Movement

Contemporary Global South Practice

2016–

A loosely affiliated cohort of twenty-first-century practitioners and theorists from the Global South (and women practitioners) whose major prize recognition since 2016 (Pritzker, RIBA Royal Gold Medal, Venice Biennale curatorships, Golden Lion, Aga Khan Award) measurably shifted the institutional centre of gravity of architectural thought away from the Euro-American twentieth-century canon.

Migration Climate Care

Details

Origin: Global South

Connections

reacted against International Style

Referenced by

Lesley Lokko associated with
Diébédo Francis Kéré associated with
Yasmeen Lari associated with
Balkrishna Doshi associated with
Marina Tabassum associated with
Wang Shu associated with
Lina Bo Bardi associated with
Paulo Mendes da Rocha associated with
Rogelio Salmona associated with
Demas Nwoko associated with
Kunle Adeyemi associated with
Tatiana Bilbao associated with
Alejandro Aravena associated with
Kongjian Yu associated with
Charles Correa associated with
Geoffrey Bawa associated with
Minnette de Silva associated with
Anupama Kundoo associated with

Sources

Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 (The Laboratory of the Future). 2023.

Cite this entry

First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026

CLAD. "Contemporary Global South Practice." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/global-south-practice/. Accessed July 17, 2026.