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All Design Is Political, Not All Politics Is Design

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Jakarta’s Superblocks Continue a Legacy of Urban Segregation

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

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#07 Incompiuto: Italy’s Most Prominent Architectural Style

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

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

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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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Failover Architectures: The Infrastructural Excess of the Data Centre Industry

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

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

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Is it Really Brutalist Architecture in Blade Runner 2049?

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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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The Grenfell Disaster Shows that Architecture Is Always Political

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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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Amsterdam’s Architectures of Hospitality

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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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Berlin Marzahn: Social Housing with Marquis Hawkes

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Photo Essay: Brooklyn’s New Everyday Architecture for the 1%

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Vienna’s Social Housing Legacy: Rethinking Value

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The Battle Over What Istanbul’s Iconic Bridge Means

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Photo Essay: The Fading Glory of Brazil’s Disappearing Love Motels

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What’s An Architecture Biennale Good for Anyway?

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Self-Builds: Between Unruly Real Estate Markets and Failed Housing Policies

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Instagramming Architecture

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Robert Moses, Pig-Ears and the Camden Bench: How Architectural Hostility Became Transparent

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Slum Porn: Urban Misery as Catchy Imagery

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Komtar: Malaysia’s Monument to Failed Modernism

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The Tyranny of the Filter Bubble and the Future of Public Space

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Why the Pop-up Hype Isn’t Going to Save Our Cities

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What the City of the Future Looks Like in the Next Economy

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The Forgotten Spaceships of the Po Valley

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What the City of the Future Looks Like If We Don’t Change Course

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On Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza

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Going Embedded at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2016: The Next Economy

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Last Season: The Final Moments of the Four Seasons

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What this MVRDV Rendering Says About Architecture and the Media

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How Skopje’s Urban Makeover Alienated Locals

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Dredging the Dutch City, Part 2: Bijlmer

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Dredging the Dutch City, Part 1: Rotterdam

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Orphan City

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8 Reasons You Will Also Like Postmodern Architecture in 2016

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Turncoats: ‘Architectural debates are rubbish’

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Richard Neutra’s Therapeutic Architecture

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Capital Cairo: A Regime of Graphics

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Urbicide in Nagorno-Karabakh

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Photo Essay: DORP

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The Partisan Necropolis: Mostar’s Empty Stare

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Did Suburbia Fail?

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Photo Essay: The Most German City in Brazil

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The Modern Ruins of Ipswich’s Waterfront

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Nothing is Permanent: The Imaginative Power of Ruins

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Photo Essay: The Lost Views of Space City

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San Cataldo Cemetery: Graveyard of Postmodern Architecture

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Quotidian Architectures of Istanbul

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Haussmann and the Sanitisation of Amsterdam

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Belgrade Waterfront: An Investor’s Vision of National Significance

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New York City’s Island of the Dead

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Guardian Property: Freedom at Another’s Expense

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Photo Essay: Jing Jin City

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Photo Essay: Utopia by the Plot

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Redefining ‘Heritage’: Agra’s Forgotten Bastis

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Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence

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Photo Essay: Construction Sights

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Photo Essay: Ebola Curfew in Freetown

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Photo Essay: After Schengen

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Concrete Experience: Bakema’s TrouwAmsterdam

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Istanbul’s Fading Metabolism

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A Warning to Lisbon: The Fight for Meaning in Martim Moniz

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Insuring the City

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Material Senescence

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Tropical Babel

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Vacancy Studies: Designing Temporariness

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Photo Essay: Frameworks

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The Ironic Loss of the Postmodern BEST Store Facades

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Spreepark: Berlin’s Sleeping Beauty

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Notes on La Maddalena

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A Year in the Metabolist Future of 1972

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Mortal Cities: The Irreversible Disappearance of Mostar

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A Memorial to the Highs and Lows of Social Housing

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Architecture as Disaster: Business as Usual

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Explore Everything: A Subversive Urban Critique

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The Sudden Death of Cambodia’s Homegrown Modernism

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Lelystad Zuid – Never So Bright

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Mortal Cities and Forgotten Monuments

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Baffled by Belfast

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Peaux-Meaux: The Postmodern in New Orleans

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ArchDaily and Architecture Criticism

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Photo Essay: Tallinn’s Abandoned Linnahall

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Ankara’s Iron Cage

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Two Banks Shaping the African Skyline

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Failed Policy, Successful Architecture: Selfmade City Istanbul

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The Value of a War-Scarred Ruin in Beirut

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The Downfall of London’s Streets in the Sky

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Porto’s Ruinous Circle

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Failed Architecture Tracked Changes at the São Paulo Architecture Biennale

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