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Building projects are getting bigger and complex, while design budgets and timelines are shrinking, at the same time building regulatory compliance demands are increasing. Fortunately, digital tools are there to support every discipline of design practice. Most global design firms are already leveraging the usage of BIM, but in India, although there is a lot of awareness and will to utilize BIM, most firms are struggling to adopt BIM in efficient way and are not able to relate initial investments to the success of firms. So what does it take to grow your practice and reach great Heights?

The theme of Nurturing Architecture explores the discipline as both processes and constructions with an ethos of care, of providing nourishment and of supporting growth and development. Inherent in the multiple interpretations of nurturing, is the notion of wellbeing, and the ways in which architects and educators consider the wellbeing of future and current generations of users and other stakeholders, including our communities of architects and students. Importantly, wellbeing is a broad and diffuse concept; wellbeing is a positive aspiration, a means to living well: an everyday resource that enables people to lead individually, socially and economically productive lives.

IE School of Architecture and Design and ArchDaily, would like to invite you to join this outstanding online masterclass by Enoch Sears, AIA and founder of Business of Architecture, where he will share what it takes to run a successful architecture practice.

From October 5th to 8th, the Colegio de Arquitectos de Costa Rica (CACR) will host the XV International Professional Architecture Biennial. With over 30 years of history, this year’s edition will bring together representatives from 14 countries to showcase 312 national and international projects, including 125 professional and 187 student entries.

The Yale School of Architecture has announced the events to be held during October 2020. From Rebecca Choi's "Surveillance and Self-Determination: The Black Workshop" to Kate Wagner's "Embracing the Discourse: New Horizons in Architectural Criticism".

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The Architecture Drawing Prize is an international competition that celebrates the art and skill of architectural drawing. The prize is curated by Make Architects, Sir John Soane’s Museum and the World Architecture Festival.

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.

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.

LIBRARY ILLUSTRAZIONI is a cultural association born with the aim of promoting graphic research in Architecture, stimulating its cultural production up to the limits of the discipline.

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.

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Despite turbulent times, this year's largest film festival about architecture and city offers a more diverse program than ever. The twelfth edition of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam will take place from 7 to 11 October 2020 in LantarenVenster as usual. But also at new locations, such as in the studio of Conny Janssen Danst in Fenixloods I and in a Drive In cinema on the parking lot of RDM campus.

Wednesday 7 October 2020 - HUB/ART presents the photographic exhibition "LINEA nelle LINEE" (Line between Lines) by Antonella Bozzini curated by Andréa Romeiro. The project, sponsored by the Association of Architects of Milan, is part of the 15th edition of the Milan Photo Festival and will see the participation, during the opening evening, of the architect and teacher Attilio Terragni.

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.

The monster that ate seeds.

A room faces the metropolis. The volume is vast, completely empty, like a blank sheet of paper. Welcome to Andar 43, the penultimate floor of São Paulo's tallest building, the Mirante do Vale. What can sprout from here, at such heights?
Open to architects, set designers, illustrators, and dreamers, this manifesto is for those who enjoy building sandcastles in oceans of concrete. We invite you to envision a hybrid, modular space—a place for work, social interaction, and poetic refuge.

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.

Call for international workshop Metaform is now officially open till October 1st, 2020. The event will take place from 19th till the 30th of October 2020 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Big data, smart systems, machine learning – it is inevitable that these new technologies will change the way we study, build and manage our cities. At the same time resurgent interest in consensus and contributive action seems to oppose an exclusively data-driven urbanism. Is the opposition of machine intelligence and democracy inevitable, or are shared trajectories possible?

Registration to the International student teams' competition on the virtual design and construction - VDC Roasting is open!