2020

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The founding principles of civilizations are done through urban cultures nourished by symbols, utopias to engrave identity references and generate memory of places. Thus the fundamental values of our environment such as architecture, the nature city are a vector of social relationships and unification.

Central Atlanta Progress, in partnership with the City of Atlanta, has issued a call for architecture and design firms, artists and urbanists, to submit proposals for a landmark project on the north plaza of Atlanta’s Woodruff Park.

The Brick Industry Association (BIA) has opened entries for the 2020 Brick in Architecture Awards—launching a new overall Craftsmanship Award honoring exceptionally artful installation.

Kreatura.zine is not a typical zine, but rather an initiative launched by the students and recent graduates, aiming to gather young creatives from around the world to give them space to speak out.

Building projects are getting bigger and complex, while design budgets and timelines are shrinking, at the same time building regulatory compliance demands are increasing. Fortunately, digital tools are there to support every discipline of design practice. Most global design firms are already leveraging the usage of BIM, but in India, although there is a lot of awareness and will to utilize BIM, most firms are struggling to adopt BIM in efficient way and are not able to relate initial investments to the success of firms. So what does it take to grow your practice and reach great Heights?

The theme of Nurturing Architecture explores the discipline as both processes and constructions with an ethos of care, of providing nourishment and of supporting growth and development. Inherent in the multiple interpretations of nurturing, is the notion of wellbeing, and the ways in which architects and educators consider the wellbeing of future and current generations of users and other stakeholders, including our communities of architects and students. Importantly, wellbeing is a broad and diffuse concept; wellbeing is a positive aspiration, a means to living well: an everyday resource that enables people to lead individually, socially and economically productive lives.