ABSTRACT
This essay counterposes the predominant moral framing of architecture’s recent forays into humanitarianism with a critical framing attentive to the ways in which humanitarianism is tied to and advances the interests of states in the Global North. It suggests that, especially since the end of the Cold War, the protection of refugees through humanitarian interventions in the Global South has been inextricably linked to protection against refugees in the Global North. The chapter argues that contemporary architecture’s involvement in humanitarianism should thus be understood as part of a politics of global segregation that is disavowed by the moral framing of this involvement.
