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245 0 _aAbandoned Dwellings: A History of Beirut/
_cEditors: Gregory Buchakjian; Valerie Cachard
260 _aBeirut;
_bKaph Books;
_c2018
300 _a240p;
_c29x24cm
520 _aEdited by Gregory Buchakjian, Valérie Cachard. Foreword by Valérie Cachard. Text by Gregory Buchakjian. An ambitious appraisal of Beirut’s ruined and abandoned architecture, with photo-documentation, archival materials and original research Over the past 150 years, Beirut has witnessed a cycle of unbridled growth, war, economic and social crises and migratory movements. It is in this unstable territory—endlessly destroyed and rebuilt, broken and regenerated—that Gregory Buchakjian has undertaken a bold artistic project and research devoted to abandoned dwellings. Surveying 744 buildings with archival materials, testimonies, text and photographic tableaux (with the subjects surrounded by sagging furniture and mounds of rubbish), this volume proposes new perspectives on the city as well as ways of reclaiming it.
546 _aEnglish
650 _aCritical documentation
650 _aNA190-1555.5 History
650 _aPhotography
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651 _aLebanon
_zBeirut
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