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The Barcelona studio's contribution to adaptive reuse is a method, not a look: draw and model every found element first, then compose the new building from the old one's own parts.
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Pakistan's first female architect swapped Brutalist concrete for a barefoot self-build system whose real deliverable is transferable skill: an octagonal bamboo frame, a lime-and-mud skin and a raised plinth a village can build and own on its own.
Wang Shu won the Pritzker for buildings clad in salvaged brick and tile, but his real invention is a method — the revived wapan wall, composed by hand on site — and it is about to shape the 2027 Venice Biennale.
The French duo who won the 2021 Pritzker do not renovate a facade so much as build a second, self-supporting one in front of it — an unheated winter garden that hands each flat tens of square metres while the tenants never move out.
The Tokyo studio's real invention is not the look of its timber houses but the relocation of the factory itself into forestry towns, where locals cut and assemble a house from a file.
A 2026 Singapore exhibition reframes Kengo Kuma's lifelong instinct to let buildings disappear as a precise construction method: break the mass into thousands of small parts so the site itself can pass through.
The 2026 Pritzker Prize crowned Chile's Smiljan Radic for an architecture of deliberate fragility, envelopes that reveal their own construction and masses that rest on raw boulders. Here is why the profession's quietest radical redefines what mastery means.
The 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize went to Appleby Blue, an inner-city almshouse for the over-65s that turns its access galleries, garden room and street-facing windows into a machine for the small daily encounters that hold loneliness at bay.
For its 25th Serpentine Pavilion, Mexico City studio LANZA builds an entire public room around the crinkle-crankle wall, an 18th-century Suffolk garden trick whose curves let a one-brick wall stand without buttresses and save material doing it.
Named the 2026 ASLA Firm of the Year, Phyto Studio won not for a signature look but for a method — building plantings as dense, layered plant communities that shade out their own weeds and drink only the rain.