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Open House Madrid announces the 2nd edition of the City Awards, which recognize the most innovative, social, and engaged proposals that will shape the future of cities.

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The Uyuni Salt Flat Shelter competition seeks to foster a reconnection with nature and with the human experience within solitude. Acceleration, instantaneity, immediacy, technologization... Daily human life has been subsumed by synchronous devices such as the clock and the mobile phone, resulting in a stressed society that has lost all trace of its biological temporality and its shared life with the environment. Here, on the salt flat, all technology disappears. Total computerization is not possible.

The new sense of place in education, the profession, and social interaction will be the theme of the 18th International Conference Arquitectonics: Mind, Land, and Society in Barcelona. This event is organized by the UPC Research Group (GIRAS), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), and the Mind, Land & Society Arquitectonics Network.

Isolation viewed from different perspectives and disciplines: this is the central theme of the "Isolated Dialogues" series, organized by the Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture, which takes place every Wednesday. Participants include artists, architects, designers, musicians, scientists, writers, journalists, and others, both Chilean and international.

The Latin American Integration Workshop (TiL), established in 2009 by the Faculty of Architecture, Design, Art, and Urbanism at the University of Morón with the support of over one hundred architecture schools in Latin America and partners in Spain, Italy, and Portugal, has opened the call for entries for the sixth edition of the TiL Competition, aimed at architecture and design students from around the world.

Submit your project featuring prominent use of ceramic tiles. Winners will have their work featured as the cover story in the November 2020 issue of TILE Brasil. This issue will also be distributed at Cersaie 2020 in Italy.

Fundraising Design Competition: Post-Pandemic Scenarios. Gatherings in Times of Social Distancing

Architecture is inevitably linked to the specific circumstances in which each project is developed, as well as the individual criteria applied to each proposal. At the same time, our discipline is also beholden to general notions that transcend specific conditions. We propose exploring this duality without contradiction, working on a topic that inevitably concerns us all from a broad, universal perspective that allows for the exploration of solutions extending beyond a single circumstance, place, or reality.

The CAP Regional Lima invites you this Thursday, June 25, to a conversation with David Sim and Alexander Spitzer—partners at Jan Gehl—on the relationship between quality of life and urban density. They will present their latest book, "Soft City," and discuss the firm's project experiences in South America.

Tanzania is facing a severe shortage of high-quality, affordable housing. The situation is critical, with the nation currently facing a housing deficit of 3 million units alongside an annual demand for 200,000 more. Over seventy percent of urban residents live in unplanned, informal settlements that lack basic services.

The Quechua Architecture Competition invites all participants to take part in this one-week challenge and develop a project that explores diverse fields of thought and design. The challenge for this edition: "Shadow Pavilion."

The Endless Dollhouse Project is an initiative that seeks to bring visibility to the narratives we hold regarding the domestic sphere through playful visual compositions resembling dollhouses. This is an opportune moment to learn interesting things about ourselves, our world, and our relationships with it through the representation of the domestic within the most popular traditional game: the dollhouse, which, in its ancestral symbolic background, serves as a representation of the social and distinctive traits of an era.

Given our current reality, CoRe aims to channel the experiences and sentiments of this coronavirus-induced quarantine through literary expression. To that end, the organization is launching:

Isolation, viewed from various perspectives and disciplines, is the central theme of the "Isolated Dialogues" series, organized by the Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture, which takes place every Wednesday. Participants include artists, architects, designers, musicians, scientists, writers, journalists, and others, both Chilean and international.

ARKxSITE is pleased to announce the 'SITE MIRADOR' international architecture ideas competition for architecture and landscape architecture students and young professionals (≤ 40 years old).

The primary objective of this course is to equip students with fundamental concepts and powerful tools for developing projects that involve structural engineering, including buildings, residential housing, industrial facilities, and soil feasibility. By the end of the course, students will be able to navigate the variables involved in including, removing, or modifying structural elements through an examination of structural philosophy, the state of the art, national and international regulations, and plan review.

PENSARQ_, the architectural dissemination project by TAQ Arquitectura, will host its first series of free video Masterclasses.

Presentation of the Final Degree Projects by Architecture students from ITESM Campus Guadalajara. The event will feature international guest jurors who will provide feedback on the presented concepts. Open to the general public via Zoom. Access the broadcast here: https://itesm.zoom.us/j/4042615049