Self-built housing: California | Cape Town | Dharavi | Amsterdam | Seoul | Cairo | Lisbon | AR House: Davidson Rafailidis | Peter Besley and HNNA | Manuel Cervantes Estudio | ADO | dmvA Architecten | Kentaro Ishida Architects Studio
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With the six houses from the US, Australia, Mexico, Japan and Belgium featured as finalists for AR House in this issue, we celebrate the innovative ideas and intelligent structures that come together when architects are able to test their designs out on the ground.
We also take this issue to look to the homes and settlements that have been initiated, organised or constructed by those who dwell within them, for whom the formalising authority of the state has failed to provide. We question what role the architect plays when they seek to support or impose themselves on the self-built, and explore the effects – for good or ill – of the interventions they weave in the world.
December 2020/January 2021
Self-built housing
Outrage: informality is a fallacy, Menna Agha and Léopold Lambert
Keynote: California formalising, Nancy Kwak
Revisit: Quinta Monroy, Iquique, Chile, by Elemental, Sandra Carrasco and David O’Brien
Fiction: We are stretched from margin to centre, Khensani de Klerk
Reputations: John FC Turner, Kathrin Golda-Pongratz
Building refuge, Nerea Amóros Elorduy and Etta Madete
Appropriating Amsterdam, René Boer
In practice: Urbz, Rahul Srivastava and Matias Echanove
Seoul rising, Hyun Bang Shin
Housing Cairo, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Pushed to Lisbon’s periphery, Ana Naomi de Sousa and António Brito Guterres
AR House
Winner: Big Space Little Space in Buffalo, USA by Davidson Rafailidis, Raymund Ryan
Highly Commended: Couldrey House in Brisbane, Australia by Peter Besley and HNNA, Kirsty Volz
Highly Commended: Casa Avándaro in Valle de Bravo, Mexico by Manuel Cervantes Estudio, Suleman Anaya
Commended: White Hut in Shisui, Japan by ADO, Norie Lynn Fukuda-Matsushima
Commended: House TP in Mechelen, Belgium by dmvA Architecten, Anna Winston
Commended: Four Leaves in Karuizawa, Japan by Kentaro Ishida Architects Studio, Danielle Demetriou
Editorial Contributors
Nancy Kwak
Léopold Lambert
Maxwell Mutanda
Margarida Waco
Ilze Wolff
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