Architecture

Baghdad’s Blank Slate

The massive development projects the Iraqi government has planned for the city seem designed to wipe it clean of its past memories.

  • Nabil Salih

Trump’s Culture Wars Come to Architecture

Missing in all the controversy are the economic forces behind the business of building.

  • Anthony Paletta

Was Architecture Better Under Socialism?

Yugoslavia produced a thrilling variety of buildings, frequently departing from the prefabricated monotony of the Eastern Bloc.

  • Anthony Paletta

A Vision in Concrete

Boston’s concrete modernist architecture is unsurpassed and widely despised.

  • Anthony Paletta

Architecture in Extremis

Shigeru Ban receives the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Does he deserve it?

  • Stephen Phelan
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