Mortal Cities and Forgotten Monuments - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3038600091 ISBN 13: 9783038600091

Verlag: Park Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

As a child, architect Arna Mačkić experienced firsthand the Bosnian civil war, and with her family she fled her native country for the Netherlands. In 1999, she was able to visit Bosnia and the city of Mostar again for the first time to witness the utter devastation―the war had left seventy percent of the buildings destroyed. This experience inspired Mačkić’s research to explore the emotional effects of war damage on a city’s inhabitants and the possibilities for rebuilding collective and inclusive identities through architecture.

Mortal Cities and Forgotten Monuments tells a moving story of architecture and history. The first two parts of the book provide historical background on the war in Bosnia and its relationship to the built environment of the region. The final section demonstrates Mačkić’s ideas for architectural interventions, applying a new design language that goes beyond political, religious, or cultural interpretations―an openness that allows it avoid tensions and claims of truth without ignoring or denying the past. Using this as a foundation, she proposes designs for urban and public space that are simultaneously rooted in ancient traditions while looking toward the future.

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Arna Mackic works with the Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordations as an architect, designer, and researcher, and project leader. Rosa te Velde is an Amsterdam-based design researcher.
 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Park Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3038600091
• ISBN 13: 9783038600091
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Herausgeber: Mačkić Arna, Velde Rosa Te
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland