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Broadcasting the Visage of Urban Warfare: A case study of NaJa & de Ostos’

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The chapter examines a speculative architectural project The Hanging Cemetery of Baghdad, which employs a magical realist narrative to critically interrogate a hypothetical architectural intervention into the city fabric of a city at war. As the artists/architects of NaJa & deOstos devise this thought experiment to show architecture's progressive dematerialization into an image-making practice, the chapter asks question regarding its role in relation to designs completely negligent of local contexts. Also, it puts forth a supposition akin to Baudrillard's bold statement made about the Gulf War, namely: is architecture considered as an image-making practice, which can be often independent of the local context (site specificity), create experiences in a thought-provoking way, while remaining critical to the protocols of its own making?

Keywords: architecture ; cinematography ; Gulf War ; magic realism ; media ; mediation ; narrative ; simulation ; thought experiment ; unbuildable designs ; urban space

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Broadcasting the Visage of Urban Warfare: A case study of NaJa & de Ostos’ The Hanging Cemetery of Baghdad
Intellect , 160 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389807_10
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