Drawing on his expertise and experience, Diego González Alanis invites us to recognize our responsibility to make informed decisions that leverage landscape architecture to improve the city's quality of life and functionality. In his presentation, "The Power of Urban Nature," Diego explores the opportunity provided by this discipline—which complements architecture—to integrate nature in a useful and functional way. He highlights the potential to restore ecosystems degraded by urbanization and construction, while simultaneously fostering local wildlife development.

This edition of the Architectural Culture Lecture Series [CCCA] explores various approaches to architecture and the city through the lens of architectural drawing. This semester, the lectures will focus on the section—the representation of a building cut vertically. This tool not only reveals the structure of a work for construction purposes but also illustrates the relationship between interior and exterior space, the scale of volumes, circulation, and light.

EL ASUNTO URBANO, in collaboration with the MUSEO TAMAYO, presents the third edition of SUMMER SCHOOL, a training program that seeks to foster transdisciplinary practice in the design of projects that intersect visual arts, literature, architecture, and urbanism. The program takes the urban environment and the various possibilities of city-making, citizenship, and memory as its starting point.

As part of the Cities Platform developed by the School of Architecture, Art and Design at Tec de Monterrey, the first edition of the C_Lab Dialogues "City, Education, and Culture" will be held at the Monterrey Campus. This event will feature urban planning experts in a conversation about the role of universities in building inclusive and sustainable cities.

This conference emerges as a point of interest for updating the state of the art in design and technology for sustainability, spanning academic training, professional practice, and research, development, and innovation (R&D&i).

From Thursday, July 25, through October 2019, LIGA, Space for Architecture, will present the intervention titled Tórax by the Mexican firm Escobedo Soliz. The opening will be accompanied by a lecture on Thursday, July 25, at 7:30 PM at LIGA, Calle Doctor Erazo, Colonia Doctores, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, 06720, Mexico City.

Learn more about Escobedo Soliz and their intervention at LIGA below.

What will the cities of the future look like? It is undeniable that cities across the globe are in a state of constant development and evolution, adapting to the new needs and demands of society.

Campus central CU. Lecturas de un patrimonio vivo is a collection of 19 booklets documenting the history of the buildings that make up the original campus of UNAM’s Ciudad Universitaria.

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Last March, at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City, a designer and three architects from Mexico, Italy, and Chile discussed marketing in architecture during MEXTROPOLI 2019, Latin America's largest architecture and urbanism festival.

The LUB is a research and teaching center at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, affiliated with the Department of Urbanism. Founded in 1969 under the initiative of Manuel de Solà-Morales, it brought together professors J. Busquets, A. Font, M. Domingo, and J.L. Gómez Ordóñez at the Barcelona School of Architecture. Since then, generations of students have participated in the Laboratory's initiatives, and many faculty members have conducted their research there. The continuity of the Research Group helps architects become more aware of the urban impact of their work.

Adpprentice has launched a new academic-professional bridge program for recent graduates, in which participants are integrated into a design team at an internationally renowned architecture firm. Participants join at a level typically reserved for senior architects or even firm principals. They will gain full-time professional experience, actively participating in the design processes required to execute a real project, from its theoretical conception to the production of presentation materials meeting international standards.

Presentation of the XXI Architecture and Urbanism Biennial catalog. This five-booklet publication collectively includes the curatorial narrative, a record of activities in the Barrio Franklin, photographs of the four cities where the event will take place, conversations with Andrés Jaque and Enrique Walker, an interview with current National Prize recipient Miguel Lawner, interviews with international guests, and the results of the various open calls.

To launch its BIM training series, Conexión Eventos will host the conference "BIM: Optimize Design and Construction Processes."

Michele De Lucchi, architect and designer and an influential figure in movements such as Cavart, Alchimia, and Memphis, will visit Diseño UC on May 24 as part of a series of activities organized by the School in collaboration with the PhD in Architecture and Urban Studies and the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Studies at UC.

Presentation of the work of Rama Estudio (Ecuador) at the XXI Chile Architecture Biennial, led by its three founding architects: Carolina Rodas, Carla Chávez, and Felipe Donoso.

SOM is a firm founded in Chicago in 1936 that has completed more than 10,000 projects in 50 countries. Its most iconic buildings include Lever House, Willis Tower, and the world's tallest building: Burj Khalifa (Dubai). The exhibition seeks to capture the close collaboration between engineers, architects, and artists that has produced engineering solutions to address the most complex contemporary design challenges | Exhibition on view until June 9, 2019.

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Congreso Parques is an international congress organized in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Sports of the Province of Salta and the organization Parques de México. This event will bring together public officials, technicians, academics, students, housing developers, civil society organizations, and equipment suppliers to elevate the discourse on public space in our communities and boost the urban park and recreation industry in Latin America. Over the course of three days, an attendance of 1,200 people is expected. The program will feature keynote addresses, over 30 educational sessions, 10 workshops, and a trade show with more than 50 industry companies, featuring over 100 speakers from more than 15 countries.