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Laurie Baker (1917-2007)Subscription
After graduating from Birmingham School of Architecture, Baker made India his home where he addressed the housing needs of the poor, sometimes called the ‘Gandi of Indian architecture’
Seeds of change: Estudio MMX, MexicoSubscription
Estudio MMX have been shortlisted for the AR Emerging Architecture awards 2019. View the shortlist here
A cut above: FRPO, SpainSubscription
Voids, slits and cut-outs are design elements employed by FRPO to make their functional buildings stand out from the crowd
Opposites attract: Lenschow & Pihlmann, DenmarkSubscription
Lenschow & Pihlmann’s Danish student village just outside Aarhus successfully fuses old with new, rural with urban, and the modern with the historical
Revisit: Pedregulho housing complex, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Affonso Eduardo ReidySubscription
Both internationally revered and plagued with controversy, this social housing complex in Rio de Janeiro has now been resurrected following decades of neglect
Neighbourhood botch: the real-estate state and the empire of financeSubscription
Government policies have led to the egregious destruction of housing access for the poor, while lining the pockets of the elite
Outrage: form follows financeSubscription
By exploiting legal loopholes to target the super-rich, developers are ravaging New York and its people
Communal luxury: Social housing, Zürich, Switzerland by Lütjens PadmanabhanSubscription
Spacious, well-designed and affordable, Swiss housing like Lütjens Padmanabhan’s apartment building in Zürich is the housing holy grail, but all that glitters is not gold
Revisit: Nueva Santa Fe Subscription
Although Rogelio Salmona’s inner-city housing to improve the lives of middle-income families in Bogotá failed to materialise in full, it set a valuable precedent in urban renewal
From the jaws of disaster: social housing solutions in MexicoSubscription
The devastation wrought by powerful earthquakes in Mexico in 1985 and 2017 spurred the architectural community to revisit social housing, but sometimes proposals were wrought for no more than media attention
