This is a compelling compilation of essays by international
architectural theorists on the relationship of violence to space. With
the events of September 11th, the London bombings, the Madrid train
explosions, and the daily blasts in Baghdad, the question of violence
and terrorism is imposing architectural ramifications with renewed
urgency. A new sense of architectural awareness has been forged as
violence is forcing its place as an architectural datum.Wide-ranging
contributions approach design issues related to violence through
multiple angles and intersections.
We only need to flip casually through the repertoire of the built
environment to realize that certain built structures (from concentration
camps to separation walls, from jails to propaganda exhibitions, from
slaughterhouses to suburban complexes, from illegal settlements to
palaces) either sanction violence or give it a spatial ground to happen
and thrive.