{"product_id":"urban-repair-von-farrokh-derakhshani","title":"Urban Repair","description":"\n                                \n                \u003cp\u003e\n                                        \n                    \u003cb\u003eUrban Repair\u003c\/b\u003e\n                                         addresses a growing imperative in architectural scholarship and practice: how we\nrehabilitate, reintegrate, and remake built environments in ways that respect heritage while enabling\ncontemporary life. This volume contributes to the evolving discourse on the responsibility for addressing\nconcerns around social and spatial rehabilitation. It draws from the case of the Aga Khan\nAward for Architecture-winning Pearling Path site in Muharraq, Bahrain, while maintaining an eye\ntoward broader methodological, cultural, and critical frameworks.\n                \n                \u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                \n                \u003cp\u003eContributions from various disciplines analyze how careful and bold interventions catalyze urban\nregeneration, and how integrating architectural conservation, urban planning, and cultural programming\nare essential ingredients for the rehabilitation of historic cities. They ask: What constitutes\nUrban Repair? How can local voices, community culture, institutional frameworks, and contemporary\narchitecture align in a rehabilitation agenda that is neither nostalgic nor sterile, but generative and\nfuture-oriented? Thematically structured from historical background to architectural detail, this\nvolume juxtaposes theoretical essays with applied interventions, enabling direct dialogue between\nacademic reflection and built work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                \n                \u003cp\u003eThe volume also introduces the newly built Pearling Path projects by Valerio Olgiati (Pearling Path Visitor\nand Experience Center), Anne Holtrop (Suq Al Qayssareyah and exhibition buildings), and Christian\nKerez (multi-story parking structures), along with collaborators such as Office Kersten Geers David\nVan Severen on public squares and pedestrian bridges. Their architectural gestures are layered in a\nprocess of repair and renewal, and they span urban, institutional, and community scales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                \n                \u003cp\u003e\n                                        \n                    \u003cb\u003eUrban Repair\u003c\/b\u003e\n                                         invites readers to see preservation not merely as an act of conservation, but as a form\nof critical inquiry—one that reveals and interprets the layered histories and memories embedded in a\nplace’s material fabric. The project’s analysis explores how the preservation of the intangible—through\nthe revival of traditional crafts and music—complements the conservation of the tangible. In doing so,\nit helps to reactivate the city’s social and economic life, ensuring that the project’s benefits remain\nrooted in the local community and become part of an ongoing, contemporary dialogue with history.\n                \n                \u003c\/p\u003e\n                            \n            \u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783966800433\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eArchitecture of Rehabilitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9783966800433","offer_id":56820482408773,"sku":"9783966800433","price":38.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/12c23e70-e4d6-41aa-a195-7452afdee102.jpg?v=1778993920","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/urban-repair-von-farrokh-derakhshani","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}