Author Archives: Jan-Werner Müller

Democratic designs: show me what democracy looks like

By Jan-Werner Müller 8 May 2024 Essays

Brasilia protestors at Oscar Neimeyer's capitol complex

Democratic processes are inherently spatial, but the buildings and environments that house them are rarely democratic themselves

Building Brasilia

10 February 1959 By J. M. Richards

An update on the construction of Brazil’s new capital by J. M.…

Der Bundestag: Parliament in Bonn, Germany by Behnisch & Partners

1 March 1993 By Peter Blundell Jones

In the wake of Germany’s reunification, Peter Blundell Jones visits the new…

Becoming Berlin

13 November 2017 By Sophie Lovell

Since the fall of the Wall, the city has transformed itself from…

Revisit: Louis Kahn’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

26 November 2019 By Kazi Khaleed Ashraf

The Capitol Complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh, fuses imposing grandeur with disarming simplicity,…

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

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