This guide covers a workflow that moves from project parameters to generated floor plans, 3D perspective views, exterior design exploration, and site context visualization, using AI tools in place of preliminary CAD and rendering work.

Would you like to help highlight the work of women in architecture? Un día | Una arquitecta invites readers to suggest architects to be featured in the 2018-2019 cycle.

In response to the historical threat posed by urban transformations, applying "collage thinking" to heritage could prove to be a compelling tool, capable of easily identifying values and roles, and suggesting narratives between disparate historical elements.

Camila Mancilla Vera highlights and explores this in the series Brotes de la industria (Industrial Sprouts). By combining 3D representation techniques, photographs, newspaper archives, and publications, the series aims to visualize and foster debate regarding elements worthy of protection.

Below, the author presents a series of considerations.

Do you have questions about how to properly finish gypsum board? Or how to prepare surfaces for painting or wallpapering?

Canal Encuentro offers a series of eleven Spanish-language videos to help you learn the basics of finishing and answer your questions in the most instructional way possible.

Check out the different chapters below.

Glaciar Films has made three video clips featuring interviews with key figures in Chiloé architecture available to our readers. In the first installment, we featured Jonás Retamal and local modes of production on the island. In this second installment, Edward Rojas highlights the importance of architecture that is relevant to its place.

These video clips are part of the Chiloé series, a production by Glaciar Films directed by Diego Breit and David Guzmán, which presents five episodes exploring the island's architectural identity and its key figures. Architects, carpenters, craftspeople, and residents weave together a narrative that addresses the history of construction and how it faces imminent change and the adoption of modern patterns.

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Miguel Braceli presents a project developed for the Escuela de Art Thinking, an initiative that invites reflection on the possibilities that arise when moving educational spaces and their teaching models into the public realm, integrating the social, political, and cultural content that defines them.

After receiving more than 1,500 films for the fourth edition of the "The City is..." competition at the Architecture Film Festival Santiago (Arqfilmfest), taking place from October 25 to 28, the event's organizing team has selected 34 audiovisual productions to compete in various categories: documentary, fiction, experimental, and architectural documentation.

See the feature films and short films participating in the final stage below.

Arquitectos: Maestros del espacio is an engaging audiovisual catalog provided by Encuentro, showcasing the work of renowned Argentine architects: Alejandro Bustillo, Alejandro Virasoro, Alberto Prebisch, Francisco Salamone, Mario Roberto Álvarez, Amancio Williams, Clorindo Testa, and Claudio Caveri.

Presented by actor Rafael Spregelburd, the series explores architectural projects that are part of Argentina's collective memory, reminding us of the importance of acknowledging the material history that defines a country.

Explore the available episodes below.

Our readers believe that architects should urgently leave their desks to get out into the field. Building on this, we have shared a series of 13 videos on construction and masonry that Canal Encuentro has made available to the public to promote the practice of the trade.

This time, we are presenting a new series of 8 videos from the same channel focused on plumbing—an interesting resource for brushing up on your knowledge of pipe installation and maintenance.

Check out each of the chapters below.

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Arquitectas. Maestras del espacio [Architects. Masters of Space] is a recent series from Encuentro. Over the course of two months, the weekly episodes built an engaging audiovisual catalog of the historical work of eight Argentine architects.

The second installment of this architecture series is once again presented by actor Rafael Spregelburd, who reminds us of the importance of highlighting the lesser-known creators behind the country's celebrated architectural projects.

Recently released, 'La obra secreta' (The Secret Work) is an Argentine feature film directed by artist Graciela Taquini that—recalling 'El Hombre de al Lado' (The Man Next Door)—once again addresses one of the country's most renowned architectural projects: the Casa Curutchet, a work in the city of La Plata resulting from the meeting of Pedro Curutchet, Amancio Williams, and Le Corbusier.

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Have you ever tried building a wooden chair or piece of furniture?

Canal Encuentro offers a series of videos to help you learn the basics of woodworking and achieve the best possible results.

Explore the available chapters below.

We present the latest video clip that Glaciar Films has made available to ArchDaily readers. Taken together, these videos highlight the key figures in contemporary architecture in Chiloé through interviews. In the first two episodes, Jonás Retamal discussed local production methods on the island and Edward Rojas highlighted the importance of architecture that is relevant to its place; in this installment, Macarena Almonacid focuses on the history of the renowned wooden churches located in the far south of Chile.

The footage is part of Chiloé, a series by Glaciar Films directed by Diego Breit and David Guzmán. The five-episode series documents the island's architectural identity and its key figures: architects, carpenters, artisans, and inhabitants.

Chiloé is a production by Glaciar Films which, directed by Diego Breit and David Guzmán, offers five episodes presenting the island's architectural identity and its key figures. Architects, carpenters, craftspeople, and residents weave together a narrative that explores the island's construction history and how it faces imminent change and the adoption of modern patterns.

