thank you to the editors, Rixt Woudstra and Michael Faciejew, the peer reviewers, and the fellow essays in this issue.

I Will Burn Tuan’s House: Tobacco, Opium, and the Villa Patumbah It is early morning on the Patumbak estate in Deli, northeast Sumatra, around 1880. The tobacco plants are almost ready to be cut. Giant stumps of hardwood trees among the rows of tobacco are a rem...

I'm happy this piece is out, taking the Villa Patumbah in Zürich as a starting point for thinking about the plantation as a place in Europe.

The story of the villa is traced through bamboo messages in the plantation owners' archives, revealing its darker history.

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Restore, destroy or leave to rot? Battle lines drawn over west Africa’s architectural heritage Uncompleted or abandoned buildings are a regular feature of the landscape. Now calls for restorations are increasing Beneath mango trees in the lush garden of the Palais de Lomé, an oceanside estate in the Togolese capital, dozens of students from the…

Restore, destroy or leave to rot? Battle lines drawn over west Africa’s architectural heritage

Dr B R Ambedkar (1956), Frantz Fanon (1961), Babri Masjid (1992), Refaat Alareer (2023).
Imprints of 6th December on our minds.

Taking a walk in the snow

Open workshop and seminars upcoming at AAM Mendrisio on 12th Dec, people in north Italy / south Switzerland, come along 🤗