“The most conspicuous entity in Baghdad’s new spatial order following the 2003 invasion, the Green Zone can be identified as a camp, base, fortress, barracks, gated community, or capitol—with all the attendant implications of such designations. But the Green Zone is not just a mutant aberration, and it is more than a mere corollary of a conflict in a troubled faraway land.”

Publication: “The Green Zone: Architectures of Precarious Politics,” Harvard Design Magazine, No. 42 (Spring/Summer 2016).

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