Author Archives: Enrique Ramírez

Anti-democratic architectures

By Enrique Ramírez 10 May 2024 Essays

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Architecture’s embodiment of state power is only beginning to emerge in historical accounts

Reparations as reconstruction

23 February 2024 By Huda Tayob

Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò’s Reconsidering Reparations argues that reparations for racial injustice and…

The cover of AR 1511, Democracy. The cover depicts queues to vote in the first election after apartheid in South Africa

AR May 2024: Democracy

7 May 2024 By Manon Mollard, Eleanor Beaumont and Kristina Rapacki

51N4E | Jaspers-Eyers Architects | l’AUC | HCP | Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven…

Brasilia protestors at Oscar Neimeyer's capitol complex

Democratic designs: show me what democracy looks like

8 May 2024 By Jan-Werner Müller

Democratic processes are inherently spatial, but the buildings and environments that house…

Graphic novel: Well-appointed rooms

10 January 2025 By Zosia Dzierżawska

In this short graphic novel, Zosia Dzierżawska explores the ways rooms change…

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