On April 11, the Modular installation opens at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Forestal branch). The project emerges from academic research inspired by the principles of liquid architecture and the creation of an articulated geometry device designed to explore the dynamic relationships between sound, space, time, and event.
The First Art and City Salon is a project by El Asunto Urbano that brings together artists and architects whose practice is closely linked to both fields: architects creating artworks and artists using architecture as part of their language.
A presentation of the work of the architecture firm Adamo-Faiden (Argentina) through a conversation with Sebastián Adamo, whose office divides its focus between teaching, research, and professional practice.
A generous volume showcasing the impressive interiors and houses of this award-winning design and architecture firm, best known for its exceptional craftsmanship and refined sophistication, drawn from the founders' Mexican heritage. Ezequiel Farca and Cristina Grappin challenge stereotypes and think globally, designing luxury vacation homes in Mexico and, more recently, in Southern California and Europe. Their studio focuses on creating holistic spaces that are a perfect blend of timeless design and comfortable functionality, utilizing natural materials and elegant details.
Creating a book about this work of architecture—this house—means completing the work we began there and rounding out the story of this project up to a certain point. The book documents the various stages of thought, action, and effort that made its creation and materialization possible.
This book aims to showcase, as far as possible, everything from the precedents of an abstract idea and the process of transforming it into architecture, to the presence and importance of the people involved in the work required to build it.
This publication is a device of the Fiestas Raras (Queer Parties) project, a contribution aimed at opening new lines of flight regarding the queer, the party, and public space. It brings together voices and reflections on the potential of thinking about public space from a non-normative perspective—viewing the queer as a form of tension against the canonical, and the party as a mechanism for encounter through which to weave alliances.
The Spanish company Beltá & Frajumar, a manufacturer of home and hospitality furniture and upholstery, invites professionals, architects, and interior designers specializing in habitat environments to participate in the InterCIDEC'19 International Contract Design Competition.
What are the challenges for design in our time? What visions for more sustainable lifestyles are being developed by architects, product, service, and fashion designers, technology developers, and others?
One hundred years after the founding of the visionary Bauhaus design school in Germany, we invite designers from around the world to participate in an international competition. We are seeking innovative design concepts that offer creative responses to the social, ecological, and global challenges of our time. The competition will award the best ideas for a better future and aims to disseminate them and increase their visibility.
Following the success of our inaugural challenge last year, SkyCity is pleased to invite architects, designers, artists, engineers, scientists, restaurateurs, digital nomads, craftspeople, and anyone with big ideas from around the world to participate in the SkyCity Challenge 2019: The Future of Housing. Current construction methods are impacting the environment by relying on limited resources and outdated techniques. We believe that with current technology, we can create far more sophisticated homes that will revolutionize the future.
The fourth edition of the International Forum of Urban Interventions (FIIU) will take place this year in Lima from August 5 to 11. The event has launched an open call for collectives, students, activists, organized citizens, and private or public institutions to participate by sharing their initiatives and projects on one of the region's most important stages for urban interventions and public space.
The issue of diasporas, observed in the displacement of populations across the globe, is a pressing topic. Everyone is in search of a dream: the city as a welcoming shelter for those whom life's adversities have expelled from their lands. To conceive of this CITY that people can call home, in times of diaspora, we need UTOPIA. The city that does not yet exist is a possible city, or even more: it is the construction of an ideal of urban experiences grounded in hospitality and solidarity.
CONGRESS DIRECTORS 1). ROBERTO GUERRERO PÉREZ, Master of Architecture, FAUG – UdeC. 2). CLAUDIO ARANEDA GUTIÉRREZ, PhD in Architecture, FARCODI – UBB
The 5th Latin American Meeting on the Introduction to Architectural Education, hosted in the city of Concepción, Chile, is an invitation to all faculty members of architecture schools across Latin America. This edition will feature professors from as far north as Mexico and as far south as Argentina. The congress aims to strengthen and expand the network between Latin American architecture schools to train the architects of the new millennium, while creating a space for reflection on successful teaching strategies with a renewed focus on achieving meaningful learning.
Archstorming is collaborating on this new competition with His Hands On Africa ("HHOA"), a non-profit organization founded in 2016 that aims to address the lack of dental services in developing countries. The chosen location is Rwanda, a small country in the heart of Africa.
The Contemporary Architecture Foundation announces the third edition of the #Entreplanos urban audiovisual competition, using this highly participatory activity to prepare for the celebration of World Town Planning Day, which will take place in November.
Photograph by Josbel Chacón. One of the four selected for the first exhibition.
The Biennial of Latin American Architecture (BAL) began in 2008 with the goal of identifying the most recent and notable examples of new architecture in Latin America, creating a forum to strengthen ties on both sides of the ocean, bridge distances, and establish a firm, solid counterpoint to the Anglo-Saxon world.
Under the theme "All the worlds. Just one world. Architecture 21," the 27th World Congress of Architects (July 19–23, 2020) will transform Rio de Janeiro into the epicenter of the debate on the future of cities for master's and doctoral students in architecture and urbanism.
The lot (property) making up the site is contained and supported by an external structure that provides common services (facilities) and connection routes (infrastructure); the combination of these three elements forms the housing complex.