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Tahir Ali, construction worker in Dharavi, is a member of the category defined by URBZ as city builders. URBZ suggests that self-organisational strategies, combined with the knowledge of workers such as Tahir, can be more effective than housing programmes. Photo by Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi
Editorial: Home-grown homes
Every home tells a storyits making and its use, the way its dwellers have shaped it over time, the moments they lived inside, what it used to be, what it may become. Text by Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, Urbz
Oped: Goodbye Sori Yanagi
Jasper Morrison
Journal
Edited by Elena Sommariva
Photoessay: LA Look
Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi
The engineer, the gardener and the architect
In the project by Tatiana Bilbao S.C a botanical garden provides an ideal way to bring contemporary art out of the silent rooms of museums and closer to the people of Culiacán, Mexico. Text by Alejandro Hernández Gálvez. Photos by Iwan Baan. Edited by Laura Bossi.
A city within a city
The Red Bull Music Academy by Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos converts part of Madrids former slaughterhouse into an experimental centre for the production and performance of contemporary music. Text by Ariadna Cantis. Photos by Luis Díaz Díaz, Miguel de Guzmán. Edited by Laura Bossi
A forest of polyhedrons
A world-famous singer, Shakira, and a young Bogotá architect, Giancarlo Mazzanti, join forces to bring a new sports centre to one of Colombias poorest urban settlements. Text by Lorenza Baroncelli. Photos by Jorge Gamboa. Edited by Laura Bossi
