The CAF competition sought ideas proposing comprehensive habitat improvements within communities. Specifically, it aimed to improve citizens' quality of life and integrate informal settlements into the city through the conception and design of innovative, relevant, justified, and feasible proposals.
The Urban Safari is a sidewalk analysis methodology based on a study developed in the United States titled "Active Design: Shaping the Sidewalk Experience."
Organized by Bencke Arquitetura (www.benckearquitetura.com.br) and Qualidade Corporativa Smart Workplaces (www.qualidadecorporativa.com.br), in partnership with Germany’s Mensch&Büro Akademie (www.menschundbueroakademie.de), this course aims to prepare architects and industry professionals to create intelligent workplace designs that boost productivity through quality of life and employee well-being.
The most innovative voices and actions on the global stage warn that we are witnessing a global crisis of the current consumerist and materialist paradigm. This crisis is political, scientific, technological, and educational. Faced with this reality, the need to trigger a paradigm shift arises. This change requires a true rupture in the theory of knowledge (epistemology) and in individual, social, and public (policy) practices.
Second panel discussion on architectural competitions in Brazil. This session will focus on the relationship between juries and criticism. The panel includes Fabiano Sobreira, Fernando Serapião, Helena Ayoub, and Luiz Recaman, with Jaime Solares as moderator.
ROOM is a platform created to enhance the value of interior design within one of the most profitable emerging industries in the Mexican market: design and the creative economy.
Our "drifts" return, this time to explore cities across the Pearl River Delta region, including Hong Kong and Guangzhou. We will be joined by various organizations, firms, and local friends who will share their expertise and insights into these cities. Participants include MaD (Make a Difference Asia), nose hk, the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Public Space Initiative, and Design Trust.
In September, ArqCoop+ will host the ArqCircuito+ tour! The first neighborhood selected is Liberdade, which stands out for its successive phases of urbanization combined with a historical past that remains visible today in select buildings.
A course on timber structural design, organized by the startup ELIGEMADERA and the IDIEM of the University of Chile. The course features prominent national experts in timber design. Several instructors participated in the most recent committee for the modification of current national regulations, while others are part of the team that developed C+T, the first software for timber structural calculation in Latin America.
On May 16 at 6:30 PM, Fraya Frehse, a professor in the Department of Sociology at USP, will deliver the final lecture of the "Planos: Diálogos em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design" (Plans: Dialogues in Architecture, Urbanism, and Design) series, hosted by the Professional Master's Program in Architecture, Urbanism, and Design at Belas Artes. Focusing on the theme "City and Memory," Frehse will discuss her experience in anthropology and sociology at their intersection with history and urban studies. Her talk will highlight the relationships between the body, public space, and urbanization in São Paulo, specifically addressing how bodily uses of public places—particularly streets and squares—reveal the connections between city and memory in our city. The lecture is free and open to the public, and will be held in the Sala Stadium at the institution's Unit 1. No registration is required to attend.
An architecture forum for students, architects, and the general public. This event offers the opportunity to explore the work and experiences of some of the country's most prominent architects. Additionally, attendees will have the chance to build professional connections through networking with leading figures in local and national architecture.
The Morelia Arq Forum is the most important international event in Michoacán for the dissemination of architecture, industrial design, and urbanism, aimed at students and professionals in the field.
The seventeenth edition of Materia Arquitectura magazine, an editorial project by the Faculty of Architecture and Art at Universidad San Sebastián directed by Mario Marchant, revolves around two fundamental instances in architectural production: the studio and the office. This issue, featuring Claudio Palavecino as guest editor, proposes an examination of these two central spaces through three dimensions: place, agents, and production.
This exhibition invites architects, urban planners, designers, and multidisciplinary creative teams to submit proposals focused on improving the environment and quality of life in our capital. Participation in the exhibition is open via a public call for project submissions or by direct invitation from the curatorial committee. Proposals may consist of unrealizable utopian concepts that are purely fictional, or feasible solutions to concrete challenges with real-world application potential. The projects' narrative covers a wide range of themes, including housing, public space, mobility, the environment, heritage preservation, neighborhood revitalization, and urban infrastructure. They address the architect's mission beyond merely building objects, instead integrating a responsibility toward a sustainable environment that builds better communities, based on the principle that good design is holistic.
Lecture by prominent Swiss architect Pascal Flammer as part of the second TES Workshop, which he will lead for the Master of Architecture program at UC. The lecture will be open to the public on October 11 at the Fernando Castillo Velazco auditorium. The final workshop presentation will take place on Friday, October 12, in the West Tunnel starting at 3:30 PM.
ArqCoop+, a cooperative of architects and urban planners, will host a walking tour through the streets of the Mooca neighborhood—one of the most traditional in São Paulo—on Sunday, September 16.