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Tacheles in Ruins
Benjamin Busch
“In and against an environment”: Dhanveer Singh Brar on the Sonic Ecologies of 21C Black Music
Nicholas Burman
Aravena’s Venice Biennale Installation Obscures the Historical Struggles of Mapuche Communities
James Brine
The Problem with Neighbors
Leijia Hanrahan
How Sukarno’s Games of the New Emerging Forces Briefly Modeled a Vision for a Postcolonial World
Alistair Napier
From Low-Income Landscapes to Black-Powered Towers: A Conversation with Walter Hood
Jilly Traganou
Adaptive Refuse
Joshua McWhirter
Stories on Earth: Challenging the Human/Non-Human Dichotomy
Chiara Dorbolò
and
Daphne Bakker
The Peace Walls at the Centre of Recent Unrest in Northern Ireland
Maria McLintock
The Empty Houses Helping Kozarac’s Diaspora Hold on to Their Hometown
Ajna Babahmetovic
Delivery Workers Expose the Troubling Ideology of Public Space in Bogota
Juana Salcedo
and
Maria Victoria Londoño-Becerra
Los Repartidores de Domicilios Evidencian la Problemática Noción del Espacio Público en Bogotá
Juana Salcedo
and
Maria Victoria Londoño-Becerra
All Design Is Political, Not All Politics Is Design
Leijia Hanrahan
Chile’s Establishment Have Just Discovered a Concern for Santiago’s Heritage After Years of Negligence
Valentina Carraro
NYC’s Reopening Plans Depend on a Holy Trinity of Diners, Designers, and Capital
Kevin Rogan
How More Security Makes Women and Queer People Feel Less Safe
Jess Myers
After the Gay Bar, The Uncertain Future of Queer Space
Colin Keays
Architecture is Yet to Come to Terms with Trans Bodies
Joanna Parker
#12 When Beyoncé Seized the Louvre
Podcast
A Construction Mistake in Rome That Created a Lake and United a Neighborhood
Francesco Pasta
“Architecture is Never Non-Political”: Michael Sorkin
Fadi Shayya
The City and the City and Coronavirus
Kevin Rogan
The Virus Biennale: Shall We Call the Whole Thing Off?
Charlie Clemoes
We Participate, They Profit
Chiara Dorbolò
Watch It Die: The Managed Decline of Tainted Architecture
Owen Vince
Bjarke Ingels and the Art of Greenwashing
Alexander Hadley
A Decade of Failed Architecture
Failed Architecture
How the British Buried Their Imperial History Along with Wembley Stadium
Alistair Napier
The Grenfell Elections: How Decent Housing Became Horribly, Brutally Possible
Charlie Clemoes
Jakarta’s Superblocks Continue a Legacy of Urban Segregation
[anonymous]
Where the Image Flows: How Sidewalk Labs’ Public Relations Came to Dominate Journalism
Michèle Champagne
The Radical Culture of Night Shops and Beauty Salons
Charlie Clemoes
Degrowth is About Redistribution by Design, Not by Collapse
Mark Minkjan
Making Anti-Terror Infrastructure Pretty: The Most Depressing New Urban Design Challenge
Alice Sweitzer
and
Charlie Clemoes
Craigslust: “We’ll Have Sex and You Don’t Need to Pay Much for the Flat”
Ana Filipovic
Hudson Yards Was Not Inevitable
Joshua McWhirter
Maybe Modern Ruins Are Just the Kind of Failure We Need
Mark Minkjan
Learning from Brazil’s “Architect of the Poor”
Jilly Traganou
Death Sentence: The Words That Bulldoze Our Cities
Owen Vince
Taking Back Taksim: Everyday Life vs. Top-Down Redevelopment
Francesco Pasta
The Cities of Vilnius: Past Ideologies, New Consumerism
Chiara Dorbolò
Community Wealth Building: An Idea Afraid of Its Own Radical Potential
Charlie Clemoes
The Playful City: From the 1960s Strive for Spontaneity to Today’s Space of Entertainment
Jorn Konijn
University of Amsterdam Shirks Urban Responsibilities Despite Legacy
Janno Martens
Photo Essay: Written on Glass – Detroit ’67
Ludmila Ferrari
Amsterdam’s Architecture of Colonial Exploitation
Alex Raúl
and
Sonia Mangiapane
Resisting Phnom Penh’s Beautification Plan
Ava Lynam
Failover Architectures: The Infrastructural Excess of the Data Centre Industry
aretaylor
Memories, Steel and Concrete: The Wire’s Season 3 Opener
Charlie Clemoes
In Conquering the Sea, Singapore Erases Its History
William Jamieson
Pleasure Postponed: Pyongyang’s Tourist Hotels
Jake Valente
Social Life Triumphs in Sicily’s Empty Utopian Artscape
Claudia Sinatra
The Invisible Wall of Lampedusa: Landscaping Europe’s Outer Frontier
Chiara Dorbolò
Talking Clubbing, Space and London with Gaika
Charlie Clemoes
Reinier de Graaf: “Architecture Is in a State of Denial”
Mark Minkjan
Kevin Lynch and the GPS: Predicting the Culture of Navigation in 1960
Maarten Overdijk
How Amsterdam Resisted the Sellout of its City Centre
Tim Verlaan
Singapore’s Metabolist Megastructures: The Asian City of Tomorrow?
