What our jurors say about FuturArc Prize 2022 Entries

FuturArc Prize (FAP) 2022: Reinterpretation—one theme with the highest realisation potential in FAP’s 14-year run—asked students to reinterpret existing corporate/private/state-owned entities in Asia to transform them into civic/public spaces that give back to the community and are good, inviting, safe and sustainable. This challenge was set in the hope that the visions proposed could one […]

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Imagining a Building Culture Revived on Architectural Robustness

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RAW focuses their practice on the process of building as much as on the products of architecture Practising architecture in a developing economy like Sri Lanka compels one to confront a number of interconnecting challenges with respect to the technological environment, labour skills and industrial organisation. Technologically, the building industry is fragmented into isolated socio-technical […]

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Homes, not Houses

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With the gap exacerbated by COVID-19, no single organisation, or even government, can tackle the housing deficit problem alone. The world gained a new word—COVID-19—in 2020 and lost precious lives over the two-year pandemic. When Omicron was declared a variant of concern in late November 2021, the media had referred to it as the dress […]

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Moving Beyond Sustainability

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In theory, sustainability should allow us to continue to meet the needs of this and future generations. That was the point made by the Brundtland Commission in their definition of sustainability. But that does not address a more basic question of whether or not we should be continuing the current situation. The ecosystems that support […]

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Landscape Architecture Is Our First Line of Defence

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The design community’s response to COVID-19, much like our reaction to issues of sustainability, tends to gravitate toward silver bullet solutions rather than necessary incremental change. Similarly, at the onset of the pandemic, our hubris and desire to manage Mother Nature guided us to focus on human-centric solutions to our predicament: advancing sensor technology [1] […]

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