Installing wooden flooring may seem basic, or even irrelevant to the work we do as architects, but that is not the case. Understanding the specific characteristics of these materials and their assembly processes helps us design more efficiently and tailor our proposals to project requirements.
With this in mind, we will use EGGER's UNI Fit flooring as an example to explain the step-by-step assembly process. This type of flooring can be laid directly over a subfloor without the need for screws or adhesive. The system uses a "click" locking mechanism, allowing the floor to be installed over any type of subfloor material.
The title says it all: If you have spent hours scouring the web for clean icon designs for your diagrams and architectural presentations—essential tools for optimizing layout, analysis, and communication—this universal online library from The Noun Project will be an invaluable resource.
As part of Casa Portal 2018—an Argentine architecture and interior design exhibition dedicated to intertwining art and solidarity—the Emergen Project by visual artist Rocío Moreno and architect Gonzalo Viramonte is presented as a quest to reflect on the state of emergency at the Children's Hospital.
The visual proposal continues the production line associated with light-based work, this time using neon to illuminate children's drawings, thereby incorporating them into the conversation.
This festival, which invites the public to view, experience, and contemplate cities in a new light through film and other activities, will screen over forty films. These include seven titles selected by the festival team for the "showcase," several of which will be Chilean or Latin American premieres.
Whether you are an architecture student or already practicing in the field, you are likely aware of the growing importance of BIM methodology in the design and construction sector over the last few years. In countries like Spain, efforts are already underway to make its implementation as "natural" as possible, making it essential to provide educational resources so that both public administrations and private firms can make the "leap to BIM" and begin to reap the benefits that these new technologies offer the architectural sector.
In this regard, many experts in the field are doing important outreach work through their YouTube channels, creating and sharing high-quality content. This content is easily accessible and—in most cases—free, allowing both students and professionals to stay constantly up to date.
To continue learning about BIM, we have compiled some of the best YouTube channels to help you either take your first steps or stay current with the latest developments in this new methodology, which is already changing and revolutionizing the way we work and collaborate.
https://www.archdaily.com/1053363/5-spanish-language-youtube-channels-to-learn-about-bimJavier García Librero
The digital exploration by the experimental architecture and design studio Formosa for an itinerant pavilion in Buenos Aires proposes a blend of digital fabrication and artisanal techniques using a resistant, lightweight, and flexible material.
The project, a pavilion composed of modules made primarily from white corrugated polypropylene pieces—analogous to one another yet each unique—allows for easy assembly through interlocking joints and bolts.
PENTA is the result of the first design studio course from the Taller Danza at the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism of the University of the Republic (UdelaR). Each year, the Montevideo-based studio proposes the ephemeral construction of a full-scale project, conceived and built collaboratively by its students.
On this occasion, the pavilion explores the possibilities of computer-aided manufacturing, experimenting with techniques using limited resources and digital production systems.
Learn more about the process in the authors' own words below.
Would you like to help highlight the work of women in architecture? Un día | Una arquitecta invites readers to suggest architects to be featured in the 2018-2019 cycle.
In response to the historical threat posed by urban transformations, applying "collage thinking" to heritage could prove to be a compelling tool, capable of easily identifying values and roles, and suggesting narratives between disparate historical elements.
Camila Mancilla Vera highlights and explores this in the series Brotes de la industria (Industrial Sprouts). By combining 3D representation techniques, photographs, newspaper archives, and publications, the series aims to visualize and foster debate regarding elements worthy of protection.
Below, the author presents a series of considerations.
Do you have questions about how to properly finish gypsum board? Or how to prepare surfaces for painting or wallpapering?
Canal Encuentro offers a series of eleven Spanish-language videos to help you learn the basics of finishing and answer your questions in the most instructional way possible.
ArqFilmFest and the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile hosted the preview of the first episode of the documentary series Chiloé yesterday. The series, which premieres this coming Sunday, May 6, at 7:00 PM on La Red TV, consists of five episodes that present stories from the island featuring architects, carpenters, and local inhabitants alike, highlighting the diversity of the local reality and architecture as its form of expression.
Chiloé, a production by Glaciar Films directed by Diego Breit and David Guzmán, is a project that, as the creators note, began by focusing on heritage and ultimately came to represent something greater: a reflection on the island's current identity.
Glaciar Films has made three video clips featuring interviews with key figures in Chiloé architecture available to our readers. In the first installment, we featured Jonás Retamal and local modes of production on the island. In this second installment, Edward Rojas highlights the importance of architecture that is relevant to its place.
These video clips are part of the Chiloé series, a production by Glaciar Films directed by Diego Breit and David Guzmán, which presents five episodes exploring the island's architectural identity and its key figures. Architects, carpenters, craftspeople, and residents weave together a narrative that addresses the history of construction and how it faces imminent change and the adoption of modern patterns.
Miguel Braceli presents a project developed for the Escuela de Art Thinking, an initiative that invites reflection on the possibilities that arise when moving educational spaces and their teaching models into the public realm, integrating the social, political, and cultural content that defines them.
The footage is part of Chiloé, a series by Glaciar Films directed by Diego Breit and David Guzmán. The five-episode series documents the island's architectural identity and its key figures: architects, carpenters, artisans, and inhabitants.
