Deserts Are Not Empty
Edited by Samia Henni | Columbia Books on Architecture and the City | $23
In December 2022 and January 2023, Deserts Are Not Empty (DANE) accompanied me over the course of, and between, three road trips in Saudi Arabia. The first was a five-hour drive from the desert island of Bahrain to Riyadh to see The Line Exhibition. The drive is a straight shot westward through the desert along a sandy-gray asphalt road, a four-hour gradient moving gently upward from the Eastern Province’s dusty white, trash- and tire-studded landscape to the orange sands that bound the Tuwaiq escarpment. The book remained in the car
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