John Harris Comes To Dubai

Dubai Creek, 1960, detail. Courtesy of John R. Harris Library
Dubai Creek, 1960, detail. Courtesy of John R. Harris Library

Some thoughts about encountering mythologies surround the arrival of the architect.

 

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This is the fifth dispatch to celebrate the release of Showpiece City. You can read the first three: Telephones & Dynamite, A Season of Migrations, West, A Circumscribed World, and Gathering at a Roundabout.