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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 4d

The Borders issue is here:
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 2d

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Outrage: Bulldozer urbanism in India - The Architectural Review

Recent demolition of Muslim homes in Indian cities entrenches the borders of  partition

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 2d

In the name of internal security, the bulldozer has been co-opted as ‘a weapon of sovereignty, representing the state’s ability to redraw borders – not only at the edge of the nation but within the fabric of neighbourhoods,’ argues Bathla 3/

The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 2d

In Ahmedabad, more than 12,500 households and businesses belonging to Muslims were demolished in the southern periphery between April and May of this year alone 2/

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 2d

‘The recent demolitions are different: this is an overt, extralegal, paramilitary and highly mediatised mode of dispossession’ writes Nitin Bathla, reporting on the rise of ‘bulldozer justice’ in India – the destruction of minority citizens’ homes encouraged by the ruling far-right coalition 1/

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 3d

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Flight and refuge: Community centre and housing prototypes in Iraq

On the borders of Syria, Iraq and Turkey, the persecuted Yazidi community finds sanctuary in earthen structures that may someday return to the ground

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 3d

Ylenia Gostoli travelled to the camps for the AR’s Borders issue. The superadobe structures there – made of locally sourced soil placed into long, woven polyester bags – were conceived ‘as an anchor of stability, threading a thin line between permanence and impermanence,’ she reports. 2/

The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 3d

On the borders of Syria, Iraq and Turkey, the persecuted Yazidi community finds sanctuary in earthen structures that may someday return to the ground.These community centre and housing prototypes in Bersive and Chamishku camps, Iraq, designed by Insitu Project, ABCD Collaborative and Vide Terra 1/

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 4d

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Borders - The Architectural Review issue 1525, October 2025

The October issue is dedicated to borders. From disputed hospitals and conservation conflicts to razed neighbourhoods and refugee camps, partition transforms places and lives.

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 4d

With writing by Harsha Walia, Ylenia Gostoli, Nithin Bathla, Owen Hatherly, Sophie Lovell, Michael Snyder, Jan-Werner Müller and many more

The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 4d

AR October 2025 Features projects by Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, Architecture Pioneering Consultants,Simple Architecture, ABCD Collaborative, Insitu Project ,Vide Terra, Sadar + Vuga, MASS Design Group and more

The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 4d

The Borders issue is here:
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 4d

Read Walia’s keynote essay in full in the Borders issue, in print and now online:

The multiplying border - The Architectural Review

The border is an elastic regime, rather than a fixed line, that can exist anywhere and everywhere, writes Harsha Walia

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 4d

‘This is evident in Trump’s parallel promises of “the largest deportation programme in US history” alongside expanding the H-2A programme, which allows for temporary foreign workers in agricultural industries.’ The H-2A, observes Walia, is one example among many of internalised bordering. 3/

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 4d

‘While fascist leaders claim they want to end all immigration, in reality they want immigrant communities to remain subservient – as cheapened labour but not as political actors,’ Walia writes. 2/

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 4d

Far from ‘a static line on a map,’ a border ‘is best understood as an elastic regime that extends and thickens across space and time,’ writes Harsha Walia, in the opening keynote essay of the AR’s October issue. 1/

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 9d

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Living with wildfires - The Architectural Review

Homes in the wildland-urban interface are especially vulnerable to wildfires – better forest management can help where architects, planners and policymakers fail

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 9d

Between 2003 and 2020, two thirds of people living near wildfires worldwide lived in the WUI. Essential ‘changes to land management and ownership systems are more than pragmatic,’ Dillon argues, they challenge us to rethink our relationship with the land itself.3/

The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 9d

Despite being some of the most fire-prone places on Earth, development there keeps growing. Most fires start with human activity, igniting dry vegetation and deadwood – fuel left unmanaged by decades of policy.2/

The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 9d

‘Dominant societies have a long way to go to learn to live with nature’, writes Martha Dillon in her closing essay in the Forest issue. In the essay, Dillon examines the ongoing expansion of the wildland–urban interface, or WUI, where human settlements meet flammable forests and brush. 1/

The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 10d

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Timber revolution: Social housing in Barcelona, Spain by Urbanitree

Social housing in Barcelona designed by Urbanitree –the tallest timber building in Spain – is evidence that socially just architecture is also the most sustainable

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 10d

With PV-powered communal spaces, generous rooms and timber-framed greenhouses, it stand as evidence, Beaumont argues, that socially just architecture is also the most sustainable. 2/

The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 10d

Built for Barcelona’s department of housing IMHAB, the block of 40 apartments signals a shift in climate-conscious architecture towards public ambition. 2/

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 10d

‘The housing revolution that both the planet and its inhabitants urgently require will not be provided by the private sector,’ writes Eleanor Beaumont on social housing in Barcelona by Urbanitree; the tallest timber building in Spain.1/

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 12d

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Seiler Linhart Architekten - Küng Holzbau carpenters’ office, Switzerland

Seiler Linhart’s design of a Swiss timber construction company’s headquarters would not have been possible without the ambition and expertise of a perfectly aligned client

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 12d

Defined by its high-maintenance structure, and an ‘experimental approach that embraces repair and transformation,’ the building evokes a living architecture, proposes Scotto.3/