Multigenerational homes, educational buildings, and workplaces raise different questions about how architecture accommodates everyday life in India. Across the projects featured in Built99, these questions inform decisions about spatial organization, relationships with the landscape, daylight, and materials.

The guide presents 99 architecture practices through projects that reflect a range of approaches across the country. Courtyards, verandas, and perforated screens help negotiate privacy, daylight, and ventilation. Elsewhere, the adaptation of existing buildings and the incorporation of regional craftsmanship connect contemporary uses with local building traditions.

This publication compiles 25 years of work by Studio Archohm, highlighting their evolution into key players in Indian nation-building through large-scale urban, infrastructure, and civic projects, alongside private-sector experimentation.
The studio's multidisciplinary portfolio spans design research, city branding, education, and experience design, connecting scales from small objects to entire master plans. The featured projects seek to unlock space potential while balancing indigenous practices with global perspectives to reimagine a contemporary Indian design identity. Richly illustrated with plans, diagrams, and photography, the volume includes project breakdowns and essays from principals and international critics, capturing the firm's core philosophy to celebrate life through design.

This double issue brings together, across 406 pages, twenty-five years of work by the Portuguese architect João Mendes Ribeiro (Coimbra, 1960) through eighteen works built in Portugal and Spain between 2000 and 2026. Trained in Porto and assistant to Fernando Távora in Coimbra during the 1990s, Mendes Ribeiro has developed a singular career in which architecture, theatre set design and the design of objects and interiors feed into one another. The result is an architecture that tends towards the essential, attentive to the truth of materials and to the scale of the body, and that understands construction as a precise and reversible assembly. His work has received, among others, the FAD, BIAU, RIBA International Excellence and Secil Architecture awards.

Seoul International Garden Show 2027 Show Garden Competition
○ Theme: 목멱상화(木覓賞花: Admiring Flowers in Namsan)
○ Announcement: November 10th, 2026 (Tues.) - December 9th, 2026 (Wed.)
○ Registration and Submission: December 7th, 2026 (Mon.) - December 9th (Wed.) 16:00 (Korean Standard Time, GMT+9)
○ Construction Venue: Namsan Park vicinity, Seoul Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea
○ Garden Type: Permanent installaiton (In-situ during and after the garden show)

The third edition of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures, curated by Vyjayanthi Rao with Associate Curator Tau Tavengwa, takes place across the Emirate of Sharjah from November 14, 2026, to April 14, 2027. The opening programme (November 14–19) brings together 35 international participants to explore how architecture can foster collective life through social relationships, shared knowledge, and civic engagement. The six-day programme features installations, participatory projects, performances, film screenings, lectures, and panel discussions, culminating in a two-day international conference on November 18–19, 2026.

A beautifully illustrated architecture book showcasing some of the most stunning Modernist houses which are or have been lived in by artists.

Imaging Heaven is a visual narrative of frescoed church ceilings, photographed across Italy and Catholic Europe. Moving from the Proto-Renaissance to the Baroque, the book follows painters as they confront a fundamental problem: how to make the unseen realm of heaven perceptible amid profound shifts in cosmology, theology, and science.

Hand drawing is arguably architecture's oldest "technology Even as we plunge headlong into the age of artificial intelligence, drawing remains a timeless, intuitive, and powerful medium for exploring. explaining, and understanding both built and imagined environments. A timeless tool for design thinking, hand drawing resonates on a deeply human level. This richly illustrated monograph features over 250 works from the 40-year career of architect Wesley L. Page, FAIA, ASAI, one of the nation's top traditional media architectural illustrators. Rather than a "how-to" book of drawing tricks and techniques, it is a visual journal organized around a purpose-based approach to drawing architecture and how understanding the overlap of drawing, design, and storytelling can profoundly impact the power and effectiveness of architectural Illustration. The drawings collectively represent a strategic approach to both conceiving of and executing drawings-not just drawing for illustration but drawing to achieve a more intentionally targeted outcome driven by story, purpose, and craft. Every Picture Tells a Story is a virtual encyclopedia that presents compelling, beautiful evidence of the lasting relevance, appeal, and storytelling capacity of hand drawing in the digital age.

What if a design school were designed the way we hope designers will one day design the world: starting from people, place, planet and purpose rather than from convention?
In 2011, a small group of practiconers and academics set out to answer that question on the outskirts of Delhi. The result was The Design Village (TDV), an independent design school in Noida, India. It was built from first principles as a response to the gaps in design education and it now has a European campus in Lombardy, Italy. This book tells the story of that experiment. It is part manifesto, part memoir, and part working guide to design education of the 21st Century.

On the eastern shore of Lake Como in Bellano, Italy, the former Cantoni Cotton Mill tells a story of water, machinery and working life. Its substantial buildings and rhythmic façades offer a different perspective on a landscape more often associated with villas and waterfront gardens. The Bellano Cotton Mill Museum competition invites participants to give this industrial landmark a new cultural role.

The Deborah Norden Travel Fellowship offers grants to support imaginative, original travel projects rooted in the direct experience of buildings, landscapes, spaces and places.

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The 20th edition of the international architecture seminar "From Territory to Detail" serves as a space for dialogue and reflection, bringing together students, academics, and professionals alongside renowned Latin American architects who share a common trait: balancing teaching with professional practice across various fields, ranging from editorial work to artistic experimentation.

Activating Archival Histories: a conversation on mapping connections, personal and thematic, through archival engagement with a range of sources and methods.

Designing the invisible.
IRIS CERAMICA GROUP OFFICIALLY OPENS THE NEW ICG GALLERY DUBAI WITH A MULTISENSORY EXPERIENCE
On the occasion of Dubai Design Week, Iris Ceramica Group officially opens the doors of the new ICG Gallery Dubai with “Designing the Invisible”, an experiential project that explores the most intangible dimensions of design through materials, sound, scent and perception, using neuroscience to investigate how the senses contribute to our perception of space.

The SCI-Arc Resilient Futures Task Force was created to rethink standard rebuilding methods after the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles exposed deep weaknesses in Southern California's default residential standards. Bringing together teachers, researchers, and students, the initiative gives displaced homeowners direct, practical help with building safety, soil toxicity, emergency funding, and insurance claims through public community meetings.

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"We can really bring a hospitality look into a workplace, which is something that our clients have been asking for, for many years," says Mark Harder, a design director at Gensler. The warmth of wood, the texture of leather, and the tactile surfaces found in hotels and restaurants are also sought in offices, airports, and shared corridors. Bringing these qualities into different settings, however, requires considering how materials will respond to everyday use.

To say that we design "for people" seems like a fundamental premise of architecture. Yet, this assertion presents a problem: people are not a homogeneous category.

Urbanism for what? Professional practice in an expanded field