Description
Book SynopsisFocusing on regions where planners, architects, and artists are involved in concrete initiatives on the ground,
War Diaries looks at complex postwar settings to illuminate design responses to urban warfare and violence against the built environment.
Trade ReviewSharing voices across disciplines, this interesting and important collection foregrounds the designer’s role in the political conversations that dominate postconflict work."- Emily Gunzburger Makaš, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, author of
Urban and National Identities and the Rebuilding of MostarTable of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Critical Themes of Design after Destruction
- 1. On Urban Postconflict Development: Toward a Practice-Oriented Research Agenda
- 2. Ivan Štraus: War Diary and Design Intentions of an Architect in Postwar Sarajevo
- 3. Normalizing War: The Aesthetics of National Resilience
- 4. Scars of War and Reconstruction in Lebanon
- 5. ""Simple Plans"" and Complex Lives: A Dialogue about Planning and Designing Emergency Settlements
- 6. Designing Emergency Architecture
- 7. Teaching Culturally Sensitive Design
- Conclusion: Reconceptualizing Design after Destruction
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
