[I]n the world of embassy design… architects try to construct buildings that will, in good times and bad, represent American values while they withstand the force of bombs. For the people who build embassies, that’s a difficult balance, and one that has shifted many times in the last few decades between two competing schools of thought: isolation and civic engagement.
Henry Grabar for The Atlantic. His piece on US embassy architecture, “Fortress America,” makes us want to read way more architectural critiques with socio-political lenses.
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