Architecture and conflict Introduction Learning from architecture and conflict

摘要

Hebron embodies many of the issues related to architecture and conflict: occupation and division of land and city, checkpoints, blockades, walls, settlements, destruction of historical and patrimonial buildings, eviction from homes, creation of void and emptied areas, 'colonisation from above', rewriting of history, symbolic violence, humiliation by the use of space, control, harassment, terror through infrastructure... Walking through the empty streets of the A-Sahala area and the historic Palestinian fruit market-now a 'ghost town'1- we experienced feelings of distress, anger, surprise and helplessness and were confronted by questions about the use and misuse of architecture, the resilience of people, ways in which conflict is played out through urban space.