In support of Madrid Architecture Week, Never Enough Architecture (NEA) is excited to present its new initiative in collaboration with the Municipality of Pelayos de la Presa. This initiative seamlessly blends a detailed course on “Adaptive Reuse” and “Placemaking” with a design contest, offering participants a comprehensive understanding of these pivotal modern design concepts. Adaptive…
Task WHERE: Pick a site located in Asia. The site area should be a maximum of 5 hectares (50,000 square metres). The site may be your current place of residence or any place that you are familiar with. WHICH: Choose which scenario/s (Climate Destruction or Endings or both) will be addressed based on the selected…
Co-sponsored by the American Planning Association (APA) Urban Design and Preservation Division, Divisions Council, and Student Representatives Council, APA presents the Annual Student Planning and Design Competition, which will culminate in a final competition event and winner selection at the 2024 National Planning Conference (NPC24) in Minneapolis, MN. This opportunity for student planning and design in…
Held every three years, the renowned International Furniture Design Competition Asahikawa (IFDA) celebrates the ingenuity of woodworking. The platform promotes the love of the age-old material, not only its traditions but also its innovation. IFDA 2024 calls for such novelties as it marks its 12th edition, rewarding winners and finalists with cash prizes, production opportunities,…
Domus Academy is launching a competition for scholarships to support new talents willing to pursue their studies in Design, Fashion, Business and Experience areas at one of most highly ranked Design school in Milan. Following its essence as visionary, future-oriented, postgraduate Design school, Domus Academy has always been committed to supporting talents of the future…
Cairo Designathon just opened the application for its next Design Marathon, taking place in Cairo Design Week 2023, from 17 to 25 November 2023, in Downtown Cairo. Established in April 2020, Cairo Designathon is the first collaborative design marathon in Egypt and the MENA region, aiming to generate positive social impact through Good Design. The…
The Society of Architectural Historians’ prestigious H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship will be offered for 2017 and will allow a recent graduate or emerging scholar to study by travel for one year. The fellowship is not for the purpose of doing research for an advanced academic degree. Instead, Professor Brooks intended the recipient to study by travel and contemplation while observing, reading, writing, or sketching.
This issue of dearq seeks to shed light on a spectrum of spatial, material, and research practices intertwining architecture, design, and computation. We welcome contributions that address these from critical, de-colonial, and local perspectives, with a non-exclusive focus on Latin America and the rest of the “Global South”. Recent debates on the role of computation…
OVERVIEW Humankind has lived and worked primarily in rural areas. But now, more than half of the globe’s population will be living in towns and cities. The number of urban dwellers is rising, reaching almost 32% of the total world population, and 68% by 2050. It is estimated that 900 million urban dwellers and over one billion rural people now live…
OVERVIEW There are moments in history when a confluence of ideas, people, and broader cultural and technological forces creates a spark. Sometimes the spark amounts to nothing more than a flicker. But if conditions are right, it can erupt into a dazzling, brilliant light that, while burning for only a brief moment, changes the world…
The Monte d’Oiro Wine Tasting Room competition is part of the Bee Breeders competition series set in Portugal and is a collaboration with Quinta Do Monte D’Oiro, a family wine project located in the Lisbon Wine Region. Quinta do Monte d’Oiro has been known for its idyllic wine-making conditions since the 17th century, with a privileged terroir,…
7.2%… is the number of Europeans that won’t be in contact, not even once a year, with friends or loved ones. This percentage is even greater in France, 12%. Human beings are meant to interact with one another and that is why there are so many examples of communities throughout our different societies and throughout history….
