Nearly a century after Le Corbusier proposed his now-famous five points of architecture, I proposed five points toward the decolonization of architecture as part of the exhibition Cairo Modern. These new points are intentionally anti-aesthetic, and they criticize the ways in which the history of architecture that centered figures such as Le Corbusier has in fact led to waves of erasure of modes of building across the world by colonial and so-called “postcolonial” regimes. Colonialism manifests in the control of spaces and spatial narratives. In a sociopolitical economic system based on debt, austerity, material extraction, silenced minorities in metropolitan countries, and besieged populations governed by elsewhere, what
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