To celebrate its 7th anniversary, the publisher and publication AMAG is offering a 50% promotional discount to all its subscribers on the online purchase of the AAICO FULL TICKET, which grants access to a workshop, attendance at all conferences, the AAICO kit, and a choice of one issue of AMAG magazine.
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CONGRESS ON ARCHITECTURE, TOURISM AND SUSTAINABILITY - CATS
For the fourth time in Cataguases, the Congress of Architecture, Tourism, and Sustainability (CATS) will bring together hundreds of professionals, students, researchers, and the general public to discuss the preservation of historical heritage. The congress will take place from September 27 to 30, 2018. Registration opens on August 30, 2018.
Casa Tegra, a space located at 1009 Rua Oscar Freire and inaugurated by the developer Tegra, will host Benedito Abbud this coming Saturday, September 22, at 10:00 AM. Abbud will speak on the importance of greenery in cities.
Founded in 2016 by three architecture and urbanism students—Matheus Pereira, Ellen Corrêa, and Yasmim Amorim—driven by a desire to analyze urban space and engage in a deeper discussion about São Paulo's architecture and its layers, the project was born from a desire to inspire architecture and urbanism students, as well as those interested in the field, to develop a new perception of space through the observation of the city and the places we inhabit daily, which often go unnoticed despite their significance.
Launch of the first issue of América - Postgraduate Journal of Escola da Cidade, at Sesc - Research and Training Center
The graduate program at Escola da Cidade, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2018, currently offers four regular courses: ‘Housing and City,’ ‘Geography, City and Architecture,’ ‘Architecture, Education and Society,’ and ‘Mobility – Its Logics and Scales.’ In 2019, the program will expand to include the course ‘Conceiving and Constructing: Lightweight Structures and Prefabrication.’
Escola da Cidade opens registration for open courses for the 1st semester of 2018
The Associação Escola da Cidade, committed to its mission and determined to operate within a space of social responsibility, has established its Extension Program with values equivalent to those of teaching and research for the purpose of implementing and managing extension policies.
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Department of Habitat and Urban Development through the Master's in Sustainable Projects and Construction and the Master's in Sustainable City and Public Space
Held as part of ITESO's 60th-anniversary celebrations, this international congress will take place from September 5 to 7, 2018. The event serves as a forum for exchanging academic and professional expertise through a variety of specialized activities, including presentations, lectures, panel discussions, workshops, guided technical tours, and exhibitions. These sessions will showcase technological innovations and successful examples of social creativity in building resilient cities.
In a context shaped by neoliberal policies, urban design in Santiago, Chile, has been progressively limited to private, internalized spaces. Specifically, through the shopping mall model, which, rather than serving as a suburban solution, has transformed into a vehicle for developing central, pre-equipped areas. Urban shopping malls are large-scale consumption artifacts that not only aggregate a significant amount of infrastructure, programs, and services to meet daily demands, but also represent a "real" opportunity to create urban spaces with a spatial and symbolic richness unavailable elsewhere in the city. However, this complexity comes at the expense of the urban experience. Housing, understood as the center of domesticity, has lost its fundamental relationship with the city and today is merely an isolated component of urban design, the result of an undifferentiated proliferation of housing units, buildings, and blocks that serve no function other than accommodation.
The School of Architecture at Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción campus, presents the first Architecture Guide of Greater Concepción. Volume 1: The Biobío River.
The launch of the book ART-quitectura will take place on November 20th. This is the 14th work by architect Luis Alonso, founding partner of the firm Alonso, Balaguer y Arquitectos Asociados—one of the most international and prolific Spanish architecture firms today—in which he showcases 10 of his projects developed across different countries.
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TerrainLAB 2017 on a field trip and a still frame from the video recorded during the drone flight over the Canal of Navarra (right).
The Terrain Lab Visiting School is a 10-day research workshop held in collaboration with the Architectural Association in London and the University of Navarra. This year, it will take place at the University of Navarra School of Architecture in Pamplona from June 25 to July 5, 2018. The Lab investigates the geographic, socioeconomic, and cultural forces that shape each territory to formulate hypotheses regarding the future production of landscapes and anthropized territories.
Parque(ando) is an initiative that proposes a welcoming and participatory use of public space, in which citizens transform streets into small parks for one day through the use of furniture, art installations, cultural expressions, recreational activities, and more.