Local Tradition in Climate Responsive Design - Docomomo 202

Docomomo 2026, Los Angeles | March 17–22

SESSION CHAIR: Kuukuwa Manful Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Kinshasa’s Tropical Modernism: Climate, Identity, and Legacy
Manlio Michieletto German University in Cairo

Tropical Concrete Markets: S.I.D.E.C.'s Repeatable Construction
Genta Kokubu,Yoshiyuki Yamana – Tokyo University of Science

Kuwait’s Rethinking Climate-Resilient of Brutalist Architecture
Zainab Murtadhawi Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research; Rabab Kazem National Council for Culture, Arts & Letters, Kuwait

The Multiple Lives of the Sunflower Swimming Pools
Laurent Duport Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier