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Archtober, NYC’s Architecture and Design Festival, Launches 14th Year

2024-08-21T13:48:00-04:00

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Archtober, a New York City-based platform that promotes the discovery of architecture and design through experiences and content, will celebrate the next installment of its annual festival from October 1–31, 2024. In collaboration with over 100 partners and sponsors across the city, the 2024 festival will gather events, exhibitions, resources, and activities across the five boroughs to raise awareness of the importance of architecture and design in New York City.

In recent years, Archtober has continued to grow and deepen its impact with the addition of an annual festival theme, which we launched in 2023. Our first theme, Bridging Divides, reflected a profound commitment to fostering inclusivity, innovation, and a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness between individuals, communities, and the spaces they inhabit. This year’s theme, Tracing the Future, delves into the evolving landscape of NYC through affordable hous...

The 2024 AZ Awards is now open for entries!

2024-01-17T17:15:00-05:00

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Show the World What You Have Accomplished: Submit your best work to the 2024 AZ Awards!

It’s the beginning of a new year – and that means that it’s time to kick off the 2024 AZ Awards. Open for submissions until February 23, AZURE’s 14th annual competition is accepting entries into its eight major categories, from architecture, landscapes and urban design to interiors, product design and the A+ Award for best student work. Enter here!

Last year’s edition celebrated more winners than ever — including MVRDV’s striking Valley mixed-use complex in Amsterdam and Shim-Sutcliffe’s exquisitely refined Ace Hotel Toronto. Taken together, the 26 winners represent the world’s best in design at all scales and disciplines. You can see them all online on the AZ Awards website.

Winner in the "Commercial & Institutional Interiors" category - Omar Gandhi Architects: Prime Seafood Palace, Toronto, Canada. Photo credit: Adrian Ozimek. Read more about the ...

Archtober, NYC’s Architecture and Design Festival, Celebrates its 13th Year

2023-09-15T13:30:00-04:00

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Archtober, a New York City-based platform that promotes the discovery of architecture and design through experiences and content, will celebrate the next installment of its annual Festival from October 1–31, 2023. In collaboration with over 100 partners and sponsors across the city, the 2023 Festival will gather events, exhibitions, resources, and activities across the five boroughs to raise awareness of the importance of architecture and design in New York City. This year, for the first time, the platform has introduced a 2023 theme, Bridging Divides, which helps to organize select programming with shared goals and conceptual connections. Additionally, Archtober is excited to continue to expand the Archtober Guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app.

“As Archtober celebrates its 13th year, we are thrilled to be working with over 100 collaborating partners to offer an impressive—and still growing—lineup of architecture...

Exhibit Columbus Announces 2023 Opening Weekend Events

2023-08-03T14:00:00-04:00

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The fourth Exhibit Columbus exhibition, Public by Design, opens on Saturday, August 26, with 13 new works of art and architecture designed to invigorate, entertain, and challenge while expanding the legacy of one of America’s most celebrated cities.

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Landmark Columbus Foundation announces the Opening Weekend of the 2023 Exhibit Columbus Exhibition, Public by Design, with the Opening Celebration on Friday, August 25, and a day of free, public events on Saturday, August 26. The Exhibit Columbus community (including the Curatorial Team, Landmark Columbus Foundation Staff and Board, Participants, volunteers, and supporters) has been working together for over a year to create what will be a ground-breaking exhibition that showcases how art and architecture can help build a sense of belonging while revitalizing and reimagining historic downtowns as equitable, beautiful, and joyful places.

Image by Hadley F...

YAC's latest competition invites architects to rethink sacred architectures in Ireland as places to host contemporary cultural innovation

2022-09-26T08:50:00-04:00

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YAC launches ART CATHEDRAL, the second competition located in Ireland and inviting architects to rethink ancient sacred architectures as places where contemporary cultural innovation can be hosted again.

The cash prize of € 15,000 will be distributed to the winning proposals selected by an international jury panel composed of some of the most world-renowned architects: Manuel Aires Mateus, Valerie Mulvin, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Edoardo Tresoldi, Claudio Silvestrin.

