Architecture of Resistance

Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-69429-3
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Design Research in Architecture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharif, Yara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. A Journey Across the Vanishing Landscape: Making Sense of My Territory

2. The Art of Resistance

3. Bringing Life Back to the Historic Centre of Birzeit

4. Under the Surface

5. Air

6. Seeing Less and Less of the Other

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yara Sharif is a practicing architect and an academic, she is a lecturer at the University of Westminster and at Oxford Brookes University and is a partner at Golzari-NG Architects London, an award winning practice that has developed a reputation of working on sustainable community projects with specific interest in issues of cultural identity and responsive design. Her work generally stretches internationally where she mainly looks at design as a means to facilitate and empower forgotten communities, while also interrogating the relationship between politics and architecture. Sharif has co-founded Palestine Regeneration Team (PART); a design-led research group that aims to search for creative and responsive spatial practices in Palestine. Her research by design was granted the 2013 commendation award – RIBA's President Award for Research for Outstanding PhD Thesis. Her built projects have won a number of awards. She was granted the 2016 RIBA President Award for Research (commendation) in the cities and communities category.