Starchitects' Worries Over Building in Troubled Foreign Lands

In case you missed it, Robin Pogrebin had a really interesting piece in the NY Times entitled “Architects Debeate Building for Autocratic Clients.” It concerns that growing wave of questions being thrust at starchitects (or those soon to be) about their doing work for places like China and Dubai — in other words, places with some cash to throw around to build the kinds of crazy buildings these celebrity designers like to tinker with, but also making them deal with governments and countries whose human and civil rights histories might not be the greatest.