Unremarked Landscapes

Attention to overlooked spatial conditions connects these contributions, each examining how everyday environments acquire meaning through observation, documentation, and reinterpretation. Studies of urban interstices in Metro Manila foreground informal niches as active sites of urban becoming, while visual archives of Mediterranean vernacular environments position modest buildings as living cultural resources rather than expendable fabric.

Parallel explorations of everyday aesthetics and vernacular constructions such as community birdhouses in Kutch similarly treat ordinary spatial practices as carriers of environmental knowledge and social continuity. Together, the session reflects on how documenting, noticing, and re-reading the familiar can open alternative architectural imaginaries grounded in existing realities.