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M'Zab Valley

A traditional human habitat, created in the 10th century by the Ibadites around their five ksour (fortified cities), has been preserved intact in the M’Zab valley. Simple, functional and perfectly adapted to the environment, the architecture of M’Zab was designed for community living, while respecting the structure of the family. It is a source of inspiration for today’s urban planners.

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Located 600 km south of Algiers, in the heart of the Saharan desert, the five ksour (fortified villages) of the M'Zab Valley form an extraordinary homogeneous ensemble, the mark of a sedentary, urban civilization in the desert, the bearer of an original culture which, through its own genius, has managed to preserve its cohesion over the centuries. Consisting of the ksour and palm groves of El-Atteuf, Bounoura, Melika, Ghardaïa and Béni-Isguen (founded between 1012 and 1350), the M'Zab Valley has retained virtually the same settlement pattern and construction techniques since the 11th century, dictated as much by a specific social and cultural context as by the need to adapt to a hostile environment.

Each of these miniature walled cities is dominated by a mosque whose minaret acts as a watchtower. The mosque was conceived as a fortress, the last bastion of resistance in the event of siege, and included an arsenal and a grain silo. Around this building, essential to community life, are houses arranged in concentric circles up to the rampart. Each house constitutes a fixed cubic cell, illustrating an egalitarian social organization based on respect for the family structure, whose intimacy and autonomy it strives to preserve. At the beginning of the first millennium, the Ibadites used local materials to create a vernacular architecture in the M'Zab that, thanks to its perfect adaptation to the environment and the simplicity of its forms, continues to serve as an example and lesson for contemporary architecture and town planning.

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Rebirth of the Convent Saint-François / Amelia Tavella Architectes. Image © THIBAUT DINI

EU Mies Awards 2024 Announces 40 Shortlisted Projects

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Plato Contemporary Art Gallery / KWK Promes. Image © Juliusz Sokołowski |

EU Mies Awards 2024 Announces 40 Shortlisted Projects

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CALL FOR ENTRIES 2024 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers | Dirty

COMPETITION SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Thursday, February 15, 2024, 11:59 p.m. ET

All entries must be submitted through the League’s digital competition portal.

CALL FOR ENTRIES Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the 2024 Architectural League Prize competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in lectures, digital media, and an exhibition in June 2024. Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000. 

Established in 1981 to recognize visionary work by young practitioners, the Architectural League Prize is an annual competition, lecture series, and exhibition organized by The Architectural League and its Young Architects + Designers Committee.

Learn more about past winners of The Architectural League Prize.

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#Exhibition#Paris

Bijoy Jain / Studio Mumbai Breath of an Architect.

From December 9, 2023 to April 21, 2024

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain 261 Bd Raspail 75014 Paris https://www.fondationcartier.com/

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Manna Hotel / K-Studio | Arcadia, Greece

Photographs:Ana Santl

 Originally built in the late 1920s, the Manna Sanatorium received patients with tuberculosis who hoped to heal from the benefits of living within the arcadic woods for almost a decade. Designed by Swiss architects, it stirred away from the neoclassical current of the moment in the area. Despite the idyllic location, the introduction of penicillin in 1938 made sanatoriums obsolete, forcing the abandonment of Manna at the mercy of looting, with its parts being repurposed in nearby constructions.

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Treetop Walk Hamaren Activity Park / EFFEKT

Architects: EFFEKT | Year: 2023 | Photographs:Rasmus Hjortshøj

Address: Fyresdal, Norway

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Master Plan, Phase one | Chad Wright, 2011.

Photography by Lynn Kloythanomsup of Architectural Black

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Espacio artístico Filux Lab / Workshop Diseño y Construcción © Tamara Uribe. Image |

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Grand Palais Ephémère / Wilmotte & Associés Sa / Paris / France |

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ADU, AGD by Kraken #visualization  

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Dream homes... Northwest Native: Homes of the Salish Sea

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The Definitive Works of 2019 Pritzker Prize Winner Arata Isozaki | more

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Valley of the Arts in Al-Ula, in KSA, Announces 5 Permanent Large-Scale Installations, to be Completed by 2024 |

The new cultural destination Wadi AlFann, Valley of the Arts in Al-Ula desert, Saudi Arabia, unveiled its first permanent large-scale installations by some of the world's most compelling contemporary artists. Agnes Denes, Ahmed Mater, James Turrell, Manal AlDowayan, and Michael Heizer will be the first five to be completed and unveiled by 2024, starting a program of commissions with more renowned artists to be announced.

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Art installation series Solange #26 By Katharina Cibulka . Image © Martin Argyroglo (#frac2022)

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