Ingrid Quintana presents a critical assessment of the Bauhaus centenary celebrations, highlighting unexplored aspects of the relationship between the legendary German school and Latin America: the diffuse transatlantic contacts woven through the migratory flows of masters and students, and their relevance as a historiographical category for the examination of transitional aesthetics in regional design.
The workshop "Encounters with Chance: Collage and Creativity," led by @mariarecorta, invites participants to immerse themselves in an experimental exploration of chance through collage and creativity. It is a space designed to break patterns, open new doors, traverse unexpected spaces, seek alternative paths, and discover the evocative power of the fragment.
As part of research into the quality of social housing, the Housing Observatory at the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Universidad de los Andes has been working for two years with Compensar and Ingeurbe on an experimental proposal that seeks to positively influence the quality of social housing produced in Colombia.
On weekends from February 21 to March 14, the La Chatica space of Colectivo Atempo, in collaboration with Casa Bogotá Graffiti and Graffiti Tour Bogotá, will highlight the various manifestations of street art in Bogotá—from tags and scribbles to full-scale street art pieces.
The first public assembly of Architecture on Strike (Arquitectura en Paro) seeks to foster an open space where we can collectively engage in pedagogy and discussion regarding the role architecture should play within the current social, economic, and political crisis in Colombia.
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The editorial team at the Universidad del Norte, led by Óscar Ángel Ángel and Rossana Llanos Díaz, has shared with ArchDaily their compilation project on the modern work of architect Roberto Acosta Madiedo. Below are some of his most iconic projects in the city of Barranquilla from the mid-twentieth century.
Texts courtesy of Roberto Acosta Madiedo: la Estética del Oficio.
