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The Epic of Architecture: War and Peace

Name: The Epic of Architecture: War and Peace
Author: Imad Darouich

ملحمة حرب العمارة وسلامها

The architectural movements meet on the battlefield of history and none wins: each tore down a wall and opened a window, from the branch that rebelled against the ruler to the house that listened to the waterfall, until architecture appears as a history of questions turned into stone.

Format: PDF ebook
Languages: Arabic and English
Collection: Ideas & Philosophy

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About This Book

The movements of architecture meet as rivals through one long night in a great hall, and the book opens by declaring that none of them won. A branch walks into an architect's office and finds a ruler asleep across a plan, a city wears lightning, Gropius arrives with a key that opens a workshop, Le Corbusier lifts the building for the air, and Meyer places a loaf of bread on the drawing of a lavish façade. Wright listens to a waterfall, concrete removes its mask, Venturi returns with a suitcase of discarded memories, and Gehry folds a sheet of paper into the centre of the table. At the end of the night a child sits in the empty chair and draws a door no one has seen before.

Deconstructivism defeated no one.

He said: Before asking what a house looks like, let us ask who can afford to live in it.

The child picked up a pencil and drew a door no one had seen before.

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