A Threshold|Superposition|Civil Architecture |NWLND Rogiers Vandeputte |Architecture is a site of exchange, involving countless conversations between architects as well as an ecosystem ofclients, craftspeople, builders, manufacturers and more. Sharing knowledge and experience across geographies and generations is central to the AR Emerging awards, which launched 25 years ago and grant early recognition to young architects around the world. Today, each edition brings together judges and finalists in productive in-person dialogue before an overall winner is chosen.To celebrate a quarter-century of the AR Emerging awards, this issue features past finalists in conversation. The winner of the awards inaugural edition in 1999, Sixten Rahlff, speaks to John Lin and Joshua Bolchover about building in rural contexts in the global south. Rahlffs winning project, designed while he was still a student, taught him the fundamentals of architecture, hesays: There are people, there are materials and there is the climate. Carles Oliver Barcel, Christelle Avenier and Miguel Cornejo, meanwhile, discuss the power of architects to shift to ecological building systems for social housing. Anna Heringer and Nripal Adhikary talk about the slow democratisation of earth construction and the differences ofpractising in Nepal, Germany and Ghana.This issue also features profiles of the 15 finalists of the2024 AR Emerging awards, whose work tackles the numerous crises facing the profession and the planet. From careful strategies of repair to low-carbon materials research to the revival of ancient crafts, and from Cuba to Hungary to Taiwan, these practices face a similar reality: how to emerge in a world that is in need of new imaginaries.1516: 25 years of AR EmergingCover (above)George DouglasThe AR Emerging awards are an opportunity for exchange across geographies and contexts the architects will meet each other and the panel of judges in London this month. The specially commissioned artworkby George Douglas that appears on this months cover captures this exchange, with each practice bringing their work to the tableFolio (lead image)Carlo LavatoriDouglass artwork was partly inspired by the Italian designer Enzo Maris eclectic collection of objects, which he usedas paperweightsConversationNegotiating the aid paradigmSixten Rahlff, John Lin and Joshua BolchoverConversationEcosystems of social housingChristelle Avenier, Miguel Cornejo and Carles Oliver BarcelConversationBuilding with earthAnna Heringer andNripal AdhikaryAR Emerging awards 2024A ThresholdReuben J BrownSuperpositionOluwatobiloba AjayiCivil ArchitectureLeela KeshavNWLND Rogiers VandeputteReuben J BrownDchelette ArchitectureLeela KeshavTYFADerin FadinaInfraestudioOluwatobiloba AjayiAsif Khan StudioMir JethaBajet GiramOluwatobiloba AjayiNew SouthDerin FadinaParadigma AriadnLeela KeshavChen Donghua Architects Mir JethaMaterial CulturesReuben J BrownAtelier EGRMir JethaShen Ting Tseng ArchitectsDerin FadinaThe last pageAR Emerging awards 2024 trophies by The New Raw