RESURRECTING BABYLON (2021)
What is contemporary space in the age of the globalized and digitalized?
A portrait of what the city has become and where she is going.
Featuring the Kingdom of Bahrain, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha and the Taj Mahal.
This book is a collection of original text and photographs, spanning wide a discourse on locality, identity and language in the urban landscape of the contemporary world.
184 Pages, sewn binding.
Release of first edition 2021.
Text, photographs and content by Alexander Cyrus Poulikakos.
Detailed design in collaboration with Daniela Eberle.
Printed at Fröhlich Info AG in Switzerland.
A portrait of what the city has become and where she is going.
Featuring the Kingdom of Bahrain, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha and the Taj Mahal.
This book is a collection of original text and photographs, spanning wide a discourse on locality, identity and language in the urban landscape of the contemporary world.
184 Pages, sewn binding.
Release of first edition 2021.
Text, photographs and content by Alexander Cyrus Poulikakos.
Detailed design in collaboration with Daniela Eberle.
Printed at Fröhlich Info AG in Switzerland.
ALL PHOTOS OF BOOK BY DANIELA EBERLE ©2021
This proposal aims at thinking from the margins to the center, as defined by bell hooks. (2)
To balance the acceleration of real-estate development in Basel, the void in the Reservoir building shows potential to become a public space. A public space not in the form shown on architectural renderings of green, in-between spaces or a Piazza inspired by the Italian Renaissance. The public space that is missing here is the public space of a city. Public space of a city includes all, is a space of discussion, of exchange, of history and community. It is a space of voices that are not heard in the mainstream, a space of fragments and a space of simultaneity. It is a space of different temporal laws than the fast-paced city it belongs to.
collaboration with Engy Mohsen
2024
submission page 1
ALL PHOTOS AND CONTENT BY BAB AL MORPHEUS/ENGY MOHSEN ©2024