Author Archives: Stephen Daker

A forbidden history of Tiananmen Square

By Stephen Daker 3 June 2024 Essays

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In Beijing’s infamous square, access to monuments of civic participation remains subject to heavy restriction

Tiananmen Square: the history of the world’s largest paved square

12 October 2009 By Adrian Hornsby

Drawing its symbolic strength from its foregrounding of the people, Tiananmen Square…

Typology: Public Square

2 March 2017 By Tom Wilkinson

When human particles collide in the accelerator of the square, the public…

20th century architectural historians, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng drawn in gold and sky-blue pencil. The structural forms of traditional Chinese architecture morph into the pair's shoulders. Lin Huiyin holds a pen.

Lin Huiyin (1904–1955) and Liang Sicheng (1901–1972)

14 February 2024 By Tao Zhu

The pair’s attempts to preserve historical Chinese architecture were obliterated by Mao’s…

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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…

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