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The June issue of Domus 1069 focuses on the search for sincerity in architectural design. Guest Editor 2022 Jean Nouvel, in his Editorial, talks about how each of us is able to enrich the world with our own ideas and identities: the result of the sum of our life experiences. “It is a generous, often surprising, inventive, and exciting process when the nuance ‘brings two dreams together and the earth with the sky. I like these adventurers who transport and combine mysteries, these citizens of the world who can enrich it”.
This is followed in the Essays by Mohammad al-Asad, founder of the Center for the Study of the Built Environment in Amman, who dedicates his research to modern and contemporary Islamic architecture identity. Next a reflection by David Robson on Geoffrey Bawa, an architect who worked mainly in what was then the British crown colony of Ceylon. Bawa realized that tropical modernism, neglecting culture and context, would not be able to adapt to the humid heat of the setting.
The first part of the Architecture section is dedicated to the work of architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, who was recently awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize. The award is an acknowledgment of Kéré’s distinctive approach in developing new design strategies from his dual cultural identity, which is effective not only in sub-Saharan countries but also in other regions of the world. His projects include the SKF-RTL Children Learning Centre, an educational centre for children between the ages of four and 14 in Kenya, the Opera Village Laongo, the result of the collaboration between Kéré and Christoph Schlingensief, and the Centre for Health and Social Welfare, designed to provide basic health and medical services for the needs of the population of Laongo. Among the few US works, Xylem is a pavilion that serves as a meeting point for visitors to the Tippet Rise Art Centre estate, invited to explore the different possible uses of its interior space. Finally Startup Lions Campus is the information and communication technology (ICT) training center located on the shores of Lake Turkana.