2020

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NODE. presents MAD in Mexico
2020 KALMANANI Award. Keynote Lecture

Professionals seeking to influence and transform the built environment require competencies that transcend architectural design and building construction. With this premise, the Master's in Strategic Management of Architectural Projects offered at the Universidad de los Andes focuses on developing capabilities that allow for proposing ideas that create value and alternative approaches to practice within the field of architecture.

Mexico is the world's second-largest oil importer, with an annual growth rate of 1.71%. Consequently, there is a need to increase storage capacity and protect new infrastructure with high-tech products, ensuring durability and enhancing asset value.

On Wednesday, August 12, at 5:00 pm, Igor Zotti, General Manager of Soprema Mexico, will present an introduction to the brand's range of synthetic solutions, focusing on their roof waterproofing systems, thermal insulation, and other specialized solutions.

This Friday, we are pleased to host French architect Dominique Coulon as our special guest. Through his work, he will explore the importance of playfulness and color in a child's development during their school years.

The conference "Nature in the Architecture of Antoni Gaudí" will feature architect Aldo Lértora Carrera, a specialist in the restoration and conservation of monuments and historic centers, as the speaker. The panel will include Dr. George A. Latour Heinsen, an architect specializing in urbanism and territorial planning; architect Álvaro Ballón Mendiola, director of Sacro Arquitectos; and architect José M. Almuzara Pérez, president of the Association for the Beatification of Antoni Gaudí.

The National Professional Council of Architecture and its Auxiliary Professions invites all architecture professionals to attend the book launch of "Pensamientos, palabras y obras" by architect Willy Drews Arango.

The National League of Architecture Students (LINEA México), an organization dedicated to creating activities that complement academic learning and bringing together students from 30 states and over 65 schools across the country, invites you to the 1st International Meeting on Computational Design, Digital Fabrication, and Technology Applied to Architecture, to be held from December 14 to 21, 2020.

The Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Universidad de los Andes is pleased to invite you to Emprende, the annual event of the Master's in Strategic Management of Architectural Projects. This initiative was established to create and consolidate a supportive community centered on entrepreneurship within the industry that shapes the development of the built environment.

The Moscow School of Architecture (MARCH) is hosting a lecture series inviting educators from around the world to rethink architectural education in what they call Architectural (De)Schooling in the age of quarantine. On Wednesday, June 17, at 11:00 AM (MEX/COL), a multidisciplinary talk will be held featuring New York-based psychologist Adeola Enigbokan and Colombian architect Carlos Medellín. They will explore the roles our bodies and biographies play in shaping the designers we become and the types of interventions we can make. You can attend the talk in English here.

The Leopoldo Rother Architecture Museum invites you to the virtual lecture "Ricaurte, Carrizosa y Prieto 1950-1975: A Legacy of Architectural Firms in Colombia."

Can architecture heighten our perception of the space around us? What role does school space play in student learning?

The Leopoldo Rother Architecture Museum invites you to the virtual lecture "Atmosphere, Light, and the Intangible," as part of the first cycle of "Architecture Lessons from a Distance." This session will be led by speaker Mauricio Rocha.

Today, the use and abuse of certain terms lead to a degradation of their social value and prompt a reflection on language through the transformation of selected terms into images. The approach involves ontological, semiological, typographic, and translational decisions, presenting a visual decomposition of the process of meaning loss.

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The 6th edition of the International Congress on Architecture and Society, titled "La Ciudad que queremos, The city we want," will be held at the Baluarte venue in Pamplona from June 10 to 12, 2020.

During the pandemic, the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae has hosted the "Isolated Dialogues" lecture series, in which professionals from various fields discuss art, music, design, architecture, urbanism, and creative processes, among other topics, through the lens of confinement.

On April 24 and 25, 2020, the Ciudades Comunes Congress will take place—an online meeting to rethink and redefine the co-construction of the city in light of the current global health crisis. Ciudades Comunes brings together individuals with experience in collaborative practices that impact the territory and the community. Organized from Buenos Aires, the event will feature speakers from across Latin America and will be broadcast live to the world at ciudadescomunes.org