![Urbanism in Bahia Seminar - urbBA[25] - Featured Image](https://snoopy.archdaily.com/images/archdaily/media/images/689a/2790/5ee9/5700/013f/6662/slideshow/URBBA25_POST1.jpg?1754933146&format=webp&width=640&height=580)
The Lugar Comum research group, affiliated with the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at FAUFBA, announces the 15th Urbanism in Bahia Seminar, urbBA[25], to be held on November 3, 4, and 5, 2025, at the Faculty of Architecture of UFBA in Salvador, Bahia.
The School of Architecture and Urbanism and Design at USP, the Center for Cultural Preservation - Casa de Dona Yayá, the research group "Archive, sources and narratives: between architecture, city and design," 216 - Cultural Heritage, History and Criticism, QUALICON - Quality and Performance in the Built Environment, LabIndus - Laboratory of Industrialization, and Labdias - Laboratory of Studies on Culture, City and Diaspora are pleased to invite professionals, researchers, master craftspeople, holders of traditional knowledge, and other interested parties to submit papers for the 5th Vernacular/Popular Architecture Seminar, to be held from June 8 to 11, 2026. Building on a tradition of studies in the field that began in the 1970s, and currently driven by the democratization of access to the university, FAU-USP is witnessing a resurgence and growing expansion of interest in, and the assimilation of, new perspectives on the diverse processes of vernacular and popular architecture.
The city of Rio de Janeiro will host the 4th Experimental Construction Site Seminar in Architecture and Urbanism and the 2nd National Meeting of Experimental Construction Sites in Schools of Architecture and Urbanism. The events will take place from November 17 to 20.
The course investigates the relationship between architecture, exhibition design, and art, analyzing museums as potential territories for experimentation, contestation, and cultural reinvention. By examining case studies such as MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the course discusses the "white cube" model and its ties to modern art, in contrast to other spatial and architectural approaches associated with contemporary art.
