IQD 80 Anti-War Design

July > September 2025

As architect Ai Weiwei writes in this issue, in the Anti-War Design section he curated, humanity increasingly perceives the built environment as inseparable from its own destruction: technological warfare, remote attacks, and strategies of demolition have turned space itself into a stage of vulnerability. Architecture, rather than protecting and inspiring, risks becoming a victim of the dehumanizing logic of bureaucracy, the military industry, and the automatic repetition of violence. Every building stands as a witness to fragile resilience, a precarious [ ... ]