How One Bedouin Well Became a High-security Jordanian Prison
Maggie Freeman
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.
What is at stake is the erasure of an architecture which faithfully mirrors the ambiguities, complexities and struggles of the contemporary urban experience
A pastoral fiction that speaks more to a mutated village life than what is arguably the height of techno-capitalism today
Making Anti-Terror Infrastructure Pretty: The Most Depressing New Urban Design Challenge
Alice Sweitzer and Charlie Clemoes
