Alumnae Nick Axel (B. Arch 2010) awarded Honorable Mention by Dubai’s Gulf Architecture Biennale.

Nick Axel: “Global Security Pipeline”.

02/25/2014.

The Gulf Architecture Biennale has announced the results of the ‘Hormuz Bridge International Competition’. There were three winners, four honorable mentions, and 25 selected entries for the first publication.

HONORABLE MENTION: Global Security Pipeline, by Nick Axel

With the onset of capitalism and its global pursuits, petroleum became unique and acquired a nearly universal sacrality. Despite its pernicious existence, it is perhaps more than anything else the one human element that unites the world. Petroconflict is destined to melancholy for its unanimous libidinal identification. As such, petroleum affords the raw material to radically reconceive the basic notions of global coexistence through the ways risk is projectively dealt with at a planetary scale.  As paradoxical as it may seem, when something acquires a universally sacred value, the only thing that produces risk is protecting it.

The Gulf Architecture Biennial is a publishing house project that proposes to explore the scripts/scores for the invention of a NEW NEW NEW architecture pertinent to this time. The Gulf Architecture Biennial is a collaborative project initiated by Brusselssprout and THE STATE.

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THE STATE (www.thestate.ae) is a publishing practice based out of Dubai, UAE. It focuses on South-South reorientations, alternative futurisms, the transition from analogue to digital, and Khaleeji swag.

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