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The invention of new machines and design tools, alongside environmental urgencies and the human occupation of both existing and future built spaces, is driving new opportunities to conceive and produce the imagined building and city.

Escola da Cidade is hosting the workshop "Amphibious Architectures – Cultural Spaces in Marajó/PA." This study trip, beginning July 16, is designed to foster reflection and develop proposals for cultural spaces in riverside regions.

This summer, the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT) Architecture and Design Innovation Workshop will continue its participation in the university architectural design studio program in Berlin, organized by ANCB. BIFT is currently seeking 3-5 students to join the workshop.

Renowned Brazilian architects and urban planners, including Paulo Mendes da Rocha, will gather in São Paulo for two days in early July. Alongside approximately 300 other professionals, they will work to draft the "Charter of Architects and Urban Planners to the 2018 Election Candidates, in Defense of the Right to the City"—a long-standing and permanent agenda for the profession since the first Brazilian Congress of Architects, organized by the IAB in 1945, which marked the definition of social function as a priority in the field.

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM ‘MOBILITY: ITS LOGICS AND SCALES’ - APPLICATIONS OPEN - UNTIL 08.01 | ESCOLA DA CIDADE

APPLICATIONS OPEN - POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM ‘GEOGRAPHY, CITY, AND ARCHITECTURE’ | ESCOLA DA CIDADE

The Summer School is one of the initiatives undertaken by El Asunto Urbano, a platform created to explore, analyze, discuss, and generate proposals regarding the relationship between art, architecture, and urban spaces.

Supertrama is a public art program in Extremadura, Spain, that promotes artistic experimentation rooted in specific environments, their urban (or rural) configuration, architecture, historical memory, and social fabric. The program fosters cultural growth across the Extremaduran territory in collaboration with architects, artists, and creatives working in the field of public art.

"When architecture and urban design project their desire onto a (…) a terrain vague, they seem incapable of doing anything other than introducing violent transformations, changing estrangement into citizenship, and striving at all costs to dissolve the uncontaminated magic of the obsolete into the realism of efficacy. (…) Today, intervention in the existing city, in its residual spaces, in its folded interstices can no longer be either comfortable or efficacious in the manner postulated by the modern movement's efficient model of the enlightened tradition. How can architecture act in the terrain vague without becoming an aggressive instrument of power and abstract reason? Undoubtedly, through attention to continuity: not the continuity of the planned, efficient, and legitimized city, but of the flows, the energies, the rhythms established by the passing of time and the loss of limits... we should treat the residual city with a contradictory complicity that will not shatter the elements that maintain its continuity in time and space." Terrain Vague, Sola Morales, 1995

CineCubo is the film club hosted by the Institute of Architects of Brazil, aiming to foster dialogue between audiovisual and architectural languages to broaden and debate perspectives on the city. On the third Tuesday of every month at 7:30 PM, CineCubo screens films followed by a discussion at the IAB-SP headquarters. Curated and moderated by Nana Maiolini, Travessia Filmes, and guests, the sessions are free and open to the general public.

The IAB RS Vale do Sinos chapter invites you to the premiere of the first documentary in the series "Memória da Arquitetura Moderna no Vale do Sinos," taking place this Wednesday, July 4, 2018, at 7:00 PM at the Fundação Scheffel in Novo Hamburgo.

In this summer architecture workshop for students, participants will reside at the Valley House, a project by our firm located near Vieira do Minho in northern Portugal.

Digital Constructivism, a two-week workshop by the Architectural Association Visiting School (AAVS) taking place at the Torcuato Di Tella University School of Architecture and Urban Studies this coming July, explores the generation of material environments from conceptualization to production. Structured as a series and based on an intensive version of the creative process developed by Diploma Unit 17 of the Architectural Association in London, "Spaces for Knowledge Exchange: New Worlds of Leisure," each instance of the workshop informs the next, advancing its conceptual construction cumulatively. The series is based on the conviction that radical architecture does not require appealing to parallel or fictional worlds, but rather operating through technically precise and spatially creative decisions based on connections with a world that, while increasingly homogeneous, is replete with exceptions, specific conditions, and extraordinary situations. From these, the workshop encourages the production of speculations that transgress established cultural identities in order to define new forms of beauty.

On Saturday, July 7, 2018, at 12:00 PM, a site visit will be held as part of the Architecture and Landscape Ideas Competition for the San Borja Walkways and Surroundings. The meeting point is at Plaza del Pedregal, next to the Unimarc supermarket located at the San Borja Walkways (Universidad Católica Metro station). The site visit is not mandatory for competition entry and is intended for teams that need to visit the site to develop their proposals.

The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ibarra Campus, invites you to the fifth EARQ, the Academic Event of the School of Architecture, an International Congress titled "Realities in Transformation: Ideas, proposals, and actions that positively change our environment."

In a context shaped by neoliberal policies, urban design in Santiago, Chile, has been progressively limited to private, internalized spaces. Specifically, through the shopping mall model, which, rather than serving as a suburban solution, has transformed into a vehicle for developing central, pre-equipped areas. Urban shopping malls are large-scale consumption artifacts that not only aggregate a significant amount of infrastructure, programs, and services to meet daily demands, but also represent a "real" opportunity to create urban spaces with a spatial and symbolic richness unavailable elsewhere in the city. However, this complexity comes at the expense of the urban experience. Housing, understood as the center of domesticity, has lost its fundamental relationship with the city and today is merely an isolated component of urban design, the result of an undifferentiated proliferation of housing units, buildings, and blocks that serve no function other than accommodation.

As it does every year, the Architecture and Society Foundation has opened registration for Campus Ultzama 2018.

"Still Cabanon" represents a challenge issued to 27 contributors from various disciplines to conceive and design an intimate shelter for themselves, serving as a space to develop their reflections on 21st-century living.