Columbia: Refugee Camp is a Complex Web of History, Architecture, and Politics
June 25, 2024
June 25, 2024
NEW YORK, June 25 (TNSres) -- Columbia University issued the following news:
By Eve Glasberg
Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, an architecture professor at Barnard, demonstrates in Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement, a refugee camp's aesthetic and material landscapes--even if born out of emergency--reveal histories, futures, . . .
By Eve Glasberg
Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, an architecture professor at Barnard, demonstrates in Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement, a refugee camp's aesthetic and material landscapes--even if born out of emergency--reveal histories, futures, . . .