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[Frenemies] Migrant Respite Centre

Prakriti Vasudeva
Gina Reichert
Today, in a time of armed conflicts between major powers, shifting balances, rapid globalization, rising nationalisms, and socioeconomic stress, what can we learn from the invention and emergence of the embassy building as an institution? Venezuela was once the richest nation in Latin America, but due to socioeconomic and political crises, the nation has experienced hyperinflation, rising famine, and mass emigration of Venezuelans to other nations. Due to Venezuela’s political system collapsing, relations between the US and Venezuela have become tense. The objective of this project is to restore those broken relationships in the Venezuelan embassy compound, where the US…