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A 360 Solution for Light Wood-Frame Offsite Construction

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In the construction industry, light wood-frame offsite construction has emerged as a game-changing approach, promising faster build times, higher quality, and reduced environmental impact. Member companies of the Quebec Wood Export Bureau (QWEB) have launched a digital tool that harnesses the benefits and potential of prefabricated light wood-frame products for projects.

Warming Huts V.2025: An Arts & Architecture Competition on Ice

Three teams will be selected as winners of the WARMING HUTS COMPETITION: Arts + Architecture Competition on Ice from submissions of designs for a warming hut or art installation. Winning entries will be placed along the Nestaweya River Trail located on the Assiniboine and Red rivers in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A jury will select the winning designs based on their creativity in use of materials, providing shelter, poetics of assembly and form, integration with the landscape, and ease of construction.

Call for Entries: 2024 Brick in Architecture Awards

The Brick Industry Association (BIA) has opened entries for the 2024 Brick in Architecture Awards, the leading international design competition featuring fired-clay brick. Entries are due by Nov. 1.

Schools for Palestine - Mobile Schools as an Emergency Response

New Humanitarian Competition for the Creation of Mobile Schools in Palestine

Call For Ideas: Tiny House 2024 Architecture Competition

Volume Zero invites each one of you to participate in the 25th edition of our architectural competitions and the 5th edition of Tiny House Architecture Competition. This year’s Tiny House aims to celebrate individuality, reimagine sustainability and to exalt simple, innovative yet resourceful living. The Tiny House Movement is also a platform that not only explores the avenues of ‘mobile’ or ‘Off the Grid’ Living spaces but also the freedom and independence they would offer. Come be a part of this movement; join a new wave of habitat designers!

Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival: BuildFest Closing Party and Public Opening

BuildFest marks the third year of the Bethel Woods Art & Architecture Festival and begins a multi-year project to merge digital and analog fabrication pedagogies with creative notions of function and play, focusing on flexibility and adaptation.

Call for Submissions for the XIII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism

The Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIAU) is launching its open, public call for the 13th edition, which will be held in Lima during the first week of December. Under the theme CLIMATES: Actions for Good Living, this call for submissions seeks to recognize projects that, in the spheres of architecture, urban planning and related disciplines, offer alternative and innovative solutions for inhabiting and caring for the planet.

Registration is open from 1 July and will close in the first week of September 2024. In this edition, the usual categories of the Biennial – Works, Professional Achievement, Publications, and Teaching

i Light Singapore 2025 Open Call

Asia’s leading sustainable light festival will return for its 11th edition next year to showcase exciting light art installations at Marina Bay and its neighbouring precincts.

NASA India Mohammed Shaheer Landscape Trophy

National Association of Students of Architecture India is pleased to announce the Mohammad Shaheer Landscape Trophy in collaboration with the Indian Society of Landscape Architects (ISOLA) for the 67th Year (2024-25).

Monumenta at 50 Symposium

50 years after the pioneering exhibition, Monumenta, opened in Newport in 1974, The Preservation Society of Newport County will honor its anniversary with a symposium at Rosecliff. Monumenta was a groundbreaking event that showcased 54 large-scale outdoor sculptures across the Newport landscape by 40 artists, including Willem de Kooning, Robert Indiana, Louise Nevelson, Jules Olitski, Henry Moore, Barnett Newman, Richard Fleischner, David Smith, Christo, Claes Oldenberg, Barbara Hepworth and Alexander Calder.

Agustín Hernández’s Iconic Casa Praxis Is the Main Character of the Short Film “El Luchador”

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In Mexico City, the iconic Casa Praxis (1975) by the renowned Mexican sculptor, poet, and architect Agustín Hernández Navarro became the main stage in "El Luchador" (The Wrestler), a short film produced by Simon and directed by RA! Arquitectos alongside filmmakers René Batista and Tito Sánchez. The film marks the launch of the 5th edition of the Living Places-Simon Architecture Prize. Simon, a centennial family-owned company specializing in lighting, energy, and space management, is recognized globally for its commitment to architectural excellence.

The film’s story follows the journey of a young dreamer who enters the house to live out his greatest fantasy: to become a wrestler, while facing unexpected events. It highlights the power of dream spaces to make the wishes of their inhabitants come true, illustrating that behind every living space there is an architect with a story to tell.

Responsive Cities Symposium 2025: “Design Matter(s) for Decarbonization”

Design Matter(s) for Decarbonization

Denver Single-Stair Housing Challenge

Point access block (PAB) housing, also known as single stair housing, is a common and efficient residential design used in urban environments across most of the world. This design, characterized by a single staircase that serves all units, supports high-density living, promotes walkable neighborhoods, and enhances urban sustainability. However, despite its benefits, this housing typology is largely absent in North America due to stringent building codes that mandate dual staircases for buildings above two or three stories. These outdated regulations have contributed to the housing crisis by limiting the diversity and affordability of housing options.

Construction Ecologies

Opening August 2nd, 2024 at the Imagine Butte Resource Center
(IBRC) in historic Uptown Butte, Construction Ecologies presents architectural
research exploring construction supply chains in Montana, tracing the flow of raw
materials from their original sites of extraction through production to their final use in the built environment. Sponsored by the nonprofit Building Bureau and the School of Architecture at Montana State University (MSU), the show features research by eleven graduate architecture students conducted this spring in Building Bureau’s Visiting Scholar Advanced Architectural Studio at MSU. The work on display includes diagrams, text, mineral samples, material experiments and physical models, and represents both industrially produced construction materials ranging from gypsum to copper – for which Butte is famed – and renewable resources such as timber, wool, and straw.

Exploring SCI-Arc’s M.Arch 1 Program: A Distinctive Approach to Architectural Education

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For over 50 years, SCI-Arc has driven students to advance design stewardship in new directions. Renowned for its avant-garde approach and its commitment to pushing the boundaries of architecture, SCI-Arc's Master of Architecture 1 (M.Arch 1) program exemplifies these qualities through a uniquely structured and forward-thinking curriculum. Fostering technical expertise and critical discourse, the M.Arch 1 program propels graduates to lifelong success in not only architecture but also in leading creative fields like AI, gaming, virtual reality, and film-based world building.  

Before / After: Álvaro Siza, by Duccio Malagamba

A curated survey of the legendary Portuguese architect’s most interesting buildings, photographed by Duccio Malagamba

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Supersudaca: Incomplete Works

In the late 90s and early 00s a group of Latin architects studying in Europe connected to form Supersudaca, an emerging global/local collective that shaped a discourse on globalization from their unique latin perspective. Eventually their members established their own studios across Latin America and Europe, but always bounced back to operate as "Supersudaca", through critical research. After more than two decades "Incomplete Works" puts into a single publication their extensive research and exhibits. The book was launched at the Nieuwe Instituut on February of this year, with a tribute to Supersudaca Felix Madrazo (IND.architecture).