Sana Murrani

Rupturing Architecture

Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq, 2003-2023

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to critically and visually explore the incidental and improvised approaches that have created spaces of protection from conflict and displacement, using case studies from Iraq and its diaspora that also resonate in a wider, global, context. Written by an Iraqi architect, who has lived through wars and conflict, the book focuses on three different spheres of spatial practice - the domestic, the city and the fringes. This approach offers a rounded analysis of spatial creativity as a result of the traumatic events that have impacted the region, from the 2003 invasion up until the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic and the peak of its political turmoil. In the face of the many injustices suffered by the Iraqi people, there has also been a wealth of creativity and imagination in the ingenuity of their design and adaptability to change. Rupturing Architecture combines textual analysis and interviews with Iraqi citizens with illustrative maps drawings and photographs, providing an architectural and spatial practice view from the Global South that is rarely seen or written about to show how the incidental improvised architecture of traumatic events could influence and shape a new design and spatial practice of humanitarian structures of living and protection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350325340
• ISBN-10: 1350325341
• Artikelnr.: 70349740

Autorenporträt

Sana Murrani is Associate Professor in Spatial Practice at the University of Plymouth, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Preface Foreword, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (University
College London, UK) Acknowledgements Introduction: The spatial structure of
Rupturing Architecture 1. The positionality of protracted rupture Spatial
practice in Rupturing Architecture Deep mapping and the ethics within
Conceptual underpinnings Siting rupture across and between vernacular
informality and humanitarian living Struggle over refuge 2. Siting trauma
spatially: Negotiated and centralized spatial responses from the Global
North and South Locating trauma Dwelling, shelter and refuge Divisions and
overlaps on a fluid map: From north to south, east to west and back Spatial
responses: Views from the North Expanded model of spatiality: Views from
the South (with a focus on the Middle East) 3. Creative negotiations in
spaces of refuge and memory: Material objects, home and domesticity, urban,
borders Intimacies and scales of refuge Ruptured domesticity The urban in a
spherical space between vertical and horizontal violence Displacement and
mobility inside centres, and into borders Creative negotiations of
spatiality between trauma and violence 4. Architectural structures and
disrupted memory of refuge in relation to time Sudden ruptures Ruptures of
mobility and displacement Temporal ruptures Conclusion: A manifesto for
structures of refuge in spatial justice Conceptual findings Methodological
findings Spatial justice manifesto References Index