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We are gaining momentum! In just two weeks we will be listening to Antti Nousjoki, co-founder of ALA Architects, an architectural studio from Helsinki.

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DigitalFUTURES Talks: The Death of Culture
20 March at 10:00am EST / 3:00pm CET / 10:00pm China

The Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design is pleased to announce that the 2020-21 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design is Douglas Cardinal, OC, FRAIC, a renowned Canadian architect known both for his inspiring designs and for his advocacy for the rights and dignity of Indigenous peoples. Cardinal will give a series of four public lectures, in collaboration with the Daniels Faculty, throughout his appointment as Gehry Chair.

On Thursday, March 25, at 12:00 PM (4:00 PM in Barcelona, Spain), the international conference "The Design and Construction of Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia: Its Development Over Three Centuries" will take place. The event is organized by the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile, the Association of Architectural Offices of Chile (AOA), and the Corporación Gaudí de Triana.

The need for developing 3D digital environments has grown significantly following the pandemic and the imminent digitization of many processes previously conducted in person, transforming how we interact with objects, spaces, and people. This course provides the foundations for building 3D spaces using the Unity platform. Participants will learn how to sketch, conceptualize, and execute ideas within this medium, while also understanding the creative and logistical logic involved in creating these spaces. We will progress from basic concepts to intermediate and advanced levels of production. You will create your own space featuring advanced graphics. You will learn to generate and texture terrain, apply lighting, and import your own creations into your project. Furthermore, the course is designed to encourage creative practice. We will create first-person executable projects ready for web deployment, while also exploring the optimal conditions for hosting them online. We will build basic menus and learn to utilize and optimize free assets to develop more complex, feature-rich projects. Additionally, each project will be reviewed to address individual needs, ensuring your ideas are successfully translated to the screen and the web.

This Thursday marks the conclusion of the discussion series dedicated to integrating architecture into the public investment value chain. This session will explore the current landscape of public competitions across Latin America and examine potential collaborations between the public and private sectors.

Organized by the research platform Justicia Espacial, this upcoming discussion features the team from AGA Estudio, Caracas, and their experience in programming for social impact projects.

OPEN CALL - RAW Exhibition

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TRACCE, a series of FREE ONLINE TALKS.

UCTEA Chamber of Architects of Turkey is organizing a series of online conferences called “Designing with People”. With the support of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture program, in these conferences, valuable laureates of the program will be giving lectures talking about their approach in architecture and/or urban planning, their ethical and design approach, and their ideas and development of participation processes. Moderated by Prof. Dr. Deniz İncedayı, President of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey, Prof. Dr. Jana Revedin, Founding President of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, and Marie-Helene Contal, Director of the Department of Cultural Development, Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine will be giving introductory speeches about the award program which started in 2006, and continues under the patronage of UNESCO. The award program recognizes five architects who share both the principles of sustainable development and a participatory architectural approach to the needs of society, in both the northern and the southern hemispheres.

Exploring urban cultural ecologies, systems and new spatial practices - from one form to another.

The 2021 John Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Leong Leong Founding Partners, Christopher Leong and Dominic Leong.

This lecture is designed for architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and climate activists. It focuses specifically on the public urban landscape and the importance of making cities "climate-ready." With over 40 years of experience, Martha Schwartz and her firm have completed projects worldwide, ranging from site-specific art installations to public spaces, parks, master planning, and land reclamation. Schwartz is now dedicated to strategic landscape planning and land use, helping leaders prepare for the climate change impacts their cities will face in the near future. This is undoubtedly a lecture you won't want to miss.

On Tuesday, March 23, at 6:30 PM, the launch of ARQDocs: Teodoro Fernández will be held via the UC School of Architecture's Facebook Live. The event will feature Valentina Rozas Krause, researcher and PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and Rafael Zamora, architect and founding partner of the Llonazamora studio in Lima, Peru. Additionally, the event will include commentary from architects and researchers Daniel Talesnik and Marés Sandor.

What is the role of wood in contemporary architecture?

Imaflora launches an event to discuss the needs, perspectives, and opportunities that sustainability can bring to architecture and business.

EdX MOOC on Global Housing Design

This conversation series is part of Curating Architecture Across the Americas (CAAA), an initiative that brings together institutions, curators, and scholars to discuss the role of architecture exhibitions and collections in the expanding world of curatorial practices and cultural debates.

In this talk, Pamila Matharu and Lauren Fournier will be in conversation on the occasion of the launch of Fournier’s new book Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism (The MIT Press, 2021). The two will discuss ideas that Fournier takes up in the book, including the state of the “autotheoretical turn” in recent feminist art, the role that histories of intersectional feminist activism play in contemporary conversations and trends, the ethics of disclosure and exposure, and the relationship between autotheory, autofiction, and other terms, like auto-ethnography. The two will draw from their backgrounds as artists, writers, and curators involved in feminist organizing in Toronto and elsewhere to discuss the use of autobiographical materials in critical and conceptual work. Books will be available for purchase.