Now in its 14th year, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, are organizing “Europe 40 Under 40” for 2020-2021. Each year, our Institutions invite young European professionals to participate in this innovative awards program that spotlights Europe's next generation of up-and-coming European design practitioners.

Open Source Design is the development of ideas without the retention of intellectual property. The goal of this initiative is to propagate a community of designers that are enthusiastic to selfless creation. The Open Source Design Library is a by-product of ARC.HV's experimental study, The 4th Dimension. The products currently range from furniture pieces, installations, jewellery, modular shelters and animal pods. The objective is to use locally available materials consciously with minimum wastage while following a DIY method of making or easy assembly in construction.
The Open Source Design Library is also supported by Makers Asylum, who we are grateful to have as the prototyping partners.
Download the brief here.

“Life within Ruins. Essays on architecture restoration and reuse proposals for Piscina Mirabilis” is an incoming book, published by Save the Heritage Benefit Corporation, including essays on the topic of Architecture Restoration from worldwide researchers and the projects on the reuse of Piscina Mirabilis, to be published on 2021 with ISBN. The editorial board currently welcomes abstracts from University researchers, PhD candidates, professors and any other scholar affiliated to an institution or a cultural organization.

ISOLA (Indian Society of Landscape Architects) Mumbai (MMR) Chapter is delighted to invite entries for Flash Fiction (short story up to 750 words) set in past, present or future and based on the theme: “Landscapes & Well Being”.

From a reality of intense transformations generated by the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, the 13th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo presents "Reconstruction" as the central issue for the Co-Curatorship Call for Proposals.

The theme of Nurturing Architecture explores the discipline as both processes and constructions with an ethos of care, of providing nourishment and of supporting growth and development. Inherent in the multiple interpretations of nurturing, is the notion of wellbeing, and the ways in which architects and educators consider the wellbeing of future and current generations of users and other stakeholders, including our communities of architects and students.

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The MUSE Design Awards is an international competition for designers whose craftsmanship shift paradigms. 2021 Categories include: Architectural Design, Interior Design, Product Design, Furniture Design, Landscape Design, Lighting Design, Packaging Design, Concept Design, Transportation Design, and Fashion Design

The Department of Canadian Heritage, in cooperation with the LGBT Purge Fund and the National Capital Commission, invites teams of professional artists, landscape architects, architects, and other urban design professionals to submit their credentials and examples of prior work for the first part of a two-phase competition to design a new national monument in Ottawa.

Nuestras Arquitectas, through this photography contest, proposes to focus and re-focus those images that have been hidden and eclipsed in order to return them to the place and the prominence those women architects deserved.

IDEA-TOPS Organizing Committee has announced the 10th International Space Design Award, calling for marvelous projects of interior design and architecture from around the world. The winners in 18 categories will be selected by an international jury, which is consisted of senior experts in the field, with the principles of being professional, rigorous, fair and just. The number of submissions is unlimited, every participant can submit a few projects completed in 2018-2020.

LIV Hospitality Design Awards globally recognized excellence in Hospitality Architecture, Interior Design and Guest Experiences. The mission of LIV Hospitality Design Awards is to celebrate quality Architectural ventures and Interior Design diversity, that shape Hospitality worldwide. LIV is an inclusive platform, pursuing exceptional projects within the LIVING and EATING spaces, from Co-living to Beach Resort, from Fine Dining restaurant to Pop up Bar.

The Nate, in collaboration with Steelcase, RIBA Hong Kong Chapter & District15 Platforms is excited to announce a competition for all designers in Hong Kong, titled . The winner will receive a month stay at The Nate serviced studios, and:

Where uncertainty, division, separation, havoc, and disease befall communities worldwide, many of us have resorted to embracing ways to bring solace, gratification, indulgence, and joy into the spaces we inhabit. Rather than setting out to work on an issue that directly and explicitly discusses the problems of our times as the focus, our 14th Issue sets out to critically examine the spaces, places, and routines that give us pleasure because of—and despite—the chaos. Reminded of Bernard Tschumi’s words in “The Pleasure of Architecture”, where he posits that “the ancient idea of pleasure still seems sacrilegious to contemporary architectural theory”, this issue of informa aims to study pleasure as a tool with agency.

Kreatura.zine is not a typical zine, but rather an initiative launched by the students and recent graduates, aiming to gather young creatives from around the world to give them space to speak out.

The theme of Nurturing Architecture explores the discipline as both processes and constructions with an ethos of care, of providing nourishment and of supporting growth and development. Inherent in the multiple interpretations of nurturing, is the notion of wellbeing, and the ways in which architects and educators consider the wellbeing of future and current generations of users and other stakeholders, including our communities of architects and students. Importantly, wellbeing is a broad and diffuse concept; wellbeing is a positive aspiration, a means to living well: an everyday resource that enables people to lead individually, socially and economically productive lives.

Non Architecture competitions is an initiative pointed at finding and bringing forward unconventional and unexplored design solutions in the field of Non Architecture Competitions aims to find unconventional and unexplored design solutions in the field of architecture. The second phase of competitions is structured in 9+1 themes: a Research Ecosystem with the purpose of exploring each theme from different perspectives. All competitions have their focus on tackling the big issues of tomorrow, by seeking nontraditional approaches in the architecture work.

Call for international workshop Metaform is now officially open till October 1st, 2020. The event will take place from 19th till the 30th of October 2020 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Big data, smart systems, machine learning – it is inevitable that these new technologies will change the way we study, build and manage our cities. At the same time resurgent interest in consensus and contributive action seems to oppose an exclusively data-driven urbanism. Is the opposition of machine intelligence and democracy inevitable, or are shared trajectories possible?

“Home” is now at the centre of the pandemic. With the commendation for isolation, quarantine, or lockdown, as a way of battling the virus, most of our lives are expelled from the public realm. It would appear we are now exiled at home. We have all retreated to a home space as much as we can, in whatever way we have configured a home. Even with some gradual relaxation, we are still mostly homebound. Which only makes home a poignant place, and makes us think it anew. Oftentimes, a thing that is closest to us and we take for granted—such as home—appears in a new light when the rhythms around it are altered, disrupted, or heightened.

In Architecture, materials aren’t simply limited to the element which composes a structure. The materials are reproduced according to the substance, but importantly, it signifies being greater than the mass only. Thus, it plays a key role in the perceptional process when the five senses are used including the touch feel materials. Furthermore, it indicates that such experiences undertaken by human beings can be integrated through the sense organs. Materials related to the senses of human beings include a metaphysical meaning such as regions, context, land, and memory. Therefore, this competition is aimed at showing architecture and cities that are reproduced in relation to the materials and the senses of human beings.