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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.

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM 'ARCHITECTURE, EDUCATION, AND SOCIETY' - APPLICATIONS OPEN UNTIL AUGUST 1 - ESCOLA DA CIDADE

The Institute of Architects of Brazil, Paraíba Department, is pleased to invite the entire community of Paraíba to the book launch of Valsa Brasileira, by economist and USP professor Laura Carvalho. The event is open to the public!
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Tejiendo La Calle is an open-participation project. It consists of creating sunshades using an XXL crochet technique, which are installed in the streets of Valverde de La Vera during the town's cultural week and August festivities. We began in 2013 and continue to work on the project today.

The resulting installation helps express the local identity and serves as a medium for the intentions and desires of the project's participants. It welcomes visitors and helps create a celebratory atmosphere. The pieces function as sunshades during the day and are illuminated at night, lighting the way to the town square, the main meeting point during the festivities.

The panel featuring the five best projects from Taller 89: "Rehabilitation of Urban Skeletons" is currently on display at the Palazzo Mora in Venice as part of the "TIME, SPACE, EXISTENCE" exhibition, coordinated by the GAA Foundation and the European Cultural Centre for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.

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.

The National Seminar of Model Architecture and Urbanism Offices (SeNEMAU) is the occasion where members of EMAUs from across the country discuss, exchange experiences, and improve the model of education and university extension, where production is primarily focused on issues involving the democratization of architecture. SeNEMAU, like the EMAU itself, is an event conceived and promoted by FeNEA and has been held annually since 1997, organized by students involved with EMAUs alongside faculty advisors. The seminar program consists of activities that promote a collective experience of exchange and learning, such as presentations of work from model offices, practical workshops, lectures, roundtables, and experiences and interventions in 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.

The Council of Architects and Urbanists of Brazil (CAU/BR), the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB), and CAU/SP will host the "National Seminar on Urban Policy: For More Humane, Just, and Sustainable Cities" on July 3rd and 4th. The event is free and will be held at the IAB São Paulo headquarters.

APPLICATIONS OPEN - POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM 'HOUSING AND THE CITY' - UNTIL 07.30 - ESCOLA DA CIDADE

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.

"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

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.

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.

The AA Visiting School Mexico is a summer workshop based in Oaxaca, Mexico. The Visiting School offers the opportunity to experience the Architectural Association's experimental culture firsthand in the heart of Oaxaca city. It is open to current architecture and design students, PhD candidates, and young professionals in related disciplines: architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, planning, geography, civil engineering, etc.

The conversation with Laurent Beaudouin, architect and professor at the École d’Architecture de Paris Val de Seine, and Francis Rambert, architect and director of the Cité de L’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, will take place next Wednesday, July 11, at 6:30 PM. Admission is free.

"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.