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War, Reconstruction and Design Responsibility
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By
Esther Charlesworth, Director of the 'CityEdge' International Urban Design series, and Director of 'Architects Without Frontiers'. Melbourne, Australia.
Description
From the targeted demolition of Mostar?s Stari-Most Bridge in 1993 to the physical and social havoc caused by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami,
the history of cities is often a history of destruction and reconstruction. But what political and aesthetic criteria should guide us
in the rebuilding of cities devastated by war and natural calamities?
The title of this timely and inspiring new book, Architects
Without Frontiers, points to the potential for architects to play important roles in post-war relief and reconstruction. By working ?sans
frontieres?, Charlesworth suggests that architects and design professionals have a significant opportunity to assist peace-making and
reconstruction efforts in the period immediately after conflict or disaster, when much of the housing, hospital, educational, transport,
civic and business infrastructure has been destroyed or badly damaged.
Through selected case studies, Charlesworth examines the role
of architects, planners, urban designers and landscape architects in three cities following conflict - Beirut, Nicosia and Mostar - three
cities where the mental and physical scars of violent conflict still remain. This book expands the traditional role of the architect
from 'hero' to 'peacemaker' and discusses how design educators can stretch their wings to encompass the proliferating agendas and sites
of civil unrest.
Audience
Student and professional architects, planners, urban design professionals, landscape architects and academics in these fields.
Also aid organisations, sociologists, political scientists, historians.
Contents
FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LINES OF CONTENTION – ZONES OF CONNECTION; ARCHITECTS AND WAR; ARCHETYPES; BEIRUT – CITY AS HEART VS. CITY
AS SPINE; NICOSIA – RECONSTRUCTION AS RESOLUTION; MOSTAR – RECONSTRUCTION AS RECONCILIATION; FROM ZONES OF CONTENTION TO LINES OF CONNECTION – IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DESIGN PROFESSION; ARCHITECTS WITHOUT FRONTIERS – IMPLICATIONS FOR DESIGN EDUCATION; REFERENCES
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Paperback, 224 pages, publication date: SEP-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6840-8
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6840-7
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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