We recently participated in an architectural competition for a new public secondary school in Djilakh, a rural community in Senegal. The contest aimed to explore how architecture can respond to educational needs in resource-constrained environments while remaining culturally grounded, climatically responsive, and socially transformative. The brief challenged designers to rethink the conventional model of rural school buildings, proposing solutions that were modular, replicabl

We could not start the new year without visiting the sixth edition of ARCHITECT@WORK London, the two-day worldwide trade fair aimed at...