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Beams of light are sculpted by a thick atmosphere dense with the vapor of candles and spirals of perfumed incense. The metallic and faint jingle of silver incense burners, long and peaceful days marked by the tolling of bells and Gregorian melismata.

It has been over a millennium since the religious zeal animated Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Centuries of history have passed since the age of cathedrals. Many...

YACademy students measure themselves in the world of yacht design

2022-09-19T16:20:00-04:00

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Design Attitude is a project from the Fondazione Fashion Research Italy, a nonprofit foundation by Cav. Alberto Masotti that has worked with a series of YACademy alumni and collaborated with some of the most distinguished names in contemporary design in order to actualize the Renzo Brandone Fund.

Consisting of a collection of invaluable textile art designs, the Brandone Fund is an inexhaustible mine of creative inspirations predominantly oriented to the fashion industry but also able to express much in the design field.

Image courtesy of YACademy.

Design Attitude then asked 6 leading designers, including De Lucchi, Ben Van Berkel, and David Chipperfield, along with YACademy students, to imagine furniture and interior solutions that would make use of the textures preserved in the Fund. Among these collaborative experiences, the primary and most successful is the collaboration of students with renowned yacht designer Francesco Pazskowsky. An ar...

Archtober, New York City’s Architecture Festival, Returns for its Twelfth Year

2022-09-16T12:20:00-04:00

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Archtober, the month-long festival of architecture and design, returns this year to New York City. Organized by the Center for Architecture in collaboration with partners and sponsors across the city, the 2022 installment of the festival will gather events, exhibitions, resources, and activities across the five boroughs. Despite the challenges of the past few years, Archtober has continued to expand, this year gathering more than 100 partners and sponsors to celebrate the importance of architecture and design in New York City. New this year: the Archtober Guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app!

Front and York by Morris Adjmi Architects. Image © Selvon Ramsawak/Courtesy of Archtober.

“As Archtober celebrates its twelfth year, I am thrilled to see how the festival continues to grow, with over 100 collaborating partners and new program offerings,” said Benjamin Prosky, Assoc. AIA, Executive Director, AIA New York | Cente...

YACademy’s alumni and BIG’s designers work together for greener cities and hotels as icons of urban sustainability

2022-09-13T14:15:00-04:00

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In the meeting rooms of the Royal Carlton, in Bologna, the working table promoted by the Monrif group carried out research aimed at re-imagining the group’s hotels as tools for green and urban sustainability met for the first time.

The idea came from the group’s head of operation, Nicola Foschini, who imagined the group’s hotels as destination hotels. To this end, they involved YACademy, a leading international institute in the field of architectural design, Danish firm Bjarke Ingels, and architect Giulio Rigoni to lead a group of alumni of the academy in creative brainstorming. The goal was that within a month, they would have suggestions to imagine a more beautiful, green, and sustainable Bologna, thanks to the presence of the group’s hotels.

Image courtesy of YACademy.

The research and project consisted of eight architects from five different countries who started to develop a design for the requalification of the facades of the Royal Car...

The LAGI 2022 Mannheim design competition calls for 'creatives to tell a new and inspiring climate story'

2022-07-28T09:00:00-04:00

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We live in a time of crisis. And yet the future is full of promise. The future is full of promise because of you. Because architects, landscape architects, artists, and designers have the power to create positive change.

This is most certainly true when it comes to action on climate change. Over the past decade of Land Art Generator Initiative design competitions, we’ve seen it happen. Throughout this article you’ll find example entries to previous LAGI design competitions. We hope they will inspire you to take part in LAGI 2022 Mannheim, open now through September 4, 2022. Participation is free and open to anyone anywhere in the world.

Through LAGI 2022 Mannheim, you can take climate action, get your great design published in a gorgeous hard-bound book by Hirmer Publishers, have your idea seen by millions of visitors to the BUGA 23 German Federal Horticultural Show, and potentially win $30,000 USD!

