September 27, 2024 MCHAP Selects Natura Futura + Juan Carlos Bamba’s Community Production Center as its 2024 Emerging Practice Winner The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has announced the winner of the fifth MCHAP.emerge award: the Community Production Center Las Tejedoras in Guayas,…
August 30, 2024 Designing for Two Worlds: How Space Exploration is Shaping the Future of Architecture on Earth Space exploration isn’t merely a testament to human ambition or a quest for new territories and resources. Our ventures beyond Earth’s atmosphere are driven…
June 12, 2024 What Are Vernacular Technologies? Vernacular architecture has been gaining more and more space in theory and design practice, with its characteristics being studied and revised. An impulse related…
May 29, 2024 Learning from Global Architecture Exhibitions: Resource Efficiency, Vernacular Intelligence, and Social and Environmental Advocacy Over the past year, architecture exhibitions have significantly addressed pressing global issues such as climate change, resource scarcity, and social advocacy. According to the…
April 21, 2024 Between Modular and Vernacular: How Combining Construction Techniques Can Bring Agility and Identity to Social Housing in the Global South The opening scenes of the award-winning Brazilian film “City of God” (2002) portray a newly constructed housing complex situated on the outskirts of Rio…
April 7, 2024 How to Replace Air Conditioning? Passive Strategies for Addressing Global Warming Between now and 2050, worldwide installation of cooling appliances, like air conditioning, is projected to triple, resulting in a twofold increase in energy consumption….
January 26, 2024 Exploring African Vernacular Huts: Weaving as a Climatic and Social Architecture Exploring African Vernacular Huts: Weaving as a Climatic and Social Architecture Weaving is not only a technical craft but also a way to design…
