CALL FOR ENTRIES: Are you an architecture student interested in climate change in architectural education? Here is your chance to share your vision, demand, question or concern about sustainable design, climate change, and architecture. It might be a graphic of what you think priorities should be, something you want to learn, a project you recently did, or something that inspires you. The competition is open to architecture students at any level of their program, from anywhere in the world.
With the kick-off theme "Precious Space", the Hansgrohe Group's design brand AXOR launched its new, digital platform AXOR Futures on November 9, 2021. The event series highlights new developments in architecture and design by bringing together renowned experts from various fields for an inspiring exchange on avant-garde topics. "With AXOR Futures, we offer exclusive insights into new ways of thinking about societal influences on interior design. The first edition on the topic of 'Precious Space' was very well received by the global architecture and design community. This is another reason why we are very much looking forward to 'The Long View' on April 20," says Anke Sohn, Head of Global Brand Marketing AXOR.
The Postgraduate in 3D Printing Architecture is a 6 month full-time course aimed at architects, engineers, designers, material engineers, mechanical engineers and construction professionals willing to specialise in this new technology, and willing to explore how it will shape the way we think, design and build a more sustainable habitat.
Perhaps the most immediate point of contact with our designed world, furniture has long provided fertile ground for micro-architectural icon-making, material experimentation and technological innovation. The latest tranche of Global Design Agenda expert insights – as part of our Furniture Design Week, which starts on 4 April – sees fêted designers Sebastian Herkner and Alfredo Häberli, as well as architectural grandee Benedetta Tagliabue and interiors specialist Katy Ghahremani from Make Architects, discuss the meaning, method and magic of furniture design and specification.
Facing the horizon, the meeting point of earth and sky, we navigate new ways and explore new perspectives.
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TRAITS of Postdigital Neobaroque
Conference, 8th-9th December 2022, Obergurgl, Austria
Organised by the research group ‘Postdigital Neobaroque’, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Now in its eleventh year, the annual Architecture + Design Film Festival, organised by the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, presents critically acclaimed films focusing on the importance of architecture and design in everyday life. The films cover a range of design-oriented topics from architecture and urban design to graphics and product design. is the only festival in Canada devoted solely to architecture and design.This year’s festival will include in person screenings at Cinematheque,100 Arthur Street, as well as the option to stream at home across Canada. There are 17 films from UK ,Italy, Lithuania, Denmark, US, Canada, Cambodia, Israel, Australia and Austria. The only Canadian based festival showcasing architecture and design. The full programme is online at: adff.ca/films.
A free online festival with live tours of extraordinary housing across the globe.
Following the success of last year’s competition, the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) is delighted to launch the second edition of Showroom Showcase competition, which will see a series of innovative paper installations by emerging architects and designers displayed in some of London’s leading design showrooms. International showrooms Gaggenau and VitrA will be taking part in the 2022 edition of Showroom Showcase. More showrooms will be announced at a later date.
After an amazing response to the first Virtual World Tour, during the peak of the pandemic in late 2020 early 2021, "AnA" has decided to continue the global digital approach to connect the architectural community on a personal level.
The School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), is now accepting nominations for the 2022 Margolese Design for Living Prize. The $50,000 prize honours a Canadian designer whose work uplifts people, places and communities.
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The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and the Royal Docks Team (RDT) have launched the third edition of the Pews and Perches design competition, which will see a series of bespoke public benches delivered throughout the Royal Docks this year.
The Swiss Government is seeking proposals from Architecture firms to provide services and management of a full design team (including all relevant engineering disciplines) related but not limited to the planning, design, bidding, construction oversight, and handover of a 20,000ft² tenant improvement renovation in San Francisco. The space is being built to house the Swiss Consulate, Swissnex, Switzerland Tourism, and Switzerland Global Enterprise. The site is located at 1535 Mission Street in San Francisco, California. More information, as well as the Q&A forum, can be accessed on the Swiss Government’s tender website: www.Simap.ch (Search keyword “B22008” or “San Francisco” under “Search” heading, top left of home page). Please register at Simap.ch to access more information and send questions regarding the RFP. Proposals are due postmarked no later than April 8th, 2022.
The Alexander Thomson Society is delighted to announce the ‘Remembering Mark Baines’ Biennial Architectural Illustration Competition. The late Mark Baines was a founding member and Chair of the Society, an architect, and teacher of architecture at the Macintosh School of Architecture. He continually emphasised the importance of drawing architecture and was never without a sketchbook.
"A hut is a magical place that sends us back to our childhoods, through imagination and tales. This is the inspiration for an architectural contest launched in the area of the Annecy Lake Springs federation of municipalities.
Organized jointly by the Departments of City and Regional Planning of Middle East Technical University (METU) and Yildiz Technical University (YTU), “AESOP 16th Young Academics Conference” will be held in Istanbul between 5-8 April 2022. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 November 2021.