Main entry:

Petti, Alessandro, 1973- author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2013]
©2013

Description:

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

Notes:
At head of title: Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9783943365795 (softcover)
3943365794 (softcover)

Subject:

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (Program)
Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency.
Architectural firms Palestine.
Architecture Palestine 21st century.
Architecture Palestine 20th century.
Architecture and state Israel.
Decolonization.
City planning Palestine.
Architecture Philosophy.
Israelis Colonization Palestine.
Geopolitics Palestine.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Palestine.
Agences d'architecture Palestine.
Architecture Palestine 21e siècle.
Architecture Palestine 20e siècle.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Israël.
Décolonisation.
Architecture Philosophie.
Israéliens Colonisation Palestine.
Géopolitique Palestine.
architectural theory.
Architectural firms
Architecture
Architecture and state
City planning
Geopolitics
Israelis Colonization
Projekt
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
Israel
Middle East Palestine
Architecture (object genre) Israel.

Added entries:

Hilal, Sandi, 1973- author.
Weizman, Eyal, author.
Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (Program), architectural firm.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287330
Call No.: BIB 228320
Status: Available