Author Archives: Brahim El Guabli

Experimental Saharanism: exploiting desert environments

By Brahim El Guabli 5 October 2023 Keynote

A 1375 atlas of the mediterannean region, drawn in colour on parchment

The perception of deserts as spaces devoid of life has justified exploitation and experimentation, yet deserts could push our thinking beyond ordinary notions of space and place

From camp to city: ‘Permanent is not the opposite of temporary’

16 May 2017 By Manuel Herz

The refugee camps of the Western Sahara allow us to rethink the notion…

Heat and dust: Paracas Museum, Peru by Barclay & Crousse

21 February 2018 By Cristina Dreifuss

Women in Architecture Architect of the Year 2018 winner: Peru’s Museo de Sitio…

Crop of Design Earth's sectional drawing from Das Island, Das Crude

Undermined planet: exposing geographies of extraction

13 April 2021 By Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy

Drawing what is beneath the surface reveals the unseen despoliation of the Earth in…

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Nuclear powers: France’s atomic bomb tests in the Algerian Sahara

23 June 2022 By Samia Henni

Nuclear bomb tests carried out by the French colonial regime in the…

AR October 2023: Deserts

2 October 2023 By AR Editors

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Editorial: just deserts

3 October 2023 By Manon Mollard, Eleanor Beaumont and Kristina Rapacki

In its October issue, The Architectural Review finds the world’s deserts to…

James Gowan's drawing of his Trafalgar Road Housing project in a nondescript desert

Folio: Trafalgar Road Housing by James Gowan

3 October 2023 By AR Editors

Camels trudge past a London housing block that has been helicoptered into…

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