Architecture after revolution / Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petti, Alessandro, 1973- author.

Hilal, Sandi, 1973- author.

Weizman, Eyal, author.

Contributor:

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (Program), architectural firm.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (Program).

Architectural firms--Palestine.

Architectural firms.

Architecture--Palestine--21st century.

Architecture.

Architecture--Palestine--20th century.

Architecture and state--Israel.

Architecture and state.

Decolonization.

City planning--Palestine.

City planning.

Architecture--Philosophy.

Israelis--Colonization--Palestine.

Israelis.

Geopolitics--Palestine.

Geopolitics.

Architecture, Modern--21st century--Palestine.

Architecture, Modern.

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency.

architectural theory.

Israelis--Colonization.

Israel.

Middle East--Palestine.

Architecture--Palestinian National Authority.

Architecture--Palestinian National Authority--20th century.

City planning--Palestinian National Authority.

Geopolitics--Palestinian National Authority.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Art and the conflict.

Local Subjects:

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency.

Physical Description:

205 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2013]

Summary:

"The work presented in this book is an invitation to undertake an urgent architectural and political thought experiment: to rethink today's struggles for justice and equality not only from the historical perspective of revolution, but also from that of a continued struggle for decolonization; consequently, to rethink the problem of political subjectivity not from the point of view of a Western conception of a liberal citizen but rather from that of the displaced and extraterritorial refugee. You will not find here descriptions of popular uprising, armed resistance, or political negotiations, despite these of course forming an integral and necessary part of any radical political transformation. Instead, the authors present a series of provocative projects that try to imagine "the morning after revolution." Located on the edge of the desert in the town of Beit Sahour in Palestine, the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) has since 2007 combined discourse, spatial intervention, collective learning, public meetings, and legal challenges to open an arena for speculating about the seemingly impossible: the actual transformation of Israel's physical structures of domination. Against an architectural history of decolonization that sought to reuse colonial architecture for the same purpose for which it was originally built, DAAR sees opportunities in a set of playful propositions for the subversion, reuse, profanation, and recycling of these structures of domination and the legal infrastructures that sustain them. DAAR's projects should be understood as a series of architectural fables set in different locations: an abandoned military base near Beit Sahour, the refugee camp of Dheisheh in Bethlehem, the remnants of three houses on the Jaffa beach, the uncompleted Palestinian Parliament building, the historical village of Battir, the village of Miska destroyed during the Nakba, and the red-roofed West Bank colony of Jabel Tawil (P'sagot) next to Ramallah-El Bireh"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

The morning after

Returns

Ruins under construction

How to re-inhabit the house of your enemy?

Return to nature

A common assembly

Epilogue. Al-Mashà or the return to the common

Acknowledgments. The making of DAAR.

Notes:

At head of title: Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Petti, Alessandro, 1973- Architecture after revolution

ISBN:

9783943365795

3943365794

OCLC:

891552641