In November 2019, voices from the spheres of architecture, design, political science, cybernetics, sociology, urbanism, and curatorial practice assembled in Riga. Standing alongside a delegation… Read more

Despite a recent surge of interest in how conflict, violence, and memory interact with the built environment, the contemporary crisis in the Mediterranean has attracted… Read more

This defiant attitude was how Martin Barry, Chairman of reSITE, opened their 2016 Conference in Prague three weeks ago. Entitled “Cities in Migration,” the conference… Read more

Ronald Rael, Borderwall As Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017) From the Publisher: “Through a series of… Read more

Diébédo Francis Kéré designed the next National Assembly building to reflect the reality of life in Ouagadougou. The design by the Berlin-based architect (and Burkina… Read more

Here is a collection of some of the design submissions for the borders meant to divide Mexico and the U.S.A, providing visual references for the… Read more

“The last podcast published on Archipelago is a conversation with Tings Chak, Toronto-based migrant justice organizer (as part of the organization No One Is Illegal for example), as well… Read more

“’An Alternative Handbook for Refugee Camp Design’ responds to increases in both the number of refugees worldwide and the number of years refugees spend in… Read more

“Design students have created a coat for refugees that can be reconfigured into a tent or a sleeping bag big enough to hold an adult… Read more

“My sister has asked me what my perspective is on the death of thousands of refugees in Europe this summer. Herewith. There is obviously a… Read more

“Since 2011, over 4 million Syrians have left their homes to avoid the civil war, with roughly 629,000 going to Jordan. A hundred thousand live in… Read more

“For decades our television screens have been dominated by images of ragged people, hopelessly isolated within political limbo as destitute refugees.  Movies describe refugee camps… Read more

“Refugee camps set up by governmental agencies, international organizations like the United Nations and the Red Cross, and NGOs provide a place for displaced people… Read more

“At the sprawling, city-like Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan, the average Syrian refugee is expected to stay as long as 17 years. And yet despite… Read more

“One fixture in the pictures that went round the world in the recent week of violent clashes outside a refugee shelter in Heidenau, Saxony, was… Read more

“In 2013 alone some 1 million people have poured out of Syria to escape a civil conflict that has been raging for over two years.… Read more

The earliest mosque-style building in Germany is the “Red Mosque” at Schwetzingen, built in 1779-1791 by a French architct for the Prince Elector of the… Read more

Although immigration is a dominant topic in contemporary culture, its discussion is often limited to the human experience, such as the crossing of borders and… Read more

The Park51 controversy isn’t really about a building. It’s about erasing individuals. Let me begin with a question: Who is a Muslim? Virtually everyone who… Read more

BEIJING — China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next… Read more

In a vote that displayed a widespread anxiety about Islam and undermined the country’s reputation for religious tolerance, the Swiss on Sunday overwhelmingly imposed a… Read more

The Swiss voted to ban the construction of new minarets — against all expectations and although their government and most political parties had rejected a… Read more

Two decades ago, when Shanghai’s leaders looked out over the new New China born of Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, it seemed history had gone off… Read more