To celebrate the 12th anniversary of Radio Arquitectura, we have organized a trip to the wonderful state of Oaxaca. The itinerary includes an architectural tour featuring visits to the Museo Textil de Artesanos Arquitectos, the Teotitlán del Valle Community Cultural Center designed by PRODUCTORA, and the San Pablo Cultural Center by Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo, among other projects. In addition, we will host a celebration at Expendio Tradición, designed by the studio Farca + Grappin. This event will take place on March 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, departing from Mexico City.
As part of its 2019 edition, Expo Lighting America is preparing to foster professional development in the lighting sector. To that end, the event—taking place March 5–7—will feature an educational program of conferences and workshops led by industry-leading brands, light artists, and advocates of lighting-related technologies.
What are the challenges for design in our time? What visions for more sustainable lifestyles are being developed by architects, product, service, and fashion designers, technology developers, and others?
One hundred years after the founding of the visionary Bauhaus design school in Germany, we invite designers from around the world to participate in an international competition. We are seeking innovative design concepts that offer creative responses to the social, ecological, and global challenges of our time. The competition will award the best ideas for a better future and aims to disseminate them and increase their visibility.
Future Pharmacy is an international competition launched by ThKohl on the Desall.com platform. The competition seeks innovative ideas and concepts for the pharmacy of the future, envisioned as a commercial space dedicated to the individual, their well-being, and social interaction.
This workshop is not only a great opportunity for professionals and students from various fields interested in Technical Assistance for Social Interest Housing (ATHIS), but it is also the first in a series of workshops across several states aimed at expanding the ATHIS Network, which began in São Paulo with the "Vivência em ATHIS para Melhorias Habitacionais" course. This network seeks to promote this practice, facilitate information exchange, and provide support to those involved through the "Arquiteto de Família" (Family Architect) methodology.
Architects from indigenous peoples in Canada, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina will discuss new concepts regarding habitat and housing as part of the 1st International Colloquium on New Indigenous Architecture in the Americas, which will be held at the Mariano Moreno National Library from March 18 to 22.
The New York City Privately Owned Public Space (POPS) Logo Design Competition is being held to solicit a design for a new POPS logo that may be featured on signage at over 550 POPS located across the city. A new POPS logo would be seen by millions of residents, workers, and visitors on any given day and encourage the public to take full advantage of these valuable, but sometimes unknown, public spaces.
Victory Hall Opera [VHO]—in partnership with VMDO Architects of Charlottesville, Virginia—is inviting entries for a modular set design competition. VHO challenges all assumptions about the presentation and interpretation of opera, and is seeking a set design that will rethink what a set can be.
The 2019 Sherwin-Williams Student Design Challenge is now open and accepting residential and commercial project submissions through March 15. The annual competition challenges current students to create award-winning interior design projects for a chance to win cash prizes and receive national recognition from Sherwin-Williams.
New Simón Bolívar Auditorium, at the Latin America Memorial - photo: Marcelo Justo, Folhapress
Welcome to the first 2019 edition of the exclusive course titled “Acoustics of theaters, auditoriums, and performance halls: design guidelines,” which will be held on Saturday, March 16, 2019, immediately following REVESTIR'2019.
Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC is a two-stage design competition for small-scale, urban infill housing. The competition is organized by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY), and seeks to address the challenges associated with the design and construction of affordable housing on underutilized City-owned land.
The international competition Architecture of Necessity is a part of the project WOOD2019 that Virserum Konsthall arrange with the support from the Municipality of Hultsfred and the Regional Federation of Kalmar County. The international manifesto on the Architecture of Necessity was first launched in 2009. Earlier exhibitions in 2010, 2013 and 2016 have together received 600 entries from more than 40 countries.
The cultural association “Barajas BIC,” with the support of the Barajas Municipal Board, is organizing a lecture series featuring municipal technical teams from various city councils in the Madrid region. “Main Squares, Meeting Places”—with presentations focused on urban regeneration and the revitalization of historic Madrid spaces from the 16th to 18th centuries—will take place on Thursdays throughout March and April (6:00 PM) at the “Gloria Fuertes” Cultural Center (179 Logroño Ave.).
Field Office Architecture – Founder Sheng-Yuan Huang is one of the Symposium's speakers
An initiative of State Library of Queensland and Architecture Media, the 2019 Asia Pacific Architecture Forum will return to Brisbane from 13 to 26 March, 2019.
MK:U International Design Competition, images Luke Hayes
The MK:U International Design Competition seeks world-class design teams for a new model university in the Oxford to Cambridge innovation arc.
Beloved by architects as the most original and successful of the mid-twentieth century’s wave of ‘New Towns’, and famously ‘different by design’, Milton Keynes (MK) has successfully reinvented itself as a ‘Smart City’ and is a key contributor to the United Kingdom’s knowledge economy.
Due to both the growing tourist demand in the city of Salta and the population's need for equipped recreational open spaces, the Government of Salta—through the Salta Cable Car Complex and the Salta Architects' Association—will expand the cable car system to connect the summits of Cerro San Bernardo and Cerro Delta.
