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Palabras y Trazos brings together architects of various generations who develop projects that highlight their interest in architecture as a city-shaping element, integrating urban, environmental, heritage, and identity values.

Palabras y Trazos brings together architects from different generations whose work highlights an interest in architecture as a city-shaping element, integrating urban, environmental, heritage, and identity values.

Words and Strokes (Palabras y Trazos) brings together architects from different generations who develop projects that highlight their interest in architecture as a city-shaping element, integrating urban, environmental, heritage, and identity values.

The Rivers and Architecture seminar aims to highlight projects, strategies, and research where the river—and the architectural elements that accompany it as part of a living landscape—takes center stage. This event will serve as a forum to discuss rivers as structural elements of our cities and contemporary architecture.

Palabras y Trazos brings together architects from different generations whose projects highlight an interest in architecture as a city-shaping element that integrates urban, environmental, heritage, and identity values.

The International Architecture and Ethnography Seminar is a space for intersection and encounter for those of us who study space and meaning. At the crossroads of architecture, anthropology, geography, urbanism, and sociology, we gather around the fire to consider new ways of approaching territorial phenomena. What are the relationships between ethnography and architecture? What are the scopes and challenges of new technologies and spatial research methods? In what ways can different disciplines meet when faced with the same object of study? What is the role of the senses in the epistemology of the socio-spatial? This is the terrain we occupy.

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Festival Habitante is a film, city, and architecture festival that will showcase international and national audiovisual works in the Ecuadorian cities of Quito and Guayaquil. The program is complemented by parallel activities open to the public, aimed at fostering discussion around the act of inhabiting.

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As part of the temporary exhibition "Pre-Columbian Architectures: Representing and Inhabiting the Past," we invite you to the screening of the first episode of the documentary series on the work of Al Borde, "Building with Living Trees," followed by a discussion about the documentary.

In commemoration of International Women's Day, we invite you to join the fourth webinar of the CEELA Project, organized in partnership with the Ecuadorian Council for Sustainable Building. During this free event, prominent leaders in the construction sector will share their professional experiences and strategies for promoting gender equity in work environments across the public, private, industry association, and international cooperation sectors.

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An architect serving as executive director at the Metropolitan Heritage Institute, an architectural photographer with experience throughout Ecuador, an architect and human rights activist, and an architect specializing in professional demolition will be the guests at the first international session of the X FORMAS DE HACER ARQUITECTURA project in Ecuador on Thursday, November 22, at 7:00 PM at TORNO Co Creative.

Known simply as XFORMAS, this is the first international session of the project led in Chile by Fabiola González + Yair Estay (TALLER25) and Nicolás Valencia (ArchDaily), which, in Ecuador, is partnered with the local firm Rama Estudio, led by architects Felipe Donoso, Carolina Rodas, and Carla Chávez.

Seven of Latin America's top architectural photographers have gathered at the MAE (Museo Archivo de Arquitectura del Ecuador) to present seven distinct perspectives on modernity in an unprecedented photography exhibition.