In Espacio, cuerpo y mente, Ana Mombiedro explores the intersection of architecture, neuroscience, and psychology to reveal how built spaces influence physiological, cognitive, and socio-emotional health. The book offers a profound and captivating perspective on the value of neuroarchitecture, demonstrating that the design of a place can enhance one's sense of well-being.
PLOT Special Issue 21, "Soils, Ecologies, Territories, Communities," proposes four themes that transcend the field of architecture, approaching conceptions of landscape and the inexhaustible debate between culture and nature from various perspectives. It brings together a selection of projects located in Latin America and research addressing the ecological and climate crises, as well as economic and social inequalities. These initiatives, notable for their connection to the soil, communities, and their territories, highlight the importance of construction processes and their relationship with available materials. They challenge traditional models and demand greater action and reflection from a collective dimension.
The new workplace paradigm, driven by digital transformation, is introducing significant changes to employee profiles and the roles people perform within their work environments. At Actiu, these shifts represent an opportunity to turn workspaces into strategic levers of change, allowing organizations to align their transformation goals with the well-being and satisfaction of their workforce.
This November, Mexico City cements its status as one of the most exciting creative capitals in the world, featuring a circuit of activities designed to highlight the avant-garde, experimentation, and new digital art models that the city attracts and inspires. After 16 years of continuous work, MUTEK Mexico is proud to be part of this circuit, collaborating with other organizations to offer the public one of the year's most intense and stimulating weeks dedicated to digital art and sound.
As we stand at the threshold of the third decade of the 21st century, looking back at the previous century, we believe certain debates will prompt reflections such as: "How did we get here?" and "What do we do now?"
ARQ. FUTURO HOSTS "LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE CITY" COURSE AT SESC SÃO PAULO AND ESCOLA DA CIDADE
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.
As part of the fifth edition of the Tank Festival, on July 6, 2019, at 7:30 p.m., in the vacant lot currently surrounding the El Tanque Cultural Space in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the works of more than 30 artists will be displayed—literally—on a tower created from wooden chairs. This action will advocate for strengthening the Cultural Space through consistent programming and appropriate public funding, as well as for the renovation of its surroundings based on the design by architect Fernando Menis, who proposed a banana tree garden.
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena (1967), Pritzker Prize laureate and curator of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale "Reporting From the Front," holds a position of particular relevance in contemporary architectural debate and production.
This November, Curitiba will be the capital of happiness!
With 6 editions and 22 guests across Chile, Ecuador, and Costa Rica, #XFORMAS (X Ways of Making Architecture) will be presented at the XXI Chile Architecture and Urbanism Biennial 2019 this October.
With six editions and 22 guests across Chile, Ecuador, and Costa Rica, #XFORMAS (X Ways of Making Architecture) will present two featured sessions at the XXI Chile Architecture and Urbanism Biennial 2019 this October.
Contemporary architectural production is often debated through the lens of various qualities: being modern, techno, sustainable, local, austere, functional, or authentic, among others. These are various ways of being, many of which converge within a single project.
Starting in June 2019, the IABsp professional platform will launch the "Architecture Encounters" series. The series aims to discuss contemporary Brazilian architectural production through a thematic lens. Each session will feature active professionals in the field and will be moderated by an external guest or a member of the IABsp curatorial group.
On the rocky hillside of the Côte d'Azur in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Anglo-Irish designer Eileen Gray (1878–1976) built a long, white vacation home she named E.1027 (1926–1929). At 52, this was her first foray into the world of architecture, realized with the support of her then-partner Jean Badovici, editor of the avant-garde magazine L’Architecture Vivante. For Gray, E.1027 was more than an opportunity to apply new spatial concepts; it served as a manifesto, revisited in her subsequent projects, for which she designed not only the architecture but also virtually every object and piece of furniture—creating a total work of art represented in this 1:1 scale exhibition.
We understand culture as all the actions through which peoples express their ways of creating, doing, and living; scientific, artistic, and technological creations; works, objects, documents, buildings, and other spaces intended for artistic-cultural manifestations; as well as urban complexes and sites of historical, landscape, artistic, archaeological, paleontological, ecological, and scientific value. Culture encompasses both the language through which people communicate, tell their stories, and write their poems, as well as how they build their homes, prepare their food, pray, and celebrate.
The 2nd Seminar on Planning, Urban Landscape, and Sustainability (II SEPPAS) is organized by the RTVE Foundation (TV UFG) through the Graduate Program in Project and City at the UFG Faculty of Visual Arts (FAV-UFG), with sponsorship from the Council of Architecture and Urbanism of Goiás (CAU-GO). The event will take place from November 4 to 6, 2019, at the Marieta Telles Machado Auditorium, located in the Central Library of the UFG Campus II in Goiânia, Goiás.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the second volume of the book "Arquitetura e Urbanismo em Juiz de Fora".
