The battle for home: memoir of a Syrian architect

Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment offers a mirror to the community that inhabits it. Fro...

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1. Verfasser: Al-Sabouni, Marwa 1981- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Thames & Hudson 2017
Ausgabe:First paperback edition
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Zusammenfassung:Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment offers a mirror to the community that inhabits it. From Syria's tolerant past, with churches and mosques built alongside one another in Old Homs and members of different religions living harmoniously together, the book chronicles the recent breakdown of social cohesion in Syria's cities, with the lack of shared public spaces intensifying divisions within the community and corrupt officials interfering in town planning for their own gain, actions symptomatic of wider abuses of power. With first-hand accounts of mortar attacks and stories of refugees struggling to find a home, this compelling and original book explores the personal impact of the conflict and offers hope for how architecture can play a role in rebuilding a sense of identity within a damaged society
The battle for freedom: one who lacks cannot give back -- The battle of old Homs: the defeat of the old by the new -- The battle of mortar: traditional ethics vs. modern life -- The battle of Baba Amr: social fabric as a foundation for urban design -- The battle for a home: nowhere old, nowhere new -- The battle for continuity: building on the past for the future
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183)
Beschreibung:191 Seiten Illustrationen, Pläne 24 cm
ISBN:9780500292938

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