The competition aims to celebrate six weeks dedicated to the creation and visitation of timber installations, using design to connect people with the cultural and natural heritage of the Ciloria Valley (Valgañón, La Rioja).

The Oscar Niemeyer Award for Latin American Architecture, or ON Award, was established as an initiative of the Latin American Architecture Biennials Network (REDBAAL), founded in Quito through a constitutive act signed on November 23, 2012, during the XVIII Pan-American Architecture Biennial of Quito (BAQ 2012).

Des-Adarve aims to be a gateway, open to the public, to explore the iconic spaces of the city of Tudela through participation and contemporary art, while simultaneously highlighting its architectural and cultural heritage.

Participants are asked to redesign Al-Umma Park as a green lung within the capital's dense urban fabric, creating an optimistic vision for the future and a safe space for public gatherings and socializing. Proposals must reflect the park's legacy and integrate existing artworks (the Freedom Monument, the mural, and the statue) into their redesign.

New design competition on Desall.com: MetaFin and Desall invite you to propose a new concept for a green recreational area to be built in the near future, conceived as a gathering space for families, a playground for children, and an area dedicated to sports, culture, activities, and community events.

L'ATELIER presents an exclusive line of eyewear designed by architect Álvaro Siza Vieira.

Provincia is a festival taking place in the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, on April 4, 5, and 6 of this year. It aims to create an open space for dialogue and the presentation of topics of civic interest, emphasizing responsible participation in architectural development within the region.

This year, the Chilean Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism will move from traditional buildings to the streets. Throughout the month of October, it will be presented as an "Open-Air Architecture Fair" in iconic spaces across five cities in the country: Iquique, La Serena, Santiago, Concepción, and Puerto Montt. The goal is to bring architecture closer to the general public while also directing the focus of architects toward the needs of the majority.

Since 2015, Galería NAC has worked consistently to promote contemporary Chilean art, specifically the work of emerging artists. After four years, we are proud to note that we have held over 80 exhibitions, participated in more than 10 fairs, and established a visual identity centered on art and architecture for which NAC is now recognized.

Keynote Lecture: "Seismic Isolators," presented by Ph.D. Eng. Víctor Zayas at the CAP Auditorium in Lima. 

On Thursday, May 23, the FAU auditorium will host the panel discussion "Teaching and Overload in Architecture." The event will be moderated by Nicolas Valencia, ArchDaily's Editorial Data & Content Manager, and will feature:

The inauguration of YAP_Constructo 8 will take place next Thursday, April 11, at Parque Araucano (Santiago). The program is developed in Chile by CONSTRUCTO in partnership with MoMA and is directed by architects Jeannette Plaut and Marcelo Sarovic.

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Torres Colón is the first example of suspended architecture in Spain. Designed in 1969 by Antonio Lamela (Madrid, 1927–2017)—one of the most significant Spanish architects of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, who passed away two years ago this April—the towers stand as a symbol of the country's architecture and the Madrid skyline.

The two-week workshop at the UNI-BH University in Belo Horizonte aims to study issues related to the city's downtown area to develop an architectural and urban proposal for presentation to the local administration. Design activities will be accompanied by a series of lectures by guest speakers and three guided tours to Ouro Preto, Inhotim, and Pampulha. The workshop will be coordinated by Alberto Collet, Carlos Maia, Débora Vieira, and Igor Macedo, who form the group AAP – Alternative Academic Project. Workshop guests include Augusto Angelini (Santiago, Chile), Alexandre Brasil, Paula Zasnicoff, Arquitetos Associados (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Gustavo Penna (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Luciano Kruk (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Diego Arraigada (Rosario, Argentina), and Bloco Arquitetos (Brasilia, Brazil).

The course views buildings as bodies, with their parts, components, and materials in harmony. As such, buildings possess a unique anatomy, with their load-bearing structure serving as the closest analogy to the human skeleton and its bones. From this perspective, the course proposes an anatomical operation directed toward understanding their structural core.

Attend the first YAP International Seminar: New Practices in Contemporary Young Architecture

This Thursday, a new edition of the "Architecture and Women in Chile" panel will take place. This session will be held at the National Headquarters of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile. We will host four prominent architects who will share their work, career paths, and experience regarding city and gender issues. Don't miss it!

The exhibition proposes a space that operates according to the essential strategies that make up the design process of El Equipo Mazzanti + horizontal. Through a shifting exhibition, visitors will be able to understand not only what we do—our completed projects—but also how we work, our processes, and our methodologies. "Playing with Pedagogies" will be a space open to creativity, presented to the public as an ephemeral workshop. It will be a space that places the visitor at the center of the exhibition, making them part of our narrative.