Seoul National University Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering (SNU DAAE) is pleased to announce its Fall 2024 Lecture Series. This semester's lectures will feature speakers from various fields invited from around the world, offering diverse perspectives and international viewpoints at the forefront of contemporary architecture and architectural engineering.

Architecture is about solving problems for people through the composition of light, space, and material. It is about embracing the way space can be sculpted to improve how we live.

Come join us for the SMC NOMAS Fall Lecture by Ronald Rael on Wednesday, October 2nd at 6:30pm Santa Monica College 1900 Pico Blvd (Orientation Hall) Santa Monica, CA 90405. This event is free and Free Visitor Parking is available on the top level of Parking Structure 3 (entrance on Pico Blvd.).

In order to create a "local era that is good to live anywhere in Korea," the Folk Museum of Korea will be relocated to Sejong City National Museum Complex and will play a leading role in the balanced national development policy as a representative national museum of local culture in the south of the central region.

Ferda Kolatan is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design and Founding Director of su11. In this event, Kolatan presents new book "Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City." Contemporary cities are shaped, Kolatan observes, by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructure, and other urban components that over time accumulate into mismatched configurations. However, despite the ubiquity of these oddities and their impact on the city, we rarely give them much consideration. In Misfits & Hybrids, Kolatan explores the untapped potential in these unexpected conditions for a new kind of architecture. A diverse array of projects, developed in Kolatan’s design studios at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, illustrates how hybrid artifacts can reveal the often overlooked cultural, socio-political, and material histories of a site, fostering design tactics invested in reinventing the existing. Set within the cosmopolitan megacities of Istanbul, Cairo, and New York, the projects are conceived as real fictions, conjuring novel narrative, aesthetic, and representational forms to reflect the pluralistic postindustrial city

WATG's inaugural student design competition titled "Reimagine The Future of Hospitality with A.I." is aimed at harnessing the ingenious potential of young minds in redefining the way we conceive and design through A.I. The objective is to empower students' spirit of experimentation to explore the forefront of innovation and creativity in the rapidly evolving field of A.I.

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2024 Robert L. Wesley Award.

In the years following India’s Independence, the nation faced significant economic, social, and infrastructural challenges as it worked to rebuild and redefine itself. The legacy of colonial rule had left the country divided, its economy strained, and its social fabric frayed. Yet, the drive to forge a united and prosperous future pulsed strongly in the hearts of its people.
As the 1970s emerged, new trajectories of influence began to reshape the world order. Amidst the evolution of modernism and a growing resistance to Colonial-era social and moral structures, architects in India explored new dimensions and directions that resonated with the country’s autochthonous identity and aspirations.

Debreceni Infrastruktúra Fejlesztő Kft. (Debrecen Infrastructure Development Ltd., hereinafter referred to as the "Contracting Authority") announces a call for an international architectural design competition (hereinafter referred to as the "Design Competition") titled "The New Exhibition Building of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Debrecen". The aim of the competition is to design a building for the museum aligned with the functions already located on site.

2024 Robert Z. Shuman Lecture: Masafumi Yukimoto
ARCH 104, Tyler School of Art and Architecture and virtual on Zoom

The Water as Leverage Multilevel Climate Action Programme (WaL) proudly presents the City Champion Challenge - an initiative designed to drive innovative solutions for the most pressing water-related climate challenges in urban environments, such as flooding, drought and pollution. Urban stakeholders and cities who have developed initiatives that promote just, and sustainable water and climate resilience are invited to submit their initiative. The Challenge offers a unique opportunity of collaboration between leading cities and stakeholders, gaining international visibility and contributing to addressing critical water-related challenges through inclusive and integrated solutions.

Alfredo Thiermann, architect and Assistant Professor for History and Theory of Architecture at the École polytechnique fédéralein Lausanne, presents new book Radio-Activities at UCLA AUD.

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The Chamber of Architects Kayseri Branch has been organizing the Kayseri Architecture Festival since 2022, and the third edition will take place in Kayseri, Türkiye, on October 3-5, 2024, with the theme "Retell the Story". This year, the festival is curated by Sevince Bayrak from SO? Architecture and Ideas, who co-curated the Turkish Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennial, where they presented their project, The Carrier Bag Theory of Architecture: Ghost Stories. The festival's theme, 'Retell the Story,' which she proposed, builds on their recent research, broadening the focus from adaptive reuse to retelling architectural narratives from diverse perspectives. The event will feature both local and international speakers, including Christele Harrouk, Editor-in-Chief of ArchDaily. Other notable speakers include Ahmet Sezgin, Cem Sorguç, Chen-Yu Chiu, Elif Çelik, Hayriye Sözen, Kadir Uyanık, Kim Seunghoy, Melis Cankara, Melis Varkal, Merve Gedik, Mucip Ürger, Nevzat Sayın, Zeynep Eres, and Zeynep Hagur, who will share their insights on retelling the stories of built and unbuilt environments.

The city of Kharkiv stands as Ukraine's second-largest city and has been considerably affected by the ongoing conflict due to its proximity to the border with Russia. During the first conversation between the Kharkiv Mayor and Norman Foster in the United Nations' Second Forum of Mayors, the Mayor underscored the importance of creating a new landmark for the city. This ideas competition seeks to inspire local and international experts to propose design solutions for an iconic building in Kharkiv—the Regional Administration Building—as well as for the public realm of the adjacent Freedom Square. The proposals should offer a holistic intervention that envisions a prosperous future while enhancing the historical significance and identity of Kharkiv. This competition is part of the larger Kharkiv concept Masterplan project: a local and international initiative of the Kharkiv City Council, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) within the framework of the UN4UkrainianCities initiative, the Norman Foster Foundation and Arup among others.

Every year, the Festival is visited by a large public. In 2024, it received 13,000 visitors and has been widely published in France and abroad.

Do you have a visionary idea that pushes the boundary of what's possible? The Forge Prize from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), challenges architects, educators, and students to create design concepts that embrace innovations in steel as the primary structural material--and $25,000 in prizes.