Homeland Security Beefing Up San Diego/Tijuana Border Wall

Since 9/11, the border wall that separates the U.S. from Mexico has gone a massive transformation.

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June 18, 2005, 7:00 AM PDT

By Brenda Meyer

"The border's transformation from light to solid is exactly opposite the trend in recent architecture, which has moved from solid to light. Contemporary architecture is searching once more for nomadic strategies of lightness and freedom, less interested in objects of imposition and more interested in territorial strategies. It is engaging the boundaries that simultaneously delimit and blur the diverse socio-cultural geographies of contemporary life."

Thanks to Brenda Meyer

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