Rupturing Architecture

"This is the first book to critically and visually explore the incidental and improvised approaches that create spaces of protection from conflict and displacement. Written by an Iraqi architect, who has lived through wars and conflict and now resides in Britain, the book focuses on three different spheres of spatial practice - the domestic, the city and the fringes - combining textual analysis and interviews with Iraqi citizens with illustrative maps, drawings and photographs to offer a rounded analysis of spatial creativity as a result of the traumatic events that have impacted the region"--

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