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“In a volatile world where architecture is often targeted in local and international conflicts, and in cities where political and social divides are the accepted norm, the public realm requires a radically different spatial approach - traditional modernist forms, advocating the open plan and transparency, may no longer be relevant.”

Exhibition: “Negotiating Conflict: Intransigent Architectures,” Twelve Instigations for a Becoming Middle East exhibition, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, March 2016.


Keywords: exhibitions, curatorial practice, art, contemporary, architecture, urbanism, divisions, walls, barriers, segregation, mapping, analysis, vision, land, landscape, geography, planning, American, military, 2003, invasion, occupation, coalition, state, government, Baghdad, Iraq, South West Asia, Arab world, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Image: Amin Alsaden
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