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What kind of city do we want? How can ephemeral activities within a plot of land inspire the creation of unique, identity-driven urban spaces?

The CAP RL and BIALIMA, in partnership with the Municipality of San Juan de Lurigancho, are organizing the "International Ideas Competition: Hillsides in San Juan de Lurigancho." The competition aims to create infrastructure surrounding the staircases that connect local residents.

Applications for the Escola da Cidade lato sensu postgraduate program are open until August 13, 2021. Established over 10 years ago, the program consists of seven courses and is structured around two central pillars: practice and design, both understood as research and strategies for engaging with space across its multiple scales. The program’s overarching theme, "Civilization America: A Look Through Architecture," seeks to understand and address the historical, geographical, territorial, and social conditions that define us. With this perspective, the postgraduate courses at Escola da Cidade aim to connect professionals working in architecture, urbanism, and related fields with research and critical reflection applied to design and teaching.

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ArchDaily is a digital project in constant evolution. It is an experiment in the documentation, discussion, and dissemination of key topics in architecture and urbanism on a scale that would not have been possible twenty years ago. Today, we are pleased to announce that our team continues to grow.

CityMakers Barcelona Lab 2021 is an opportunity to engage with the experts and institutions transforming Barcelona.

Spanish Architecture Festival (FAE) 2025
September 4–5 · Mexico City
This September, Mexico City will become the epicenter of Spanish-language architecture with the 2025 edition of the Spanish Architecture Festival, an international gathering celebrating contemporary thought and practice.
Over two days, key voices in global architecture will gather at iconic sites of Mexican modern heritage to tour, inhabit, and reflect upon them through shared experience.
A curated architectural experience.
Designed as an intimate gathering, the Festival offers close access to its international guests: direct conversations, guided tours of Modern Movement works, and moments of connection where dialogue transcends the professional.
It is not just about talking about architecture, but about inhabiting it, exploring it in company, and sharing it through experience.
The program is framed by an exclusive multi-course meal prepared by chef Miguel Sánchez Navarro—creator of CARDO—accompanied by cocktails, with transportation included to facilitate the experience.
Venues
September 4 – Los Manantiales, Xochimilco
The first day will take place at the iconic Los Manantiales, a work by Félix Candela nestled among the canals of Xochimilco. This reinforced concrete shell—one of the architect's most emblematic structures—stands as a symbol of 20th-century structural experimentation and formal beauty.
September 5 – Bacardí Plant, Tultitlán
The second day moves to the Bacardí Plant in the State of Mexico, an exceptional enclave that brings together two key works of the Modern Movement: the bottling plant designed by Félix Candela and the office building designed by Mies van der Rohe. A setting where industrial architecture becomes a manifesto.
International Guests
FAE 2025 will bring together essential voices in contemporary architecture to share their trajectories, processes, and visions:
● Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA, Japan)
2010 Pritzker Prize laureate, co-founder of SANAA, and author of iconic works such as the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art and the Teshima Art Museum.
● Jimenez Lai (Bureau Spectacular, USA)
Architect and artist recognized for experimental installations and a narrative approach that rethinks how we inhabit space.
● Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda (Amid.cero9, Spain)
Founders of the influential Madrid-based studio and professors at institutions such as Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
● Mauricio Rocha (Taller Mauricio Rocha, Mexico)
Winner of the 2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, author of works such as the Anahuacalli Museum expansion and the San Pablo Academic and Cultural Center.

19TH NATIONAL CONGRESS OF ARCHITECTS TO BE HELD IN LIMA FROM OCTOBER 22 TO 25
More than 800 participants from across the country are expected to attend.

The third Lima International Architecture Biennial will take place in November. This significant event seeks to recognize and reward the best practices in architecture and urbanism in the capital. It will feature the participation of the cities of Singapore and Shenzhen.

FAUUSP will host the book launch of Königsberger Vannucchi [et al.] in a session that brings together architecture and debate. The event will take place during an undergraduate class and proposes a conversation on the role of contemporary architecture in shaping the urbanity and landscape of the city of São Paulo.

The course investigates the relationship between architecture, exhibition design, and art, analyzing museums as potential territories for experimentation, contestation, and cultural reinvention. By examining case studies such as MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the course discusses the "white cube" model and its ties to modern art, in contrast to other spatial and architectural approaches associated with contemporary art.

The Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile is celebrating another anniversary with a series of free, fully online events. The milestone began on Tuesday, August 4, marking 78 years since the enactment of Law 7.211, which established the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile in 1942—during the administration of President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo—and kicked off the Month of Architecture in Chile.

Coronavida: pandemia, cidade e cultura urbana, the new book by artist and professor Giselle Beiguelman, addresses the impacts of the coronavirus on culture and daily life in cities. The suppression of public space, new forms of activism, the pandemic of images (from livestreams to memes), the molecular surveillance of the "new normal," the precariousness of social relations, and remote work are among the topics explored.

Virtual launch with Francisco Fanucci, Marcelo Ferraz, Marta Bogéa, Abilio Guerra, and Guilherme Wisnik on August 25 at 7:00 PM, live on the Vitruvius Facebook page: facebook.com/vitruvius.com.br

This year, the way we inhabit our cities and homes has undergone a radical shift due to the pandemic. Diseases, plagues, wars, and catastrophes have forced us to reorganize our cities and create new systems and typologies. Similarly, this pandemic has prompted us to question how we work, study, rest, and inhabit. WAUM 2020 will reflect on potential scenarios through interventions that allow us to "repair the current city" based on three visions: the city of delights, the distributed city, and the healthy city. Each participating group, composed of students from different universities and guided by a faculty team, will adopt one of these three visions to propose an artifact, system, building, or structure that functions as a "repairing" prototype—one that is non-site-specific yet applicable to various situations.

The Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile is celebrating another anniversary with a series of free, entirely online events.

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated urban inequality in Latin America, with impacts evident in the vulnerability of citizens and their relationship with public space. "This situation reflects the need to adapt and implement our streets in a creative way that accounts for the diversity of people, thereby achieving spacious public areas that help reduce the risk of contagion for the most vulnerable users," says Mariana Alegre, Executive Director of Lima Cómo Vamos and Ocupa Tu Calle.

Municipal Secretary of Mobility and Transport, Bete França, is the next guest for the live stream hosted by the Architecture and Urbanism program at the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP), where she is a faculty member. On Wednesday, August 19, at 4:00 PM, she will discuss urban life in the post-pandemic era and the so-called "new normal" with the audience.

Simone Cadinelli Arte Contemporânea continues its exhibition "How to inhabit the present?" with "Act 2 – We Are Here," on view in its storefront window and on its website starting August 24, 2020. The video works, created using various multimedia languages such as videomapping and GIFs, will run 24 hours a day and can be viewed by passersby at Rua Aníbal Mendonça, in Ipanema. The exhibition will also be replicated on the gallery's website, featuring complete information about the works and the artists [https://www.simonecadinelli.com].