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Amin Taha, alumni of the office of Zaha Hadid, will speak at the Barbican to discuss his practice, Groupwork+Amin Taha.

Using Sharjah as its primary field of research, the inaugural edition of Sharjah Architecture Triennial invites members of an emerging generation of architects, urban designers, planners, scholars and artists from across Middle East, North and East Africa, and South and Southeast Asia and their diaspora to respond to the unique challenges and opportunities faced by our generation.

Address and identify issues and realities concerning territory and residential habitat. Through photography, we invite you to highlight themes related to:

Éric Lapierre will speak at the Barbican to discuss ELEx, his organisation coordinating architectural practice and writing.

The AIA|DC Urban Design Committee announces the launch of our design competition In/Visible Borders.

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Concéntrico 05, the Logroño International Festival of Architecture and Design, seeks to reflect on the urban environment and the city through different formats of architectural and design projects. The next edition will take place on 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 April and 1 May 2019.

We have been anticipating the arrival of this competition of national impact and international scope. Peru's educational infrastructure has been rethought from the ground up, and we are increasingly seeing improvements. This competition is an opportunity for more architects to join this movement for Peruvian education. Below, we share all the details.

 The Ministry of Education of Peru faces a major challenge for the Bicentennial: reducing the educational infrastructure gap with innovative, safe, efficient, sustainable spaces and environments that respond to the diversity and needs of the national territory. In this way, we will guarantee the development of learning and the training of our students in quality spaces. This is our commitment: to work to shape better Peruvian men and women, always.

Every year, the Festival is visited by a large public. In 2018, it received 18 000 visitors and has been widely published in France and abroad.
For the 14th edition, the Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier will take place from June the 11th to the 16th 2019. The festival thematic is Beauty. The FAV will keep to aware a wide public to architecture, to highlight a young generation of architects and to discover places from the urban heritage.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro announces the concept design competition for staging the exhibition of the National pavilion of Montenegro at the World Expo 2020 in Dubai. According to its participants, the competition is international; according to its type, the competition is public; according to its task, the competition is project; according to its form, the competition is one-instance; and according to its method and entry submission, the competition is anonymous. The competition is open from October 15th, 2018 to December 3rd, 2018.

This international design ideas competition aims to discover new designs for a modern garden city to meet the needs of the 21st century, whilst recapturing the pioneering spirit that led to the development of the world’s first garden city at Letchworth.

Registration Deadline: November 15th, 2018
Submission Deadline: December 1st, 2018
Register Linkage:
http://runwaypark_renewal.chinabuildingcentre.com/en_signup.html
Competition Website:
http://runwaypark_renewal.chinabuildingcentre.com/en_index.html
Competition Email: runwaypark_renewal@163.com

In today’s chaotic world, simplicity grows virtuous. As an operational directive, simplicity forces the pursuit of the essential, where what matters is retained and what doesn’t is tossed overboard. Simplicity is at once classic and trending; ambitious and naive; utopian and pragmatic. A decade after 2008, the feeling is baked into current trends of austerity, with economic realities influencing aesthetics and ethics within architecture in deep ways. The value of simplicity lies not just in the luxury of a representational project, but more powerfully in methods of practice—in understandings of how architects make decisions in realizing their work. Simplicity in communication matters, as related professionals require information, clients want to know what they’re paying for, and various publics are curious about what architects do. Lately, simplicity is a conceptual survival tactic: A sharable, legible understanding of a piece of architecture, even as image, is needed if it is to endure in our fast-paced, media-soaked environment. PLAT suspects that this conciseness leaves work open for continued engagement, and that simplicity is not the opposite of complexity, but instead exists as its complement: Complexity is built out of simplicities, and vice versa.

The Asian city grows denser by the day.

Green projects — defined as new, restored, rehabilitated or converted — must be completed before 31st December 2018.

The BCI Asia Interior Design Awards seeks to recognise great interior architectural designs that stand out aesthetically, functionally and ergonomically.

ITSLIQUID International Contest - 6th Edition 2018

The Madrid City Council, through the Madrid Architecture Competition Office of the Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM), has launched a competition to design three municipal libraries in the Spanish capital.

Following an investigation commissioned by the General Directorate of Libraries, Archives, and Museums and the Public Library Service, "a need to expand the current network of municipal public libraries was identified. This analysis was reinforced by requests from the 2016 district Participatory Budgeting call, as the vast majority of the centers identified in this report were supported by citizen petitions," the competition guidelines explain.

The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA) is an urban design award that seeks to promote innovative thinking about the built environment and advance conversation about making cities better. The award discovers and celebrates urban places in the United States that are distinguished by quality design along with their social and economic contributions to American cities.