The Design Challenge Let a crisis become an opportunity! New rules intended to grow more density offer designers a chance to rethink the San Francisco home. Send us your visions for 21st century duplexes and quadriplexes that offer up innovative approaches to lifestyle and architectural style, and show that the single family house is not the only dream home in California. As society grapples with challenges including homelessness, a changing climate and social fragmentation, consider forms of housing that are light on the earth, obtainable in cost and social in nature.
Dichotomy, a student published journal, strives to be a critical link between University of Detroit Mercy students and the discourses on design, architecture, urbanism, and community development. Like the institution, Dichotomy focuses on social justice and critical thought concerning intellectual, spiritual, ethical, and social development both in and outside of Detroit. The aim of Dichotomy is to disseminate these relevant investigations conducted by students, faculty, and professionals.
"Traducciones: la utopía y el vacío performativo", seleccionado entre los mejores proyectos de estudiantes del 2021. Image Cortesía de Juan Manuel Sandoval Perdomo
The academic output of architecture in Ibero-America is vast and valuable; therefore, we believe it is necessary to launch a new call for entries to showcase the best final degree projects that have emerged from these programs.
ARCA is a FAC initiative dedicated to the social and legal recognition and understanding of contemporary architecture with significant value. In line with this goal, the ARCA Meetings serve as a forum for identifying challenges and opportunities, sharing methodologies, lines of action, and best practices, providing a space for networking and building synergies around contemporary architectural heritage.
Open Call 2023, 12th edition of Film and Architecture Festival
Film and architecture festival announces an open call for films related to the topic of architecture and urbanism. It could be short films, mid-length or feature films. Selected works will be screened at the 12th edition of Film and architecture festival which will be held from September 29 to October 4. Please submit your movie using this form: bit.ly/opencall_FA2023
The Urban Review welcomes submissions on topics broadly related to urban studies, planning theory, and planning practice. Submissions can be personal reflections, research-based writing, material adapted from other work, etc. We are especially interested in pieces that are grounded in a particular location.
Since its inception in 2008, the Bienal de Arquitectura Latinoamericana (BAL) has highlighted architectural developments in Latin America. For the 2023 edition, a new exhibition of Latin American architectural photography is being organized, aiming to expand the range of activities presented in order to achieve a broader and more precise vision of the region.
Organized by the Estonian Centre for Architecture (ECA), The Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) is an international architecture festival held since 2011. The festival contributes to creating and promoting a high-quality built environment by addressing timely issues, providing a platform for discussion, bringing together top players, delving into the present and future, and introducing local architectural culture. TAB’s program offers events for the top of the field, young professionals just starting out in the field of architecture, and a broader audience of architecture enthusiasts
As part of the activities taking place during the What Design Can Do festival, the Make It Circular Challenge has been launched, with a deadline of January 31. The challenge seeks proposals in the categories of "What We Eat," "What We Wear," "What We Buy," "How We Package," or "How We Build" to help address the devastating effects of overconsumption, waste, and climate change. The Make It Circular Challenge awards a prize of 10,000 euros for the development of circular design projects that help combat the climate crisis in a creative way.
Caption: Veduta with the Temple of Jove. Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 1750–1758; Bosco Verticale. Boeri Studio. 2014. Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
Architecture, as an act of human cultural artifice, has historically maintained an indissoluble relationship with Nature—as a site, enclave, environment, material, or mirror of the habitat for communal life, and as a factor of language. Both the symbolic tradition—monument, tomb, idol—and the typological tradition—temple, hut, theater, palace—form the basis of the elemental corpus of Vitruvian formulation. Whatever the artifact to be built, the natural condition is unavoidable. Fire, water, earth, and air—the elements that compose the universe according to ancient philosophy—are, in turn, constitutive of architectural thought. However, arrogance, success, or disruption over pre-existing conditions have dominated human behavior toward Nature. The current state of extreme intervention on the Earth as a planet, on geography as a foundation, on climate as a resource, or on the atmosphere as a domain, demands a critical review of the diverse perspectives that architecture has adopted according to historical, political, and cultural contingencies and their consequences on lifestyles.
