World Architecture Day Highlights Housing Crisis and a Le Corbusier Reassessment in Switzerland
World Architecture Day opened the week by spotlighting the global housing crisis as a question of human dignity, inclusion and wellbeing. In a joint message, the UIA and the United Nations urged the discipline to build not only residential structures but also systems for distributing and better using what already exists, through proposals enabling new ways of inhabiting and alternatives for a more sustainable industry. Reflecting that theme, three projects were presented where reuse and representation converge, alongside three others that establish a dialogue between what is considered old and what can be expected from the new. The week's radar also includes another space for reexamining the canons of modern architecture in Switzerland, and the start of construction on a translucent building that is nonetheless resistant to hurricanes.
Key facts
- World Architecture Day opened the week, focusing attention on the global housing crisis as fundamental to human dignity, inclusion and wellbeing.
- A joint message from the UIA and the United Nations called for building systems to distribute and better use existing resources, not only residential structures.
- The message advocated proposals enabling new ways of inhabiting and alternatives for a more sustainable industry.
- Three projects were presented where reuse and representation converge.
- Three further projects establish a dialogue between the old and the new.
- Another space reexamines the canons of modern architecture in Switzerland.
- Construction began on a translucent building that is resistant to hurricanes.
- The roundup was published by ArchDaily en Español.
Entities
Artists
Institutions
- UIA
- United Nations
- ArchDaily
Locations
- Switzerland