Author Archives: Monica Basbous

From the rubble of Beirut

By Monica Basbous 9 June 2021 City portraits

Trucks are seen next to piles of garbage in Jdeideh, a Beirut suburb, ahead of moving it to the country's largest landfill of Naameh, just south of the Lebanese capital

Lebanon’s capital has been built in a violent cycle of destruction and rebuilding, exposing circular ecologies of profit, toxicity and waste

Beirut planning battles

28 January 2000 By Peter Davey

The centre of Beirut, devastated by the Lebanon civil war, has become the site…

Spent shell: Museum of Beit Beirut, Lebanon, renovated by Youssef Haidar

25 June 2018 By Manon Mollard

Emblematic of Lebanon’s troubled past, the Beit Beirut museum seeks to prove that…

AR Reading List 012: City Portraits

5 June 2020 By AR Editors

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

Moving costs: history and identity in Kiruna, Sweden

21 October 2020 By Jennie Sjöholm

Buildings and residents testament to the rich seams of history and identity…

Aerial photograph of Eskom Kendal coal thermoelectric plant at Mpumalanga

Ingesting architectures: the violence of breathing in parts of Joburg

8 June 2021 By Sumayya Vally

Atmospheric violences are breathed in and breathed out, shaping everyday life

Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are constructed. In their fearless storytelling, independent critical voices explore the forces that shape the homes, cities and places we inhabit.

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