Architecture of Resistance
Author | : Yara Sharif |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2017-05-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781315524283 |
ISBN-13 | : 1315524287 |
Rating | : 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.