topic: architecture

Deadly Rhetoric of Strongholds and Bastions: Burj Al-Barajneh, Gaza, Molenbeek and French Banlieues
November 24, 2015
They called your apartments and gardens guerrilla strongholds. - June Jordan, Apologies to All the People in Lebanon (1989) On the evening...
Reviews
The Past is a Foreign Country: François-Xavier Gbré
October 13, 2015
The Past is a Foreign Country , which closed this past weekend, was French-Ivorian photographer François-Xavier Gbré’s first solo...
Reportage
Architecture of impermanence: Notes from Palestine
June 11, 2015
We arrive late, as the sun is going down. The warm light of dusk embraces the landscape and glistens on the white stone of the buildings...
Art
X-Apartments Beirut: Moving Through the Colonial Architecture of Culture Tourism
September 3, 2013
Few cosmopolitan amblers will deny the desire to magically pass through one of the innumerable doorways that interrupt the smooth facade of...