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Architecture of Resistance

Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
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Architecture of Resistance explores the intricate connections between architecture, politics and power within the context of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Focusing on Palestine, it examines the spaces between people, borders, documents and maps to reveal a new interpretation of land beyond imposed divisions. The book combines research through design, visual documentary, text, illustrations, mapping and collages, offering an alternative narrative that highlights the hidden spatial dynamics in everyday Palestinian life.
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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.

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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.

Series: Design Research in Architecture

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  • Architecture of Resistance
    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...
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  • Architecture of Resistance
    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...
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  • Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice
    Books orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of architectural representation. It proposes the book itself as another three-dimensional, complementary architectural representation with a generational and propositional role within the design process. Artists’ books...
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ISBN: 9781138694293

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 May 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 220.0mm

Weight: 610g

Pages: 224

About the Author

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.

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