This in­stal­la­tion is made up of the cedar-and-brass sculp­ture Bagh­dad Screen, ten vit­rines filled with doc­u­men­ta­tion, mod­els and pho­tographs, and four group­ings of mod­ern fur­ni­ture. Bagh­dad Case Study was in­stalled at Haus der Kul­turen der Welt in Berlin and lay­ered the his­tory of the ex­hi­bi­tion site—a con­gress hall given to the peo­ple of Berlin by the United States in 1957—with the in­stal­la­tion’s sub­ject: the US em­bassy com­plex de­signed by Jose Luis Sert for Bagh­dad in 1960. Both sites were built by branches of the State De­part­ment dur­ing the Cold War, but each were built with sub­tly dif­fer­ing ide­o­log­i­cal agen­das.

Doc­u­men­ta­tion: In­stal­la­tion at Haus der Kul­turen der Welt; Views of US Em­bassy at Bagh­dad, Jose Luis Sert