The firms featured in this year’s vanguard of emerging architects approach a range of shared themes in remarkably diverse ways

By Clifford A. Pearson

This year’s 10 Design Vanguard architects practice in nine different countries (if you count multiple locations for firms with more than one office), but certain themes appear over and over again in much of their work. From Ann Arbor to Mumbai, architects are engaging issues of landscape and built form, nature and city fabric, replication and customization. While the projects designed by this year’s Design Vanguard firms reflect a common interest in these varied themes, close inspection of their efforts reveals a marvelous range of architectural expression.

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