Abubakr Ali

Articles

Open fire hydrants have been symbolic of summers in the city since the Great Heat wave of 1894.

Dispatches

LAGUARDIA PLACE — “It takes six hours to fly from Mexico City to NYC but twelve hours to Buenos Aires,” Enrique Norten stated at the start of a conference about Latin American architecture.
New York — “Drop [your] computer mouses and pick up intellectual machetes and bushwhack [your] way into the difficult-to-penetrate forest of the ecosphere.”
Zoom — “Imagination is super political. We need imagination from places of difference rather than just a developmental and problem solving approach.”