Border-Land-Scapes, edited by Liene Jākobsone, looks at what happens to landscapes when defence becomes the force that shapes them.
About This Book
Against a backdrop of war, closed borders and growing uncertainty, borders that once existed as lines on a map are taking physical form—fences, surveillance systems, watchtowers, barriers and expanding military infrastructure. Their presence reshapes places and communities, and the meaning of belonging itself.
Architects, researchers and artists follow militarisation from Latvia's fortified eastern border to Lebanon's damaged ecosystems, protest sites in Tbilisi and gated enclaves across Latin America. Drawing on architecture, geopolitics and landscape studies, the contributions treat landscape not as a passive setting but as an active record of political decisions, collective anxiety and shifting ideas of security, and ask what futures these borderlands might still make possible.
Key Features
- Edited by Liene Jākobsone, co-curator of the Latvian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
- Contributions from 20 authors, including Theo Deutinger, Sven Biscop, Vanessa Miriam Carlow and Pieter Uyttenhove
- Photography by Reinis Hofmanis, Daniel Dubowitz and Michiel De Cleene
- Designed by Alexey Murashko
What You'll Discover
- How new defence infrastructure is changing the landscape and everyday life along Latvia's eastern border
- The spatial consequences of conflict in Lebanon, Georgia and Latin America
- How borders are built, experienced and contested
- How the role of borders is changing in the 21st century
About the Editor
Liene Jākobsone is an architect. With Ilka Ruby she curated the Latvian Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, which examined the military defence of Latvia's border landscape.
Specifications
- Format: Hardback
- Dimensions: 155 × 240 mm
- Pages: 188
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783944074719
- Publisher: Ruby Press
Perfect For: Landscape architects, urbanists and students of geopolitics, and anyone who followed the Latvian Pavilion in Venice.