Political Architecture
Architecture that engages with political systems, conflicts, memory, and social justice through design.
Future Prison: Circular Architecture That Treats Incarceration as a Rehabilitation Loop
A shortlisted competition entry layers private, public, and semi-public zones into a cyber-integrated correctional facility built for reintegration.
Gate Between Past and Future: Rebuilding Aleppo's Civic Heart Through Layered Memory
A public square in war-scarred Aleppo stitches collective memory into stone, water, and indigenous planting to reconnect a fractured city with its 5,000-ye
Condensation Park: Modular Refugee Housing That Treats Openness as Therapy
A vertical timber framework replaces the refugee camp model with communal parks, elevated walkways, and a central Hope Tree as anchor.
MEMORY_COMMUNITY_REBIRTH: Ruins as Podium in a Hybrid of Monument, Community Space and Park
Shortlisted in Memory, this hybrid turns the Ruins of Grand Serai into a reflective podium, with scattered stones seeding a park for reflection.
The Non-Memorial: Aleppo Folds Its War Ruins Into Everyday Public Space Instead of a Monument
Mohamed El-Kurdi treats Aleppo's war ruins as a sublayer to daily civic life, pairing them with a hidden tunnel, storytelling towers and an open plaza.
Co-Existence: Reading Aleppo's Wartime Rupture Through the Japanese Void of Ma
A palm grove, a mirror wall and a sunken chamber turn a void in Aleppo into a place where before and after the war can share one ground.
BETA: The Path of Tomorrow: A Lattice Canopy That Turns a Main Square into Neutral Ground
A perforated canopy beneath a hilltop citadel shelters a public square meant to sit outside political and religious division, anchored by a martyrs' shield
Role of Architecture in Nation-building : A newbie's thought
Let's discuss how nation building and architecture are analogous. Do you think architecture has anything to do with it?
New European Parliament Building to be Designed by Pan-European Collective
Leading Designers from Across Europe to Collaborate on Landmark Project
Post-Scarce Carriage MAKING OF
Post-scarce carriage is a nomadic modular habitat based on principles of communal living that transcend the urban-rural distinction. It is conceived in a hope-punk frame of reference and proposes an alternative to the typical sci-fi dystopian imagery on technology and its implications.