Jerusalem Design Week invites a range of creative interpretations on its annual theme, ‘Lies and Falsehoods’, from designers, architects, artists, and tech-savvy experts worldwide. Those submitting a project for consideration should interpret the theme in their own way.
An urban space quipped to handle residents and strangers alike and to make safety an asset in itself. A thriving city neighborhood must have three main qualities: First, there must be a clear boundary between what is public space and what is private space. Public and private spaces can not ooze into each other as they do typically in suburban settings or projects. Second, there must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the road. The buildings on an urban street should be equipped to handle strangers and ensure the safety of both residents and strangers. They must be oriented to the street. They cannot turn their backs or blank sides on it and leave it blind. Third, public spaces must have users on them reasonably continuously, both to add to the number of effective panopticons and to induce the people in buildings surrounding the space to perform as active characters responsible for the safety of the space.
The modern design of a protected life, assuming a passive body constructed individually in the disease-health opposition, focuses on the elimination of disease through the use of the hospital as a fundamental device for biomedical knowledge and intervention. However, health is permanently reinvented through its social, ecological, and political dimensions, and the medicalization of life centered on the individual is expanding into spaces composed of less static and more complex visions, problematized by (re)emerging challenges such as the recent Covid-19 pandemic.
The College is open to graduate students, graduates under the age of 30, to early career academics (PhD candidates, researchers, assistant professors, tutors, teaching fellows, etc.), and emerging practitioners under the age of 35. In line with the general goals of all Biennale Colleges (cinema, dance, music, theatre, art), this first Biennale College Architettura will seek to complement and enrich the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale by exploring how to place the Exhibition’s central themes, decolonization, and decarbonization, at the heart of architectural education.
The ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards is one of the architecture world’s most influential and democratic award series, celebrating the best architecture around the world as chosen by YOU, our readers.
By nominating and voting, you form part of an interdependent, impartial, distributed network of jurors and peers that has consistently helped us highlight architecture of every scale, purpose, and condition, from countries large and small, and architects of all descriptions.
This is why we decided to trust our community in the design of The Building of the Year trophy, in a way to celebrate this community-based award.
We are looking for the best 3D-Printed trophy designs, that will be displayed at the most influential architecture practices in the world.
La cocina urbana de MAIO en el centro de Plaza Cataluña durante Festival Model 2022. Image Cortesía de Festival Model
Model. Barcelona Architectures Festival (Model) is the latest experimental and visionary architecture festival on the global cultural scene. The project was founded by the Barcelona City Council and the Architects' Association of Catalonia (COAC) in 2022, and this year, it will be managed by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation.
WeWork’s rise, failed IPO, and subsequent ousting of its CEO have been thoroughly documented in countless articles, podcasts, books, and television series. Less widely understood, however, is the extent to which WeWork challenged — and changed — the way spaces are designed, delivered, and operated.
The School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago is now accepting applications for the 2023–24 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship. Named in honor of the architect and educator Doug Garofalo (1958–2011), the nine-month fellowship provides emerging designers the opportunity to teach design studio and seminar courses and conduct independent research, culminating in a public lecture at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and an exhibition or public conversation at the school.
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View of the Toronto Sign at Nathan Phillips Square. Photo Credit: Rolan Muradov, Pexels
The Media Architecture Biennale features keynotes, workshops, symposia, panels, awards, and exhibitions based in Toronto with additional programming online. The event aims to offer a platform for communities of research and practice concerned with media and the built environment. MAB23 will bring together students, academics, and professionals from architecture, art, design, urban planning, media and communication, urban informatics, interaction design, and public policy to share new ideas and shape this evolving field.
CALL FOR ENTRIES Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the 2023 Architectural League Prize competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in lectures, digital media, and an exhibition in June 2023. Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000.