Design to accelera...

World Architecture Festival Awards reveals 2022 shortlist

2022-07-14T14:11:00-04:00

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has just unveiled the annual shortlist of new projects for this year's return to an in-person competition.

Competing under the theme of Together, the 420 total projects will vie for the live-judged festival’s 43 category prizes and culminating World Building, Future Project, Interior, and Landscape of the Year awards at the three-day event, which kicks off in Lisbon on November 30th. A new International Building Beauty Prize has been added for the 2022 cycle as well.

This year’s expanded shortlist includes projects from Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, MVRDV, and a host of other large international firms, in addition to a number of lesser-known and small projects hailing from countries like Portugal, Thailand, Finland, and Malaysia.

WAF Program Director Paul Finch said: “The number and quality of entries this year has been very encouraging, and we are looking forward to meeting in-person to carry out category judging," referencing th...

5 reasons to apply to YACademy’s high-level architectural courses: Featuring internships and lectures with SANAA, Souto de Moura and Toyo Ito

2022-07-11T13:00:00-04:00

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The arrival of spring coincides once again with the launch of in-person and online courses by YACademy, the school founded by YAC through collaboration with some of the most prestigious names in contemporary architecture. Its fifth edition offers a unique experience to young designers that are looking for postgraduate international training. 30 merit-based scholarships are available to cover the whole cost of the courses. You can access the entire training offer at the following link.

Here are 5 of the reasons why YACademy is an experience that a young architect should not miss:

1. Seven Pritzker Prize winners among our lecturers

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Every year, YACademy is pleased to welcome renowned international firms that create a blooming frame where students have the opportunity to get in touch with some of the most distinguished interpreters of contemporary architecture.

This year’s lecturer panel includes 7 Pritzker Prizes: Yvon...

Exhibit Columbus Announces University Design Research Fellowship Competition

2022-07-07T19:51:00-04:00

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Landmark Columbus Foundation announces the next step in the 2022–23 cycle of Exhibit Columbus, the University Design Research Fellowship Competition. More than $70,000 will be awarded to full-time university and college professors in the United States from any area of design, architecture, art, and landscape architecture to participate in Exhibit Columbus.

Professors whose work explores community-based urban design projects and the current challenges of activating downtowns are invited to apply for a budget of up to $10,000 to support the realization of a project during the three-month exhibition in Columbus. Additionally, travel stipends will be provided to winners to attend the 2022 Exhibit Columbus Symposium (21–22 October 2022), 2023 Exhibit Columbus Design Presentations (24–25 February 2023), and ultimately, to design and build a public “installation” that showcases their research for the 2023 Exhibition (Opening Weekend 25–27 Aug...

Co Adaptive, Omar Gandhi Architect, and Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter among winners of the 2022 AZ Awards

2022-07-07T13:33:00-04:00

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The results of AZURE’s 12th annual AZ Awards are here! On Friday, June 24, AZURE launched the 2022 AZ Awards Winners Reveal and introduced the world’s most inspiring and innovative projects, products, and concepts, awarded by this year’s remarkable jury.

This year’s submissions — received from 43 countries — were evaluated by 10 world-renowned practitioners: Alison Brooks, Drew Sinclair, Gabriele Chiave, Garth Roberts, Lauren Stimson, Ma Yansong, Primo Orpilla, Róisín Lafferty, Siamak Hariri, and Tao Zhang adjudicated through an immersive and remote deliberation process and selected the Winners and Awards of Merit in 24 categories.

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The 24 winners and 46 Awards of Merit exemplify excellence in innovation, aesthetics, creativity, and social and environmental responsibility.

Winners will receive the 2022 AZ Awards trophy, an NFT titled AZZY, created specifically for AZURE by international designer — and juror...

