Arquitectura Viva 201: 50 from Africa and Asia redirects the architectural gaze eastward and southward, profiling 50 studios navigating modernisation, climate, and vernacular tradition across China, Vietnam, India, Rwanda, Angola, and beyond.
About This Book
The dominance of Western Europe, North America, and Japan in architectural discourse has long distorted the map of significant practice. This issue of Arquitectura Viva works to correct that. Forty-two studios appear in a compact atlas format — a deliberate editorial choice that privileges breadth and geographic range — while eight are examined in depth through their built work. What connects them is the challenge of operating across vastly different climatic, economic, and social realities while engaging seriously with vernacular architecture rather than simply importing international modernism. For designers interested in global architectural production and cross-cultural practice, this is a necessary and carefully assembled resource.
Key Features
- 80 pages of project documentation, studio profiles, and critical survey across Africa and Asia
- 50 studios featured, spanning countries including China, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Rwanda, and Angola
- 8 studios examined in extended depth through their own built works
- Published by Avisa
What You'll Discover
- How architects across the Global South and East Asia are reinterpreting vernacular traditions to address contemporary climatic and social conditions
- The structural format of a studio atlas — a compressed, comparative tool for mapping an emerging global architectural geography
- How globalisation is producing not architectural homogeneity but a more complex negotiation between modernisation and local building culture
- The diversity of approaches to economic constraint, material availability, and community need across 42 practices in seven countries
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 80
- Dimensions: 300 x 240 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9770214125004-00201
- Publisher: Avisa
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, academics, and students engaged with global architectural practice, postcolonial design discourse, and vernacular approaches to contemporary building across Africa and Asia.