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Conventional wisdom: report AIA 2018 in New YorkSubscription
The 2018 AIA National Convention laudably focused on increasing architecture’s diversity and potential to create better cities, but the profession risks being left behind by the construction boom
Competition: Winnipeg Market LandsSubscription
An open international contest has been announced for a major mixed-use regeneration project in central Winnipeg, Canada (Deadline: 14 September)
From the archive: Phillip Exeter library in New Hampshire, USA, by Louis KahnSubscription
Built with ‘the invitation of books’, Louis Kahn’s brick masterpiece is an essay in ‘authentic monumentality’, from AR June 1974
The new normal: exercises in American citizenshipSubscription
In recent times, events in the US have raised an awareness of the connections between the built environment and questions of justice, equity and political agency
Competition: Havana MaleconSubscription
An open international ideas contest has been launched to rethink Havana’s deteriorating Malecon sea defences (Deadline: 11 September)
A law unto themselves: San Pedro prison in La Paz, BoliviaSubscription
The thriving sense of community at San Pedro prison in La Paz, Bolivia, belies the dangers to which inmate families are exposed
Competition: Climate of DissentSubscription
An open international contest has been launched for architectural installations which protest against climate change (Deadline: 6 August)
Competition: CTBUH Tall BuildingsSubscription
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is accepting entries to its annual student ideas contest (Deadline: 16 July)
Pyramid scheme: Teopanzolco Cultural Centre in Cuernavaca, Mexico, by Isaac Broid and PRODUCTORA Subscription
Placing the Aztec ruins centre stage, the Teopanzolco Cultural Centre is a dramatic landscape for performance
Frank Gehry (1929-)Subscription
Gehry’s enduring career spotlights a world that has long lain waste to the spatial conceptions and obligations of the Renaissance