Don't miss YACademy's Architecture for Humanity course with Lacaton & Vassal, Mariam Kamara, Anupama Kundoo, and others

2022-07-04T09:00:00-04:00

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Pandemic, economic crisis, migration, and climate change: every area - from the periphery of our metropolis to the most remote tropical village - can now be defined as an “emergency context”. The United Nations - already before the pandemic cycle - estimated that the fragmentation of conflicts, combined with the effects of the economic and ecological crisis, was generating a humanitarian emergency greater than that caused by the Second World War.

In this context, the architect plays a fundamental role, because architecture responds to man’s primary needs. Finding shelter, receiving education, living healthy are rights that require “containers” in the first place, and architecture - great architecture - would be very little if limited to contexts of well-being; since man is at the center of architecture, and man, in any context, in any condition, deserves dignity and beauty. This is why the course in Architecture for Humanity was born, to train...

YACademy’s alumni design an installation at Arte Sella in collaboration with Mario Cucinella Architects

2022-06-20T07:00:00-04:00

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Michele De Lucchi, Kengo Kuma, Eduardo Souto De Moura, and Stefano Boeri: these are just some of the names of the great Masters of Architecture whose interventions are juxtaposed to the installation of Anna Collatuzzo, Arezoo Mohebpour, and Paula Strieder, three Alumni of YACademy who designed The Journey in the period of collaboration of the same with the studio of Mario Cucinella.

Every year, YACademy guarantees to its Alumni a series of internship or collaboration experiences with the most important architectural design studios, as the completion of their training path and as a bridge to the labor market.

In 2021, a group of international students had the opportunity to collaborate with Mario Cucinella’s studio, to create an art installation to be placed in the extraordinary context of Arte Sella.

The work, inserted in the art itinerary of Villa Strobele (one of the three itineraries that make up Arte Sella’s offer), aims to be a nomadic ar...

ACLA & AIA Los Angeles present the 15th iteration of the annual 2x8 Student Exhibition and Scholarship Award Ceremony

2021-10-27T09:29:00-04:00

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ACLA & AIA Los Angeles are proud to present 2x8:Assemblies. Join us again in person this year at Helms Design Center to view exemplary student projects from 19 unique architecture and design programs throughout California, to celebrate the diversity of architectural philosophy, and encourage conversation around our central theme of Community.

2x8 is an annual non-profit program that functions as a student exhibition and scholarship fund, and design competition. It was formed with the intention of introducing student work to the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industries. In order to celebrate the academic diversity within California, 2x8 invites a broad range of programs from across the state to participate and presents students an opportunity to receive scholarships at the opening reception and ceremony. The opening reception is free to attend and open to all.

Image courtesy of @helmsbakerydistric...

Archtober returns for its eleventh year, celebrating design and New York City with an in-person and virtual festival

2021-09-24T15:10:00-04:00

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Archtober, New York City’s month-long celebration of architecture and design, returns this year as a hybrid virtual and in-person festival. Organized by the Center for Architecture in collaboration with 70 partners and sponsors, the 2021 installment of the festival gathers events, exhibitions, resources, and activities that celebrate the importance of architecture and design in NYC and beyond. New this year: the Archtober Guide to New York map!

Center for Architecture reopening. Image © Sam Lahoz/Courtesy of AIA|NY Center for Architecture

“As New York City continues to reopen and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, we welcome all New Yorkers and visitors alike to celebrate our city’s resiliency and capacity for transformation,” said Benjamin Prosky, Assoc. AIA, Executive Director of AIA New York and the Center for Architecture. “We hope you will join us and our partner institutions as we discover buildings and design experiences located across...

PORO-City, a modular milk crate design, is chosen as this year's 2x8 Exhibit design competition winner

2021-08-06T15:11:00-04:00

The 2x8 Exhibition is a design competition and scholarship program that highlights students' work from various architecture and design institutions across California. Led by the AIA|LA, ARCHITECTURE FOR COMMUNITIES LOS ANGELES (ACLA), and the 2x8 Committee, this year's winning design is PORO-City by Chieh-Ting Chuang, Martha Kriley, Yushan Men, and Kyoung Eun Park. The project uses milk crates to function as a brick system that "is neither transparent nor solid, housing the exhibition without imposing a hard boundary," shares the design team.

