The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) UCL, is celebratings its 60th anniversary with a conference entitled Thinking Across Boundaries: Re-Imagining Planning in the Urban Global South that highlights a year…
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For the past 17 months, our alumni Nazanin Mehregan has worked as Urban Designer at Architecture for Humanity’s Haiti Rebuilding Center (RBC). She first went there in 2012 for her…
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), and the ANDROID Disaster Resilience Network are launching a Media Arts competition for students as a way to look into the…
In swahili Maisha means “life”. Founded in 2007, the organization rescues children from the streets and slums in Nairobi, orphaned mainly by HIV/AIDS, political strife, and extreme poverty, and gives…
During the days 28-29 May in Barcelona, the Roca Gallery in collaboration with AxA (Arquitectes per l’Arquitectura), hosts the seminar The Context of Sustainable Architecture to generate a debate about…
The house we dream of: is it just a concept almost metaphysical or is it something real, constructible? The Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universitat Internacional de Cataluña…
“No level of human suffering in and of itself will ever cause policy to change. It’s not starvation, poverty and suffering that moves policy makers, it is only a change…
GASS2014 (Great Asian Streets Symposium) will be held in Singapore on 11 and 12 December 2014. Online submission for papers is open –our co-director Carmen Mendoza is part of the…
Architecture has always to deal with limits: spatial, temporal, economic, financial, social, technological, resource, knowledge and further more. The urban dwelling moves between the boundaries of the center and the…
The aim of this roundtable is to discuss and think about the issue of refugee camps and displaced populations from the perspective of architecture and urbanism. Those two aspects are…