USJ featured at Venice Architecture Biennale 2018
“Urban Catalyst – Shaping the Future of Medini City” was a project undertaken by University of Saint Joseph’s Urban Design Studio led by Ar. Nuno Soares and integrated at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. This project was part of Iskandar Puteri 100YC Biennale Session Program and started as a global design challenge put forward to…
SaloneSatellite Shanghai 2018
The third edition of SaloneSatellite, a competition between 34 young Chinese designers from top local universities, happened in Shanghai. The promising young talents had to create a piece of furniture that embodied both tradition and innovation, memory and digital effects. The jury committee was formed by top professionals in design and related areas, such as…
Guest speaker at “Towards a Living Waterfront”
Ar. Nuno Soares was a speaker at the Joint AAM / HKIA CPD “Waterfront Conceptual Design and Flood Control Facilities Design Forum”, jointly organized by The Architects Association of Macau (AAM) and The Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA). The event was held on the 23rd June at the Macau Science Center and was co-organized…
Workshop in Politecnico di Milano
A joint initiative from the Politecnico di Milano, the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) in Macau and the Keio University in Tokyo created the international workshop “Transitional spaces for smart, sustainable and sensuous settlements – Improving the Lecco Rowing Club sports facilities on Lake Como”. The workshop happened at the Politecnico di Milano. In this…
USJ meets with Politecnico di Milano Rectorate
Synergies from different academic institutions are always welcomed. In order to potentialize that, University of Saint Joseph’s Faculty of Creative Industries met with the Politecnico di Milano Rectorate aiming to strengthen the links between the two universities in the fields of Architecture and Design. The representatives from the Macau University were Prof. Nuno Soares, in…
Speaker at Joint ACE-EAAE Symposium in Rome
Prof. Nuno Soares was speaker at “Education and Practice – The Future Architect” joint ACE-EAAE symposium organized by the European Association of Architectural Education (EAAE) and the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE), that took place in Rome, Italy, on May 6th 2017. Prof. Nuno Soares presented “Asia Urban Lab – Comparative Studio”, under the panel…
Jury on the first UNESCO-UIA & MIDO Design Prize for Responsible Architecture in Paris
The judging of the first UNESCO-UIA & MIDO Design Prize for Responsible Architecture, took place in 20th April in Paris. Prof. Nuno Soares took part as one of the jury members presided by Jana Revedin as Unesco Representative. The prize was created to promote Responsible Architecture and the implementation of the key principles of Habitat…
UIA Education Commission and UNESCO-UIA Validation Council for Architectural Education meetings in Paris
The UIA Education Commission and UNESCO-UIA Validation Council for Architectural Education meetings, took place on 19th and 20th April at UIA Headquarters in Paris. Prof. Nuno Soares participated in his capacity of UIA Region IV representative of UNESCO_UIA Validation Council for Architectural Education (VCAE). These meetings gather UIA members from all over the world, to…
INFILL – Creating a community center at Pau Kung Miu
CURB – Center for Architecture and Urbanism, the University of Saint Joseph, Macau, and the Chiba Institute of Technology, Tokyo organized the “INFILL – Creating a Community Centre” Workshop between the 27thand 31stof March. Ar. Nuno Soares, director at CURB, Thomas Daniell, Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Saint Joseph, and…
ACE 9: “Relink / Revive” USJ Architecture Symposium
Prof. Nuno Soares was the moderator of the first session titled “Urban Revitalization, Conceptual Approaches and Case Studies”. Organized by the Institute of European Studies of Macau, the Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Creative Industries at the University of Saint Joseph, the Politecnico di Milano, and Albergue SCM, the “Relink / Revive” symposium gathered a group of leading…
Waterlink Architecture Workshop
“The Waterlink Architecture workshop: Connecting Cities with Water” organized by CURB – Center for Architecture and Urbanism in partnership with the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and the University of Saint Joseph, Macau was held at CURB and brought together 24 participants from Portugal and Macau. The initiative was coordinated by Joaquim Ramos de Carvalho, Vice-Rector…