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Domicide\u2014War on the City – The Markaz Review- Ammar Azzouz<\/p>\n

Atom Bombs and Earthquakes: Changing Arabian Culture Via Architecture – T.H. Shalaby<\/p>\n

Stitching Baluchestan: Embroidery as Topography – Bibi Manavi<\/p>\n

Interview: Oorvi Sharma, Architectural Researcher and Designer – Rabi Georges<\/p>\n

Mounia Kansoussi: Time, Movement, Space – Mounia Kansoussi<\/p>\n

Experimental Saharanism: Exploiting Desert Environments – Brahim El Guabli<\/p>\n

“Before the Earthquake”\u2014a short story by Salah Badis – Salah Badis<\/p>\n

The Bridge to Nowhere – The Markaz Review – Youssef H. Alshammari<\/p>\n

Suad Aldarra’s I Don\u2019t Want to Talk About Home – Ammar Azzouz<\/p>\n

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The Floods of Derna: Historical Parallels to Libya\u2019s Crisis – Lama Elsharif<\/p>\n

“The Hauntology of Varosha” or \u201cRoom Number 137 of the Argo Hotel” – Salamis Aysegul Sentug Tugyan<\/p>\n

Mohamed Al Mufti, Architect and Painter of Our Time – Nicole Hamouche<\/p>\n

Ammar Khammash’s Sustainable Architecture – The Markaz Review – Mischa Geracoulis<\/p>\n

Sustainability: Rethinking the City in the United Arab Emirates – Rana Asfour<\/p>\n

Waking Up To My Distorted City\u2014an Interview with Hisham Bustani & Linda Al Khoury – TMR<\/p>\n

An Improvised Attempt to Understand Social Transformations in Amman: “urbane” behavior in a city that is not a city – Hisham Bustani<\/p>\n

Rebuilding After the Quake: a Walk Down Memory Lane in Southeast Anatolia – Sevin\u00e7 \u00dcnal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TMR Issue 36 \u2013 17 articles \u2013 199 pages<\/p>\n

From<\/span>\u00a0urban explosions and<\/span>\u00a0masterplanning\u00a0to<\/span>\u00a0megaprojects\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>nation-branding,<\/span>\u00a0this issue<\/span>\u00a0explores architecture, design and urbanism, with an emphasis on the countries represented on the SWANA map. Whether<\/span>\u00a0reinventing<\/span>\u00a0national traditions in order to brand regional and national identities, or attempting to build the biggest, tallest, most striking structure or shopping mall, the essays here ask<\/span>\u00a0why do cities look the way they do? How energy efficient and structurally safe are they? What are the trends and the exceptions, and<\/span>\u00a0how do cities and regions come back after disasters such as the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Morocco, or the cataclysmic flooding in Libya?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":30636,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[3209],"product_tag":[],"coauthors":[2196],"class_list":{"0":"post-29942","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-tmr-issues","7":"desktop-align-left","8":"tablet-align-left","9":"mobile-align-left","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"virtual","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nARCHITECTURE - 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