Lives Fragmented and Pushed Back at the Latvian Border

Lives Fragmented and Pushed Back at the Latvian Border

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In recent years, the Latvia-Belarus border has undergone intense militarisation, resulting in the erasure of human lives. These policies divide local communities geographically, while endangering migrants trying to enter the EU.

What is at stake is the erasure of an architecture which faithfully mirrors the ambiguities, complexities and struggles of the contemporary urban experience

Death to the Calling: A Job in Architecture Is Still a Job

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The Deceptive Platform Utopianism of Google’s Sidewalk Labs

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Why Haven’t British Architects Unionised?

The architect’s resistance 1969

A pastoral fiction that speaks more to a mutated village life than what is arguably the height of techno-capitalism today

#10 Mecca to the Max: The Holy City Transformed

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Making Anti-Terror Infrastructure Pretty: The Most Depressing New Urban Design Challenge

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Craigslust: “We’ll Have Sex and You Don’t Need to Pay Much for the Flat”

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Hudson Yards Was Not Inevitable

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The politics of the industry remain a mystery to most on-lookers

#09 Listen to the City, It’s Trying to Tell You Something

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From Mies to Bjarke: Ten Moments in the Manly History of the Architect’s Model

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Maybe Modern Ruins Are Just the Kind of Failure We Need

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The Real Estate Sector is Using Algorithms to Work Out the Best Places to Gentrify

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Learning from Brazil’s “Architect of the Poor”

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Six months ago the first ever AI-driven residential property acquisition took place

Death Sentence: The Words That Bulldoze Our Cities

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Taking Back Taksim: Everyday Life vs. Top-Down Redevelopment

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Dear Jean Nouvel, Please Don’t “Revitalise” the Algiers Casbah

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#08 Speer in Qatar or: How Architects Stopped Caring and Learned to Love the Client

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