Author Archives: Dima Srouji

Depth unknown: archaeology of resistance

By Dima Srouji 3 September 2024 Essays

2NY6RG6 In this undated image taken in 2000, provided by the Palestinian Department of Antiquities, an aerial view of the excavations at Tel Es-Sakan, shows houses dating to 2600-2300 B.C., left, and fortifications from the late fourth millennium B.C, south of Gaza City. Palestinian and French archaeologists began excavating Gazas earliest archaeological site nearly 20 years ago; unearthing what they believe is a rare 4,500-year-old Bronze Age settlement. But over protests that grew recently, Gazas Hamas rulers have systematically destroyed the work since seizing power a decade ago, to make way for

The ground bears evidence of the violence suffered by the Palestinian people, as well as their resilience

Future archaeology: excavating concealed histories

6 April 2021 By Manon Mollard

Accumulated and compressed beneath our feet, the ground’s artificial layers bear witness to…

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Cultural restoration: Kafr ‘Aqab in the West Bank, Palestine by Riwaq

7 February 2024 By Luzan Munayer

The rehabilitation of a historic complex of buildings in Kafr ‘Aqab in…

Rebuilding Gaza

9 February 2024 By Nadi Abusaada

Efforts to reconstruct Gaza are futile if colonialism and partition persist

The Architectural Review Ground issue cover, September 2024, depicts a crater in Siberia formed from the collapse of melting permafrost. The photograph is by Katie Orlinsky and features a blue sky in the top 20%, then trees, grass and dark brown mud in gooey forms in the bottom two thirds of the image

AR September 2024: Ground

2 September 2024 By Manon Mollard, Eleanor Beaumont and Kristina Rapacki

Archigrest | Toposcape | La Cabina de La Curiosidad | Mien Ruys…

Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are constructed. In their fearless storytelling, independent critical voices explore the forces that shape the homes, cities and places we inhabit.

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