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Territory and Form

College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley 305 Wurster Hall, Berkeley , CA, United States

The majority of architecture and urban design of the twentieth century aimed to tame the contradictory, heterogeneous, and contingent urban environment, both physically as well as socio-politically. Instead, this lecture will present a series of projects that attempt to reconcile and empower the role of architecture within the transforming, evolving, fluctuating, and indeterminate conditions of the

DCRP Lecture Series: Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem

College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley 305 Wurster Hall, Berkeley , CA, United States

Hidden Architectures and Spatial Systems of Urban Division: From Cairo to Belfast In cities that are divided by ethno-national rivalry, public space and its architecture becomes the crucible of contestation related to ethnicity, territoriality and national identity. Physical barriers, such as Northern Ireland’s Peace-line walls, materialize the paradoxical relationship of the edge as a line

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