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Meet Aleph Zero, the Young Architects Behind This Year's Best New Building

2018-11-21T09:05:00-05:00

Children Village, a boarding school for disadvantaged children in rural Brazil, has been crowned as the world's best new building of the year. Designed by the firm Aleph Zero in collaboration with Rosenbaum, the groundbreaking project has won the Royal Institute of British Architects' prestigious International Prize, a biennial award recognizing a new building from around the world that exemplifies design excellence, architectural ambition and delivers meaningful social impact.

Screen/Print #55: Marlon Blackwell On Moving Architecture Away from Idealism, Utopianism, and Easy Meanings

2017-05-11T12:00:00-04:00

In American architecture, the big cities, in particular New York and Los Angeles, tend to hog attention. So, for the latest issue of Project, a yearly journal for architecture, the editors decided to look elsewhere. The issue, which is featured here as part of our recurring series Screen/Print, highlights a new cast of architects and critics operating outside these two hubs of architectural production.

Designing For and With the Landscape: an Interview with MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

2017-04-19T13:02:00-04:00

In a way, the work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects stands out in that it fits in. That is to say, while so many of their contemporaries orient their work around attention-grabbing icons, the Halifax-based practice led by Bryan MacKay-Lyons and Talbot Sweetapple strives to make buildings that bring attention towards, rather than away from, the landscape.

Amateur Architecture: A New Vernacular?

2012-03-11T20:20:00-04:00

Wang Shu may be a surprising choice for this year’s Pritzker Prize, but it’s an excellent one, and well-deserved. In recent years the Pritzker Committee has gravitated towards architects who produce work with an innate understanding of place, allowing their ties to local culture to infuse their work. The choice of Wang Shu (and, by extension, of Amateur Architecture and partner Lu Wenyu) continues this trend: his work is as culturally-sensitive and contextually responsive as it is aesthetically stunning.