Author Archives: Angela Washko

War games: the space between escapism and propaganda

By Angela Washko 24 May 2021 Essays

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When co-opted by the military, popular shooter games blur the line between the real and the virtual to devastating effect

Andrew Maynard: ‘Comics, animation, sci-fi, video games and Star Wars continue to bring delight’

15 July 2015 By AR Editors

AR_EA Australia: Andrew Maynard

Play the AR board game

24 April 2021 By AR Editors

Download and print the board game we commissioned for the cover of…

AR May 2021: Play

26 April 2021 By AR Editors

David Giorgadze Architects and Maxime Machaidze | Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura &…

Striking workers wear paper hats and play cards on the roof of the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris

Editorial: let the people play

27 April 2021 By Manon Mollard, Eleanor Beaumont, Max L Zarzycki and Ellen Peirson

The May issue of the AR demands that play is political

Play the system: labour, leisure and normal life

29 April 2021 By Smith Mordak

Instigating a new ethics of play is urgently overdue across work, architecture…

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Building virtual worlds: video games and autobiographical architecture

11 May 2021 By Rob Gallagher

Video games can offer space to build autobiographical architectures, but these digital…

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