to December 2018.

The International Workshop RCR is born of a way of understanding Architecture and Landscape from a humanistic spirit. The coexistence in a space and time of different creative disciplines creates synergies for mutual enrichment between the parties.

Registration Period: Apr. 2nd (Mon) - Oct. 1st (Mon), 2018

The International Workshop RCR is born of a way of understanding Architecture and Landscape from a humanistic spirit. The coexistence in a space and time of different creative disciplines creates synergies for mutual enrichment between the parties.