Category list : Asia
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Revisit: Aranya low-cost housing, Indore, Balkrishna DoshiSubscription
Doshi’s ideas on housing the poor culminated in 80 model homes in Aranya where residents felt empowered by the opportunity to improvise
Minnette de Silva (1918-1998)Subscription
Expressive, unapologetic, and ahead of her time in ecological and participative design, the Sri Lankan architect is considered a pioneer of what she called Modern Regionalism – later to be known as Critical Regionalism
Level crossings: Nishinakayama-cho Strip House, Aichi, Japan, by Kochi Architect's StudioSubscription
AR House commended: Kochi Architect’s Studio deploys a play of intersecting planes to achieve an adept balance of open space and privacy
Fringe benefits: Song house, Shanghai, China, by AZL ArchitectsSubscription
AR House commended: Renouncing conventional approaches to dwellings in suburban Shanghai, this family house could be a model to replicate
Footprints in time: House in Kamitomii, Kurashiki, Japan, by General Design CoSubscription
AR House winner General Design Co’s House in Kamitomii, Japan, involved paring back age-old accretions to restore it to its original dimensions and create a space defined by openness and simplicity
The global village: building a future countrysideSubscription
No longer bucolic backwaters but networked centres for e-commerce, Chinese Taobao Villages are shaping the post-human landscape
Sceptred isles: the possibility of the archipelagoSubscription
As discrete objects in a larger terrain, the geographical condition and cultural history of islands suggests radical ways of thinking about the relationship between buildings and landscapes
Retrospective: Kashef Chowdhury / URBANASubscription
Working in Bangladesh’s liquid landscape, Kashef Chowdhury’s work mines a seam of social responsiveness in a terrain defined by water
Retrospective: Alexander BrodskySubscription
The work of Bureau Alexander Brodsky examines the common experiences and memories that unite Russians
Shelter from the storm: community structures, Tagpuro, the Philippines, by Eriksson Furunes with Leandro V Locsin PartnersSubscription
Community structures in Tagpuro in the Philippines by Eriksson Furunes with Leandro V Locsin Partners adapt to the destructive forces that wrecked their Tacloban antecedents
