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The battle for home : the vision of a young architect in Syria

Al-Sabouni, Marwa, author, Scruton, Roger, writer of foreword

Overview

Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment offers a mirror to the community that inhabits it. From Syria's tolerant past, with churches and mosques built alongside one another in Old Homs and members of different religions living harmoniously together, the book chronicles the recent breakdown of social cohesion in Syria's cities, with the lack of shared public spaces intensifying divisions within the community and corrupt officials interfering in town planning for their own gain, actions symptomatic of wider abuses of power.

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Subject: Al-Sabouni, Marwa. / Women architects Syria Biography. / Architecture and society Syria. / Syria Social conditions 21st century. / Syria Politics and government 21st century. / Syria History Civil War, 2011- Social aspects.
• ISBN: 9780500343173, 0500343179

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS98.6.A38 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE