{"product_id":"architecture-of-commonality-grounds-for-hope","title":"Architecture of Commonality: Grounds for Hope","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Palestinian Museum at Birzeit won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2019, and it opened—famously—without a collection. That fact makes it an unusually productive starting point for thinking about what museums in Palestine and the wider Arab world are actually for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArchitecture of Commonality\u003c\/em\u003e uses the museum and its terraced gardens as a framing device rather than a subject. The essays are organised around four themes—Stones, Seeds, Voices and Walks—which let the book move between the building, the landscape it sits in, and the political and historical conditions that produced both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKey features\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEssays by scholars across disciplines and cultures, plus interviews with the designers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStructured in four thematic sections: Stones, Seeds, Voices and Walks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSustained attention to the gardens and landscape as much as the building\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAround 150 illustrations, full colour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow architecture participates in memorialisation and the making of collective memory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCuratorial strategies developed in response to conflict and occupation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe blurred boundary between architecture, landscape and land art at Birzeit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy cultural institutions can plant hope even when the political ground is unstable\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the editor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTomà Berlanda is an architect and academic whose work addresses architecture and its social role across Africa and the Middle East. Contributors include Nadi Abusaada, Amin Alsaden, Mirna Bamieh, Meisa Batayneh, Farrokh Derakhshani, Róisín Heneghan, Walter J. Hood, Alexandre Kazerouni, Adrian Lahoud, Adila Laïdi-Hanieh, Ella Neumaier, Cristina Steingräber and Lara Zureikat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 170 × 245 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 288\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9783966800266\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: ArchiTangle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublication date: May 2024\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePerfect for\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in museum architecture and cultural policy, landscape architects working with terrain and memory, and anyone following contemporary architecture in Palestine and the Arab world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ArchiTangle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48987924725985,"sku":"9783966800266","price":86.05,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/9783966800266.jpg?v=1787963921","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/architecture-of-commonality-grounds-for-hope","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}