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.

Amsterdam’s Architecture of Colonial Exploitation

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#04 Alexandra Lange: Judging Architecture and How We Design for Kids

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#03 Modernism Distorted: Selling Utopia From Kleiburg to Keeling House

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Incompiuto Summer School: Join FA in Palermo

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Resisting Phnom Penh’s Beautification Plan

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#02 City Gameplay: The Influence of Video Games on Our Urban Experience

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Amazon Urbanism: Patents and the Totalizing World of Big Tech Futures

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Failover Architectures: The Infrastructural Excess of the Data Centre Industry

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#01 Data Space: The Architecture and Impact of Data Centres

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Architecture is all about people

What If Architects Were to Embrace, Rather Than Ignore, a Building’s Future?

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How J.G. Ballard’s Science Fiction Tells the Future of Our Privatized Cities

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Memories, Steel and Concrete: The Wire’s Season 3 Opener

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In Conquering the Sea, Singapore Erases Its History

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Pleasure Postponed: Pyongyang’s Tourist Hotels

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Social Life Triumphs in Sicily’s Empty Utopian Artscape

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Mallification: The Vengeful Return of the Mall in the 21st Century

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