A message from India: Laurie Baker has dedicated most of his life to building for India's poor, using local methods and materials

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Laurie Bakers is an architect/ contractor who has lived and worked in India for many years. He built up a reputation, drawing clients from all over India. He has built private residences, schools, colleges, hospitals, churchs and institutional buildings. His work is said to be the only contemporary vernacular architecture oon the sub-continent. He has recently received an honorary doctorate from his old unversity in Britain.

Baker, Laurie

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Yin and Yeang: Ken Yeang, pioneering designer of low-energy skyscrapers, sees ecological design as his life's mission

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Ken Yeang is a Malaysian architect and has undertaken pioneering work in the art of skyscraper design. He believes that high rise buildings should be regionally rooted and related to their microclimate. His practice Hamzah & Yeang currently employs 62 people and has become a leading exponent of high rise architecture, particularly relating to bioclimatic skyscrapers.

Yeang, Ken

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Planning for the future

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The urban environment would benefit from collaborative design, according to Robert Cowan in his manifesto 'The Cities Design Forgot'. Cowan wants all parties concerned to rethink urban design. Collaborative design would ensure that each party knew exactly what the other parties were doing. It would also allow critical issues to be worked out at an early stage.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Architectural design, Cowan, Robert

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