Lasting for over a year, the COVID pandemic has considerably changed the way we work. It has given a new meaning to “physical distance” and forced us to confront questions we can no longer ignore. It has crystallized the dormant social inequities we had known for years and yet somehow neglected. In response practitioners and educators have begun mobilizing themselves to confront questions and issues that lie in the pandemic’s wake. Their activities vary, from the micro architecture of the hand-held devices to the macro of global communities. They employ methods, from rapid prototyping, guerilla gardening to real time geolocational data analysis. They work in new patterns of collaboration, from medical professionals, policy makers to social activists.
Celebrate the ground-breaking work and accomplishments of Mabel O. Wilson, the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Wilson is the 23rd recipient of the National Building Museum's annual Vincent Scully Prize. An architect, scholar, researcher, artist, writer, and curator, Wilson's work focuses on Black culture and history and the ways they intersect with the built environment. In a conversation with Steven Nelson, Dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Wilson will discuss her career and ongoing work to expand the narrative of African American contributions to the built environment.
The exhibition OASIS opened at the Estonian Museum of Architecture in Tallinn brings together different projects of designers/artists/architects who created contemporary micro-climates for survival in a hostile environment.
Independence Library Apartments By John Ronan Architects
Join the Chicago Architecture Center as we celebrate 25 years of the Driehaus Foundation Award, which encourages quality design in Chicago’s neighborhoods. Our panel discussion will explore the impact of the award and the unique and inspiring partnerships it has fostered. This program is part of Open House Chicago 2021.
Archifest is back in October, as a bigger, better and more inclusive celebration of great design. With over 100 events spread out across the island and online, the month-long Architecture Festival - organised by the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) - promises to have something for everyone, appealing both to architecture enthusiasts, and to the general public.
Craft your ideal career as a young architect or designer. Learn from your mentors who have done it before.
The ArchiMentors Summit 2021 is a free online conference for young architects and designers which aims to inspire and educate through sharing journeys, experiences, and expertise of amazing speakers who have done it before and (often non-traditionally) created their ideal careers within the architecture and design industry!
From October 15–17, 2021, the hybrid event Driving the Human presents 21 new visions for sustainable cohabitation on our planet, both through an on-site event in Berlin and an online broadcast. Coming from a variety of geographic and cultural backgrounds, these concepts suggest innovative and prescient ways to deal with some of the most pressing questions of our present moment. Exploring entanglements between technology and nature, artificial intelligence, circular economies, new modes of production, Indigenous knowledges and approaches, and more-than-human perspectives from the bacterial to the interplanetary, they reinforce perspectives where collaboration and interdependency become essential, determining factors for life and survival on our planet.
SUMMARY Our world is changing fast, while ambitions and challenges match in importance. In this context, design can play a huge role. How do we imagine the world to be? What range of possibilities we haven’t discovered yet? What’s a Non Architecture for a World in crisis? In 2020 we started the second phase of competitions to address the issues of tomorrow.
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Shaping the City: A Forum for Sustainable Cities and Communities | 15 & 16 October 2021
Shaping the City: A Forum for Sustainable Cities and Communities is a forum organized by the European Cultural Centre in the context of its Venice Architecture Biennial Exhibition titled Time Space Existence.
Registration and Program - International Conference on Architectural Criticism
"On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism" is an online conference organized by Professor Wilfried Wang taking place October 9-10 and October 16-17, 2021.
Should architectural criticism be enlightening? Should it help in the creation of a better built environment? Is there a factual basis to it? Does it have a duty to present evidence in the evaluation of a building? Or should it take on what architects say about their designs?
ALLPLAN warmly invites architects and other professionals from the AEC industry to its virtual event - "Build the Future – ALLPLAN Global Summit", taking place from 20-21 October.
With over 40 online sessions already scheduled, including industry insights from keynote speakers, the latest product innovations in Allplan 2022, and exciting customer project presentations, it is the perfect opportunity to update knowledge and learn more about new AEC industry trends.
HMC Architects and event partners (Autodesk, Hypar, IMAGINiT Technologies, and Wallacei) are seeking designers, developers, and innovators to create a digital tool that tracks design decisions and provides alternative options based on those selections in HMC’s first-ever hackathon, taking place October 8-10, 2021.
Join The University of Texas School of Architecture with Anne Holtrop, of Studio Anne Holtrop, Amsterdam, for a lecture on “Site, Matter, Gesture” live-streamed on the Texas Architecture YouTube channel.
