AV62 Arquitectos Pedro García del Barrio Pedro Azara   Irak   After the devastation the district suffered in the fall of 2007, the current efforts of the administration now focus on reestablishing life in this neighborhood located on the shores of the Tigris in the center of Baghdad. The complete refurbishment

The Guardian   The British photographer Anthony Kersting documented stunning architectural gems in Iraq – many since destroyed by Islamic State... The Guardian. Lost treasures and ancient ruins: Anthony Kersting’s Middle East – in pictures

The Economist   One dam can flood hundreds of ancient sites. The fighters of Islamic State turned sledgehammers and drills on ancient temples after conquering north-western Iraq and north-eastern Syria in 2014. They raided the tombs of Assyrian kings in Nineveh, ble

1926-2020 The “father of modern Iraqi architecture” breathed his last on 11 April at 93 years of age. He was born in Baghdad into an affluent and well connected family; his father, in fact, was president of the National Democratic Party, and this pro

The raging cruelty waged by the Islamic State’s henchmen on its prisoners and population of the regions it occupies has been eclipsing the brutality of their attacks on the architectural and artistic footprints of the past, but these latter actions a

Josep Maria Montaner   En la exposición ‘Ciudad del espejismo: Bagdad, de Wright a Venturi’ se superponen tres tiempos distintos. Los años cincuenta, cuando Faisal II intentó modernizar Irak y recurrió a arquitectos prestigiosos para obras relevantes; a partir de los años

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Wars destroy individual lives and collective symbols in equal parts. In the conflict that is closing in on the Near East, the terrible threat of urban bombings is cynically softened with the promise to respect the despot’s monuments, but the victims

Ole Bouman   Corren malos vientos. Es 17 de marzo de 2003, algo antes de que el presidente George W. Bush pronuncie otro de sus discursos. El ultimátum final. Estén atentos, la guerra está a punto de empezar. Nadie va a privar ahora a América de esta contienda. H

Dan Cruickshank   «La vida no significa nada para nosotras; protegeremos este museo hasta la última gota de sangre», me dijo el pasado mes de noviembre Saba Al Omari, la joven conservadora del Museo de Mosul. Se cubría la cabeza con un pañuelo negro y las manos con gu