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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.

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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).

Since the beginning of the 20th century, Karl Marx’s famous dictum that "All that is solid melts into air" seems to have its own architectural trajectory associated with emerging ideas of lightness, transparency, and the dematerialization of the building, from Georgii Krutikov’s utopias for a flying city (1927) or Vladimir Tatlin’s Letatlin (1932), to H.G. Wells’s city of the future, governed by the "dictatorship of the air" (1936). "Maximum air - Minimum walls!" was Sigfried Giedion’s demand for transforming the old static sense of structure into renewed combinassions aériennes, and a new system of equilibrium in suspension that, in Konrad Wachsmann’s understanding, would transform the building into a breathing skin.

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.

AceroLAB's mission is to drive innovation in steel through multisectoral development, connecting the public, private, and academic sectors. It approaches design at all scales, with a focus on quality of life, sustainability, and the productivity of buildings and public works in Chile.

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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 two-volume 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 commemorative program for the 25th Anniversary of the Center for Traditional Architecture Research (CIAT) consists of three lines of action, aimed at expanding and diversifying the many educational and research activities that have been developed since 1996.

Marking the 10th anniversary of the Young Architects Program in association with MoMA New York, Chile will host the International Young Architects Festival (YAF_CONSTRUCTO) this year, featuring prominent emerging voices in international architecture and design, as well as distinguished curators.