Tag Archives: Palestine

Wall, entropy and built environment

April 4, 2011 – 2:51 pm

The separation barrier sneaking by Abu Dis from the al-Quds University campus, on 8 December 2010. These Palestinian landscapes are naturally very contrasted and defined, and with their sparse vegetation they often resemble the backdrops of some Italian early Renaissance paintings.
The wall in its context is a text-book example of low entropy structure. Like an [...]

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Jaffa Peace House

November 20, 2009 – 2:52 pm

The idea of the Peace House was originally launched by the late Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres. Named after the latter, it’s part of the seafront redevelopment of the mixed city of Jaffa and was designed by Massimiliano Fuksas as a dramatic spacial progression of pale green concrete slabs interspersed by glass panes, which offer [...]

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Oush Graib Transitions

October 12, 2009 – 8:30 pm

A man scrambles up the wall of a derelict watchtower in the middle of a military camp wearing a wading waistcoat and carrying a tripod. He’s a ornithologist, and he goes to the abandoned Israeli military base of Oush Grab (Beit Sahour, Bethlehem region) to study birds migrating from Turkey to Egypt through Palestine. Since [...]

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The hands firmly in the soil

August 3, 2009 – 8:57 pm

I didn’t take any plane but I’m way jet-lagged. I glance across the Gilo checkpoint from the balcony of a luxury resort, and I can sample a view that encompasses a landscape going from the third world to the very first in a few kilometres. I arrived in West Jerusalem and started my exploration into [...]

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Spatial design as territorial control

June 23, 2009 – 8:05 pm

First foreign translation, in Italian, for Eyal Weizman’s book on the use of space as a tool to articulate power in the Occupied Territories.

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