Mauro Marinelli wins 2025 Wheelwright Prize for Topographies of Resistance

🏆 Harvard GSD has named Mauro Marinelli the 2025 Wheelwright Prize winner! His project, Topographies of Resistance, investigates how architecture can sustain mountain communities facing climate and cultural challenges. The $100K grant supports fieldwork in the Alps, Andes, and Himalayas 🌍⛰️ Also spotlighted: visionary finalists Meriem Chabani, Mohamad Nahleh, and Alfredo Thiermann—each pushing architecture’s role in justice, ecology, and infrastructure. Read more here 👉 https://bit.ly/47PJU5t #Architecture #HarvardGSD #WheelwrightPrize #SustainableDesign #DesignResearch #ClimateArchitecture #MountainDesign #EmergingArchitects

🏆 Harvard GSD has named Mauro Marinelli the 2025 Wheelwright Prize winner! His project, Topographies of Resistance, investigates how architecture can sustain mountain communities facing climate and cultural challenges. The $100K grant supports fieldwork in the Alps, Andes, and Himalayas 🌍⛰️ Also spotlighted: visionary finalists Meriem Chabani, Mohamad Nahleh, and Alfredo Thiermann—each pushing architecture’s role in justice, ecology, and infrastructure. Read more here 👉 https://bit.ly/47PJU5t #Architecture #HarvardGSD #WheelwrightPrize #SustainableDesign #DesignResearch #ClimateArchitecture #MountainDesign #EmergingArchitects

Excited to share my new booklet: “How to Entangle Architecture with Haraway’s SF(s) and the Chthulucene.” This work is an exploration of how architectural thinking can intersect with Donna Haraway’s speculative frameworks—String Figures, Speculative Fabulation, Science Fiction, and Sympoiesis—while reimagining design within the context of the Chthulucene. The booklet speculates on architecture as a playground for ecological and more-than-human narratives, moving beyond anthropocentric approaches toward entangled, relational, and symbiotic futures. I’d love to hear your thoughts on how theory, ecology, and design can weave together new ways of imagining architecture. 🌱 https://lnkd.in/deE6FzSX

🌍 New paper out! Together with Philipp Urech, João P. Leitão, Fabrizia Fappiano & Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, we argue for the essential role of landscape architecture in tackling urban water and flood challenges. ⛈️🏙️ Using detailed 3D data of the city, landscape architects identified and built upon grassroots practices—vernacular solutions that have long existed. By doing so, we proposed scientifically grounded, large-scale designs that both mitigate pluvial floods and strengthen food security. It may sound obvious to draw inspiration from local practices, but too often these are overlooked by planners. In Antananarivo, for example, networks of raised gardens and fish ponds offer time-tested strategies that deserve recognition. Our approach is to integrate such vernacular systems with rigorous, architectural methods for resilient cities. 👉 Check out the full paper here: https://rdcu.be/eEibr 🙏 Future Cities Laboratory Global for making this research possible.

Sasaki has designed Xinyang University’s 215-acre South Bay Campus in China, integrating landscape, architecture, and ecology with new facilities for 17,000 students, including a landmark recreation center, library, and restored wetlands. https://ow.ly/HNHY50WYpIX

Public Practice, a UK social enterprise, builds design skills and capacity in the public sector. It brings established professionals from architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, city planning, engineering, transportation and ecology into local government. This is #artsactivism. 👇🏼 #architecture #landscapearchitecture #urbandesign #cityplanning #engineering #transportation #ecology #builtenvironment

After months of extensive literature study and exploration, I had the privilege of presenting my paper “Bamboo Fiber Processing: A Review of Methods and Applications in Eco-Friendly Building Materials” at the 3rd International Conference on Trends in Architecture & Construction (ICTAC-2025). Focused under the theme of Sustainable Cities and Communities, my work reviewed global research on bamboo fiber extraction techniques, its applications across industries, and its potential as a versatile, low-carbon material for architecture and construction. This presentation was a significant milestone in my research journey, allowing me to contribute to the ongoing conversation on innovative, sustainable materials and their role in shaping the future of construction.