The Battle For Home The Vision Of A Young Architect In Syria
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Author |
: Marwa al-Sabouni |
Publisher |
: Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2016-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780500773284 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0500773289 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria by : Marwa al-Sabouni
An architect’s gripping account of living and working in war-torn Syria, and the role architecture plays in whether a community crumbles or comes together Drawing on the author’s personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this timely and fascinating account offers an eyewitness perspective on the country’s bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment and its destruction hold up a mirror to the communities that inhabit 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, these actions are symptomatic of wider abuses of power. With firsthand accounts of mortar attacks and stories of refugees struggling to find a home, The Battle for Home is a compelling explanation of 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.
Author |
: Marwa al-Sabouni |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2017-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780500292938 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0500292930 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Battle for Home by : Marwa al-Sabouni
“Sabouni’s elegy to her devastated town, a memoir about survival, and a kind of manifesto, stressing the importance of architecture and urbanism for our understanding of the deeper roots of Syria’s conflict . . .”—Los Angeles Review of Books Drawing on the author’s personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this timely and fascinating account offers an eyewitness perspective on the country’s bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment and its destruction hold up a mirror to the communities that inhabit 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, these actions are symptomatic of wider abuses of power. With firsthand accounts of mortar attacks and stories of refugees struggling to find a home, The Battle for Home is a compelling explanation of 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.
Author |
: Marwa al-Sabouni |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780500343722 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0500343721 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building for Hope by : Marwa al-Sabouni
This new book by Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni, seeks to understand how cities and buildings—scarred by conflict, blight, and pandemic—can be healed through design and urban mindfulness. When Marwa al-Sabouni published Battle for Home in 2016, she was a little-known architect, living in battle-ravaged Homs, Syria, unable to practice her profession. She turned her fierce intelligence to chronicling how her city and country were undone through decades of architectural mismanagement and mistakes. Once published, Marwa al-Sabouni’s book and story attracted the attention of international media—CNN, The New York Times—and received critical acclaim worldwide. The United Nations called on her for insights and expertise. She became a TED fellow, was invited to speak to audiences around the world, and some suggested she be nominated for architecture’s highest honor, the Pritzker Prize. Al-Sabouni’s deep understanding of Middle Eastern heritage and architecture gives her insight into a wide range of cities, informing her views on how cities work best, how they might fail, and what can be done to harmonize the lives of all their inhabitants. In this compelling new book, al-Sabouni draws together several narratives: her personal and professional observations of some of the world’s most fascinating cities, from Detroit to Helsinki; the lessons that Western societies might learn from Islamic culture and design; and philosophical reflections on how our personal and communal spaces can provide the basic foundations for happiness. Through this tapestry of personal experience, unblinking perspective, and insight, al-Sabouni offers real-world solutions—and hope—for how peace might be created through mindful urban planning.
Author |
: Douglas Spencer |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 227 |
Release |
: 2016-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472581532 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472581539 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Architecture of Neoliberalism by : Douglas Spencer
The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, and Greg Lynn shows them to be in thrall to the same notions of liberty as are propounded in neoliberal thought. Analysing architectural projects in the fields of education, consumption and labour, The Architecture of Neoliberalism examines the part played by contemporary architecture in refashioning human subjects into the compliant figures - student-entrepreneurs, citizen-consumers and team-workers - requisite to the universal implementation of a form of existence devoted to market imperatives.
Author |
: John Beardsley |
Publisher |
: Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2007-07-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1568986246 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781568986241 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Large Parks by : John Beardsley
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Author |
: Hassan Fathy |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2010-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226239149 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226239144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Architecture for the Poor by : Hassan Fathy
Architecture for the Poor describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers to tailor his designs to their needs. He taught them how to work with the bricks, supervised the erection of the buildings, and encouraged the revival of such ancient crafts as claustra (lattice designs in the mudwork) to adorn the buildings.
Author |
: Marwa Al-Sabouni |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 183 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0500773270 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780500773277 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Battle for Home by : Marwa Al-Sabouni
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.
Author |
: Barry Rubin |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2007-05-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1403982732 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781403982735 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Truth about Syria by : Barry Rubin
A renowned expert answers the question many are asking: How dangerous is Syria?
Author |
: Thomas W. Liptan |
Publisher |
: Timber Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2017-07-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781604694864 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1604694866 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sustainable Stormwater Management by : Thomas W. Liptan
An essential addition to the landscape design library Nature devises ingenious systems for the management and delivery of water in all its phases. No additional infrastructure is required—the water systems are in place, naturally. But once the natural environment has been disrupted by human development, stormwater becomes an issue that requires intervention and ongoing management. Sustainable Stormwater Management, by leading expert Tom Liptan, provides landscape students and professionals with a green approach to landscape design. The hardworking book includes comprehensive information on how to design, install, and maintain a landscape for sustainable stormwater management. It addresses stormwater in the urban environment, relevant environmental and economic policies, and shares case studies of exemplary projects from around the world.
Author |
: Gertrude Lowthian Bell |
Publisher |
: London: W. Heinemann |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 1907 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433081601316 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Desert and the Sown by : Gertrude Lowthian Bell