Challenge History whispers through the weathered stones of monuments, each one a testament to a bygone era. But what if these grand structures, once bustling centers of power or worship, could find a new purpose in the modern world? The "Reimagining History: AI Competition" challenges you to do just that. Participants are invited to embark on a journey of creative exploration, selecting a historical monument – a majestic castle, a sprawling palace, or a serene temple – and envisioning a new, relevant use for it in the 21st century. The task lies not just in finding a function, but in seamlessly integrating it with the existing architectural style and historical significance of the monument. Can you breathe new life into these architectural giants, ensuring they not only stand as testaments to the past but also thrive as vibrant spaces in our present? Utilize the power of AI rendering to showcase your vision, and together, let's reimagine the future of historical preservation.
Join us for a summer workshop on earth building! We will construct a rammed earth pavilion and explore ways to use natural materials in architecture. Special attention will be given to hemp as a building material. No prior knowledge is required! The workshop will take place at the Center for Earth Building in Dobrava pri Škocjanu 23.
Bamboo U is an education enterprise that has grown out of the center of the world’s bamboo-building movement in Bali, Indonesia. Together with the renowned design firm IBUKU and just two minutes from the all-bamboo campus at Green School Bali, we have been pioneering bamboo architecture for over 10 years. We share our extensive knowledge on bamboo design and sustainable architecture through immersive courses.
Our upcoming in-person course will give participants the unique opportunity to work on the construction of a playground, the winning project from our recent design competition. Join us to meet the pioneers, visionaries, designers, and builders who have transformed bamboo into the most desired natural material.
In the past ten years across the globe, temperatures have broken records of heat consecutively bringing one heat wave after the other. The effects of these heatwaves have been felt particularly strongly in the Gulf region which was already known to hold extremely high temperatures in the summer months.
Margolese National Design for Living award winner Jane Wolff is delivering a special public lecture at Melbourne School of Design on her work framing public conversations about how to manage complex and contested landscapes that are subject to change.
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A Mayan house renovation workshop will be organized in August 2024 in Becal, Mexico
The Workshop "Taller de Arquitectura Maya" invites architecture students and the general public to participate in a week dedicated to the renewal of a Mayan architecture. The event will take place from August 1 to 8 and from August 9 to 16, 2024 in Bécal. The workshop will include a series of talks given by prominent personalities both internationally and nationally. The objective of the workshop is to develop construction skills and, over the course of a week, renovate some of the Mayan houses of inhabitants in economic difficulty, as well as promote the reactivation of rural networks and making participation in this territory more attractive. At the end of the workshop, a cultural event will be organized that will include a local plant weaving workshop, jarana dancing, Mayan poetry recitals and a collective dinner with local inhabitants, thus promoting the reactivation and attractiveness of rural networks in the region.
The TUMO Center for Creative Technologies is now partnering with Institut Lyfe (ex-Institut Paul Bocuse) in Lyon to establish a unique culinary ecosystem in the Armenian city of Gyumri with the support of the European Union. The project involves revitalizing the historic food market of the city, establishing a unique culinary school in the heart of it, and surrounding it with restaurants and shops that are symbiotic with the market and the school. Information about the project and the competition can be found at https://market.tumo.org/
Courtesy of Vienna Architecture Summer School 2024.
The Vienna Architecture Summer School (VAS²) aims to provide an open learning space and prototypical infrastructure for the exchange and negotiation of knowledges in architecture, reaching beyond dominating institutions and mainstream discourses. VAS² invites local and international participants to exchange with young architects and established experts all practicing in Vienna and beyond.
The Arquitectura Film Festival Santiago, ArqFilmFest, celebrates its 6th edition inviting filmmakers and creators all over the world to participate in its international competition, with films that establish a relation between cinema and architecture looking for the most diverse point of view.
The Summerschool Rurapolis is an offsite programme of the ÉNSA Versailles in collaboration with the University of Oviedo and LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, developed during the Laboral Impulsa residency programme. It is also an integral part of the NO-CITY open inter-university educational programme. The Summerschool Rurapolis will be structured around a series of lectures with well-known personalities at European level, and prospective explorations of the territory where the students will be sent on different paths in order to discover on their own way the multiple post-industrial, peri-rural and natural landscapes of Asturias.
Reimagine urban spaces through the lens of life - including human, plant and animal
Design the transformation of urban spaces into thriving ecosystems that respect and reflect the complex interdependencies of life through radical approaches towards the rethinking and designing of urban spaces.
In order to regulate anchoring for small and large pleasure boats in environmentally sensitive areas along the French Mediterranean coast, we are launching a call for ideas for the creation of a floating marina for the 4th edition of the Monaco Smart & Sustainable Marina and Architecture Award.
Building a Collective Archive: A Yale Traveler's Mnemosyne is a curatorial project that explores the impact and update of personal references in constructing a collective imaginario - a repository of collective imagination. Curated by architects Gabriel Hernández (Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Yale) and Alberto Martínez (La Caixa Foundation grant), the exhibition will be on display from 31 August through 6 October 2023 at the North Gallery space at Yale School of Architecture (YSoA), located at the iconic Rudolph Hall in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Synthetic Cities: An Exhibition on Human-Machine Creativity
Synthetic Cities is an exhibition that centers on identifying modes of human-machine co-authorship that question and explore creativity and originality. The city, in this instance, becomes a symbolic representation that reflects on the human condition and on collective and personal expression. It serves as a focal point for constructing narratives that strive to capture originality and contribute to the discourse on how we create, understand, and engage with the co-authored artistic content. The six original works presented in the exhibition function as an interconnected apparatus that invites the viewers into ever-unfolding cityscapes, revealing intriguing connections between reality and imagination and showcasing conditions for an interplay between artificial creation and human perception.