As the official media partner of the Exhibition, Archinect and Bustler will be covering this year's event, projects, and student winners. What makes this particular exhibition design competition unique is its open call to design faculty, however this year the committee opened up the call to designers based in California. The competition's brief asks for designers to "design, build, and install the 2021 2x8 exhibition to showcase up to 40 studen...

View images of the best new interior projects from the World Festival of Interiors: Inside 2021 shortlist

2021-07-26T19:49:00-04:00

The World Festival of Interiors (Inside 2021) is the sister festival to the renowned World Architecture Festival. As media partners of the WAF 2021 Awards, Archinect showcased a selection of shortlisted projects for this year's World Architecture Festival awards program. According to the World Festival of Interiors, "this year's shortlist consists of over 100 of the very best designed interior projects by some of the world's foremost design and architecture firms across more than 20 countries."

Covering 11 categories ranging from hotels, workplaces, homes, and restaurants, all shortlisted projects and design teams will "go on to compete in the live-judging in front of a panel of industry experts and an audience of their peers at the festival in Lisbon," explains the Festival.

Clockwise from top left: Ya Space! By PIG Design; A Train Station As An Epoch by Faber Group; Smart Design Studio by Smart Design Studio; Opus by Zaha Hadid Architects. Images courtesy of INSIDE Shortlist 202...

View the best new buildings and landscapes in this year's World Architecture Festival Awards shortlist

2021-07-21T16:48:00-04:00

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) announced its 2021 shortlist highlighting the best buildings and landscapes that have been completed around the world between 2019–2021. Recognized as the world's most extensive architectural awards program, this year's shortlist consists of 200 projects selected from 732 entries from 55 countries.

The theme for the 2021 edition of the festival is Resetting the City: Greening, Health, and Urbanism, and the awards attracted submissions across 20 completed buildings and landscape categories; an "increase of 44% in submissions from 2019's edition of the festival."

Clockwise: Al Hosn Masterplan by Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi; Eden by Heatherwick Studio; Chinese Culture Exhibition Center by Qingdao Tengyuan Design; Majara Residency by ZAV Architects. Images courtesy of WAF

According to WAF: "The architects and designers behind each shortlisted project will compete for category prizes live at WAF in December. Presentations of the short...

Studio-MLA, BIG, Matter Design, and Rice University students among winners of the 2021 AZ Awards

2021-07-14T19:00:00-04:00

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AZURE has revealed the 22 inspiring winners representing the best in global architecture and design. Chosen by our expert jury, the winners represent the best of an impressive selection field of over 1,200 submissions representing a record-breaking 57 countries.

The submissions were evaluated by 10 world-renowned practitioners. Patricia Urquiola, Ini Archibong, Susannah Drake, Sou Fujimoto, Adelaide Testa, Paul Filek, Karim Rashid, Barbara Bestor, Marc Ryan, and Gilles Saucier adjudicated through an immersive and globe-spanning remote deliberation process.

Image courtesy of AZ Awards 2021

The 2021 AZ Awards Winners Reveal was launched online on June 25. Winners were unveiled online in an exclusive showcase on the all-new AZ Awards platform. Visitors explored the Awards by category in their preferred order and at their own pace, and experienced the Winners Reveal by scrolling through a wealth of beautiful project images, videos and more, f...

AZ Awards 2021: Meet the Finalists!

2021-05-03T18:34:00-04:00

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For the 11th edition of the AZ Awards, our star jury has chosen 72 finalists in 22 categories – including the all-new Urban Design section. These standouts, selected from 1,209 entries from 57 countries, represent the best in architecture and design globally.

Now entering its second decade, the AZ Awards is proud to announce the 72 finalists of AZURE’s annual international competition. Representing excellence in innovation, aesthetics and creativity, this selection was made from 1,209 entries from 57 countries. It includes finalists in the all-new Urban Design category, a recognition of the importance of socially and environmentally progressive urban schemes worldwide.

