Taller Capital   Mexico   The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has selected Represo Colosio Park in Heroica Nogales (Mexico) by Taller Capital as the winner of the 2022 MCHAP Award for Emerging Practice, an honor given by the Illinois Institute of Technology (

Sharon Davis Design   Nepal   The New York practice of Sharon Davis worked with the NGO Possible Health and the Nepalese government in raising new medical facilities in Achham, one of Nepal’s poorest and most remote regions. Surrounded by mountains in the Seti River Valley, the c

VTN Architects   Vietnam   Combining the advantages of the previous prototypes, the stainless steel lattice walls secure, support, and rigidify the frame of S House 3, which is clad with microcement and isolated from the ground by a concrete pedestal, ensuring its durability.

Frédéric Druot Lacaton & Vassal Christophe Hutin   France   The housing crisis of the 1960s led to the construction in the northen part of the city of Bordeaux of the Cité du Grand Parc, a large-scale urban project that addressed the growing demand for dwellings in the aftermath of World War II. Now, in the f

Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture   Burkina Faso   The Songtaaba Women’s Association is made up of approximately 300 members from the village of Gando and the surrounding province of Boulgou. The association provides a venue for the local women to form a strong social and economic union, in order to

Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture   Burkina Faso   The teachers’ houses were designed to attract teachers out to the countryside, as well as to promote the use of earth as a sustainable and durable building material. The houses were realized as a series of adaptable modules, each of size comparable t

Kéré Architecture Diébédo Francis Kéré   Burkina Faso   Health is a luxury in Africa, especially for the rural population, which lives so far from the few hospitals and healthcare centers of quality that exist in the countryside, such facilities tending to concentrate in capitals and large cities. 

Urko Sánchez Architects   Djibouti   A compact layout, narrow shaded streets, and use of vernacular materials and solutions make this compound of social dwellings a medina perfectly adapted to te environment. 

1+1>2 International Architecture   Vietnam   The building adopts the traditional typology of a house laid around a courtyard, and uses vernacular construction solutions including brick walls and bamboo roofs.

TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   Kept open on its longer sides in order to maximize ventilation, the factory is built with cheap and locally available materials, such as bamboo stalks and concrete blocks and tiles. 

Rural Urban Framework RUF   China   The 22 one-family houses are arranged to form a complex of medium density, always opening up to the landscape; the idea is to combine the best of city and countryside. 

RAW Architecture   Indonesia   The warped roofs formed by braiding innumerable sticks and stems of bamboo together are supported by steel pilotis that raise the building over a swamp and paddy field. 

Estudio de Arquitectura Toni Gironès   Spain   The competition brief that set the guidelines for this project called for a generic container whose interiors would remain throughout the year at temperatures between 18 and 25 degrees Celsius. The proposal involved modifying the initial planning, ma

Keisuke Maeda   China   The structure houses the workshop and exhibition gallery of a local artist and expert in Celadon pottery (traditional in the place). The building goes up on a two-meter high stonework plinth, right across from the main bridge that leads to the site o

Anna Heringer   China   Consisting of two hostels and a guest house, the complex built for the Longquan Bamboo Biennale typologically and constructively reinterprets local traditions. The floor plan is devised as a series of concentric rings of differing condition and mater

CUAC Arquitectura   Spain   The project for an architectural studio at Calle San Jerónimo 17, just a few meters from the church of the same name, in the city of Granada, involved a radical transformation of a commercial space that had served different purposes in the course of

Sameep Padora, sP+a    India   Drawing inspiration from the idea of a grove of trees, the paivlion is built with slender wooden footings holding up an inclined roof, which creates a microclimate of shade. 

Tropical Space   Vietnam   This building is located next to the river Thu Bon, in the Dien Ban district of Vietnam’s Quang Nam Province. Named Terra Cotta Studio, it was built as a workshop for the eminent local artist Le Duc Ha, and presents itself as a box measuring 7 cubic

VTN Architects   Vietnam   Both the house and the office prototype are constructed with fiberglass roofs and polycarbonate facades, with interior surfaces clad with bamboo. The space inside is subdivided by curtains and different floor heights to create furniture elements.

VTN Architects   Vietnam   The light frame, made of precast concrete modular elements to which the users bolt on Nipa palm tree panels and polycarbonate, makes it possible to do without complex foundations, allowing for transportation in small boats.

Entre Nos Atelier   Costa Rica   The pavilions are covered with frames of wooden planks of several tones, with densities addressing the degrees of privacy and solar protection required in each interior space.

URBZ   India   Instead of taking down the existing slums and implementing low-quality refurbishment plans, the community is encouraged to build and improve its homes through the collaboration among neighbors, local artists and professional designers. 

Ábaton   Spain   This house of 80 m³ and 27 m², designed for two people and transportable in a standard truck, is scalable and can be set up instantly. It contains three differentiated spaces: a living area/kitchen, a full bathroom with shower and one bedroom.

AV Proyectos 122 deals with material scarcity, a topic on the agenda of several academic publications analyzed by Luis Fernández-Galiano, and illustrated here in a journey through seven projects in the Global South that stand out for their creativity

Alberto Ballesteros   Humboldt already pointed out the huge inequality that existed in Mexico, which reveals to what extent the problem plagues the history of the country. Many efforts have been made to rebalance the scale, but in the last six years a Federal Plan promote

Luis Fernández-Galiano   An event in the Gulf and two books of Harvard and Yale have scarcity as their focus. Sharjah, the cultural capital of the Emirates, gathers 65 participants from 40 countries in its second Architecture Triennial, developed between November 2023 and Ma

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Francis Kéré commences a third century for our monographs, and there are good reasons for this. The most evident refer to his leading role in a new generation of architects determined to build a better world working for those in need, for whom the Bu

Li Xiangning   Zhang Xiaochun   Xitou Village, hidden in the green hills and clear waters of Baoxi Town, Longquan City (Zhejiang Province), is one of the birthplaces of the Celadon ceramic culture. Inconvenient transportation somewhat shields it from the influence of rapid urbaniza

Oliver Wainwright   Packaged in boxes of 2.5 x 2 meters, the shelter designed by Ikea for refugee camps weights 169 kilograms and can be assembled in just four hours. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The exhibition at the Architekturmuseum in Munich on the work of Francis Kéré, ‘Radically Simple’ serves to remember his long relationship with Spain.

Tosin Oshinowo Julie Cirelli   Zurich  2023  
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Deborah Valenze   Malthus and the Margins of History

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Carl Wennerlind   A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis