How One Bedouin Well Became a High-security Jordanian Prison

How One Bedouin Well Became a High-security Jordanian Prison

On the foundations of a Bedouin well, a British site for colonial control and surveillance eventually became Al Jafr prison. The site indicates that once built, the architecture of control persists through changing political regimes and modes of domination.

The material solutionism available to architects is unable to address some of the key drivers of climate disaster

Watch It Die: The Managed Decline of Tainted Architecture

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Bjarke Ingels and the Art of Greenwashing

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A Decade of Failed Architecture

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How the British Buried Their Imperial History Along with Wembley Stadium

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Constructing a museum is not a politically neutral act

Architecture’s Role in Erasing the Guggenheim’s Ongoing Legacy of Violent Extraction

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The Grenfell Elections: How Decent Housing Became Horribly, Brutally Possible

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99 Reasons to Support Independent Architecture Criticism in 2020

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Our task is to convert volumes of space into money

The Failed Architecture 2020 Wrecking Ball

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When Architects Work for People not Profit: Revolution and the Architecture Workers Movement in Portugal

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Work Issues From an Architecture Office

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Jakarta’s Superblocks Continue a Legacy of Urban Segregation

Every day is exactly the same – for the past few months, I’ve been tidying up the groups in a BIM model

Where the Image Flows: How Sidewalk Labs’ Public Relations Came to Dominate Journalism

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#11 Architects Unionise!

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The histories of our actions are embedded in the material world

The Missing Bodies in Architecture’s Talk of Embodied Energy

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The Radical Culture of Night Shops and Beauty Salons

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