A ceremony to welcome new members and honor our Lifetime and Honorary Members, an exhibition and discussion on the CA Bulletin (1944-1963), the presentation of the CA Awards and Distinctions, and a keynote lecture by the new National Architecture Prize winner are among the activities with which the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile will commemorate its 80th anniversary, all of which will be free and hybrid.
Solo tendrás piedras is an exhibition developed by artist Alejandra Prieto in collaboration with architect Francisco Díaz. The project explores reflections on lithium, an element capable of regulating psychological imbalances such as bipolar disorder while simultaneously storing potential energy in the form of batteries.
The Contemporary Architecture Foundation (FAC), as a Spanish partner of the New European Bauhaus (NEB), is organizing the NEB Meeting Point Sur+ Festival as a program of parallel events to the New European Bauhaus Festival in Córdoba, Spain.
This Saturday, August 6, at 7:00 PM, the Bruther (Stéphanie Bru, Alexandre Theriot) conference will take place, organized by the Center for Studies of Contemporary Architecture (CEAC) at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, with an introduction by Marcelo Faiden.
Organized by the Center for Studies of Contemporary Architecture, with an introduction by Juan José Cruces, Rector of UTDT, the keynote lecture by Jorge Silvetti will take place.
Architect and collage artist Camila Mancilla presents her book Las casas de los espejos rotos: El collage como método de investigación creativa (The Houses of Broken Mirrors: Collage as a Creative Research Method). In it, she invites readers to explore this simple yet noble technique, highlighting its value not only as a finished work, but above all as a creative process.
The program for the 7th edition of the International Congress of Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture, dedicated to the space between interior and exterior, is now available on our website.
The National Meeting of Architecture Students "ENEA Quito 2022" is an event that, for the third time, seeks to impart and merge knowledge capable of creating, developing, and projecting architecture. It is a week where integration, participation, and academic exchange become the fundamental pillars for analyzing and debating how architecture is practiced in Ecuador, along with alternatives for its professional application.
The launch of the monograph Sabbagh Arquitectos will take place on Thursday, July 4, at 6:00 PM at the AOA offices.
The 21st-century agenda requires addressing a set of structural changes resulting from the development model that, at least since the beginning of the last century, we have maintained as a society and region. This is evident in our cities and rural areas, where conditions associated with poverty, inequality, violence, displacement, and climate change—to name a few—generate intense pressures, imbalances, and maldevelopment in the dynamics of social occupation and vacancy across much of our territory. We are interested in focusing on a spatial process framed within these dynamics: migration.
On Wednesday, August 10, at 10:20 AM, the first session of a lecture series will take place, organized by the School of Architecture at the Universidad Andrés Bello's Campus Creativo. The series is led by professors Claudia Woywood and Soledad Larraín in collaboration with the Valparaíso Zonal Delegation of the College of Architects and with the participation of Espacio La Compañía, as part of the "City and Architecture" course.
The Arquitectura Atemporal 2022 (Timeless Architecture 2022) exhibition, organized by INTBAU Spain and curated by Alejandro García Hermida, features both the winning entries from the Architecture Competition and the 2022 Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards. The exhibition will be on view at CentroCentro, a cultural space located in Madrid's Palacio de Cibeles, from June 10 to August 7, 2022.
What is Taller del Río?
It is a summer workshop organized by the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura Avanzada [ESAA] and the architecture firm [Ciudad Portátil] in Neiva, Colombia. The workshop aims to rethink new interactions within public space through experimental practices and the participatory construction of an ephemeral or semi-permanent installation that engages with its surroundings and reflects on being, belonging, and inhabiting the city of the Magdalena River.
LA ESCUELA___ is an artist-led platform for radical learning and collective action in public space. By understanding art as education and education as art, it offers a free, open-access, transdisciplinary program featuring both online and on-site projects. This space for creation, training, and research on art and education in Latin America launches its activities in March 2022.
As part of our "Urban Ruins" series, developed in collaboration with anthropologist Francisca Márquez and the UAH, we will host a conversation this Thursday, July 7, at 7:00 PM with architects Cecilia Puga and Dino Bozzi regarding design approaches to ruins and the challenges of conservation.
Fricciones, an international meeting for learning exchanges, will serve as a forum to share unexpected situations that allow us to rethink how we want to learn. The event seeks to create spaces where new forms and experiences of learning can emerge. In this edition, we aim to focus on the frictions that occur in learning between, for example, teaching methods, spaces and architectures, bodies, or policies.
The School of Architecture at the Creative Campus of Universidad Andrés Bello is opening a call for applications for the first edition of Remote Residencies. This project seeks to foster transdisciplinary openings and experiments regarding contemporary and contingent themes of interest, formulating questions that interrogate the state of things while opening spaces for research and free creation. The work will be conducted remotely, followed by implementation through a collaborative effort between the resident and interns from the School of Architecture at the Creative Campus of Universidad Andrés Bello, Viña del Mar campus.
TAC! Urban Architecture Festival will transform a Spanish city into a space for innovation and experimentation each year. This will be achieved through the construction of a temporary pavilion designed by emerging architects, selected via an open call.