Hyperabia – on urban space and architecture in the United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates has undergone a profound globalization process in recent decades. Boris Brorman Jensen critically reviews the architectural development in Dubai and Abu Dhabi based on the following questions: What significance has the absence of public insight had on the architectural production in the two Emirates?

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See and download the other texts on architecture and urban development in the Arabian Gulf by Boris Brorman Jensen:

Masdar City: a critical retrospection pdf

Learning from Dubai: Is it possible? pdf

Dubai: dynamics of bingo urbanism pdf

Case Study Dubai: or Learning from Junk Space Deluxe pdf

Globale kort pdf (in Danish)

Junkspace de Luxe pdf (in Danish)

Casestudie Dubai – fortællinger om en globaliseret bystat pdf (in Danish)

See Boris Brorman Jensen’s contribution to the exhibition ARAB CONTEMPORARY at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.