Arts, design, architecture & planning
Beyond Ruins: Reimagining Modernism
Edited by Raafat Majzoub SM '17, visiting lecturer at the Art, Culture, and Technology Program; and Nicolas Fayad
ArchiTangle · 2024
This book explores the renovation of modern architecture in the Global South as a tool for self-determination and community-building. Focusing on the Oscar Niemeyer Guest House in Tripoli, Lebanon, Majzoub and Fayad examine heritage as a political and material process. Through case studies, visual essays, and conversations with architects, artists, and theorists, the book addresses challenges of preservation, gaps in archiving, and the need for new forms of architectural practice.
From Summer 2025 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).
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