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.

Are these representations of ruins sincere?

The Grenfell Disaster Shows that Architecture Is Always Political

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Aerial Imperialism: Syrian Ruinscapes and Vertical Media

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Failed Architecture Mini-Festival at Sexyland

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Lost Forever: Amsterdam’s Shell Terrain Transformed

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‘Human, All Too Human’: A Critique on the Modulor

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Choreographing Ankara’s Airport Road

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Wheatley-Provident Hospital: Kansas City’s Own Ruin

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A Journey to the Edge of Britain: Exploring the Thames Estuary

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We are all orphans in the city now

The Collective is Not a New Way of Living – It’s an Old One, Commodified

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The 5m² Maid’s Room: Lebanon’s Racist, Gendered Architecture

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Remote-Control Architecture: Norman Foster’s Rwandan Droneport

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Three Strikes, You’re Out: Habitat III’s Doomed Urban Agenda

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Amsterdam’s Architectures of Hospitality

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FA Workshop in Cairo: Al-Azhar’s Nasr City Campus

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Clubbing’s Demise and the Downfall of London

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Architecture After Excess: The Palaces of Saddam’s Baghdad

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Colonising the Street: How Greenpoint’s Retail Newcomers Market Authenticity

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FA Workshop at Urban School Ruhr: Cutting up the Campus

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