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The Global Challenge is an annual competition organized by A--D that recognizes the most sustainable architectural projects around the world.
Architecture in Development – a media platform for the architecture industry – just announced the six finalists of its 2021 Global Challenge. The community-led building initiatives are pioneering a new approach to architecture, according to the challenge organizers.
Copy In our previous article, Why the New Do-It-Together (DIT) Architecture has Radical Potential, we uncovered a new practice that focuses on ‘we’, not ‘me’; celebrates collaboration, not competition; mobilizes human connections, not transactions. Yet collaboration with people from different backgrounds, disciplines and social status isn’t always easy as it may seem. In the case of architecture and urban development, design professionals and non-professionals might have entirely different ways of seeing a problem and approaching solutions. For people of different social and profes...
Copy Around the world, a new generation of architects are challenging “business-as-usual” and bringing change to populations who had formerly no access to their professional services. This article is the first in a series to introduce this new practice that brings transactional client relations into more profound, trust-based collaborations. We call it Do-It-Together architecture. Vernacular architecture: traditional dwellings in China. Image by martin ruthai from Pixabay For centuries, dwellings and gathering spaces were mostly built by inhabitants without the involvement of architects o...