Tracking design in remote regions

Even as I write this, the World Architecture Community Awards have introduced their next cycle — the 48th. Paulo Fernandes Silva of dEMM arquitectura, an architectural practice based in Portugal, says, “The WA Awards are highly prestigious in the architecture community, recognising innovative and impactful projects globally. In the sparse desert of Rajasthan, Mumbai’s Sanjay Puri Architects’ project for the Nokha Village Community Centre is a compact 9,000 sq.ft. A veritable treehouse and a family home In an interview given to Antonio Magliozzi for the WA earlier this July, one of the founding masters of bio-architecture, Joachim Eble, says, “Everything we do as architects or urban planners must be directed towards bringing ‘nature back’. Architect Paulo of dEMM arquitectura says, “This year, there’s a strong focus on sustainable design and adaptive reuse of existing structures.