In this instance, Glaciar Films has made three video clips featuring interviews with key figures in Chiloé architecture available to ArchDaily readers. In the first chapter, Jonás Retamal—an architect from the University of Chile who has lived on the island for 15 years—discusses traditional materiality and the adoption of modern patterns in local production methods.

In FOMM, architect Manuel Mosquera captures the construction phase of a residence in Argentina designed by architects Mathias Klotz and Edgardo Minond.

This black-and-white photography book offers a new perspective, rescuing the small stories and practices inherent in the process while capturing its unique atmosphere and details. Simultaneously, it highlights a range of records and observations that invite us to reflect on the procedures, timelines, and considerations of construction.

Below, the author shares a few words.

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Sloping plots often present themselves as major challenges and therefore become a determining factor of the project by enabling various forms of approach, overlapping the ground, respecting its slope or even burying itself in it. To illustrate all these alternatives, we selected fifteen projects that present different solutions in dealing with landscape.

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The challenge of designing a house with a tight budget and space constraints, together with the essential duty of responding correctly to the requirements of the user, is sometimes one of the most challenging and motivating tasks an architect can face. How can you take advantage of space most effectively? How can you avoid wasted material? How do you anticipate the possible future expansion of the house? And how do you develop a simple design that also delivers value to its inhabitants?

To help you in this process, we scoured our projects archives to select 30 houses that provide interesting architectural solutions despite measuring less than 100 square meters.

Wind energy is a type of renewable energy obtained from the wind, or in other words from the movement of air masses transferring from areas of high atmospheric pressure to nearby areas of lower atmospheric pressure, with speeds proportional to the pressure gradient. To take advantage of wind energy, machines called wind turbines or mills are used, activated by the movement of the wind as the propeller rotates. The propeller is in turn connected to a generator rotor that raises the speed of rotation to thousands of revolutions per minute, converting kinetic energy into electrical energy.

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Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia on indigenous settlements in the valley of the Mapocho River, Santiago is the capital and most populated city of Chile. This South American city is enframed by the Andes Mountains to the east and the Chilean Coast Range to the west, in addition to 26 island hills (cerros islas) scattered throughout the city. Some of these island hills have been converted into urban parks, such as Santa Lucía and San Cristóbal, while Chena, Calán, and Renca are in the process of expansion.

Shower toilets are fast becoming the new standard when it comes to personal hygiene. GROHE Sensia Arena showcases the benefits of this all-encompassing approach with award-winning design, innovative technology and an undeniable feel-good factor.

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With over 3,000 categories and entertainment genres in the span of 25 years, Netflix has offered its users an array of content, ranging from feature films and sitcoms to documentaries and competition shows. Among these numerous genres is a selection dedicated to architecture and design enthusiasts, one that gives them access to the minds of the world's greatest designers and highlights unique projects from across the world. Whether you're looking for design inspiration or searching for something new to watch, we have selected 10 must-see architecture and design-related documentaries, TV shows, and films currently streaming on Netflix.

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Made of cement reinforced with cellulose fibers, fiber cement cladding is a building material used to cover the exterior of a wide range of buildings, including hotels, schools, office buildings, retail centers, hospitals, corporate centers, and residential buildings. Fibre cement panels are aesthetically pleasing, long-lasting, and highly resistant to fire and weathering.

Architect Diana Najib Hamad provides interesting case studies for the use of fiber cement in three recent Dubai-based commissions.

Following the digital panel “How to be anti-racist in professional practice,” the collective Arquitetas inVisíveis released a short guide outlining fundamental points for building an equitable and anti-racist profession. The guide includes a selection of texts that help navigate the social landscape and offer ways to address racism, not only within architecture and urbanism but in life as a whole.

Internationally recognized for their weeHouse® concept, Alchemy has been proving since 1992 that even the smallest of dwellings can have a huge impact. weeHouse®, a term that Alchemy trademarked in 2002, was conceived as a modular-friendly design system that emphasizes quality before quantity, and has been recognized by an ethos of “less is more.” The Minnesota-based firm, led by Geoffrey Warner FAIA, designs the structures to be modern and sleek with particular attention to using expressive local materials with environmental sensitivity.

The Squam Lake House in New Hampshire, although not technically a weeHouse, was required to strictly respect the floor area and volume of a dilapidated cabin 15’ from the shore. Fabricated mostly offsite by Bensonwood using 18” thick, pre-glazed wall panels and white oak timber framing, the panels were erected in only 4 days.

Eric Winter, AIA and architect at Alchemy, shared some valuable insights about the project’s design process. 

Nature is always to be found in things and architecture - and it is exciting, aesthetic, and astonishing. This is especially apparent in the exhibition of Gerhard Schönnenbeck's photographs of landscape shots, juxtaposed with architecturally impressive objects that were perfectly staged with zinc cladding panels developed by RHEINZINK.

In their series “Inspired by nature,” RHEINZINK presents these reflections that Gerhard Schönnenbeck captured so well with his camera.