Architects are inherent problem solvers and research is baked into their design process. Matter & Opinion: Practice-Based Research is a one-day virtual conference featuring firms and individuals who will share successful business models, discuss barriers to adoption, and help define real value for research within the profession.
The founding principles of civilizations are done through urban cultures nourished by symbols, utopias to engrave identity references and generate memory of places. Thus the fundamental values of our environment such as architecture, the nature city are a vector of social relationships and unification.
On Monday, 5th October 2020, discover the Winners of the Young Talent Architecture Award, organized by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe with the support of Creative Europe as an extension of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award.
International architecture practice Buro Ole Scheeren Group is helping re-imagine the form and function of skyscrapers around the world. Founding principal Ole Scheeren will illuminate the firm’s unique approach to every project.
Join us for the two-part Neighborhoods Now Summit: Strategies for Reopening and Recovery, a culminating event bringing together working groups and their community partners to reflect on this six-week initiative and how collaborative design informs our neighborhood recovery strategies.
Join us for the two-part Neighborhoods Now Summit: Strategies for Reopening and Recovery, a culminating event reflecting on how collaborative design can inform neighborhood recovery strategies.
Open webinar hosted by Laka Perspectives: a discussion on predictive urban planning for the creation of future-proof architecture with Marvin Bratke and Paul Clemens Bart!
After 28 years Pasadena Heritage’s Craftsman Weekend is reimagined with a broader frame and a new name! The city of Pasadena is home to some of the most notable examples of architect-designed properties from Craftsman style to Mid-Century and everything in between. Explore architectural style and design over five decades and learn the connections and differences that illustrate how architecture changed through time. Join us from the comfort of your own home for this year’s Fall education event, Preservation Pasadena: Craftsman to Modern.
In October, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) presents Spaces of No Control, an international group exhibition curated by Walter Seidl exploring the notion of the modern city and its signifying dystopias of the 20th and 21st centuries. The multifaceted show brings together contemporary artists based in Austria and the United States to comment on the current definitions of citizenship and public space.
Junichiro Tanizaki, in his book In Praise of Shadows writes, “In darkness, immutable tranquility holds sway.” Designers integrate this interplay of light, color, and shadow in the spaces they imagine — navigating the clarity that light brings alongside the ephemeral mystery of the shadows.
YAF CON 2020: The Empathic Architect convenes a series of engaging conversations about designing with empathy and practicing with intentionality. Join your fellow emerging professionals the week of Oct. 26–Oct. 30 for a daily series of peer-led discussions over lunch and presentations by purposeful — sometimes unconventional — leaders each evening.
