1999-2019 Emerging Architecture

摘要

The very first winners of the AE Emerging Architecture awards were Norwegian architects Hans Olav Hesseberg + Sixten Kahlff with Eli Synnevag for a small orphanage in the village of Chhebetar, nestled in the foothills of the Nepalese Himalayas. Praised for its 'modesty and tenderness', the orphanage was described in the pages of the AR as 'a small building made by very young architects from one of the richest countries in the world for people of one of the very poorest'. The jury was unanimous, and the project won not because it was easily adaptable as a model or because its forms and spaces should be copied, but because it showed 'essential, appropriate architectural imagination, realised with the greatest economy'. Twenty years before Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion, the judges were committed to the 'ideal of ecological appropriateness', looking for architects who did the least damage to the planet when building.