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Countries that are part of the so-called “global south” have undergone many transformations in their cities and urban contexts in recent years due to the economic and social challenges they face. Urban growth, sustainable development, quality of life and health in emerging cities, and the development of their own cultural identity have been some of the issues that local architecture had to incorporate.
Young architects have understood the importance of making an architecture that is deeply rooted in their own territory while giving this architecture a clear local identity. By generating new typologies and using their own resources and materials, they have presented innovative, site-specific, and, above all, solutions with a new fresh focus towards what represents them as creators of this architecture.
Latin America
Carla Juaçaba, Brazil
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Grupo Culata Jovai, Paraguay
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FRAM arquitectos, Argentina
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SAA arquitectura + territorio, Chile
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El Sindicato Arquitectura, Ecuador
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ir arquitectura, Argentina
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Cotignola Staricco Tobler, Uruguay
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Garoa, Brazil
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Alarcia Ferrer, Argentina
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Talleresque, Mexico
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Sauer Martins, Brazil
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Olimpia Lira, Chile
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Mínino Común Arquitectura, Paraguay
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Escobedo Soliz, Mexico
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Taller Sintesis, Colombia
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Beals Lyon, Chile
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Africa
atelier masomi, Niger
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Localstudio, South Africa
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cmDesign Atelier, Nigeria
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Elements Lab, Morocco
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Casas Melhoradas, Mozambique
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Metropole Architects, South Africa
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Mohamed Amine Siana Architects, Morocco
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Costa Lopes, Angola
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Middle East
White Cube Atelier, Iran
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Hala Younes, Architecture and Landscape, Lebanon
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ZAV Architects, Iran
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Asia
DnA, China
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NITAPROW, Thailand
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KIENTRUC O, Vietnam
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collectiveproject, India
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Site-Specific: Architecture & Research, Thailand
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3andwich Design / He Wei Studio, China
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SILAA, Vietnam
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Junsekino Architect and Design, Thailand
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TAA DESIGN, Vietnam
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Linehouse, China
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