Learning from architecture and conflict

Abstract

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 -1