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 Invisible Wall of Lampedusa: Landscaping Europe’s Outer Frontier

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Talking Clubbing, Space and London with Gaika

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Gamespace Urbanism: City-Building Games and Radical Simulations

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Reinier de Graaf: “Architecture Is in a State of Denial”

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One of the great myths of cloud storage is its space-saving potential

An Abandoned Aquarium in the Lebanese City of Batroun Still Shows Signs of Life

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Is it Really Brutalist Architecture in Blade Runner 2049?

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Kevin Lynch and the GPS: Predicting the Culture of Navigation in 1960

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Ultraviolence in Representation: The Enduring Myth of the Thamesmead Estate

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How Amsterdam Resisted the Sellout of its City Centre

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Meet Our New Editors

FA Workshop: Arrivals Absorption on a Booming City’s Fringes

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The Mosul Dam is Failing

Singapore’s Metabolist Megastructures: The Asian City of Tomorrow?

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Hot Potato Heritage: Heidelberg’s Nazi Amphitheatre

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How The Student Hotel Makes Millennials Pay for Amsterdam’s Housing Shortage

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The Tragedy of De Certeau’s Godlike Voyeur ft. Jamie Foxx

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A Hilariously Embarrassing Housing Crisis

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A Failure Upon Completion, Heidelberg’s ‘Concrete Ghetto’ Still Stands 45 Years On

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Photo Essay: The Grey City – Aberdeen’s Mundane Side

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