To celebrate a quarter-century of the AR Emerging awards, this issue features past finalists in conversation. The winner of the awards’ inaugural edition in 1999, Sixten Rahlff, speaks to John Lin and Joshua Bolchover about building in rural contexts in the global south, and two further conversations between former winners explore ecological building methods for social housing and the gradual democratisation of earth construction.
This issue also features profiles of the 15 finalists of the 2024 AR Emerging awards, whose work tackles the numerous crises facing the profession and the planet. From careful strategies of repair to low-carbon materials research to the revival of ancient crafts, and from Cuba to Hungary to Taiwan, these practices face a similar reality: how to emerge in a world that is in need of new imaginaries.
