Architecture of Resistance: Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
Author/Editor | Sharif Y (Author) |
| Cruz, Professor Teddy (Author) |
| Fraser, Professor Murray (Author) |
| Hill, Professor Jonathan (Author) |
| Rendell, Professor Jane (Author) |
ISBN: 9781472447883
Pub Date | 28/04/2017 |
Binding | Paperback |
Pages | 224 |
Dimensions (mm) | 220(h) * 240(w) |
Interrogates - through the mechanism of research. This book provides a visual documentary account of the urban and spatial consequences of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation.
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Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. It takes Palestine as the key ground of spatial exploration, looking at the spaces between people, boundary lines, documents and maps in a search for the meaning of architecture of resistance. Stemming from the need for an alternative discourse that can nourish the Palestinian spaces of imagination, the author reinterprets the land from a new perspective, by stripping it of the dominant power of lines to expose the hidden dynamic topography born out of everyday Palestine. It applies a hybrid approach of research through design and visual documentary, through text, illustrations, mapping techniques and collages, to capture the absent local narrative as an essential component of spatial investigation.