

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: On the History and Legality of Detention Centres
Concentration camp, detention centre, and internment camp are different names for the same concept: “A camp where persons are confined,...


Shaping Safety: How Architects Can Build a Stronger Peace
“The built environment is not a magic solution that can feed hungry children and prevent violence – but it can act as a salve for...


The idea of destroying someones memory,
Architecture that “aspires to deal with memory can only do so by taking into account what memory struggles in vein to resist” An...


Creeping demolition by stealth
The PbCRC proposal to rework the Maze Prizon suggested by the board and their appointed architects Libeskind and Egret West risks a less...


Secret Scottish POW Camps of the Past
Secret POW Camps of the past, is a project exploring the destruction of Scottish memory. There were hundreds of ‘prisoner of war camps’...


Homo Sacer in the contemporary world
Image by Artist Tulio pinto "The situation of the refugee, displaced persons and asylum seekers in the world today has a double...


Embracing Ruination
At Last a realistic chance for new life, the Cardross site is now championed by NVA, A very interesting and dynamic practice developed to...


Creativity in the Face of Wartime Violence
“The major effect of the ‘panopticon’ is to induce in the inmate a state of consciousness and permanent visibility that assures the...


Pheonix light .....Ponte
"Ponte has come to symbolise the rise and fall and rise again of South Africa’s commercial capital. It is part of an inner-city...


Can our People at Risk, Save our Buildings at Risk?
Why build new meaningless structures to house the local Precariat ? The Buildings at Risk Register has been in operation in Scotland...