Building the Non-Aligned Babel: Babylon Hotel in Baghdad and Mobile Design in the Global Cold War
Rising from the banks of the Tigris like a modern-day ziggurat, Babylon Hotel in Baghdad establishes a direct transhistorical link between Iraq’s ancient past and its modern identity. Its history, however, traces a more convoluted line, pointing to the uncanny mobility of architectural design and it...
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Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art
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Series: | ABE Journal |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/abe/924 |