Ala Younis: Plan for Greater Baghdad
The project looks at monuments, (by) architects, (for) governments, and ideals' tensional relationship to ideologies in times of shifting states. Exhibited at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015.
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1957. In his first visit to Baghdad, Le Corbusier asked Iraq's Director of Physical Education: “A swimming pool with waves?” Enthusiasm over a pool with artificial waves was stoked by their mutual interest in aqua sports. Le Corbusier’s raised arm gestures a backstroke.
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Plan for Greater Baghdad, 2015
The project looks at monuments, (by) architects, (for) governments, and ideals' tensional relationship to ideologies in times of shifting states. Exhibited at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015.