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RESURRECTING BABYLON (ongoing)





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.
Ongoing project, to be published 2025.
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

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BAB AL MORPHEUS is pieced together from the arabic words bab al (meaning “gateway to”) and morpheus, the ancient greek god of dreams (literally meaning “the maker of shapes and forms”)



BAB AL MORPHEUS is a design and research office magnifying a mutation in percieved reality of the human + post-human condition by documenting and mapping contemporary space in a globalized world.
Expressed in image, text, building, sound and thought, its aim is to simulate, reflect, provoke, stimulate, move and disturb while chasing the ultraviolence of contemporary space. 






ALEXANDER CYRUS POULIKAKOS (born 1993 in Illinois, U.S.A.) is a Swiss architect based in Zurich. After finishing his studies, he worked as a co-project leader at BS+EMI, alongside organizing the Iranian Film Festival Zurich and publishing the book Resurrecting Babylon. In 2024 he completed a residency at Rhizome in Algiers through a Pro Helvetia travel grant. Currently he works as an architect, teaches architectural design at the chair of Mariam Issoufou at ETH Zurich and runs his design and research studio Bab Al Morpheus, which focuses on documenting and mapping contemporary space in a globalized world through its fragments. 
BAB AL MORPHEUS)

fine art print Tower of Babel Collage 2021 AD
limited 15 piece edition
70 x 100 cm


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photo by Daniela Eberle ©2021


photo book 
soft cover, 300 pages
sewn binding
made in Switzerland

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as author:

article “If not to Perish in Silence”, in TRANS 43 silence (2023)

contribution “Revolution of the Anonymous”, in Woman Life Freedom, Saqi Books (2023)
article “Revolution of the Anonymous”, in TRANS 42 time (2023)
RESURRECTING BABYLON (ongoing) available for order

article “A Facelift in Three Acts: Iran’s Pledge for a New Identity”, in TRANS 34 youth (2019)
article “Ressurecting Babylon: Bahrain’s Globalozed Urban Delirium”, in TRANS 33 reality (2018)

contribution “E1027”, in TRANS 32 love (2018)

on projects by other authors:

“Postcards from the Revolution” by Hamish Lonergan in Hochparterre (2023)
“Reading Rämistrasse #106” by Juan Barcia Mas for Kunsthalle Zürich (2023)