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The Glasgow Institute of Architects, as Trustees of the Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson Scholarship, are pleased to announce the launch of the Alexander Thomson scholarship 2021, Narratives of Isolation.

Venezuelan architects from different latitudes have surprisingly joined together with their allies in the world, through an educational platform that seeks to "build and not simulate reality with an eye on the peripheral globe."
The program is open to students of all levels and from anywhere on the planet, who will have the opportunity to train in local projects, exploring the peripheries as part of a fresh and challenging context where new spaces of architecture open up.
The 2021-2022 cycle will jumpstart through a Virtual Community format, which offers academic credits adaptable to different university systems: a trimester, a summer school, an internship experience, a research project, or a work of scientific accreditation for studies of postgraduate. This is followed by an experimental laboratory in Central America where students will come into contact with sensitive projects in fertile communities and territories. And finally, it will culminate in the implementation of a project built in a community of Caracas, Venezuela.
The program has the support of the Global Research Program on Inequality, different universities and institutions in Latin America and the world, and high-profile professionals experts in architecture, urban planning, anthropology, sociology, engineering, and sustainability, who will guide the processes of the network, facing complex situations immersed in the fabric of the city, and will certify the knowledge applied by Dislocal.
First Stage
Virtual Community / August - December 2021
16 weeks >> 5 blocks >> 5 topics on urban regeneration and sustainability >>
Block 1. Resilience, urban regeneration, and habitat transformation for emerging landscapes.
Block 2. Ecology, resource management, nature, and energy optimization in the tropics.
Block 3. Technological implementation, systems, and efficient endogenous structures.
Block 4. Local skills, capacity development, and self-sufficiency in popular settlements.
Block 5. Experiments in the global periphery. Scalable intelligences for the prototyping of sustainable structures in Caracas.

The Busan Arhcitecture Festival, which began in 2001, is an open organisation looking at the potential future direction of Busan Metropolitan City and works together with architects and citizens in Busan.

We all have always yearned for our personal space, one that takes us far away from our chaotic and stressful lives; our very own Home rooted in Mother Nature, one that reconnects us to our origins, rejuvenating our mind, body and soul. We all aspire for a home that is not just an extension of our persona but is also an expression of our individuality and freedom.

In anticipation of the 2021 Conscious Cities Festival this October, we are delighted to announce an open call for submissions for the yearly Conscious Cities Anthology showcasing the diverse and impactful thinking by Conscious Cities practitioners. We are soliciting submissions from festival participants, industry professionals, the general public, and anyone who feels their pieces fit the details below. See past anthologies in our open-access library.

Archasm would like to thank all the health workers for their unflinching commitment and devotion to save human lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this competition, we encourage participants to come up with visionary concepts for a green skyscraper – Only 3 drawings, absolute freedom of scale and program dimensions.

Non Architecture just launched “Into the Wild”, a compilation of design competitions aiming to approach the element of nature in different perspectives. Three unconventional design competitions to discover new synergies between natural ecosystems and humans.

TerraViva Competitions launches THE LIVING MUSEUM, a new architecture competition focused on the design of micro-accommodation units immersed in the Sardinian landscape of the Nivola Museum. Prizes up to 7.000 € will be awarded to the winners selected by an international jury panel composed by, among others, Stefano Boeri (Stefano Boeri Architetti), Arthur Chang (NADAAA), Nicolás Campodonico (Nicolás Campodonico), Luis Gallego Pachón (Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos);

The association ZukunftsRegion Westpfalz e. V. intends to develop the area of the ‘Weiße Kaserne’ in coordination with the city of Zweibrücken and the owners. The former barracks area is centrally located in the city of Zweibrücken/ Germany (in close proximity to the Ramstein US Airbase), not far from the city center. The approx. 4.5 ha large area is to be sold for development. For this purpose, a combined urban development and investor competition is being held to find a coherent urban development and architectural development and utilization concept, for which an investor is prepared to enter into purchase negotiations with the owners and, in the event of a positive conclusion to the talks, to develop the site in accordance with the concept.
The following goals in particular are being pursued with the urban development reorganization:
Integration of the new development into the existing development structure
Strengthening the residential and commercial function in the vicinity of the central downtown area
Creation of a high-quality neighborhood
Revitalization of a brownfield site in the inner area
This is an international, non-open, two-stage investor competition for which an association of investors with architects is permitted.
The awarding authority provides a competition sum of 30,000 € for the architect of the participating consortium (1st prize: 15,000 €, 2nd prize: 10,000 €, 3rd prize: 5,000 €).
The jury is composed of representatives of the owners, the awarding authority, the city of Zweibrücken and renowned external experts.

INTRODUCTION:
Have you ever imagined what the architecture of Africa would look like today, if the great civilizations of Egypt, Timbuktu, Mali, the Dogon, Zulu, Yoruba, and thousands of other African empires had continued to develop and evolve in their own unique identity? Imagine the transformation of the African landscape into sprawling metropolises filled with architectural masterpieces celebrating new interpretations of traditional design elements, portrayed with all the comfort of modern innovations and technique.

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A+C Designs are launching a Design and Build Competition open to all!

Omer Arbel is an artist, designer and architect based in Vancouver and co-founder of the lighting firm Bocci. Arbel experiments with architectural material and form, creating works that he rather numbers in the order of their creation, instead of giving them a title.

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York is pleased to announce its new SCIAME Global Spotlight Lecture series, “Far South” curated by Associate Professor Fabian Llonch.

This summer La Biennale di Venezia, architectural exhibitions and events were postponed or cancelled. Three young architectural firms have seen the pause as a chance to create something new.

Renowned Architects & Designers are here to generate an inquiry and an architectural/urban expression of the “Open City”, the participative and inclusive city, the life-affirming city. In doing this, the proposal is to create an alternative narrative, a creative challenge to the notions of 'city' that remain purely organizational, narrowly symbolic, exclusionary, and controlling.