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.

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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The romanticising images of ruins ignore the political dimensions on the ground

#07 Incompiuto: Italy’s Most Prominent Architectural Style

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Stop Seeing Climate Change as an “Opportunity” for Architecture

The Cities of Vilnius: Past Ideologies, New Consumerism

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Community Wealth Building: An Idea Afraid of Its Own Radical Potential

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All claims to community are shaky

Beirut’s Architecture of Erasure Countered by Literary Placemaking

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The Playful City: From the 1960s Strive for Spontaneity to Today’s Space of Entertainment

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University of Amsterdam Shirks Urban Responsibilities Despite Legacy

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Architecture is a very strong dimension of this normal violence

#06 Architects in Calais: On Border Systems and Self-built Cities

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City Skins: Scenes from an Augmented Urban Reality

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Photo Essay: Written on Glass – Detroit ’67

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London Becomes Museum

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Photo Essay: Windows in Crisis – The Decline of Athens’ Commercial Cityscape

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Dredging the Dutch City, Part 3: Utrecht

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#05 London Undone: Gaika and Ash Sarkar Discuss the City’s Past, Present and Future

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A Conversation with Keller Easterling

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