This year, the AZ Awards doubled its star power on the jury. The 10 adjudicators of the AZ Awards 2021 are Patricia Urquiola, Ini Archibong, Barbara Bestor, Sou Fujimoto, Gilles Saucier, Susannah Drake, Karim Rashid, Marc Ryan, Adelaide Testa and Paul Filek. They brought ...

Take a look at Exhibit Columbus' 2020-21 Miller Prize Installations

2021-03-31T18:56:00-04:00

Exhibit Columbus recently presented the featured designers of the 2020-2021 exhibition cycle in an accessible four-session virtual format. Curated by Iker Gil and Mimi Zeiger, this year's theme New Middles: From Main Street To Megalopolis, What Is The Future of The Middle City? highlights the work of the most recent J. Irwin and Xenia Miller Prize winners, University Design Research Fellows, and a Columbus High School Design Team.

To learn more about the thirteen design teams, check out Archinect's coverage of the March 19th and March 26th Design Presentations.

2020-21 Exhibit Columbus J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Installations

In Part 1 of Archinect's installation preview, we took a look at the upcoming creations by the seven University Design Research Fellows and the High School Design Team.

Listed below are the proposed site-specific installations by the five 2021 Miller Prize-winning designers, Dream the Combine of Minneapolis, ecosistema urbano of Miami and Madrid, Fut...

Exhibit Columbus' 2021 site installations showcase the work of University Design Research Fellows and nine high school students

2021-03-31T09:00:00-04:00

Exhibit Columbus' virtual presentations allowed the public to join in online and listen to thirteen presentations from the event's University Design Research Fellows, High School Design Team, and J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize winners.

Exhibit Columbus has shared project renders for eight site-specific installations developed by the University Design Research Fellows and High School Design Team for an exclusive preview.

2020-2021 University Design Research Fellowship Installations

For this year's iteration, seven fellowships were awarded to leading professors of architecture, landscape architecture, and design from seven universities. Each installation highlights the research of each individual. Fellows were selected for their "ability to tackle specific sets of issues germane to the future of the city and the Mississippi Watershed region, such as sustainability and material reuse, non-human habitat, watershed ecologies, emergent technologies, and migration."

Derek Hoeferlin — W...

The 2021 Exhibit Columbus Design Presentations take center stage in an exciting virtual format

2021-03-01T21:35:00-05:00

The highly anticipated Exhibit Columbus 2021 Design Presentations invite the public to experience a virtual and public exhibition. Curated by Architect Iker Gil and critic Mimi Zeiger the third iteration of Exhibit Columbus expands on a theme fit for the current social climate, New Middles.

Archinect, and our sister site Bustler, are the official media sponsors for Exhibit Columbus' Design Presentations this year. Stay tuned for upcoming coverage of the event and participating designers.

"Over the course of four sessions on March 19 and 26, Exhibit Columbus will host the 2021 Design Presentations" explains the Exhibit Columbus team. "The second public event in the 2020-21 cycle of Exhibit Columbus New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis, What is the Future of the Middle City? invites the public to preview design concepts of thirteen site-specific, future-oriented public installations and experience the design process first-hand."

Anne Surak, director of Exhibit Columbus, share...

Join NOMA as they present their 2020 Virtual Conference - Spatial Shifts: Reclaiming our Cities

2020-09-29T15:57:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA)

Together on October 14-18, 2020, we will explore ways in which can break down barriers to creating meaningful projects, share ways to remix the role of the designer, and unpack new approaches to the design processes of our built environment. Each one of us will find our ikusasa, Yoruba for future or progress, to forge our path towards progression.

Now we’re just days away and the agenda has been published at https://conference2020.noma.net/ making today the PERFECT time for you to join the hundreds that have already registered! Early registration ends October 2nd!

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Cities are changing. Populations and economies in Oakland, Dakar, and beyond. Globally, our cities are changing from population to economies near and far. We, as designers, community members, leaders, and environmental stewards, need to be prepared to champion and shift the issues of our current structures to more equitab...