Author Archives: Christina Varvia

Bodies without borders

By Christina Varvia 30 October 2025 Essays

Bodily flows, food and waste transgress borders daily, undermining the very idea of citizenship writes Christina Varvia

Unsettling the Negev

12 November 2025 By Irit Katz

The Negev Desert continues to be a frontier for the Israeli colonial…

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Revisit: Biosphäre Potsdam in Potsdam, Germany by Barkow Leibinger

5 November 2025 By Florian Heilmeyer

Barkow Leibinger’s first large public building, designed for a horticultural show in Potsdam, Germany, in…

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Baltic borderlands

23 October 2025 By Martynas Germanavičius

Amid the region’s fast-changing geopolitical condition, architects grapple with questions of common…

Doorway to Europe

22 October 2025 By Abiba Coulibaly

Randa Maroufi’s film Bab Sebta exposes the spatial and embodied interventions that construct border…

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