Chiloé is a production by Glaciar Films which, directed by Diego Breit and David Guzmán, offers five episodes presenting the island's architectural identity and its key figures. Architects, carpenters, craftspeople, and residents weave together a narrative that explores the island's construction history and how it faces imminent change and the adoption of modern patterns.
In this instance, Glaciar Films has made three video clips featuring interviews with key figures in Chiloé architecture available to ArchDaily readers. In the first chapter, Jonás Retamal—an architect from the University of Chile who has lived on the island for 15 years—discusses traditional materiality and the adoption of modern patterns in local production methods.
In FOMM, architect Manuel Mosquera captures the construction phase of a residence in Argentina designed by architects Mathias Klotz and Edgardo Minond.
This black-and-white photography book offers a new perspective, rescuing the small stories and practices inherent in the process while capturing its unique atmosphere and details. Simultaneously, it highlights a range of records and observations that invite us to reflect on the procedures, timelines, and considerations of construction.
Across different climates and building cultures, many contemporary projects are working with local ways of building in new ways. Earth walls, bamboo structures, shaded thresholds, and collective construction processes are being reconsidered not as references, but as tools for the conditions architecture is facing now and will continue to face.
In these projects, vernacular knowledge appears through practical decisions: how to cool a building without machines, how to build with what is nearby, how to make a structure easier to repair, and how to keep construction knowledge within the community that will use it. The conditions making this knowledge necessary are not coming. They are already here.
An informal vendor selling balloons along La Séptima in the Plaza de Bolívar. "Bogota, Colombia" by szeke is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
This article is the winning entry of the Epistle Writing Prize 2025, an annual competition dedicated to recognizing outstanding writing on design, architecture, and the environment.
It's wet season, but this morning's downpour does little to deter the rhythm along La Carrera Séptima. Cyclists and pedestrians weave past ambulatory vendors with carts of avocados, ginger sweets, and phone cases. Toy cars, lightbulbs, and hand-beaded jewelry glisten with raindrops, arranged neatly on tarps that demarcate vendors' territories. Police officers approach a recycler gathering bottles; a tourist bargains for a jacket; two women find each other in the middle of the road, embracing as their coats grow heavy with rain.
La Séptima, or Bogotá's Seventh Avenue, is the most emblematic road in Bogotá, traversed by more than two million people every day. Along this single road — part marketplace, part protest route, part transportation hub — Bogotá's history unfolds. For nearly a year, I traced its rhythms as a pedestrian, commuter, inhabitant, and researcher. In all these moments and their historical incarnations, one image endured: the road is a living body. It is imagined as Bogotá's backbone, its vital artery, its heart. It bleeds, bears scars, and demands care.
Most of Europe's future housing already exists, yet renovation continues to happen too slowly to address climate, housing, health and resource challenges at the scale required. Re:Living explores how renovation can move from isolated projects to a scalable approach for transforming existing buildings. At the heart of the initiative is a new research project, The Housing We Need for the Future We Want, which examines how better use of the existing building stock can unlock new opportunities for architects, cities and communities.
The project developed by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, Park Associati, Politecnica Building for Humans, Openfabric, DOTDOTDOT, Studio Mattioli, and Eckersley O'Callaghan has been selected to design the new Main Hospital and Children's Hospital in Brescia, Italy. The international competition mandate was to redevelop an existing hospital, preserving and extending a radial plan conceived by engineer Angelo Bordoni in the early twentieth century. The existing healthcare complex, Spedali Civili di Brescia, follows a hexagonal masterplan and radial layout that informs the new design for the premises. The geometry is reinterpreted to update the campus for future models of care, drawing a new CareRing around it that connects people, nature, and healthcare through the principles of One Health, the idea that human health, environmental health, and social wellbeing are inseparable.
Mexico City. Image by Eduardo Enriquez, via Unsplash
Mexico City is a sprawling metropolis of layered temporalities, where architecture operates as a continuous negotiation between deep-seated history and intense urban mutation. Built over the aquatic traces of Tenochtitlan, the city's fabric is an ongoing dialogue between eras: the monumental scale of the Pre-Hispanic Templo Mayor and the Viceroyalty architecture of the Catedral Metropolitana coexist with the modern and contemporary impulses that define its skyline. This dense juxtaposition creates a unique urban canvas where sacred geography, colonial imposition, and 20th-century ambition intersect.
The mid-century marked a definitive era of experimentation, forging a Mexican Modernism that masterfully synthesized international structural rationalism with local identity and materiality. This synthesis is epitomized by the sweeping, plastic integration of art and architecture at the Ciudad Universitaria, the structural poetry of Félix Candela's hyper-parabolic shells, and the raw, monumental brutalism of Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky. Parallel to this, the intimate, introspective mastery of Luis Barragán and Juan O'Gorman redefined domestic space, experimenting with light, vernacular color, and tectonic honesty to create spaces of profound spatial stillness.
An experiential rebellion takes center stage in the fourth episode of the Room For Dreams podcast, hitting directly at the heart of today's screen-deep, image-obsessed design culture. Recorded live at Milan Design Week 2026 in cooperation with INDX|GLOBAL, host Claire Broadka sits down with four Indian architectural voices — Indrajit Kembhavi, Manish Gulati, Sanjay Singh, and Sidhartha Talwar — to explore a critical question: have we sacrificed the soul of architecture for the sake of a picture-perfect Instagram post?
