2020

THE NEW SENSE OF PLACE: EDUCATION, PROFESSION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION

ORGANIZED:
UPC Research Group (GIRAS)
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
Mind, Land & Society Arquitectonics Network

Key Speakers:

3rd June:
- Luis Umbelino. Philosopher from Portugal
- Karl Friston. Neurologue from England
- Addenda Architects, from Barcelona
4th June:
-Alberto Magnaghi, Architet and senior professor at UNIFI,
- Anna Marson, Urbanist and professor at IUAV di Venezia,
-Aldo Bonomi, Sociologist, AASter
- Fabio Parascandolo , geographer and researcher at Università di Cagliari.
5th June:
- Alberto Campo Baeza Doctor Architect from Spain
- Abalos+ Sentkiewicz, AS+ (Madrid, Cambridge y Shangai)
- Barozzi-Veiga. Architects.
“Architecture and Art”

The school offers 17 (seventeen) international scholarships in Fashion, Design, Visual Communication or Management 2020/2021 academic year for its university degree (Undergraduate Degrees, Bachelor and Diplomas Courses - English and Spanish) in Barcelona.

The scholarship covers 100% of the tuition fee.

Candidates will be required to put forward ideas and projects under the theme “RESPECT” Based on their own individual experience and ideas, candidates will be asked to conceive innovative solutions, products or design plans according to the theme in line in line with the course they wish to take.

The project has to be submitted with a description thereof

International Architecture Exhibition (Biennale) in Venice / La Biennale di Venezia/ is the most important global event that presents modern achievements and tendencies in the field of architectural and urban creativity.
The Artistic Director of the Biennale 2020 Hashim Sarkis, titled the exhibition “How Will We Live Together?” (Biennale explained in detail at the official webpage: https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2020). The 17th International Architecture Exhibition (17th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura) will be open to the public from May 23rd to November 29th.
Montenegrin participation in this year’s exhibition has been theoretically framed by the national pavilion Curator Svetlana K. Perović, within the

Open call for submissions for individuals or organisations that have contributed to the advancement of architecture across the Middle East and North Africa from 2017 – 2020. Brief and submissions portal can be found here: https://www.tamayouz-award.com/the-architectural-personality-of-the-year-prize.html

Introduction
The Mohamed Makiya Prize is part of Tamayouz Excellence Award's programme that champions and celebrates the best of architecture in the Middle East and North Africa. Every cycle, the prize is presented to the 'Architectural Personality of the Year', or the individual/organisation that has made the greatest contribution towards the advancement of architecture in a specific period. The winner will be celebrated during the annual

Open call for submissions for a youth house complex in Baghdad’s Sadr City. Brief can be found here: http://www.dewan-award.com/2020.html

Background
Sadr City, also known as Al Thawra City, is located on the far eastern side of Baghdad in Al Rusafa. The original name, Al Thawra City (meaning revolution in Arabic), derives from the July 14, 1958 revolution. The city’s name was later changed to Al Sadr City after Mohammad Sadeq Al-Sadr – an important religious cleric – following the fall of Baghdad and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In this brief, we will refer to it as ‘Almedina’, or ‘the city’,

Open call for submissions for women who work in architecture across the Middle East and North Africa. Brief and submissions portal can be found here: https://www.tamayouz-award.com/women-in-architecture-and-construction-award.html

The Tamayouz Women in Architecture and Construction Award is an excellence award for women who have contributed to the fields of architecture and construction throughout the Near East and North Africa. The award consists of two categories:

1. Women of Outstanding Achievements: This prize recognises the individual’s positive contribution to the field of architecture and the status of women in the field, as well as all other professional achievements and her lifelong commitment to the

The School of Architecture at Mississippi State University is hosting an exhibit of the work of renowned African American Architect Philip Freelon as part of a celebration of Black History Month. The exhibition is located in the Charlotte and Richard McNeel Architecture Gallery in the Giles Hall School of Architecture on the campus of Mississippi State University. This partnership with the Mississippi State University African American Studies Program will also host an opening reception on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 12:00 pm in Giles Hall, located at 899 Collegeview Street, Mississippi State, MS 39762. The reception and exhibit are free

Europe’s oldest known wooden house is the Bethlehem House, a solid timber construction erected in 1287 in the Swiss canton of Schwyz. With a design that is both functional and flexible design, the building is still in use today.

Rossetti+Wyss explore the qualities of traditional building methods and transport these into their work. Many of their projects involve the use of solid wood for project-specific applications and designs, as well as in combination with other materials. Embracing the many facets of this trustworthy building material, they have used it for load bearing and bracing, as well as for protective and insulating

In the three years since our editorial collective launched The Site Magazine we have collaborated with designers and design institutions around the world to probe social, economic, cultural, and political questions through the lens of architectural knowledge. The discipline of architecture is simultaneously broad and incisive: the practice of architecture demands a constant reinvention of its role, a redefinition of design’s limits. Our forthcoming series “Does Architecture _______?” confronts the obstacles and opportunities afforded by architecture’s evolving agency while continuing to delineate relevant contexts for spatial design. “Does Architecture _______?” is conceived as a series of five thematic issues, each

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Sir John Soane’s Museum

The Architectural Drawing Prize

Until Sunday 16 February 2020

The winning and commended entries of the third Architecture Drawing Prize, held in partnership with Make Architects and the World Architecture Festival, are now on exhibit at Sir John Soane’s Museum.

Launched in 2017, the prize celebrates and showcases the significance of drawing as a tool in capturing and communicating architectural ideas. It embraces the creative use of digital tools and digitally-produced renderings, while recognising the enduring importance of hand drawing.

The Architecture Drawing Prize is curated by Make Architects, Sir John Soane’s Museum, and the World Architecture Festival.

Open call for submissions for a living pedestrian bridge over the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt. Brief can be found here: http://www.rifatchadirji.com/2020.html

Background
The Nile is a north-flowing river in Africa and is among the world’s longest waterways, famed for its ancient history and the archaeological sites along its shores. The fertile Lower Nile gave rise to early Egyptian civilisation and is still home to the Great Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza near Cairo. Sightseeing boats, from luxury liners to traditional felucca sailboats, also cruise between the cities of Luxor and Aswan. Some of the important bridges that cross the Nile

Museum presents the works of two giants of 20th-century architecture, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, as seen through the lens of Jari Jetsonen. Jetsonen is a recognised Finnish photographer, who has been photographing Alvar Aalto’s architecture for over 20 years. As a dedicated photographer of architecture he became fascinated by the points of contact and similarities in the forms and ideas in both the buildings and thinking of the two seemingly oppositional architects. What becomes important here is the point of view of the artist and the way he sees buildings. Referring to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s idea that architecture

The gender chasm in architecture persists. Students see it in their mentors, practitioners experience it in the office, and media representation of the profession follows in kind. While schools of architecture are more and more demographically gender-balanced in their student populations, faculty and the practice both remain vastly skewed, indicating that programming in schools may be leading genders into the profession inequitably or “losing” certain populations along the way, or that the bridge between academia and practice is broken. This doesn’t even include the experience of people of non-binary genders in architecture, of which documentation is almost non-existent. Without equal

Join the conversation with panelists representing Everlane, Blue Bottle Coffee, Museum of the City of New York, and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.