The European Cultural Academy (ECA) in Venice is offering a full scholarship in 2023 to participants presenting the best project ideas for exploring architecture and the city using film and sound. The prize is a fee-paid place on our "Venicinema" course (4-15 September 2023) worth €1650. The course is led by François Penz, Professor of Architecture and Moving Image at the University of Cambridge, UK.
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The Puppet Theatre in Stara Zagora encourages those with a flair for the novel, distinctive and unorthodox. We are prepared to take risks in the name of artistic process and the quest of true meaning.
The STATE PUPPET THEATRE in Stara Zagora and the Ministry of Culture, supported by Stara Zagora Municipality are delighted to launch an international Open Architectural Competition for a conceptual design of the EPAC - Experimental Puppetry Arts Centre at State Puppet Theatre – Stara Zagora. The Puppet Theatre in Stara Zagora encourages those with a flair for the novel, distinctive and unorthodox. The theatre is prepared to take risks in the name of artistic process and the quest of true meaning. The EPAC - Experimental Puppetry Arts Centre will be an incubator for live theatre – syncretic, originally incepted, unconventional, interactive and bold. A meeting point for people of deliberate creative motivation and potential, dynamic, unique and diverse creators. The new centre will aspire to offer opportunities to contemporary artists to grow their talent and create a wholesome space for the development of theatre across the breadth of the art of puppetry. The competition is open to designers from across the world who are passionate about contemporary art and theatre and want to contribute to the design of an unorthodox, out-of-the-box building to be the home of the magic of theatre.
The UDL Thesis Publication is an exclusive platform that allows undergraduate and postgraduate students to showcase their creative and research-based thesis projects in the areas of urban design, landscape architecture, and planning. Through this publication, students can showcase their innovative approaches and ideas, thereby receiving recognition and appreciation from their peers, industry experts, and the academic community globally.
2023 Image Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Architecture Prize
The Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Architecture Prize aims to recognise the best and most innovative practices in Landscape Architecture, for build projects created worldwide from 2017 to 2022. Deadline on the 30th May 2023
The Daxi Wood Art Ecomuseum, Taoyuan is hosting the First Daxi International Wood Furniture Craft and Design Competition with a prize pool of US$49,000(NT$1.5 million). The competition aims to promote Daxi's wood furniture craft, encourage diversity and innovation in the industry, and raise international awareness of Taiwan's wood furniture. Creators from all over the world are welcome to participate.
Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. invites students to see where their designs can take them by entering the seventh Vectorworks Design Scholarship. The global competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students in major disciplines related to architecture, landscape architecture, landscape design, entertainment and interior design. Students can submit a new design or past project from any of their classes for the chance to win up to $10,000 USD. Competition entries will be evaluated by an expert panel of international judges in two rounds. First-round winners will each receive up to $3,000 USD and will be entered for the chance to win the grand prize Richard Diehl Award, worth up to an additional $7,000 USD. For complete details, eligibility and to apply visit www.vectorworks.net/scholarship
Archstorming is launching a new competition in collaboration with the local NGO "Teach on the Beach" (TOB) to create a new Educational Center in Busua, Ghana. Teach on the Beach (TOB) enhances lives, emotional growth, and cultivates global citizenship of their students through after-school programs and volunteer opportunities.
Aino and Alvar Aalto together founded Artek and created some of the most celebrated objects and buildings of the twentieth century. Through letters, documents, drawings, and family photographs, Alvar and Aino’s grandson tells the stories of their life together, in Finland and abroad, drawing on many of the never- before-published letters they sent to each other and to family, friends, and colleagues, until Aino’s death in 1949.
This book celebrates over 20 years of Bonstra|Haresign Architects’ community-focused practice. It documents the growth and success attributable to the firm’s philosophy and methodological approach. Many beautiful images and descriptive text show that Bill’s and David’s design aspirations and cooperative work styles, shared by their talented, associate partners John Edwards and Jack Devilbiss and the studio teams, have produced not only award-winning architecture, but also architecture benefitting each project’s surroundings.
Situated in the village of Kaltenbach, amidst the Austrian mountains, is the head office of Empl. A manufacturer of fire-fighting trucks and other large vehicles with special functions, their products include off-road vehicles, mobile army hospitals and temperature-controlled trucks to carry food. Whatever their function, each vehicle is unique and has been composed with the greatest of care. The end products can be seen in Empl’s handover hall – a stylish production hall where vehicles are handed over to clients personally. The building has a total of five pivot doors, one of which is most notable. In episode four of Opening up, FritsJurgens gives a peek into this unique space.
Sliding pocket doors save space and disappear within walls to create effortless connections between adjacent rooms. Image Courtesy of Ermetika
In an ideal world, doors could seamlessly disappear and reappear, creating connections and barriers when needed to provide the ultimate flexibility. Domestic interiors increasingly combine work and leisure, requiring both conviviality and solitude, and the same is true of workspaces, which increasingly feature adaptable ways to link different zones and activities. Tried and tested spatial concepts such as open plan or many small, cellular rooms are no longer sufficient as, on their own, they do not provide real flexibility and adaptability.
When looking for inspiration for one’s home, the search for and observation of beauty in the surrounding world is often what fuels creative passion and gives rise to the desire to create something equally beautiful. It is essential, in these cases, to find designs that make homeowners feel at ease in their home environment, which is where Inkiostro Bianco comes in.
The design of a facade defines its architectural identity. Besides being a barrier against diverse weather conditions, providing acoustic comfort, and regulating light penetration, the external skin of a building determines its character and perception. At first glance, a facade can make the building stand out or blend with its urban environment, or even convey different levels of brightness, translucency, and smoothness. Simultaneously, the structure and color of interior walls and ceilings can leave a lasting impression when entering a room.
With a focus on deepening inequality across the world, this richly illustrated monograph of social practice in architecture shows how to catalyze productive change in the world's border regions.
How can design be used to challenge the status quo, to interrupt the jargon, to disrupt and redirect ecological and socio-economic flows? LA+ Journal’s fourth international design ideas competition invited designers to take an established place and design something to productively interrupt both its cultural and spatial context. What does this mean? It means injecting something different into a given context to effect new meanings and new functions. It means questioning what design does, who it’s designed for, what it looks like, and what it means.
