ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1042864/unearthing-the-ground-architecture-and-the-politics-of-extraction Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Diogo Borges Ferreira https://www.archdaily.com/1042864/unearthing-the-ground-architecture-and-the-politics-of-extraction Every building begins somewhere else. The sand in its concrete, the stone on its façade, the lithium that may one day power its systems. It arrives, already stripped from a mountain, a riverbed, or a salt flat thousands of kilometers away, having passed through a chain of trucks, ships, and customs declarations that erase almost everything about where it came from. Architecture tends to treat material as a starting condition, something simply available, but extraction is where construction actually begins.

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