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In the Blink of an Eye: 60 Light Installations Illuminate a Citywide Gallery for Noor Riyadh 2025

Kiana Buchberger — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:45:00 +0000

Noor Riyadh 2025 brought large-scale light installations to public sites across the Saudi Arabian capital, temporarily transforming transit hubs, historic districts, and significant landmarks into illuminated urban environments. From November 20 to December 6, 2025, Riyadh became a citywide gallery of light, motion, and shifting perception. The festival's fifth edition featured 60 artworks by 59 artists from 24 countries, including more than 35 new commissions, responding to the theme "In the Blink of an Eye." Through light as both medium and concept, the installations reinterpreted the capital's rapidly evolving architectural landscape and reflected how perception shifts in spaces shaped by heritage and ambitious urban development.

Effortless Design? Exploring Architecture Tools That Enhance the Creative Design Process

Agustina Iñiguez — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:45:00 +0000

Finding the right tools to represent a project idea or carry out a construction job remains an ongoing challenge for architecture and design professionals. While software for drafting, 3D modeling, and calculations has increased precision and efficiency, many architects continue using legacy tools learned in academia or practice—tools that feel familiar, but don't necessarily offer the best design experience. From overloaded interfaces and clunky workflows to endless plug-ins and constant back-and-forth between disconnected software, traditional design tools often reveal their complexity and fragmentation.

How SCI-Arc Prepares Architects to Thrive in Constant Change

Rene Submissions — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 02:30:00 +0000

Architecture is being reshaped by artificial intelligence, climate change, and shifting social structures. At SCI-Arc, students learn to face these challenges head-on, using design to shape a rapidly changing world.

Inclusion, Encounter, and Creativity in Public Spaces: The Role of Skateboarding in the Pursuit of Urban Wellbeing

Agustina Iñiguez — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 07:30:00 +0000

How is it possible to achieve emotional well-being in public spaces? What role do public spaces play in promoting urban well-being? Considering that sports practices can be a vital component in creating healthy public spaces, skateboarding, one of the most globally recognized urban activities, offers an alternative for building opportunities for the physical, recreational, social, cultural, and even professional development of multiple generations.

Neuroarchitecture and the Potential of the Built Environment for Brain Health and Creativity

Ciro Férrer Herbster Albuquerque — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Nowadays, we spend over 90% of our time indoors, and it is becoming increasingly evident that architecture has a profound influence on our brains and bodies. The interest in comprehending how the environment affects human well-being is on the rise, with a growing number of new studies on this subject emerging each year. Moreover, architecture firms are increasingly enlisting the expertise of researchers and human experience design consultants to explore and optimize these effects.

What Is the Difference between Plagiarism and Inspiration? A Lawyer Explains

Nicolás Valencia — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 07:30:00 +0000

The Chilean lawyer, Juan Pablo Klenner, has dedicated himself to investigating one of the most discussed and least in-depth topics in architecture: copyright in our discipline. Plagiarism, referents or inspirations? It is a discussion that surely falls on deaf ears every time we talk about it among ourselves, but in the legal world it is clearly very well developed. If for some people creativity should not be measured in these terms, for others it is an issue that can go to court.

The Rise of the Design Thinking Movement and its Relation to Architecture

Dima Stouhi — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 04:00:00 +0000

'Innovation' and 'design thinking' could possibly be two of the most extensively-used phrases both online and offline during the past decade. To respond to the global need of "changing the status quo", established companies, start-ups, and even universities have used this framework to generate novel ways of solving problems and create new products, taking into account their desirability, feasibility, and viability. And with that, a new archetype was conceived: the design thinker, someone who has the creative toolkit to generate something disruptive. So what is the meaning behind design thinking and what is its relationship with architecture?

Learning by Doing: How Student Projects Give Architects and Designers Room to Grow

Rene Submissions — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 04:30:00 +0000

The School of Architecture and Design at IE University expands the boundaries of architecture and design to provide sustainable responses for a changing world. Located in Madrid and Segovia, Spain, this innovative school is one to watch.

With almost one hundred nationalities studying on campus, this academic and creative hub is located in the heart of Spain, featuring borderless learning spaces and a commitment to preparing its graduates to change the world through design and entrepreneurial thinking.

RCR Arquitectes Conference: Shared Creativity

Rene Submissions — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:20:00 +0000

Conference by Carme Pigem , principal and founder of RCR Arquitectes, on their work and their philosophy of shared creativity.

RCR offers an open architecture laboratory space to develop creative research and transversality and a foundation to socially stimulate the promotion of architecture, landscape, arts and culture in general.

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP RCR 2018: XI International Workshop of Architecture and Landscape

Rene Submissions — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:30:00 +0000

The International Workshop RCR is born of a way of understanding Architecture and Landscape from a humanistic spirit. The coexistence in a space and time of different creative disciplines creates synergies for mutual enrichment between the parties.

The workshop is designed following four main ideas that articulate the program:

- Competition Format: Closed exercises that condense a complex process within a specific time frame
- Transversality: An integrative interdisciplinary approach
- Sharing: Shared creativity fostering the capacity for dialogue
- Experience: Understanding derived from observation, participation and experience

The workshop focuses on the living of a direct experience of the participants, showing the territory where the

VI International Workshop of Audiovisual and Photography

Rene Submissions — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:00:00 +0000

The workshop is designed following four main ideas that articulate the program:

The workshop has the aim of broadening knowledge of audiovisual and photography, centered in Architecture and Space. The

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP RCR 2018: III International Workshop of Scenography

Rene Submissions — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:30:00 +0000

The workshop is designed following four main ideas that articulate the program:

The Program consists in

- Creative Atelier. The workshop offers a brief approach to the elements that surround scenography:

Neat and Tidy or Messy and Cluttered: Which Inspires More Creativity?

AD Editorial Team — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 08:00:00 +0000

While architects are known for promoting sleek, clutter-free spaces, we have to ask: is this the best way to inspire creativity? Personal preference certainly plays a large part in how you respond to a stark table-tops with nary a stray pencil--maybe this is your nirvana. Or perhaps it’s theoretically preferable but once you have to sit down and work, you find yourself uninspired.