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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's plan to provide housing loans "directly, without intermediaries," and the implementation of programs such as Infonavit's ConstruYO, make it essential to focus our attention on models where inhabitants are actively involved in the production of their housing.
"Housing and Participation" will explore different ways in which communities participate in the design, construction, and management of their habitat in both rural and urban settings. It will reflect on the means available to each population, ranging from access to government and institutional support to the material and human resources required for construction.
The discussion will also address the role of architects providing technical assistance, as well as their level of responsibility in self-construction processes.

This Friday, September 11, at 6:00 p.m., the CAP Regional Lima will conclude its anniversary week with the participation of two major innovators in the global approach to architectural design: Solano Benítez from Paraguay and Rahul Mehrotra from India.

Renowned Paraguayan architect Solano Benítez will be the guest for “Diálogos aislados” (Isolated Dialogues), a series organized by the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae, held every Wednesday via Zoom.

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Reactivando Hitos stems from the need to revitalize potentially underutilized urban spaces. The inaugural edition focuses on the Plaza de Toros in Quito, Ecuador.

The objective of this design competition is for participants to develop a planning and design proposal for the "Metropolitan Forest" in Madrid, incorporating connectors, facilities, and intervention zones to bring this project to fruition.

The "Isolated Dialogues" series from the Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture—held every Wednesday to address various topics from the perspective of isolation—will focus on "City, Sustainability, and Health" on September 2nd, within the context of the pandemic and the sustainable development that cities demand.

As we move further from the onset of the pandemic, the rhetoric surrounding such a circumstance begins to fade.

This masterclass, presented by Rafael González del Castillo Sancho, explores how to optimize your BIM projects to deliver them faster and with higher quality.

On Wednesday, September 23, at 5:00 pm (Mexico City time), Igor Zotti, General Manager of Soprema Mexico, and Jorge Echeverría, Commercial Manager of Soprema Mexico, will introduce the brand's liquid systems, covering their technical characteristics and specification guidelines.

The objective is to convert a traditional residential building into a co-living space.

It has been 20 years since Professor Carlos Sambricio proposed the idea of recovering, within the Spanish landscape, what we wish to call "the secondary figures"—those architects who, for various reasons, did not enjoy significant critical success during their professional practice, but whose work, when revisited in light of the years that have passed, raises issues of interest to us today.

“Architecture and Urbanism Ideas Competition: New Civic and Citizen Space” is organized by the Municipality of Talca for the site currently occupied by the Talca Prison, which is scheduled to be relocated from the city center to a new facility in 2023.

This is an open, free, and entirely digital competition. Participation is open to individuals, independent professionals, work teams, and architecture and urban planning firms from Chile and abroad.

The 'Ideas en Pandemia' and 'Proyecto Perú' initiatives, in collaboration with the Municipality of Lima, have launched a significant effort to bring together diverse civil society actors and local government to address the current challenges facing food markets in the country, specifically in the La Victoria district. This effort promotes formal dialogue between civil society, public agencies, the private sector, and academic institutions in Peru and Latin America to reflect on and resolve shared regional issues.

This past September, Brick Week took place, coinciding with the launch of the Brick Architecture Award. The goal: to highlight the relevance of brick within the national architectural landscape.

The Salta Architects' Association invites you to participate in an experiential training session: "Architecture Talk I: The Secrets of the Profession."

Change Is Now is an international lecture series that brings together architects from around the world to share their diverse perspectives on the new design challenges they face in their immediate contexts, as well as their responses to them.

On Monday, September 14, PENSARQ_, the architectural dissemination project by TAQ Arquitectura, will premiere a video Masterclass featuring architect Luis Othón Villegas, founder of LVS Architecture, a design studio that seeks to explore and transform sensory experiences through design and architecture. Villegas has collaborated with Harvard University and on MoMA New York exhibitions such as Design and the Elastic Mind and Safe: Design Takes on Risk.

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, better known as COVID-19, has fundamentally altered our reality as a society—both in our daily lives and in the future we will build as we adapt to the current situation. Our public spaces are the first to prompt us to question how interaction and community will function within our cities and living environments. For this eighth edition of the Abierto, we seek to understand how the pandemic will transform our public spaces, how our social, economic, and political relationships will be redefined in light of the current global situation, and how creators, managers, authorities, and citizens perceive these spaces and this relationship.