Xinyu Guan
Hot Potato Heritage: Heidelberg’s Nazi Amphitheatre
Cécile Poulot
How The Student Hotel Makes Millennials Pay for Amsterdam’s Housing Shortage
Roos van Strien
A Hilariously Embarrassing Housing Crisis
Mark Minkjan
Photo Essay: The Grey City – Aberdeen’s Mundane Side
Mark Minkjan
The Grenfell Disaster Shows that Architecture Is Always Political
Gary Davies
Aerial Imperialism: Syrian Ruinscapes and Vertical Media
Sina Zekavat
Lost Forever: Amsterdam’s Shell Terrain Transformed
Sandra Guarda
Choreographing Ankara’s Airport Road
Özge Diler Himes
The Collective is Not a New Way of Living – It’s an Old One, Commodified
Matthew Stewart
The 5m² Maid’s Room: Lebanon’s Racist, Gendered Architecture
Bassem Saad
Three Strikes, You’re Out: Habitat III’s Doomed Urban Agenda
Benjamin Busch
Amsterdam’s Architectures of Hospitality
René Boer
and
Nina Kopp
Clubbing’s Demise and the Downfall of London
Charlie Clemoes
Architecture After Excess: The Palaces of Saddam’s Baghdad
Owen Vince
Colonising the Street: How Greenpoint’s Retail Newcomers Market Authenticity
Elise Vleugels
Photo Essay: Brooklyn’s New Everyday Architecture for the 1%
Jeff Byles
Vienna’s Social Housing Legacy: Rethinking Value
Charlie Clemoes
The Battle Over What Istanbul’s Iconic Bridge Means
Asher Kohn
Photo Essay: The Fading Glory of Brazil’s Disappearing Love Motels
Mark Minkjan
Self-Builds: Between Unruly Real Estate Markets and Failed Housing Policies
René Boer
and
Mark Minkjan
Instagramming Architecture
René Boer
and
Mark Minkjan
Robert Moses, Pig-Ears and the Camden Bench: How Architectural Hostility Became Transparent
Tom Coggins
Spaces of Otherness: Ruins Through a Feminist Lens
Mark Minkjan
Komtar: Malaysia’s Monument to Failed Modernism
Soon-Tzu Speechley
The Tyranny of the Filter Bubble and the Future of Public Space
Mark Minkjan
and
René Boer
Why the Pop-up Hype Isn’t Going to Save Our Cities
René Boer
and
Mark Minkjan
What the City of the Future Looks Like in the Next Economy
René Boer
and
Mark Minkjan
Going Embedded at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2016: The Next Economy
Mark Minkjan
and
René Boer
Neoliberal Shock Therapy: The Post-Katrina Redevelopment of New Orleans
Tilde Siglev
Last Season: The Final Moments of the Four Seasons
Margaret McCormick
How Skopje’s Urban Makeover Alienated Locals
Rachel Ling
Dredging the Dutch City, Part 1: Rotterdam
Charlie Clemoes
Lichtenberg, Berlin: A Sketch from the Ground
Bram Esser
The Best Ad in History: Capturing Caracas
Vanessa Catalano
Turncoats: ‘Architectural debates are rubbish’
Mark Minkjan
Urbicide in Nagorno-Karabakh
Owen Vince
Photo Essay: DORP
René Boer
The Partisan Necropolis: Mostar’s Empty Stare
Arna Mackic
and
Bogdan Bogdanović
Did Suburbia Fail?
René Boer
,
Michiel van Iersel
and
Mark Minkjan
The Modern Ruins of Ipswich’s Waterfront
Owen Vince
Walking the Decline: Sheffield’s Collectivist Architecture
Charlie Clemoes
Enclosed Paradise: Istanbul’s Microcities as Megaprojects
Jesse Honsa
Haussmann and the Sanitisation of Amsterdam
Mark Minkjan
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