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
Grupo Culata Jovai, Paraguay
FRAM arquitectos, Argentina
SAA arquitectura + territorio, Chile
El Sindicato Arquitectura, Ecuador
ir arquitectura, Argentina
Cotignola Staricco Tobler, Uruguay
Garoa, Brazil
Alarcia Ferrer, Argentina
Talleresque, Mexico
Sauer Martins, Brazil
Olimpia Lira, Chile
Mínino Común Arquitectura, Paraguay
Escobedo Soliz, Mexico
Taller Sintesis, Colombia
Beals Lyon, Chile
Africa
atelier masomi, Niger
Localstudio, South Africa
cmDesign Atelier, Nigeria
Elements Lab, Morocco
Casas Melhoradas, Mozambique
Metropole Architects, South Africa
Mohamed Amine Siana Architects, Morocco
Costa Lopes, Angola
Middle East
White Cube Atelier, Iran
Hala Younes, Architecture and Landscape, Lebanon
ZAV Architects, Iran
Asia
DnA, China
NITAPROW, Thailand
KIENTRUC O, Vietnam
collectiveproject, India
Site-Specific: Architecture & Research, Thailand
3andwich Design / He Wei Studio, China
SILAA, Vietnam
Junsekino Architect and Design, Thailand
TAA DESIGN, Vietnam
Linehouse, China
