Author Archives: Laura Lo Presti

The Mediterranean hypersea: mapping troubled waters

By Laura Lo Presti 3 April 2024 Essays

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Viewed as a hyperobject marked by global migrations and shifting geopolitics, the Mediterranean has countless entangled stories to tell

AR April 2019 on Oceans

1 April 2019 By AR Editors

Álvaro Siza | Tadao Ando | Ambrosi Etchegaray | Forensic Oceanography |…

The ocean’s skin: tales of dominion and defeat

4 April 2019 By Philip Hoare

Seen but unseen, the sea comprises much more than the surface upon…

Map of the Meditteranean Sea drawn by Richard William Seale in 1745, with every port on its coast meticulously labelled

Liquid violence: investigations of boundaries at sea by Forensic Oceanography

10 April 2019 By Lorenzo Pezzani

The tangle of jurisdictional boundaries in the Mediterranean Sea is designed to…

AR Reading List 051: water

9 April 2021 By AR Editors

The latest instalment of our series of AR Reading Lists: seven carefully…

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Desert dystopias: warnings from desertified worlds

19 October 2023 By Max L Zarzycki

Two desert-based dystopias let us imagine what might be done instead

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Portfolio: Joana Dabaj, Catalytic Action

22 March 2024 By Habib Battah

The public spaces and playgrounds by Catalytic Action are rare examples of places…

AR April 2024: Mediterranean

2 April 2024 By Manon Mollard, Eleanor Beaumont and Kristina Rapacki

Rachid Koraïchi | DAAR | MVRDV | GRAS Reynés Arquitectos | NP2F…

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