
Jimmy and Jill Baker
For this project, artist Jimmy Baker and architect Jill Baker sorted through recondite bits of Internet data detailing the building of what is to be the largest and most structurally complex US embassy in the world. This American fortress just happens to be located on a 104-acre parcel of Baghdad’s Green Zone. According to their research, the project’s $592 million budget is being squeezed from US emergency funding. Their investigation also reveals that the embassy will have its own electrical and water-treatment plants.
With information from their furtive archive, the Bakers built a modestly