THE BATTLE FOR HOME

Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspecti ve on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment offers a mirror to the commu nity that inhabits it. From Syria's tolerant past, with churches and mosques built alongside one another in Old Homs and members of different religions living harmoniously together, the book chronicles the recent breakdown of social cohesion in Syria's cities, wit h the lac...[Read more]