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The Mayor's Office of Santiago de Cali, the Municipal Planning Department, and the Colombian Society of Architects – Valle del Cauca (SCA Valle) invite you to participate in the Public Competition – Av. Sexta Urban Design Preliminary Project.

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The call for submissions is now open for the selection of publications for the XI Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (XI BIAU), curated by Arturo Franco and Ana Román, which will take place in October 2019 in Asunción, Paraguay, with Joseto Cubilla serving as the country coordinator.

The international ideas competition "Mercado Modelo Montevideo: Thinking the 21st-Century City" aims to explore urban planning options for an area located at the geographic center of Montevideo.

In light of the planned relocation of the old market, the Mercado Modelo de Montevideo presents a historic opportunity to innovatively reimagine the future of the urban sector it occupies and its surroundings. This includes its large urban structures, public spaces, residential fabric, facilities, and services, as well as its extraordinary potential for transformation and the conservation of its tangible and intangible heritage.

The National Government of Ecuador, through the Ministry of Education, Sport, and Culture and with the technical advisory of the College of Architects of Ecuador (CAE-P), invites entries for the architectural design competition for the new National Museum of Ecuador building. The institution houses more than 1.2 million cultural and heritage assets that narrate 12,000 years of history and comprise the country's most significant collection.

The General Secretariat for Urban Agenda, Housing, and Architecture of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, in collaboration with the Arquia Foundation, is launching this ideas competition aimed at young architecture professionals up to 45 years of age. TAC! 2026 is supported by the Sestao City Council and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), in partnership with the Barcelona City Council.

The visual poetry exhibition "Vía Crisis" invites motorists traveling along Route 68—from Santiago toward Valparaíso—to pause, observe, and discover territories that often go unnoticed. The exhibition, which brings together the work of various visual poets, consists of 15 billboards placed along 110 kilometers starting from Curacaví, Chile. This project is organized by the urban art gallery Metro21 with funding from the National Fund for Cultural Development and the Arts (Fondart). It will be on display along the highway from April 15 to May 15 of this year, creating an artistic journey meant to be appreciated at speed.

The call for applications for the Lilly Reich Grant for equality in architecture is open until April 8 for high school research projects focused on disseminating and highlighting contributions to architecture that have been unfairly sidelined or forgotten. The jury's decision will be announced on June 16, the anniversary of Lilly Reich's birth.

Solo tendrás piedras is an exhibition developed by artist Alejandra Prieto in collaboration with architect Francisco Díaz. The project explores reflections on lithium, an element capable of regulating psychological imbalances such as bipolar disorder while simultaneously storing potential energy in the form of batteries.

Organized by the Center for Studies of Contemporary Architecture, with an introduction by Juan José Cruces, Rector of UTDT, the keynote lecture by Jorge Silvetti will take place.

Fricciones, an international meeting for learning exchanges, will serve as a forum to share unexpected situations that allow us to rethink how we want to learn. The event seeks to create spaces where new forms and experiences of learning can emerge. In this edition, we aim to focus on the frictions that occur in learning between, for example, teaching methods, spaces and architectures, bodies, or policies.

URBAN GARDEN is a trade fair dedicated to equipment, urban furniture, sustainable environments, and the circular economy, offering a unique opportunity for stakeholders in this field to present their proposals and solutions to the market.

At ArchDaily en Español, we recognize the need to stay in constant contact with architecture students, who will be responsible for designing and building the cities of the future. For this reason, we periodically open a call for applications to join our editorial team through our internship program.

If you currently reside in Latin America, this could be your opportunity to contribute local content to the most-visited architecture platform in the world, which inspires and informs hundreds of thousands of architects globally. If you are interested, read on.

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Published by Dostercios Editorial, ‘#XFORMAS: Conversaciones y reflexiones periféricas sobre arquitectura’ is the first double book by Chilean architects Nicolás Valencia, Fabiola González and Yair Estay, co-founders of X Formas de Hacer Arquitectura (#XFORMAS).

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Published by DosTercios Editorial, ‘#XFORMAS: Conversaciones y reflexiones periféricas sobre arquitectura’ is the first double book by Chilean architects Nicolás Valencia, Fabiola González, and Yair Estay, co-founders of X Formas de Hacer Arquitectura (#XFORMAS).

Join us for the lecture: Alberto Cruz, Work and Archive. The talk will be presented by Sara Browne Cruz, historian, holder of a master's degree in history and cultural heritage management, and current executive director of the Alberto Cruz Covarrubias Foundation.

Through her firm, Base Studio, architect Bárbara Barreda develops a methodology for architectural design rooted in systemic thinking and unconventional geometric, material, and spatial formulations. By combining the potential of digital design with local, artisanal construction processes, she generates versatile and adaptable architectural systems.

The Pacífico, Huérfanos, and España galleries are among the more than fifteen that will make up the "Foundational Center Gallery System" tour, led by architect and Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture professor Víctor Villalobos. This event is open to the public and will take place on Monday, April 18, at 3:00 PM. The meeting point will be the rear entrance of the National Library (Moneda Street).

This activity is part of the Atravieso Urbano (Urban Traverse) series, organized by the same institution, which includes four walking tours through different sectors of the capital during the first semester of 2022. Each tour is led by an architect and architecture professor who discusses the history and heritage value of each location.

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