Leela Keshav

Nov 25, 2024 | architectural-review.com | Leela Keshav |Reuben Brown

With a number of rammed earth projects under its belt, the Paris-based practice is championing the use of bio‑based materials in French constructionDéchelette Architecture was shortlisted in the AR Emerging awards 2024. Read about the full shortlist here On a quiet residential street in Boulogne‑Billancourt, a suburb on the outskirts of Paris, a new building interrupts the rhythm of plaster, stone and concrete facades.

Nov 22, 2024 | architectural-review.com | Leela Keshav |Kristina Rapacki

Through its deep research into the cultures and landscapes of the Gulf, the Kuwait and Bahrain-based practice draws out the region’s global networksCivil Architecture was shortlisted in the AR Emerging awards 2024. Read about the full shortlist here Civil Architecture is a research and design practice that ‘makes buildings, and books about them’, in the words of co‑founders Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Ismail Karimi.

Oct 21, 2024 | artreview.com | Leela Keshav

Sueño de la Madrugada (A Midnight’s Dream) at South London Gallery casts the Dominican-folkloric creature as a storyteller across timeFirelei Báez’s first solo exhibition in the UK is a transportive synthesis of folklore and ritual, history and memory that weaves plural ways of gathering knowledge and sensing environments, reaching from Vodou symbolism to critical retellings of colonial archives.

Jun 25, 2024 | artreview.com | Leela Keshav

Leela Keshav is the inaugural writer-in-residence of Hauser & Wirth and ArtReview’s ‘Write Now’ programme, which provides time and space for early career writers to develop their craft and ambitions.