Leader Emerging markets are an opportunity and a contextual challenge tor architects, writes Kieran Long

摘要

The reality of global practice is palpable in this week's issue. The World Architecture Festival (see pages 8-9) brought together 2,000 practitioners from all over the world last week, for three days of debate, judging and networking in an astonishing display of architecture from around the world. The festival offered a fantastically diverse slice of global architecture, where the well-published mixed with the obscure. I chaired the jury for the office category of the festival awards, and the winner was Sabbagh Arquitectos, a practice from Chile that I had never heard of, its body of work more or less invisible in the pages of international architecture magazines. Yet here they were, beautifully presenting a fresh and contextual piece of High-Tech Modernism, inflected for a tough area of Santiago de Chile. It confirms Chile as one of the most exciting architectural cultures in the world.