2018

"The Minimum dwelling and the project of the city" | Martino Tattara: DOGMA
Tuesday, October 23, 7:00 PM

Expo F 2018 is the International Construction Materials and Hardware Fair, organized by America Expo Group, which will hold its second edition at the ATLAPA Convention Center in Panama from September 20 to 22, 2018.

The first in a series of three meetings hosted by IABsp to foster discussion regarding architecture competitions in Brazil.

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From Tuesday, April 17, to Friday, April 20, coinciding with Milano Design Week 2018, Italy will host "Architettura in Corto" for the first time. This short film series on innovation and trends in contemporary architecture is organized by Roca. Created by the Barcelona-based agency B&S, the project aims to promote video as a medium for effectively narrating architectural processes.

Barrio Italia has become an opportunity to propose projects that address architecture through a contextual lens, blurring the lines between technical, conceptual, and urban aspects while treating the physical environment as a foundation for the work. With this perspective in mind, the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae will host the Urban Traverse: “Barrio Italia: Contextual Architecture in a Gentrifying Neighborhood.” The tour will run from Caupolicán to Av. Condell, visiting sites such as Estación Italia and Maison Italia, and will be led by Camilo Oliva, an architect and professor at Universidad Finis Terrae.

Following the success of the first edition in 2016 in Curitiba and the second edition last year in Brasília, the COURB Institute is bringing the 3rd Collaborative Urbanism Meeting to Fortaleza, Ceará, on November 12, 13, and 14.

Bimtool launches the second edition of The BIM Challenge 2018, an international online architecture competition open to participants worldwide across three categories: Architecture Students, Licensed Architects, and an Open category for those who do not fall into the previous groups.

Bloco is an annual publication from the Architecture and Urbanism program at Feevale University. It is distributed free of charge and is also available in a digital edition.
For 2018, Bloco (14) aims to explore the diverse ways in which architects and urban planners practice.
With this theme in mind, we invite everyone to participate in the selection process for publication in Bloco. Initially, we are accepting only abstracts for the selection of articles to be published this year.

The goal of this competition is to award the design of a construction element, piece of furniture, sculpture, roof, slab, wall, assembly, prototype, or module to be built using tile vaults. This is the first competition organized by the "Taller de Bóvedas" group, aimed at promoting and encouraging new designs using tile vaults across all fields. Furthermore, as an incentive, the winner will see their design realized during the 7th Advanced Vault Workshop 2018.

Registration is now open for the fourth edition of the VEKA Latin America Cultural Competition. This initiative from the German multinational PVC profile systems company introduces new features this year: projects will be evaluated in two categories—Horizontal Architecture and Vertical Architecture—and must have been executed in any country in Latin America.

The Vitória Technology Park is a long-held ambition of the entrepreneurial community and a necessity for the capital to shift its economic base, enabling the generation of high-value products and services through innovation. However, for a project of this magnitude to move from concept to reality, the cooperation of all stakeholders is essential—including landowners, public authorities, academia, urban planners, the productive sector, surrounding communities, the innovation ecosystem, and the entire population that will be impacted.

• Title

  Premio Oscar Niemeyer - 02 Para la Arquitectura Latinoamericana

• Type

  Anuncio para Concurso de Ideas

• Organizers

  Augusto F. Alvarez

• Registration Deadline

  October 23, 2018 02:05 PM

• Submission Deadline

  October 06, 2018 02:05 PM

• Venue

  COLEGIO DE ARQUITECTOS DE LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO

• Price

  $ 120 USD

Call for Entries: Second Edition of the Oscar Niemeyer Award for Latin American Architecture (ON-02 Award)

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To commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Colegio de Arquitectos, the "Aysén Architecture Week" is currently being held.

In the early hours of May 1, 2018, a fire broke out at the Wilton Paes de Almeida building, located in Largo do Paissandú in downtown São Paulo. Less than two hours after the fire began, the building collapsed.

Urb-i (www.urb-i.com) is launching the fifth edition of its collaborative design challenge, this time in partnership with the Maria da Gente movement. The chosen site is Rua Maria Antônia, in downtown São Paulo, directly in front of Mackenzie.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is pleased to announce the Global Summer School 2018, the 11th edition of the international program on the future of our cities, which will take place in Barcelona and other nodes simultaneously from July 2 to 14, 2018.

San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the State of California, with a population of approximately 860,000 inhabitants spread across 121 km². Located on the West Coast of the United States, at the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, it is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and connected to the mainland only from the south.