Launched on March 22nd, 2024, the IFLA GSP is a first step into integrating global landscape architecture academia. This program ties together 4 charettes associated with major LA events across 4 IFLA regions with the objective of R&D regarding (1) LA future leadership and (2) a global network of LA education institutions.

The American Institute of Architects UK Chapter is pleased to announce its 2024 Excellence in Design Awards! For 30 years, these awards - which do not require AIA membership for entry - have proven highly valued by architects as they confer international recognition for design excellence.

The Association for Public Art and the Parkway Council, in partnership with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, are thrilled to announce an Open Call for Art on the Parkway. This is a juried competition that asks applicants to propose a temporary public art installation in Maja Park that will be on exhibit for approximately three months as part of the annual summer Oval festival. Proposers are asked to explore the ways in which art can help create and define a sense of place. The selected artist will receive an all-inclusive award of $15,000.

The Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition (KRob) has celebrated the best in architectural delineation for 50 years. A Dallas classic that has received international recognition, KRob honors hand and digital delineation by professionals and students throughout the world. Averaging over 400 entries from 25 countries in the past several years, the competition’s visibility continues to grow.

The 2024 Ideas Competition: A Gateway for Mieres, is organized by the University of Oviedo, in collaboration with the City Council of Mieres. It's aimed at stimulating innovative solutions to improve the urban, aesthetic, and landscape conditions around the northern entrance to Mieres from the A-66 highway, focusing on enhancing pedestrian and cyclist conditions, as well as integrating this area into the urban fabric more effectively.

The International Urban Project Award is launched by Bauwelt (Berlin) and the World Architecture magazine (Beijing) and supported by Messe München. It recognizes new outstanding urban and architectural projects that have transformed cities worldwide, focusing on the interface between buildings and public space.

Mimaria Studio, in partnership with the NGO Molham Team, is launching a competition to redesign a housing quarter for Earthquake and displaced Victims in Northern Syria.

Time is a factor in urban design. Projects sometimes take decades to materialize. Some never make it. This monograph features three decades of urban design projects at Johnson Fain varying in type and scale from conceptual architecture to the design for major city additions, to environmental plans for sites thousands of square kilometers in area. Some have been built; some remain in process. They represent a wide range of engagements, and all seek to address our goal to achieve “civic purpose,” benefiting the city, the community and the project’s sponsor.
Civic purpose—contributing to the civility of a city—is central to all our projects, public or private. Public and private sponsors may share similar views of civic purposes, yet often are motivated for different reasons—the public interest in social equity and environmental quality, and the private in engendering support for a project’s entitlements. The urban design project benefits from both. Listening to stakeholder voices surrounding a project helps us understand the possibilities and the impossibilities, and to establish through involvement of all parties a sense of ownership and commitment assuring its success over time. Engaging others in conceptualizing urban design involves both the art of persuasion and the art of accepting other viewpoints, ceding credit for good ideas because our process is never about a single idea, encouraging robust discussion, concept development, and evaluation of alternatives in a collaborative process.
Across this spectrum of work, innovation is achieved both programmatically by defining the urban problem in different and interesting ways, and structurally by offering a formal framework from which participants contribute to the evolution of a plan. Our designers share a zeal for understanding how cities evolve and are committed to a principled practice that ensures they evolve in a beneficial direction for everyone.

Growing up, almost every kid dreams of finding buried treasure. That dream slowly fades with age as they realize that Blackbeard never visited their backyard. For some, the search for treasure continues in their adult lives in other ways. Metal detectors and shovels may be replaced with online searches and library visits, but the thrill of the hunt is still alive, ever driving the quest forward.

‘Rambusch: The First 100 Years, 1898–1998’ chronicles the growth of an independent, workshop-based, family business now being run by a fourth generation. This book offers the definitive history of the company started by Danish-born Frode Christian Valdemar Rambusch (1859–1924) in New York. Beginning with his efforts in decorative painting and murals, the story expands into lighting design and continues with a study of subsequent generations building upon—and further expanding—these fields of work into other media. The narrative also provides focus on more than two dozen artisans responsible for making the objects and interiors often requested by well-known architects.

CHILDREN OCCUPY VENETIAN STREET FOR THEIR UNOFFICIAL HAPPENING DURING VENICE ART BIENNALE 2024 PRE-OPENING

Join the world's top designers, innovators, architects, and creators at the renowned NYCxDESIGN Festival. This year the week-long festival will include hundreds of events, exhibitions, open studios, and new programming, shining a bright light on key talent within the design capital.

The 13th National Architecture Symposium (NAS): Leadership in Architecture is a prestigious gathering that brings together over 500 global leaders, professionals, and architecture students. Scheduled for May 4, 2024, at the Philippine International Convention Center - PICC in Pasay City, Philippines with the Laureate of the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Riken Yamamoto, as the event’s Principal Speaker.

The Festival des Architectures Vives 2024 will take place from June 11-16, 2024, in Montpellier, France, with free admission from 9am to 7pm (2pm to 7pm on June 11th).

A groundbreaking two-day symposium, “Debates in AI,” will explore the multifaceted dimensions of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on creative disciplines. Unraveling the intricate intersections of art, design, technology and culture, the symposium aims to foster conversations that critically examine the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and the fields of art and design.

Join Shannon Vos, Interior Designer, Renovator and one-half of 2014's 'The Block' winning team, at the DECO Innovation Centre for a conversation on the do's and don'ts of renovating.