The TRANSFER Architecture Video Award is an independent award, launched in 2019, to recognise the most creative and innovative short films in the field of architecture, city or landscape worldwide. The 2019 edition of the Award attracted the participation of over 300 videos from more than 50 countries. Video is becoming increasingly instrumental in analysing architecture and the human environment, and is directly related to the digital networks that underpin contemporary communication. With the TRANSFER Architecture Video Award, we aim to highlight the contributions that best represent new means of knowledge and analysis of architecture using video as a support.
Palimpsest Barragan poses a once in a lifetime opportunity to engage eye to eye with an architectural masterpiece of 20th century modernism by the Mexican architect Luis Barragan. As a hidden and still unknown architectural jewel set amidst a paradisiac jungle on the Pacific coast, the ruins of the never completed building have sunk into oblivion, not unlike the ancient Mexican pyramids, and are currently in progressive decay. The workshop will not only ‘unearth’ the project and at last put it on the map of architectural discourse, but it might even have a larger impact by kickstarting a debate around the preservation of its ruins from disintegration.
The Ireland Cultural Center will establish a dialogue with the context to give new value to the history of the place. Conferences rooms, workshop spaces, and areas for debates will host meetings in continuity with the cultural influences promoted by writers and artists of the past. A place that will represent the Dublin of the 21st century in continuity with its own tradition.
Concrete in architecture is an architecture competition organized by archiol in association with artuminate. Concrete is an important material in the field of architecture and construction. What is the past, present, and future of concrete as a building material used in architectural construction?
“Quarantine Pod” How to live with Pandemics Forming a pod means total honesty on each family's part to take care of each other, considering the infected and the healthy in the family. “It’s almost like an algorithm of adding space and time and preventing something from encountering us.” It is the safety buffer inside homes after pandemics. This pod design aims to achieve comfort for both sides, keeping the family connected, in addition to the main purpose of infection prevention. Ensuring an appropriate setting and adequate provisions
Imagine Architecture is an online career exploratory studio for grade 10-12 students who are interested in architecture, design, and building a portfolio. These fun and intensive workshops will introduce students to the creative culture of design studio, which is at the core of the Architectural Studies curriculum.
THIS YEAR’S CHALLENGE The Covid-19 pandemic is far from being over; nevertheless, architects and designers are already beginning to envision its effects on how buildings are designed and inhabited. The pandemic – particularly its lethal transmissibility that is exacerbated by human proximity – exposed the fragility of the spatial arrangements and technologies that organize our everyday life, be it in the home, the workplace, educational institutions, or shared cultural and civic activities. The accelerated integration of remote modes of communication due to social distancing challenges the very need for designating buildings to host productive and collective activities, and undermines the economy that relies on revenues generated from these activities. Moreover, the airborne transmission of the virus is compelling architecture to address issues, such as building environmental systems, that it has traditionally delegated to technical advisers and experts.
The 21st Annual Steel Design Student Competition challenges undergraduate and graduate students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of design issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. Steel must be used as the primary structural material and contain at least one space that requires long-span steel structure, with special emphasis placed on innovation in steel design. The 2021 Steel Design Student Competition will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in two separate categories:
City is Nature / Agura (cross-legged) Tea Ceremony
Now being used as a common word after been used as a slogan for environmental and human rights issues, the word “Symbiosis” was originally used in the field of Biology. This word “Symbiosis” became widely known has a lot to due from architect, Kisho Kurokawa, who has been putting forward the “The Philosophy of Symbiosis” since the 1970s. Being trained by Fumihiko Maki who was part of a project that originated in Japan called “Metabolism” with Kurokawa, Norihiko Dan who is active in both Japan and abroad will curate this exhibition.
Gala 2020: Open Doors Open Minds by Chicago Architecture Center (CAC)
Save the date and join us—from anywhere on Earth—for an entertaining virtual event to support the CAC. Listen in on a roundtable discussion between Juan Gabriel Moreno, Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, and alumni from CAC Education programs for teens.
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NESS and Lots of Architecture –publishers are pleased to present the second issue of our monographic series NESS.docs 2: Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas. The issue reflects on the project of Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas, led by Charles Waldheim and the Office for Urbanization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and was done with the support of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Curated together with Mercedes Peralta and Jeannette Sordi, it explores the potentials for landscape as a medium for urban intervention in the specific contexts of Latin-American cities.
Africa like the rest of the world has a rich built heritage that faces the ever-present danger of extinction due to lack of documentation, conflict and gentrification. This lecture hopes to spotlight the gaps yet to be bridged in our public knowledge of endangered buildings in Africa and in fact, other parts of the world.
A Uniform hosted webinar series in which we'll be exploring the changing relationship with space & the built environment. In this 60 minute webinar, we will discuss how the world has changed and how we must change with it.
The Peninsulist Presents/ Designing Inclusive Spaces: In conversation, Resolve Collective and Yinka Ilori, chaired by Professor Paul Goodwin
The recent health pandemic and resulting economic crisis have revealed deep socio-economic inequalities. Architects Akil Scafe-Smith and Gameli Ladzekpo from Resolve Collective and interdisciplinary designer Yinka Ilori discuss collaboration, social engagement and creating inclusive public realm spaces.
Architecture Residency Free Virtual Public Lectures by 'T' Space / SMHF
As part of its annual Architecture Residency Program, the Steven Myron Holl Foundation and 'T' Space offers a Virtual Public Lecture Series, featuring practicing architects, scholars, and esteemed art professionals.
