How people build, inhabit, adapt, and share space: from vernacular knowledge and self-built structures to architecture shaped by landscape, materials, necessity, and community.
At Abrehot Library in Addis Ababa, wisdom is written into the architecture. Seven monumental columns carry the idea across eighteen languages, while glass, concrete, people and reflections make the building readable before anyone steps inside.
In Mazunte, Oaxaca, Itínera began with a piece of land, a few hundred dollars, used tires, and more determination than money. Julia Filippo tells how building a theater also meant learning how to live alongside the community around it.
In LIMINA, photographer Anna Nagy looks at a corner of western Rome where family photographs, old houses, gardens, reeds, and apartment blocks occupy the same uncertain territory. Her work asks a deceptively simple question: when does private memory become the memory of a place?
At Oslo’s Opera House, architecture does something quietly radical: it refuses to keep beauty at a distance. The building is monumental, but its most important gesture may be the simplest one: it invites people in, around, and even over it.