Architecture After Revolution
Author | : Alessandro Petti |
Publisher | : Sternberg Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2013-09-06 |
ISBN-10 | : UCSD:31822041281502 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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. 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.