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“Inside the Landscape”. A collective exhibition of Cuban art featuring Alejandro Lloret, Alexis Iglesias, and J. Pável Herrera opens at the Instituto Cervantes in São Paulo.

How have the events of recent years impacted Brazilian visual arts? This is the focus of the "Brasil Visual" series, directed by Rosa Melo, which premieres on June 25, 2024, at 8:30 PM on the Curta! channel. The preview will take place this Saturday, June 22, starting at 5:00 PM at Praça Luís de Camões (Praça do Russel) in Glória. The free, public event will feature the screening of three episodes, a conversation with some of the series' participants, guest DJs, and a pocket show by artist Cabelo. Starting from the visual arts, the series addresses themes that have impacted society as a whole, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the demonstrations that swept the country, and artificial intelligence, while also exploring spirituality and the duality between the worlds of the living and the dead, among others.

The Nagari Film Competition is an annual competition designed to guide and develop films that focus on urban issues, specific to Indian cities. Nagari intends to be a bioscope for the city, and through this lens we explore diverse conditions and engage with urban issues.

The ICLEI World Congress 2024, hosted by the City of São Paulo, Brazil, is a pivotal gathering focused on advancing sustainable urban development and equitable adaptation to local and regional challenges. Running from 18 – 21 June, this year’s Congress is a journey of reflection and forward-looking vision, emphasizing the critical challenges and opportunities facing cities, towns, and regions due to rising global risks and changes.

The 11th edition of the Arquiteturas Film Festival: Learning to Unlearn

Architecture welcomes cultures and people from all walks of life. However, it does not always address pressing issues such as social justice, the ecological crisis, and decolonization, often at the expense of a dominant Western paradigm in education and professional practice. The Arquiteturas Film Festival 2024 seeks to challenge this hegemony by reflecting on the discourses embedded in the discipline.

The Portobello Group is hosting another edition of its Sustainability Week from June 17 to 22, an initiative aimed at mobilizing the public and showcasing the company's actions related to the topic.

Our Klima Biennale 2024 contribution, ‘all surfaces clean at all times’, opens on June 19 at 5 pm in a vacant building in Vienna’s 16th district.

AGENCY (noun) is defined as:
1a: the office or function of an agent
1b: the relationship between a principal and that person's agent
2: the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power
3: a person or thing through which power is exerted or an end is achieved
4: an establishment engaged in doing business for another
5: an administrative division (as of a government)

Real-time rendering has revolutionized the world of architectural visualization, allowing designers to explore their ideas like never before. That's why we are proud to announce the Enscape 4 All Real-Time Rendering Awards, where we will honor the best real-time renders of the year.

Real-Time rendering has become a powerful tool that allows architects and designers to envision the future of architecture by simultaneously leveraging speed, render quality and performance. With this competition we aim to find the most talented artists from around the world and discover who is setting trends with their work and aesthetics, shaping the future of architecture. 

On Tuesday, June 11, 2024, from 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM, we invite you to join us at Casa Somauma for a talk with the firms featured in the "Arquitetura Paulista" film series.

“Only Art Touches the Untouchable Truths”
Group exhibition opens at the Galeria do Espaço Cultural Municipal Sérgio Porto on June 20, curated by Mario Camargo.

The residents of the historic city of Congonhas (MG) are invited to plan their future and participate in the development of the National Urban Development Policy through the Municipal Conference of Cities, scheduled for Saturday, June 29, at the City Council.

Designed to welcome input from different sectors of Congonhas' society, the Municipal Conference will address solutions to make the city even more inclusive, democratic, sustainable, and socially just.

Gypsum Concrete
Arquitectura en Corto invites you to the screening of Gypsum Concrete, which will take place on Thursday, June 13, at 7:00 PM at the Roca Barcelona Gallery (c/Joan Güell, 211). Directed by Simon Pénochet, the short film documents the research conducted by the French architecture studio Ciguë to replace cement with gypsum in floor screeds for a project in Montreuil, Paris. Gypsum is a material with a long history of use throughout the Paris region; it is recyclable and readily available through urban mining processes. A series of tests on samples produced by Ciguë, combined with a comparative life cycle analysis, demonstrate that this material is a viable alternative that drastically reduces CO2 emissions. Following the screening, architect Sara Ferran, a partner at taller11—where they are currently conducting similar research—and Albert Sagrera, an architect, environmental consultant, and co-founder of Societat Orgànica, will lead a discussion. Sagrera is an expert in the environmental impact of materials, life cycle assessment, and construction waste management.

The film "Vida sobre as Águas" (2023), directed and researched by architect Danielle Khoury Gregorio, will be screened at the Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, the largest and most significant socio-environmental film festival in South America. The film will also be featured at SEMEIA, the Environment Week at the Museum of Tomorrow.

Inspired by the timelessness of the song "Coração de Estudante" by Milton Nascimento and Wagner Tiso, architect Henrique Hoffman and Hunter Douglas, a global leader in window coverings and architectural products, have partnered to reimagine the facade of the historic Instituto de Educação de Minas Gerais (IEMG) building. The intervention, titled "Há que se cuidar do broto" (One must care for the sprout), is part of the Modernos Eternos architecture and design exhibition, which will be held at the iconic pink building in Belo Horizonte from June 18 to July 14. The event features over 35 spaces designed by renowned architects and interior designers, showcasing the latest industry trends across 6,000 m² of the school building; nine of these spaces are decorated with products from the Hunter Douglas blinds and shades division.

The Center for Contemporary Architecture Studies at the School of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella is hosting, with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, a traveling iteration of the exhibition Foodscapes, the Spanish Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa and Manuel Ocaña.

Founded in the memory of Professor Kurula Varkey, a former Director of the School of Architecture and a prominent figure in the institution’s pedagogical reforms, the forum brings together students from various architectural schools, academicians and practitioners from around the world.

Intermediate Architecture