Visoren, a company specializing in social rental housing, aims to promote ecological construction in residential buildings across Spain. To this end, it is offering two scholarships—one full and one partial—for the Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings organized by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), which begins in October 2018.
Call for Papers: Decolonization and Andean Art
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send an email to:
torreturisticaplaya@gmail.com
The Bee Breeders' Affordable Housing Challenge series heads to London, tasking participants with conceiving creative solutions for the British capital's complex crisis.
This is an open call for projects and publications completed during the four years preceding each Biennial, with five categories open to the American continent and one open worldwide.
The CAF competition sought ideas proposing comprehensive habitat improvements within communities. Specifically, it aimed to improve citizens' quality of life and integrate informal settlements into the city through the conception and design of innovative, relevant, justified, and feasible proposals.
View the results of the 2018 edition.
Prumo magazine is calling for submissions for its next three issues, to be published in 2018. Author guidelines and detailed information regarding the submission process can be found at: http://periodicos.puc-rio.br/index.php/revistaprumo/about/submissions
The Espaço de Arquitetura portal, hereinafter referred to as the Organizing Entity, with the sponsorship of CS-Telhas, Love, Margres, ATZ, and Lummenn, and with the institutional support of the Fafe City Council, is promoting the DESAFIOS URBANOS’17 Ideas Competition. The Espaço de Arquitetura portal, hereinafter referred to as the Organizing Entity, with the sponsorship of CS-Telhas, Love, Margres, ATZ, and Lummenn, and with the institutional support of the Fafe City Council, is promoting the DESAFIOS URBANOS’17 Ideas Competition.
In an increasingly chaotic world, finding a moment of silence is difficult. Participants in the Bee Breeders Silent Meditation Forest Cabins competition are invited to create a space where guests can disconnect from the constant noise and distractions of the technological world and focus on silent reflection over a simple cup of tea.
Sea ice in the Arctic region is crucial for maintaining the global climate due to its reflectivity. The melting of this ice can further accelerate global warming due to positive feedback loops, where warming generates more heat as solar absorption increases. The loss of this ice sheet may represent a tipping point in global warming, triggering the 'runaway' effect of climate change.
Virtual Course: 'Redesigning the City'
The Morelia Arq Forum is the most important international event in Michoacán for the dissemination of architecture, industrial design, and urbanism, aimed at students and professionals in the field.
The seventeenth edition of Materia Arquitectura magazine, an editorial project by the Faculty of Architecture and Art at Universidad San Sebastián directed by Mario Marchant, revolves around two fundamental instances in architectural production: the studio and the office. This issue, featuring Claudio Palavecino as guest editor, proposes an examination of these two central spaces through three dimensions: place, agents, and production.
The launch of the final ARQDOCS publication of 2018 will take place on Thursday, December 6, at 7:00 PM. The event will feature a keynote lecture by researcher, architect, and historian Beatriz Colomina at the FADEU Auditorium.
Architecture: Devices and Imaginaries in the Narratives of Power
The seminar initiative was originally conceived in 2007 to offer participants in the master's and doctoral urbanism programs at the UPC the opportunity to discuss and enrich their work.
Researcher Rodrigo Contreras of the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS) will deliver this lecture as part of the "Architecture of Selection" series. Organized by the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae, the series will explore the theme of distance throughout the second semester of 2018.